Time Siege by Wesley Chu

Author:Wesley Chu [Chu, Wesley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 0765377543
Amazon: B015MP6XFS
Goodreads: 26792232
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2016-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

THIRTY

A NATION

Elise had never thought in a million years that she would be forming a government. Her only leadership experience besides her ill-fated tenure as captain of the badminton team was as vice president of the scuba diving club in Berkeley. In fact, she detested politics and most forms of organized governments. Yet here she was, standing on the podium in front of forty-three leaders from all the tribes that had flocked to the All Galaxy. She felt her stomach do a few flips. Well, she had laid out the honey and the trap for all these good folks; now was the time to spring it.

The leaders attending led tribes of varying sizes. Some, like Abel of the Madison Greens, led a tribe that was a thousand strong, nearly equaling Elise’s Elfreth. Others, like Jayul, of Spin-Spin, which lived on the mostly flooded ground-floor lobby of the All Galaxy, commanded only two dozen. Others were complete unknowns. Glads, the leader of a tribe of three hundred called the Carnegies, had just arrived a few hours earlier. Her people were still straggling to the tower in groups of tens and twenties.

In the end, Elise followed a rule her mom had always quoted from her time in the Peace Corps: “Hungry people are always too hungry to fight.”

Instead of wasting manpower and resources waging wars, Elise had opted to feed the elderly and the children instead. Once all the fighting folks realized what was happening, they, too, had put down their weapons and got in line for soup and bread. Word had spread quickly that one of the tribes on the upper levels was not only powerful but rich. Why else would they give away free food?

Within a matter of days, the Elfreth had received twenty requests from smaller tribes to merge and representatives from dozens more to meet. It was then that Elise and Franwil hatched the plan to unify the tribes surrounding the All Galaxy and create a loose coalition. This meeting was the result. It was a larger success than she had dared hoped. Too large, in fact.

Elise had not bothered stipulating who qualified as a leader and a tribe. If someone had wanted to come, she let them. It wasn’t like she was planning on setting up that old United States House of Representatives or anything, or was she? She really didn’t have a plan for this. Maybe it was something she should have thought out a little better. It was too late now.

She spent a few minutes chatting with Crowe, making sure they were on the same page before the start of the meeting. The teacher was wellknown and respected by all the other tribes in the area due to the Flatirons’ control of the All Galaxy, easily the largest tower in the area, and his and the Flatirons’ support was critical for the success of her plans.

Elise stepped to the podium and scanned the faces of the men and women as their chatter quieted. Many had come armed.

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