Resurgence: The Ship Series Book Five by Jerry Aubin

Author:Jerry Aubin [Aubin, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780997070880
Publisher: Lekanyane Publishing
Published: 2018-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

23

This is an extremely bad plan.

The thing that frustrated Rilee the most about Kalyn over their many millennia of working together was the fact her lieutenant was allergic to silence. The woman made small talk yet again while they waited for the next step in the plan to be ready.

“Remember when you were a child, ma’am? Three months was a veritable eternity. We started shadowing that asteroid three years ago, and it feels like it might as well have been yesterday.”

Rilee smiled. “Three years or three hundred, Kalyn, I’ll put in whatever time it takes to bring the people on that rock to justice. Or are you making that comment in some weak effort to diminish the fact that I predicted what they would do next a full ten months ago?”

“I should have known better than to doubt your understanding of these people after all the surveillance you’ve analyzed, ma’am. That planet down there is gorgeous. Why did the Leadership Council waste it as a resettlement location for all of the asteroid’s colonists?”

“Do you remember the story from a few hundred years back about one of our commanders who went rogue and deployed his ants to disband one of the asteroid’s colonies?” Rilee brought up an image on the screen of humans dressed in animal pelts. “This is the planet where that happened and this is one group of those colonists. Check out their eyes—hardly any whites at all. Nothing but brown iris and black pupil. The Council established an ant presence a while back to assist with all of the sociologists who wanted to study the disparate tribes that had isolated themselves. Since the planet is so resource rich and given the bugs were already here, the Council decided this was as good a spot as any to start dumping off the other colonies.”

“What do the bugs have to do with bringing the colonists here, ma’am?”

“We’re trying to keep the different groups isolated from each other to prevent any conflict or resource contention between them. Other than a detachment that operates out of caverns built under the original human settlement, the ants are held in reserve on a separate continent in case they are needed.”

Kalyn held up her hand to signal that she was receiving a message. “Ma’am—the two shuttles have been destroyed and the landing party is now moving in the direction you expected. The asteroid has also exited the system. How are you certain it’s coming back?”

“Surveillance, Kalyn, will almost always provide you with whatever information you need to know. Our friend with the cigars had appeared to be in charge, but I discovered someone higher in rank than him today. Our tiniest drones have been observing their landing party and I overheard him refer to one of the new women as Madam President. A short time later, I captured that same woman discussing with her aide how she had just ordered the asteroid to return back and mount a rescue mission if the need arose. They’ll be back.

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