Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 345, Tuesday
December 11th, 2018
Chapter Two: Deployment
A surprise
attack is always a surprise, and everything that stems from it is received as
the unexpected. Even those who plan a surprise attack are surprised at the
outcome, whether by its success or its failure.
The rebel ambush of the Imperial fleet was over.
Thousands upon thousands of ships lay scattered, broken-up
in pieces, and breathing fire as they burned their last stores of oxygen and fuel.
They were counting the dead.
Their victory was absolute.
The surprise maneuvers were brilliantly executed and a
blessing was given by the high priest to eradicate all resistance, to usher in
a new era of justice for the citizens of the Empire.
The average soldier had no idea what that meant, neither
did the low ranking officers. Some of the senior staff were uncomfortable by
such talk, and the observers among them were amused.
They gave no quarter. They slaughtered everyone in the
battlefield who had not previously signed up for the insurrection.
What every soldier and pilot knew, was that the more
people they killed the further up in rank they would climb. They desperately
wanted to clear the field and rise as the new aristocracy.
They destroyed every ship in the armada whose commanders had
not been with them from the outset, regardless of whether they tried to
surrender. It was a blood bath, and the wreckage was already falling toward the
massive gravitational pull of HomeWorld.
The victory was so overwhelming that none of the rebel
ships had been destroyed, a few were disabled but their crews were already
preparing them for the next phase of their endeavor.
Now the rebels had no other plan accept to deploy the
fleet against the Continuum.
They reformed and began to surveil the HomeWorld.
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