Preserving Perfection_Self-obsessing with body augmentation has left the entire planet of Ramos without children. But to acquire children means interstellar war! by Jason Bourn

Author:Jason Bourn [Bourn, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-13T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18 – JUMP SPEED

Nadia was feeling almost giddy. She hadn’t felt so good in a long time. It had been almost twenty years that they had been working towards this point. But this was it. Their first test of the new quantum jump capability on an actual space craft.

They had conducted smaller trials, to be sure, and they had transported other objects and even animals successfully. No one wanted to wait though. They had to get it installed on a ship and try it with humans. After all, if it wouldn’t work for this purpose, there was no way they were ever going to rescue their children.

Twenty long years. It was hard to believe. The long years in building up their battle ship fleet, training their crews and, of course, getting the jump drive technology to work. It had all taken time.

The original promise was five years. But that had not happened – everyone was far too optimistic. The children would have been about ten years old. They could have rescued them and integrated them easily back into their earlier lives.

But five years had turned into ten, and now practically twenty years. The children would be twenty-five years old now. They would be fully grown. She recognized that this would make their job of rescuing and returning the children back into their society much harder.

But all she had to do was to listen to Saul. He had sent yet another message asking if the jump drive was ready and if they could go rescue his children. He was obsessed, as were all those living in the Periphery. They had massive twenty-year memorial anniversary demonstrations planned, one on every Periphery world.

Where Saul and the Periphery were so obsessed, the Kingdom was less so. They continued to give lip service to finding the children, but with Garth steadily acquiring more and more worlds into his Kingdom every year, their focus was clearly not fully on the children.

Nadia now had to worry about both getting the children back and ensuring that Garth’s ambitions stopped when they came to Torval 2. Torval 2 was by far the biggest and strongest of all the planets in this sector. Nadia wanted Garth to know that when the fleet of battle ships went out looking for the children, Torval 2’s entire armed fleet would be on high alert guarding the planet.

She had met with Giliad to seek his recommendations for thwarting Garth’s ambitions.

Giliad had been very blunt saying that if nothing changed in Garth’s trajectory, he would either take over the entire sector, Torval 2 included, using force, or determine how to take it over without the use of force. What Nadia, and Torval 2 by extension, needed to do was to develop a strategy that kept Garth in check, taking away his ability to use force. Once the large battle fleet was done rescuing the children and resided back on Torval 2, then Garth could not hope to defeat it. So Giliad proposed a plan, which Nadia had spent substantial time considering.

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