Alien Conquest by David VanDyke
Author:David VanDyke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: military science fiction books, science fiction action adventure, space opera military fiction, Space opera adventure, alien invasion of earth, Genetic Engineering science fiction, colonization, space exploration fiction
Publisher: David VanDyke
Published: 2017-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
What Price Humanity?
A Stellar Conquest Novelette
by
David VanDyke
Find all information about David VanDyke books, including audiobooks, at his website:
davidvandykeauthor.com
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Excerpt from A Personal Memoir: Survival Against the Meme, by Xiaobo HUEN, Admiral, EarthFleet, Commanding; 2110 A.D.
With their vast, intelligently designed living ships, the hostile aliens we call Meme employ superior strategic mobility in the outer Solar System. They are able to operate with few bases and no resupply more advanced than the nearest collection of asteroids and cometary nuclei. They lurk within the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, losing themselves among millions of objects across incredible distances, consuming ices, metals and silicates to refuel, replenish and reproduce.
While gathering strength, they raid, attacking our outposts and asteroid acquisition operations, our transiting cargo ships and task forces, looking for easy victories, forcing us to expend more resources than they. In accordance with their conservativeâthe misinformed might say cowardlyânature, they hit and run, always with the aim of preserving themselves while damaging us.
This situation reminds me of my studies of the twentieth-century conflicts in Vietnam that pitted various outsider-supported indigenous forces such as the Viet Cong and Viet Minh against foreign powersânotably, but not only, the French, the Americans, and my own Chinese ancestors. This guerilla strategy would be a model for insurgents and terrorists for decades, until Earth finally became united in the face of the Meme threat.
To counter this strategy, EarthFleet employs heavy sweeps of areas where we suspect their presence. When we meet them, we defeat them if they stand; thus, they seldom give battle. Screened by clouds of living hypervelocity missiles, they flee faster than we can pursue until we retire again to the orbit of Jupiter, the true edge of human territory.
Thus, for a time, we fight the classic asymmetric war. Our machines, our discipline and our locally superior firepower are mismatched by the Meme ability to strike with little warning, inflict damage, and withdraw with impunity.
That is until, every decade or two, their reinforcements arrive from beyond the solar system.
Each time, the Meme gather to conduct a massive assault, hoping to penetrate our defenses and damage our single, fragile home planet. Each time, we have beaten them back with great losses, heroic sacrifices. Each time, their remnants withdraw to the outer reaches to continue their guerrilla warfare and await the next push.
And each time, they come closer to wiping us out.
We are losing this war, not because we are getting weaker, but because they grow stronger more rapidly than we. Yet we must win, every single time. If we lose, we lose Earth, the basket in which most of our eggs lie.
To win, I believe humanity has no choice but to consider inhuman solutions to inhuman threats, to fight fire with fire.
But if we ignite this conflagration, might we not burn down our own house?
Chapter 1
âDo you know who you are?â
The womanâs warm, professional voice soothed him. âSure. Iâm Vango Markis. Flight Lieutenant Vincent Markis, EarthFleet, Aerospace branch, I mean. What happened? Did I get hurt?â
âNothing we canât fix.
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