The Catherine Kimbridge Chronicles #5: Liberation by Beery Andrew

Author:Beery, Andrew [Beery, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine – Mysteries

Nicked-Tail scanned the conference room. The best minds at his disposal were seated about the large table. They had spent the last several days analyzing data from every available sensor looking for their enemy. At long last they had located the Sol system and therefore the planet Earth. In a surprise revelation, the Sol system had literally announced itself. Radio transmissions had been intercepted and the direction traced back to a star system some 43 light years distance. The transmissions were incredibly weak and hard to read but several seconds of clarity had revealed a startling discovery. The transmissions were English – the primary language of the enemy.

“We have them!” Captain Rockfish grunted as he reviewed the latest sensor data. It showed a star system with nine primary planets and a large ring of asteroids some distance beyond the last of the gas giants.

“Atmospheric analysis seems to indicate three of the worlds plus several of the moons are candidates for life. Which one do we target?” a small female named Commander Puddle Jumper asked.

“We destroy them all,” Nicked-Tail spat. “We sterilize the entire system. Our agents have been good enough to get us the schematics to several of weapons systems the Coalition has been using against our ships. One of them, I believe they call them ‘suicide jumpers’, opens hyperfield conduits to the ejecta stream of supermassive black holes. We bathe each of the worlds within the Sol system with enough radiation to turn their surfaces to glass and we can end humanity before it ever begins.”

“Won’t that effectively kill our agents as well?”

“What of it?” Nicked-Tail responded coldly.

***

The view from the Yorktown’s observation deck as everything Edward Stevens had expected it to be. He had seen high resolution videos stored in the Fitz’s library computer but they could not compare to the real thing. The view was breathtaking.

The observation deck was the icing on what had been a very nice cake. Admiral Kimbridge had personally escorted the Venusians on a tour of the starship. It was hard to believe that while almost seventy years had passed for the crew of the Fitz… the world they had left behind had aged only thirty – and yet so much had been accomplished in those thirty years. Technology and fabrication techniques gleaned from other races had literally redefined the speed at which humanity evolved technologically. He had been told that a ship like the Yorktown could be built in mere months or even weeks if enough resources could be thrown at the project. The Edmund Fitzgerald had taken five years of intensive international effort to build and another two to fully stock for its one way journey. The remarkable thing was the Fitz was less than a 20th the size of the Yorktown.

Everywhere he looked the level of advancement was astounding. The medical facilities, the engineering deck, the science labs, even the gym was far superior on this ship to what he and his people had on the planet’s surface.

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