Scarcity (Special Forces: FJ One Book 1) by Adam Vance

Author:Adam Vance
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-01-06T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE – JUNGIAN ARCHETYPES

The visitors hadn’t wasted any time. A second ship had appeared over Berlin, and minutes later, they sent an audio message delivered directly to the earcomms of the Earth Union’s Prime Minister, as well as HM and the Union Parliament delegates.

The voice was female, warm and soothing, something you’d hear at an airport to remind you to walk to the right and respect the loading zone.

“Peaceful greetings from your friendly visitors. We are neighbors, who also call the Orion Arm of the Milky Way our home. In your tongue, our name is ‘The Bringers of Justice.’ We encountered your probe craft, and learned of how you have advanced among the community of civilizations.

“As you were alerted to our presence, we felt it only right to contact you immediately to ease any potential fears. Upon discovering your planet’s dire need of assistance, we took the liberty of entering your space to render aid. We look forward to meeting you as soon as possible, to ease what is no doubt a great anxiety among your people about what their future now holds.”

HM packeted it to the Captain in Xichang, who relayed it to his team. As they shuttled back to Berlin at breakneck speed, they discussed it over the secure, wired, pod-to-pod systems. “Smooth,” Comms said. “Polished.”

“Everything explained, too,” Engineering added. “Tidied up the loss of the probes, the blips on our radar, and their justification for hauling ass to get here.”

“Basic commando principles,” Weapons added. “Shock, surprise, speed, and violence of action are your assets.”

“There’s no violence yet,” Medical said.

“Exactly,” Weapons agreed. “If you’ve got the first three, you don’t need much of the fourth. And parking two gigantic motherships over the planet, that got here from deep space in less time than it takes us to get to a near colony… Well, the threat of violence is there, isn’t it. If they’ve got the power to do that, they can kick our asses.”

The Captain felt a surge of pride. None of his people were freaking out, none of them had wobbled in the face of…well, the biggest thing to happen to humanity ever. Even more than the discovery of other habitable worlds within our reach, this was…

HM beeped in his earcomm. “Your presence is requested at this event, Captain. By our visitors.”

“Copy that. En route.” He flipped to the local channel. “They asked for me by name. For a bunch of folks who’ve known about our existence for a week, they’ve done a lot of homework already.”

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