The Galactic Crusade by Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla

Author:Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: galactic empire, space opera, scifi, space battle, alien invasion
Publisher: Pablo Wunderlich
Published: 2019-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

IT’S BEEN FIVE DAYS since I met Masaaki. Tauro celebrates the purge of planet alpha.

“One hundred million corpses! How about that!” he yells through the comms channel, his face painted in animal blood.

He’s shirtless, without armor, as if on the beach, enjoying the abundance of starlight to feed his body with photosynthesis.

“No retaliation. No mega animal or strange magic at play. These animals are the product of evolution. Simple as that. They died a good death. We left the marine ones intact, but they’ll die anyway, as I plan to release a planet-rupturing bomb. Just so you know,” Tauro says.

I send him the data we’ve collected. Scientific proof that this can’t be the result of evolution.

Tauro scoffs. “This is all made up by your scientists. It’s no proof. It’s your desire to make me stop the killing. It’s your fear speaking. We are unbeatable, Lynx. Face it. We are gods. The planetary rupture will create quite a spectacle. It’s been centuries since I’ve used one. My soldiers need the fireworks, the entertainment.” He laughs. “You’re not the only one entertaining people here. You see, I will transmit the show live back to the Milky Way!”

“You don’t need to pulverize the planet!” I yell.

“No, I don’t need it, but I want to, and I can, so I will. Tauro, out.”

I curse. This is bad. It’s one thing killing the animals forged by a xeno species. It’s another to destroy one of their planets. That’ll surely call their attention.

“Tauro invites us to see the spectacle,” says Tuigon with a smile.

We’re at the bridge. The holosphere displays a HD color in real-time of A-001 alpha.

I can’t say no to everything. My soldiers would gut me. Many have come to the bridge. Others have gone to the large, armored pano windows on the surface of the Novasphere to observe the planet-rupturer at work.

The first fusion bombs detonate on the surface, one teraton strong. The turquoise atmosphere evaporates with the large blast. The mushroom cloud is so big, it’s visible from space. The fusion bomb heats the surface enough to melt it to its core.

And now the Novasphere Alpha has launched the planet-rupturer missile, an entropic-class weapon using anti-matter as its main arsenal, too weak to destroy a planet with a hardened surface, but once in the core, it’ll wreak havoc. The two-step process is needed.

The missile flies in silence, fast as a running devil. It penetrates. The planet explodes in a white flash. Dust is all that flies out in a brilliant expanding cloud.

The cheers propagate with a frenzy. The whole Novasphere is in celebration. It’s an event, and the public loves it.

I’m reprimanded.

“Tauro has surpassed you in every regard. What is this studying and planting trees and talking with the animals?” says Omnistar Decius Ulnor with anger. “You’re the leader of a crusade aimed for destruction, not to study the flowers! Do you hear? None of this peaceful arrival you so allowed! Your soldiers will rebel and create mutiny if you don’t feed

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