The New World & Beyond (The Gifted Series Book 2) by Lawrence Lockett

Author:Lawrence Lockett [Lockett, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17: What Was Left Behind

While Aquinicia was developing, Earth did not stand still. Initially, the Defenders of Humanity and their allies had been content with forcing the aliens from Earth, but that changed the night of the Alcatraz rescue. They no longer considered their battle with the aliens a victory; if the aliens had been truly defeated and driven from Earth then they wouldn’t have risked returning to free the prisoners. The Defenders of Humanity and their allies agreed that Plan A had failed and they must move to Plan B. Victory could only be declared once the invaders could never return.

The first problem to address was the fact that the aliens could get to Earth but humans couldn’t reach their world. The Defenders had recovered some of the alien craft, and the best engineers were put to work building a working vessel out of the parts. They also began to backwards-engineer the aliens’ technology, to eliminate their technological advantage and give Earth a way to strike at its enemy. Meanwhile, computer scientists explored the Eporili ship databases, looking to learn about the species that were out there and where they were located.

Focusing on the invaders and protecting Earth helped keep the peace; it unified people. The best of humanity had left to live on Aquinicia. You can imagine what kind of world existed without the best balancing out the worst.

It took many years to understand both the technology and language of the Eporili, but with dedication and determination, breakthroughs happened. The Eporili craft had a flaw from the Defenders’ perspective: they were designed to be defensive and weren’t equipped with offensive weaponry. This flaw would be addressed in the next stage: once the Defenders could build their own craft with alien technology, they would design something new that drew on the best of both worlds. The new vessels would have wormhole drives for travelling, but they would also have guns and missiles.

After many more years, the Defenders finally created an interstellar warship. Once the prototype was tested, they began mass production. They created craft of different sizes, small fighters like planes and large models with heavy armaments to deal with city-size star-ship threats.

Earth soon had an armada of ships that were ready to attack Aquinicia – whose location had been found in the Eporili database. Now soldiers and pilots were needed for the campaign against the alien threat. Like during the world wars, posters were put up all over declaring: Earth needs you to protect her. The recruitment campaign was very successful, with men and women signing up to be trained for the battle ahead.

The Defenders of Humanity weren’t aware of any further extra-terrestrial visits to Earth since the rescue at Alcatraz, so they hoped that their attack would be a devastating surprise to the aliens.

And it was true that nobody had returned to Earth from Aquinicia in the intervening years, and no attention had been paid to the planet since. All the inhabitants from the three races had been living peacefully together and Aquinicia was prospering.

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