Intellect by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-18T23:00:00+00:00

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September 3, 3229

Muesharu System (lizard territory)

Immita

The mastermind rode into orbit on a Li’vorkrachnika jumpship fully crewed by his own people. He’d had them inspect it inside and out, literally, to see if there had been any tampering by Star Force before they’d turned it over to him. Other than some patches over hull breaches, nothing had been altered and even now there was no Archon onboard looking over him. There was a ship insystem, annoyingly invisible to his sensors, but Paul had said he wouldn’t be operating on a leash and had apparently kept his word.

Not that it was necessary. He had no desire to return to the templars, and via negotiation with Star Force he was actually preserving more Li’vorkrachnika on Michra than he could have done fighting back. The Human-led empire was just too strong, there was no stopping them, but as he was learning, there were other ways to achieve your objectives.

What his objectives were was still a matter of question. Preserving resources was an obvious one, as well as searching for additional data on the templars and anything else within the Li’vorkrachnika civilization that he hadn’t been made aware of. But long term he did not have a purpose, nor had Paul made clear what he expected of him and his people on Michra. He had forbade them from producing more personnel save for special circumstances, but come the time when there were no more Li’vorkrachnika to recruit, did he expect them to just wither away? A compassionate way of exterminating them without having to kill them?

Yet that didn’t make sense, for Paul was teaching them how to go about attaining self-sufficiency. How well it would work long term the mastermind didn’t know, but his scientists were already studying the results and there was limited, but concrete evidence that there was an effect taking place in the standard variants that he was having go through the Star Force-inspired physical training.

They had no warships. No anti-orbital defenses. He did have a fairly good sized complement of fighters and tanks, but nothing that could do more than scratch Star Force. He had nothing to defend Michra with…save for him keeping his word, which was why he wasn’t going to try to make a break for it in his jumpship, in addition to the other reasons for staying on task.

With him was a fleet of some 83 other jumpships. Some were cargo models, other troop transports and naval carriers. All were in excess of 20 kilometers long, but it was going to take a lot of trips to evacuate the world into whose orbit he was now arriving. The defending fleet had already accepted his authority, ironically giving him some 43 cruisers and an additional cargo jumpship, though he knew those warships were going to have to be turned over to Star Force after the crews were retrieved.

This system held a single inhabited planet, which had a population of approximately 32 million Li’vorkrachnika, all of which were now his.

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