Muturi Deception by Joe Greer

Author:Joe Greer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Distributed Sensing

Babs Catches a Bug

A renewed Quarnar and his new cabal of hatchlings dropped out of hyperspace into Sol system between the orbit of the fourth planet and an asteroid belt. All the planets were in another quadrant so he could get deep into the star system. Twenty-two orbits ago the local humans were getting better with their chemical rockets, but he expected another one hundred years before the local military would be a problem. He applied all the acceleration his old ship would put out, barely three g. He needed a good haul to make up for the wasted time at Dragos. Cameron de Mello better have something good or he might just replace him. He had been rather arrogant for a sub-species last time.

While Quarnar was irritated about his personnel problems, Al’s early warning system was tracking his arrival.

‘Hi Mom, sorry to wake you but it’s important,’ Al had reached right into Babs conscience. ‘No, it’s not a dream. We have intruders into the system. Don’t know if they are hostile but they aren’t one of ours.’

‘So how do I know if this is a dream or not Al? She replied sitting up. “Use my hearing please. Where are they heading?”

“Earth, but they are, to paraphrase Jerry, ‘Dogshit slow’.” Al joked. “Three days if they don’t speed up.”

“Any activity in the Atlantis system?”

“No. Only our ships moving as scheduled.”

“Ok. Activate the quick reaction force on Ceres. So, what do you think about their slow speed? Sneaking or just junk?”

“Their EM is pretty noisy so eighty percent sure it is a slow POS.”

“I will leave it up to you and William as to the intercept details, but I don’t want them approaching Earth unless they are under our guns. It is ironic that the first real threat to Earth and I’m the one fielding it. The least military of the crew. What is the Muturi situation like? Still a furball?”

“Yes. Jerry is in an all-out ground battle with his tanks and they are preparing an orbital bombardment. It turned into a real shit show, but I am getting good intelligence now on the Centaurs. So far it was worth it. As long as no one else gets hurt. We lost six men boarding a destroyer.” Al added.

“Ariel told me about the destroyer. We are showing our inexperience, I think. Do you have any preliminary images?”

“On screen,” Al said as Babs vid turned on.

She stared at it for a few minutes. The image was completely blurred but the overall shape was discernable. “The general format of an Insectoid slaver as Stara described it.”

“Which is why I woke you now instead of in the morning.”

“The quick reaction force has five fighters and the Winchester. Anything else we can mount a useable weapon on?”

“We have ten gravpedos. I can carry them into position on barges. The electronics shop will have to make a few changes for me to control them but that is about two hours each. We don’t know if they are effective, but we don’t know they are not.

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