I recalled the demonstration - the tossing of cars about as though they were mere toys was particularly impressive. Gravy gun was soldier's lingo for graviton gun. "Lasers? I thought we were using gravy guns now." I guess these are to replace the mindworm garrison that had to be pulled out for the invasion. They have advanced ECM capabilities, AA tracking good enough to shoot a razorwing out of the sky from 10 miles away, and strong enough stasis shields to shrug off anything less than a nuke. The only designs like that are the Behemoth type. Check out the green paint on the gun? That marks them out as armed with singularity lasers. He projected the green HUD of the nightvision system across the windscreen, and punched a few buttons until the magnifier came up.
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To our left, I saw another shadow, and beneath each blob of blackness was a faint patch of light.
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"Shit, they've totally blocked the road," my driver said.
We didn't notice the hulking great shadow sitting astride the road until we were almost up to it. The noise of the water hitting the ground, a thick hiss like white noise, clouded our thoughts. The rain fell harder as we continued, seemingly hanging in thick sheets, obscuring our view. Man, makes you wish for a Hive-style general population database, doesn't it?" Not on the military's, or any other department's personnel files, anyways. He stepped out again into the darkness, without saying so much as a goodbye. "You do realise that you've given me no reason to believe you." My advisers suggest that he's just using it as a tool of last resort, or as something to threaten us with." "You say it as though Joacquim is actually planning to use the missiles. Inertial dampening has improved a lot in recent years, and good old fashioned fanaticism is as strong and dependable as ever." "If you are going to cause some megadeaths, one more doesn't matter. The real missiles don't use electronic guidance triggers. The other two are underwater and radio-silent. Even the Kraken sub you are tracking is a fake, filled with ballast. "No, no." He pushed a stack of papers (people still use paper in this day and age?) at me. They've been disabled electronically, so all that remains is to destroy them physically." "The transcends have already tracked them down. "You are looking for the missiles, right? The singularity missiles? You must know they exist from the production manifests.
I eyed the flash of the little green LED on the door beside me, indicating the invisible temporal shield barrier that activated, wrapping around me. Lady Skye! Open up! It's very important!"Īgainst the advice of the driver, I opened the door, and he got inside, drenching the seat beside me.
The figure in the raincoat pressed his hands against the barrier, his mouth moving as though to shout something.
We were stopped just at the perimeter of the city, waiting for the main gates on the defence screen to open. Together with the windscreen wipers squeaking to and fro, I barely heard the tap on the reinforced and shielded glass. With the darkness came a light rain, pattering against the window. Night was just falling as my hover car began to leave Memory of Earth, the home of my Voice of Alpha Centauri project. The small group of settlers, those last dregs of colonial optimism, had requested that Lady Skye herself go and host the inauguration ceremony. If any more evidence was needed for the malaise afflicting humanity, even creativity for city names is running low. There is still little sign that Zakharov's final hypothesis will function as desired. It grows ever more tempting to believe in the accusations of 'hoax' put out by the Morganites, for if our models are correct, even colonies far from the shore will face massive flooding.įungus growth continues to accelerate. Sea levels will not stabilise as we had hoped. The prime positions for new settlements have almost run out. The men, identified by aliases 'WildMango', 'GetWellGamers', and 'Glazius', were returning from an executive meeting when their vehicle lost control and crashed.Ī spokesman said, "these men were good men, and despite disagreements in the past, we in the ministry are saddened by their loss."Īlpha Sector will probably be the last base built on the Planet.įew these days even plan to have children, and a spate of suicides plague many large cities. : In other news, an accident last night near Velvetgrass Point claimed the lives of three employees of the Gaian Military High Command.