Exodus by Tobias Roote

Author:Tobias Roote
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humanity escapes from Earth's destruction at the hands of the Nubl.
Publisher: Roote Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015-01-03T08:00:00+00:00

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ARK 1 - Lift-Off

Mike Patterson was nervous, but he was too professional to show it in front of his team. They needed to be calm for what was to come. The news had said that enemy ships were entering Earth space and there was nothing much in the way to stop them.

He had seen the bulletins issued by Space Council, warning people to be prepared for the worst. They anticipated a laser bombardment from space followed by an invasion of shuttles with metallic warriors. The military had zero experience in such warfare, so were doing their usual ‘all options’ scenario and bringing out everything in preparation for the assault on the planet.

Mike knew the Space Navy could never hope to stem the massive tide of ships. His mind wandered briefly as he thought of his son, Jimmi, flying in those new Reaver-class ships of theirs. His AI co-pilot, a recent innovation, had been very concerned that Jimmi and Mike had an opportunity to get together and so had orchestrated an excuse for Mike to be at Orient Station while his son was there for a briefing on their new space craft. There had been too few opportunities to say a proper goodbye and now, it would be impossible to talk to him - he would already be in the midst of the of the fighting.

Regardless, the highly secret aspect of the ARK project wouldn’t allow them to meet again. Jimmi had chosen his path instead of joining his father on the ARK, preferring instead to defend their home. Mike, as a father, would miss him deeply.

The governments had been working like crazy to set up out-of-city zones where civilian people could flee. Mostly, these were in the hills and mountain regions where they could be protected, shielded from detection.

Nobody really knew if the Nubl were robots, or sentient beings. To Mike, it didn’t seem to amount to much of a difference. Invaders were invaders - they weren’t ever going to be good news, whichever they turned out to be.

He had been party to one of the early SC briefings and knew more than most. As he understood it, these Nubl had no interest in preserving the human population, instead were set to annihilate everyone, or as the SC put it - anything biological would be eradicated. That wasn’t on the news though, why scare people to death when they would be dead soon enough either way.

His cousin had called from Space Island and given him the low-down on the scale of the threat. After that it was a matter of putting plans into effect from the early days of the Fortress.

When mad General Ferris had sat in the meeting and told his scientists to “build me a fortress that can float in the sky,” they had chuckled, but he made them lay out the plans for a working design which later sparked the idea for a Sky City Project. Those plans eventually evolved into this one. Now they were finished and ready to go.

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