Doom (Xian Warriors Book 1) by Regine Abel

Author:Regine Abel [Abel, Regine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chaos, Wrath, Rage, and I entered the conference hall of the Kalberos—the Intergalactic Coalition’s Central Command mothership. All the military leaders of the allied planets coordinated their troops from here. It was the best defended ship of the armada. And right now, they had just forced me to cut my beyond overdue sleep time from five hours to three and a half so that I could come listen to whatever concerns had them squirming in their seats.

My first sleep in four days and those fools had to mess with it…

Judging by the nervous expressions of the Halunian and Lenusian ambassadors sitting at the long conference table, we wouldn’t enjoy what they had to say, which only further annoyed me. Normally, Doom would have attended this meeting with us. Where Chaos was the OCD, nitpicker that made sure nothing slipped through the cracks, Doom was the no-nonsense, no-bullshit, don’t-waste-my-time-with-this-crap go-getter that got things done, and I was the diplomat and the voice of reason. Rage and Wrath were our eyes, our ears, our hands, our voices, and the rocks that kept us steady.

We took a seat across from the ambassadors, Chaos and I in the middle, Rage and Wrath flanking us. The ambassadors of the other five main species of the Coalition also sat across from us. A bit more than half of the military leaders of the twenty-three nations that had joined us in the Battle for Earth occupied the seats at both ends of the table, with a few more sitting in the chairs lining the walls of the elevated dais surrounding the oval room. The remaining military leaders and ambassadors from Coalition had joined the discussion via videoconference.

“Warriors, thank you for joining us on such short notice despite the terrible battles ongoing below,” said the Hulanian Ambassador Brejor. “We wouldn’t call you away from your duties if this hadn’t been of the utmost importance.”

“Here comes the bullshit,” Rage said in the telepathic group we had established to confer privately during this meeting.

I suppressed a smirk, waiting to hear what would follow.

“Yesterday, General Khutu dealt the Coalition, and especially the Vanguard, a blow of unprecedented magnitude,” Brejor continued in a solemn tone. “And for this, we apologize to you and your brothers for your tremendous losses—that are also our own. The Coalition’s military leaders recognize that their failures allowed this tragedy. Khepri should have been better defended. The cloaking signature of our support vessels and motherships shouldn’t all have been using the same encryption algorithm. And, we should have set up better defenses for our supply line and non-combatants.”

“What is done is done,” I said, starting to lose patience with this unending preamble. “What I want to know is our current status, the extent of the damages, what’s being done to mitigate the impact of our tragic losses, and what we are doing to prevent this from happening again.”

The ambassadors exchanged uneasy glances before returning their gazes towards us. The Tegorian Ambassador Ludcek shifted in his chair before claiming the right to speak.

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