Militia Up by J L Curtis

Author:J L Curtis [Curtis, J L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781790774036
Publisher: JLC&A
Published: 2018-12-20T07:00:00+00:00

Attack

Fargo’s comps pinged simultaneously, and he rolled over with a groan. Peering blearily at his wrist comp, he saw it was zero four. He opened the alert and bolted upright, “Dammit, dammit, dammit, now what?” The alert simply said- FEEDER THREE UNUSUAL ACTIONS OCCURRING. NEED BASE CONTACT.

Fargo quickly pulled on his grays and trotted down the hallway to the office, carrying his boots in his hand. Opening the door, he flopped down, scrubbing his face, “Feeder Three, Base.”

Daman answered immediately, “Base, Three. Got something strange going on. Got a crowd, estimated at one hundred and growing forming in the village, but not coming out. We’re watching that window that we ID’ed as an overwatch and are seeing multiple people and movement.”

Fargo shook his head as he slipped on his boots, What the hell? We’ve seen nothing to indicate… Wait, what did the Ferret from the restaurant… “Uh, rog, standby Three. One, Two, Four, are you seeing anything?” Fargo booted the data comp scrolling back through the downloads, looking for the message from Jace about the recordings, and finally found it. POSSIBLE SECONDARY OR TERTIARY ATTACK PROFILE IS TO HIT FEEDER SITES, THE TWO PLOTS MAY NOT BE CONNECTED OR AWARE OF THE OTHER PLOT. YOUNGER SMALLWELL, ET AL POSSIBLE LEADERS OF, OR COORDINATORS OF ACTIONS ALL THIRD GENERATION ATTACKS BASED ON IDS. OPTIONS INCLUDE ATTACKS AND ATTEMPTS TO OVERRUN SITES, GETTING MULTIPLE RIOTERS SHOT TO PROVIDE PRESSURE AGAINST LEADERSHIP TO REMOVE SECURITY. APPARENT GOAL TO REMOVE POWER TO CITIES, FACILITIES NOT OWNED/RUN BY FIRST FAMILIES. POSS GOAL OVERTHROW OF COMPANY/REVERSION TO FIRST FAMILY CONTROL OF PLANET. GOALS BASED ON RESEARCH OF PREVIOUS PLANETARY TAKEOVER ATTEMPTS YEARS 2250-CURRENT.

“Feeder One has about ten, maybe fifteen protesters, Base. Base, Feeder Two, maybe a few. They may be in that little canyon. Feeder Four, zip nada Base.” Jiri came on, “Base, Four. None here. You want us to mount a QRF?”

“Negative. I think I’ll alert GalPat, they have a QRF platoon that’s supposedly on call.”

“Captain, you… We’re here if you need us. Just saying.”

“Copied all, WO. I am going to put Boykin on standby.”

Fargo sent a ping to both Boykin and Grayson, asking them to report ASAP, to the office, then ran down the hall to the mess, quickly punching up a coffee and a quick breakfast. Juggling them he made it back to the office before either of them showed up. He keyed the radio, “Feeder Three, can you push your video feed, please?”

Daman came on, “Pushing. I have twenty segs to sunrise. What do you want us to do?”

Fargo leaned back in the chair as Boykin and Grayson came into the office. They both looked at him curiously, as he pointed to the wall vid. He heard Boykin say softly, “Damn. That’s… interesting.” Grayson just whistled.

He keyed the mic, “Uh, Feeder Three, nothing for now. Sonics and the maintenance guy, Mac’s repulsors are running, right?”

“They are. I’m seeing a few at a time joining the crowd, but they’re not approaching, yet.”

“Copy, as soon as GalPat comes in, I’ll advise them and get the QRF on standby.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.