The long awaited continuation has started! After listening to this track: Yes - Homeworld (The Ladder) I've found my imspiration to keep wrting (thumbsup)
ENJOY!!! :lol:
Chapter 12
Two months.... thats how long it has taken to create this new barrier... two months..
I had been monitoring the construction of the shield generators that we where building underground, thanks to new engineering technology's we could now build underground a lot easier than before
This, of course, had it's draw backs. Eden had landed several squads of troops and where already trying to drill under the shield wall, we had only a few days to go before they succeeded
Although I'll NEVER let them into the base, we had to few people remaining, about 875, all adults, of the children we had an abundant of, about 1000 children, give or take a hundred or so, it was strange how all the females suddenly had a birth spurt after the attack, man, I felt sorry for the hospital's, they had been swarmed over the past few weeks after the attack
Although most of those children where not only 8 months old, maybe less, I still felt sorry for them, they where being born into a world full of hell! Why did god want them to come here?.... god..... huh... if god existed he wouldn't let this happen
"Kat?" Came a little girls voice from behind me, I turned around and saw that it was Hikowa. "Yes?"
"Here's the report you wanted." Hikowa said while handing the data pad to me. I clicked it on and checked it. "Still need some rare ores... tell those miners to hurry the process up, if they have to, take some ore transports from the common ore and geo mines to the rare ore mines."
"Yes Sir!" Hikowa saluted me and then ran off. I still couldn't get it out of my mind that she was just a child and yet she knew so much about the mineral we used, she was one of the smartest children on the base, and perhaps, the most important. I had put in a special request to have her designated as a 'VIP' or ‘Very Important Person’ and with that came a heavy guard for her, in the event of an evacuation she, along with myself and the rest of the defense team, would be evacuated first
I took my seat in front of the barrier controls and checked the power output. "45% so far, looks like they got the solar power plants up and running, without the need of a solar satellite to. Hot Damn!" I smiled. "Those boys in engineering are doing there job well." I said and switched to another camera, this one showed the activity outside the shield dome. "Eden still waits," I said and watched the numerous Thor tigers that rolled across the terrain, including a few lynx EMP and even fewer acid puma's. "Eden's stepped up it's armor research, never seen THAT vehicle before." I said and looked at an odd vehicle that was rolling toward the barrier
On its chassis was what appeared to be two gigantic rail guns, they had coil's around them that burned a hot blue color, and seemed to be constantly charged and ready to fire. I just hoped it wasn't at us, but that was wishful thinking
This is Space Pad One, our RLV is ready to launch.
Roger, is the cloaking device stable?
At the moment it is, it'll decloak when it get' behind Laveron XI
Good... order it's crew to recloak when coming back.
Yes Sir
I had the comm. line open so I could listen to the chatter, so, the cloaking device that the research boy's had been working on for years has finally been perfected and is now able to be used to cloak out RLV. I switched two Space Pad One camera and smiled, the rocket was shimmering against the light on the pad, was it cloaked? Yep.. sure enough.. the shimmering was indeed being caused by the Morris Effect, as the scientists called it, that the cloaking drive gives off.
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We have lift off!
I watched as the rocket's engines ignited and the massive RLV lifted off the pad, now was the moment of truth, would its cloak allow it go through the barrier, or would we lose the 20,000 units of Rare and Obsiben ore that was inside it. The answer came thirty seconds later when it cleared the barrier and went into space; a loud cheer could be heard all over the command center, including myself. "Hot Damn! It worked!" I yelled and applauded the successful launch
ground crews, get an EMP rocket ready for launch, time to annoy the Eden
Yes sir
Sir! Underground barrier generator is online now, it's ready for a test
That was my cue. My moved my chair over to another control panel and checked it's power reading. "60%, that'll have to due." I said and typed in the command, I listened to the chatter
Generator is coming online, heat is at 190 Celvin and rising, 200.... 500.... 1200.... 1500... it's ready!
A grin formed on my face and I hit the activation key, we all heard it, a buzz that vibrated through the mountain, and apparently so did the Eden, because those troops on the camera scrambled. That massive unknown vehicle also turned its turret and aimed it at the ground, it wasn't until I recognize one of it's components is when I finally knew what it was. "s***!"
It came to fast for me to warn them, the beam cut through the ground like a super hot knife through butter it bisected the generator slicing it in half, thankfully the liquid was created differently from the Tokomak’s, so it didn't overload, instead it oozed out and onto the ground that had been cleared. The scientist's and engineer's scrambled from the coolant and boarded the elevator
Warning! Eden troops have been detected entering the tunnel!
A camera to my upper right switched and showed Eden Crack Troops entering one of the tunnels that that massive vehicle had created. I turned in my chair. "Shunt all power from the Factories and Mineral labs to the laser grid!" I yelled
"Yes Sir!"
"On it Sir!"
Two tech's yelled and turned back toward there stations, I watched again as the power grid switched over from commercial to defense, and the laser grid came online, slicing the eden troops in half and killing them where ever they stood. Of course that lasted until Eden Lynx Thor's entered the tunnel’s and turned our laser's into liquid slag
"Blast them!" I yelled and put my heat set on. "Squad's 1 and 8, we have Eden Thors in the mining tunnels! INTERCEPT!"
Roger Ground Command
I turned back and to another panel. "Capture Squad! Do what you do best, EMP and take over!"
With Pleasure!
Once again I turned to yet another panel. "Squad 5, continue monitoring the air for any signs of Eden bombers, if they somehow get through the barrier, take them out!"
Roger Air Command!
I sighed and laid back in my chair, “no time to relax" I said to myself and straightened back up. "Give me a troop count!"
"Eden is sending in about a wave of troops every five minutes, that’s twenty soldiers each... ummm.... for vehicles it looks like they can only send in one at a time." A tech yelled
"Very Well." Hikowa said as she came back in and hopped over the railing. "Send a squad of Capture Units to intercept them, if they are EMPed they can't move through the tunnel, and thus, it'll be harder for them to invade the base." She said and looked away
A smile creased my dirty face, how surprising for her to be giving orders, especially considering I'm the one in command... oh well... it seemed they didn't look at me for clarification so I didn't mind it at all
The underground battle lasted a lot longer than I had wanted. Over the past four hours we had disabled and captured well over a hundred Eden units, thank god they where run by computers, we didn't have to deal with troops. The troopers them selves where being meet by our Scorpion MK 6's, who where armed with the new 'O’Brien Laser', named after the scientist who created it, it was a laser created using the new ore we discovered several months ago, it was quite deadly against almost anything, but it was extremely lethal against flesh
The weapon itself was housed in a small chamber that could be carried by a person, but due to the heat, it was instead put on a scorpion thanks to there heat dispersion system, when the laser was fired it would scorch the air between it and where ever it was heading, making it suicide to approach
Against flesh and bones it would turn the person into ashes and it worked well in that role, but thankfully the defense team was a little more 'human' in that area, so instead they used traditional projectile weapons against soldiers, and the laser against vehicles, let the enemy leave and perhaps they'll reconsider
Although that wasn't always the case, in this sense, Eden had been putting so much man power into this attack that they left there main frame open to hacking, both Hikowa and myself did a damn fine job downloading there research, at least until someone FINALLY noticed a strange surge in there power grid. We had used there own power grid to piggy back our signal, the AI was never the wiser and let us in like we where regular Eden AI
What we got back was astronomical!
What we also found was extremely frightening... and changed the whole outlook of this war
To be Continued
