Ghost Fleet by Isaac Stone & Timothy Mayer

Author:Isaac Stone & Timothy Mayer [Stone, Isaac & Mayer, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-20T06:00:00+00:00

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Over the next few weeks, the UDF realized the extent of the ghost ships’ penetration into their frame of interest. The Spear Cluster was gargantuan, and there just weren't enough patrols to keep the enemy fully screened, and every day more and more ghost ships slipped through our line. Some just fought their way through. Ghost ships spread across the systems that made up the UDF, destroying commercial ships and military ones where ever they were found. It was no longer possible to hide the extent of the threat from the public. There was only so much monitoring the military could do to keep the words from leaking out into the general information. And when the damn of information burst, it turned into a floodgate.

But what no one suspected was the amount of support the governments that made up the UDF would receive from their citizens. The danger became known and citizens signed up for any kind of duty they could perform to keep the threat from beyond known space from destroying humanity.

The offices of the Goat Squad were filled with requests of paranormals who wanted to use their abilities to save humanity. Every mineral dowser, ever crystal ball reader, every mirror gazer in the galactic civilizations began to offer their sources for the UDF to use against the invaders.

Small offices were opened on every world within the UDF. Forms were filled out and thousands of tests were performed to find paranormals who could fight against the threat. I remember the reports that flashed through the news feeds from the central committee. Every possible talent was explored.

Every major religion and most of the smaller ones ransacked their libraries to find any information that could be used. If there was a report of a phantom ship that appeared on the sea in the distant past, it was recorded by operatives from the Goat Squad. Talismans and sigils of all manners were pulled out of sacred chambers and museums to be tested against the ghost ships.

Tank and I were interviewed over and over by the navy. They wanted all information we could furnish about those shades and how they became substantial once I stabbed one of their number. I lost count of the naval officers I talked to over video feeds.

Across the UDF worlds, watch posts were organized to report any sightings of ghost ships. After a month passed, the UDF Navy had them characterized in to three basic forms. The overall patterns were distributed to the watchers, who would send a sighting to any government operative in the area. Since they could jump around the systems too, it was important that any sightings were relayed to a central location immediately. Bonus points were rewarded to people who made the best and most accurate observations.

Within two months, the entire UDF was on war footing. We were no longer colonies of a border patrol, but fully integrated into the military might of the government.

The destruction created by the ghost ships had no end. They would appear in some remote location and devastate entire planets.

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