Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 351, Monday
December 17th, 2018
Chapter One: Evasion
There was a
hum and a flash across every station monitoring HomeWorld.
When the energy weapons on the Central Planet powered up, it was
instantly detected by the fleet commanders, and they separated from one another
in patterns that had been ingrained in them through their training over years
and centuries, in the cases of some of the Observers, over millenia.
Jim knew the patterns well, he could see them clearly.
As each ship in the fleet moved away from every other, and away from the
awesome power of its firing solution; of lasers and photo cannons and of
particle-beam accelerators, they flew directly into the path of the projectiles
that they could not see.
They were taken at unawares.
Stealth missiles covered every other vector that the energy weapons did
not. They came at them from all directions from munitions batteries near and
far that were deployed throughout the Central System.
The defenses located on the HomeWorld itself were the least of their
concerns.
There was no place for them to flee, they took the barrage in dismay
watching all of their hopes go up in flames.
They could not evade the onslaught.
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