章節 114: Chapter 30
The whole world government headquarters on London has not seen any rest since that catastrophe. The leaders of each faction, be it the opposition, the conservatives, the liberals, the nuetral, or the faction of the Prime Minister. They have yet to sleep and it's already been 7 days.
They just lost two thousand men and a rising group of people has called for an immediate payback.
People rallied behind their cause, these people are labelled as the "Fools" by the "Knowledgeable". These two factions are what sprung out after the confirmed destruction of the ISS Columbus in the hands of the hostile unidentified alien lifeforms.
These two took the streets and rallied either in support or in opposition of the current government leaders and their stance.
The fight was intense, and it easily escalated to the point that a fight has ensured between these two.
The local law enforcement with the help of the military tried to control and disperse the riot turned war but failed miserably.
They can't use their weapons as it was a direct order from the Prime Minister himself. So they did the law enforcing using the old way of a baton that has no taser on the tip and a riot shield for good measure.
But this move proved absolutely stupid, they could've used water cannons, or tasers. But no, they decided to challenge those men in a cold steel era type of fight, intending to show them who's the true boss around here.
A chaotic three way ensured between these men. The riot policemen and soldiers hit their batons hard and formed some sort of a shield wall while they apprehended the people who fought back against them.
But then, even if they have riot gear, molotovs and and rocks flew across the battlefield like insects.
It hit the shield wall and intense flame engulfed the riot shield of some riot policemen. Rocks rained upon the riot police who are thanking their solid helmets for protecting them from harm.
But the same can't be said to the poor pedestrians who got caught into the heat of action.
Some of them got hit by a large chunk of conrete right at their back, some even had an exploded eyebrow. While there are truly some who experienced horrific things like almost getting burned alive, they are lucky that the riot policemen managed to put the fire out just in the nick of time before they got burned into a good smelling cooked human.
The whoel chaos ensued just before a military battalion was called into place to do some crowd control and detain all participants on the rally and charge them with assualt, destruction of government property, and a frustrated homicide.
The day later after the chaos, newspaper poured oil to the already burning forest. Fear spread, civil unrest became more rampant compared to yesterday, every man literally walked with a heavy heart.
One of the news article headlines read like this:
"Our military can't control a small group of protesters, what more can they do against the aliens?"
This headline, with the cover picture of a police almost getting beaten into a pulp made people crazy.
This article's popularity including the news outlet skyrocketed overnight. They gained an instant fame and the article has been quoted too many times to count to back the reasoning of a surrender to the aliens to avoid bloodshed.
Currently, the social media platforms are filled with people either calling for an immediate surrender, a payback, or a challenge on the diplomatic table.
The hash tag "Make them pay" became trending just a day after the confirmed hostile first contact with aliens.
The current situation isn't favorable to the World government, they can't get into a common ground on what will their stance be. This is the reason why they can't properly implement any color coded plan at all.
But while they're blabbering on their high chairs, the National Navy, who's basically the Space Force of the government and in charge of the safety of the whole system is put into high alert.
The cruisers numbering around 150, supported with space fighters are on a high alert.
These 150 cruisers are divided into 3 groups, and each group has smaller derivations. Each group takes a 12 hour patrol across the Solar system interchangeably.
They've been doing this since the announcement. The 5 star admiral who is coincidentally the heas of the navy is on his office getting angry while looking at the news deliberately underestimating them.
"Those fucking newsreporters! Who do they think they are? They're deliberately telling us that we're weak!" said the admiral as he slammed his on the table angrily.
He knows in himself that the navy is far more powerful than what it is on the outside. The cruisers are always updated to the most advance military technology available, it also has an even better string engine comparable to the string engine used on the colonization ship that got struck down.
They have pretty interesting weaponry on their arsenal, some good missiles, and missile launchers, laser field protecting the whole ship, and many more cool sounding stuff.
The intelligence available to them regarding the enemy's military capabilities are limited. It's vague, but it's said that they employ some pretty powerful laser cannons or light show depends on how you view you it.
At this moment, a call from his assistant was heard telling him that someone wanted to meet him.
"Let him or her in, I don't care." said the admiral, still feeling salty about the report.
The automatic door opened, revealing a woman on a rather tight black suit with a tablet on her hand and a simple eyeglasses. She looked like your average saleslady with an unbearable attitude. The types who thought that they're superior to everyone for getting their position, in short, your average coworker.
"Who are you? What do you need?" asked the admiral as he sat on his swivel chair to be more presentable to his visitor.
"My name doesn't matter, however, 3 hours from now a delegation from the aliens will arrive. We want you to be as arrogant at possible. We want you to show that we don't kid around." said the woman which made the admiral's jaw drop due to her shocking words.
"You're hallucinating, I'll call the guards to throw you ou-" before he can finish his statement, the woman already stood up and walked to the door without any regards for his status.
"W-what?" he thought that the woman will at least plead to him to stop what he'll do, but from the looks of it, this woman doesn't kid around.
"We don't need someone who can't read between the lines. Forget that I ever visited you, though you wouldn't really last long in that position." the words lef tby the woman sent shivers to the spine of the admiral which made him stunned and unable to move, still trying to process the words.
After sometime, he finally got enlightened and stood up to try and rush to the woman to have a talk with her. But, she's already long gone by that time.
He can only gulp and curse himself for dooming his own career.
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Alpha Centauri...
The wreckage has this gigantic cordon of ships both military and Research. There had been friction between the other races regarding the decision to shoot this innocent spacecraft down after they suddenly appeared literally out of nowhere.
But the technology, specifically the magnificent, and fantastical engine made those races that's against at first jumped aboard the bandwagon to reap the benefits.
They're kind of drooling over the whole colonization ship. Praising some of the technology inside it.
They're currently trying to reverse engineer the magical "Alien engine". The engine in and on itself subverted their understanding of the universe itself. It doesn't use relays, no, it's far more efficient, and way more effective.
Its major advantage over the Mass Effect gates is that, it doesn't need relays. It can go from one place to another without the use of relays. How this works isn't known yet, but that's why they'll pressure the aliens which they detected to be literally on the neighboring star system.
None can withstand the sheer pressure the Citadel will give off. They plan to make those aliens give up the blueprint and be part of tge Citadel as a permanent member. The benefits they can reap are far too great to be missed.
They also can't let then not be par tof the Citadel, given enough time, they might grow to something thst can rival even the Citadel itself.
So by confederating them, they'll ensure thay their future will be well and bright.
Surely nothing will happen or mysteriously explode right?
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