Shell Shocked (The Cosmic Carapace, #1) by Barnaby Yard

Author:Barnaby Yard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: steampunk, funny scifi, humor, adventure, parallel worlds, scifi fantasy, funny books
Publisher: Barnaby Yard
Published: 2015-08-04T16:00:00+00:00

11

The Strangs

Lord Garsh ran his eyes across the map in front of him. It was huge. It sprawled across an enormous table, deep in the underground level of Marlborough Palace, The Queen’s residence in London. It had two sections. One was a map of the British Isles. Each county line was detailed, every major river accounted for. Currently against each major town there was a small, bright red figure of a man. This small toy soldier showed that there was a unit of the Magisterial Guard stationed there. Garsh smiled to himself.

He was particularly proud of this idea. By rounding up various gang members and thugs who maybe didn’t quite fit in, who had never quite made it to the top of the criminal pyramid, he had created a loyal and vicious peace keeping force. For starters he had removed most of the dangerous criminal element in one fell swoop. These lunatics weren’t now out there trying to rob and steal from the state, they were part of it. Secondly, he had them in his control. He had given them what they all craved; power. He had given them a badge and the authority to drink as much free ale and crack as many heads together as they pleased, which, when you got right down to it, was all they wanted to use power for.

He now had control of the country. He couldn’t imagine much opposition from here on in. He turned his gaze to the second half of the map, which displayed the British Isles again, but to a far smaller scale, and in the middle of a large map of the world. His eye roved towards America. Sugar, wheat, tobacco. America he knew, was a fat goose, waiting to be plucked. It would bring him wealth, power, and more men to form a new army. An army to make the entire world kneel before him. And once he had achieved this, he would turn his attention to other worlds. He would send expeditions through randomly. He’d lose many men of course, he’d seen enough of what was out there to know that, but that wouldn’t matter once he had an entire world to fuel his army. They’d take the easy ones first, lands with no people, or with only primitive tribes. They could use the resources of these worlds to build more weapons, more settlements which would produce more people, more soldiers.

He tugged at his moustache thoughtfully. He was getting ahead of himself. First he had to make sure that Spangler’s little gang were under control. Knowledge is power, and those few seemed to have a little more than he was comfortable with. They knew about the device for starters, they may even be from different worlds. What Spangler was doing with them he had no idea, but he had plans of his own, and he certainly didn’t want them getting in the way. He had sent Mr Pall out with a group to the house, though he imagined they would be gone from there by now.

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