Star Force: Earth Evacuation by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

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December 21, 3604

Epsilon Eridani System

Arrakis

As big as the Epsilon Eridani System was, it was able to handle the incoming evacuees with ease, though Duke Avril also had a head start in preparing to handle more while Sol had waited to get hit by the V’kit’no’sat again. When Jenn, Sarah, and Brad arrived in the system they were sent to a processing facility and then onto a small starship that took them out to the distant desert planet of Arrakis.

Aptly named for scifi lore, it was a huge desert world, but a cold one. It wasn’t completely colonized, with vast tracks of barren wilderness still visible from orbit, but slightly less now than of a few years ago given the massive expansion of pre-fabricated city structures. They were being built quickly, cheaply, but were solid and effective as all Star Force infrastructure was. They weren’t flashy, but when the evacuees got there the inside was almost like a normal city, just a lot more blan without all the ostentation that habitation for centuries often resulted in.

All three were given separate quarters, but arranged to have them side by side with one another. There were plenty to go around so they didn’t have to double up, but they were all level 1 quarters in order to pack as many into the quick built cities as possible. Jenn and Sarah still chose to share one though, with Brad giving them badly needed breathing room by staying in his. The other was left vacant but still assigned to Jenn, and it didn’t look like it was going to be needed by anyone else anytime soon.

Evacuees were coming in regularly to add to the population, but this was just one of many locations throughout the system that were specifically built to handle them. That said, there was a multitude of quarters spread across multiple planets that could also absorb people, so right now there was no population crunch going on, but it wasn’t until a few days ago that they learned more systems aside from Sol were being evacuated here.

There were no other attacks yet, for the V’kit’no’sat were still putting all their ships into their ongoing attack on Earth, but smaller Star Force systems along the enemy’s route to get to Earth were being slowly redirected here, prompting an ongoing discussion.

“Another group just came in,” Brad said as he walked into the girls’ quarters and found both watching the vid screen, Jenn perched on a stool and Sarah in a cushy single chair. “This time from Metti.”

“Metti now?” Sarah said with a sign. “Are they expecting every system to fall?”

“I think that’s the idea,” Brad said, leaning against the wall.

“Did you talk to any of them?” Jenn asked.

“Yeah I did. They don’t know much either, but they’re glad to be here. The defenses in Metti are pathetic compared to what Avril has built up.”

“Didn’t stop them in Sol, and that’s our capitol. You really think we can hold out here?”

“You’re forgetting all the ships we’re killing.

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