Unholy Trinity: Book 2 the Hand of Destiny Series by Martin Jones

Author:Martin Jones [Jones, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ripping Yarns UK Publishing
Published: 2019-10-30T22:00:00+00:00

“I thought I’d lost you!” she frantically whispered.

Chapter Ten - The Big Plan

I couldn’t remember the last time all of the Hand had been together; albeit without of course Susan’s presence. Two years had gone by, and each of us had initiated a further member whom we absolutely trusted into the Hand, which meant we were not as stretched as we once were.

We had been reacting to information Susan had been sending us regarding locations of further civilisations which existed in our multiverse, and so far we had added a further three hundred to the alliance, meaning now it was a planetary alliance of 389 planets. 198 of these were advanced civilisations which were continually adding to the alliance’s military forces and pool of shared technology. What we had now was a number of decisions to make. First on the agenda was whether we took civilisations who were centuries behind us in their development, and risked changing their natural development in the name of supporting the alliance and our freedom from the dark forces of tyranny.

There were impassioned speeches from my Emily and Yvonne against influencing their development unnaturally, and also similar from Dodds and Mad Dog for influencing their development to bolster the alliance forces. In the end I decided that although it was unfortunate that we were forcing civilisations to develop beyond their natural development, we really couldn’t afford to wait for them to catch up too long, and if they could not defend themselves, we didn’t have the resources to spare. The decision wasn’t made, but generally the alliance council followed our recommendations; particularly if it was me directly communicating the decision.

The next issue was how far should we extend ourselves? Should we search and find all 3000 plus civilisations and hope the Darknet didn’t attack in the meantime? My thoughts were that we couldn’t afford that time. I wasn’t suggesting we not occupy all of the multiverse, but spending time in contacting and discussing treaties was time-consuming. With the 198 realities which were providing military and technology resources, this represented a considerable chunk of our multiverse, with over 36000 battleships, 76000 cruisers and over a million fighters and sixteen million ground forces, I felt that twelve main outposts should be maintained at all times, with a third of our forces deployed in these outposts permanently, with five main fleets been available at positions which can arrive at the outposts within a three day period using our newest version of FTLS. The remainder of our forces to be left in orbit around Oie as a large reserve force of over 6000 battleships, 13000 cruisers and 97000 fighters. I suggested a rota system which kept crews fresh, and a series of defensive arrays linking the furthest of the civilisations with Oie.

The others agreed it was an ambitious plan, and it also bore in mind that constant reinforcements would be arriving as the civilisations who had to catch up with technology, as well from a sheer manufacturing and replication

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