Project Godlike: The mind works in wondrous ways
#7 of Project Godlike
Chapter 7 The mind works in wondrous ways
March 12, 2484 / 1050 hours / Finnelis system / High orbit over planet Golianite / UCSC Battle cruiser "Interruption"
Back on the picket line things were very quiet all the way through, to the point that we were afraid that something had shivers running down both my spines. "J tell me are you sure that there are no sightings anywhere along the line."
"Yeah been checking every five minutes, none of the channels have anything on them, no even the new channels."
I knew what he meant, even with our black security privileges there were no orders or sightings. I had the absolute worst feeling about whatever happened next.
"DAD! Orders to go to planet Tranifiine NOW! Hundred ships attacking"
"Activate the PMSG and go now!"
"Where are you getting these orders Jbird? I'm looking at all channels that our ship has access to."
"No time to explain, unless you want to dad, I have to plot the course since it's not a charted planet."
"Fine go get us there as soon as possible, as for where he got the orders it's classified, don't forget to wipe the location from the databanks J."
"Already on it."
"Time to test the new weapons system."
I still had a very bad feeling about this attack... "Another attack, no two, uh-oh Three more attacks all by about one hundred ships and all on classified planets."
And now I know why, "Four hundred ships against 120 for a top of about thirty ships per each planet."
On the way to Tranifiine I had the tech check-out every possible system to make sure that we hit the area full power, even if we are the lowest tonnage of the heavy class. Immediately after emerging from PMS we were under fire and used another PMS to jump with the remaining energy from the first one. At the other side of the battle we used the shielding that was improved upon from the upgrade, firing off the new shielded missiles and launching the shadow fighters we took down 3 ships before we even got hit because the engines were increased from power added by the new plasmeric generator that had the power of two of the Fusion generators at almost 12,000 volts each for a new 36,000 volt power source more than twice the power of the 15,000 volts the previous three had.
"J, try and see if you can catch any of their transmissions and figure-out more about their strategy."
"On it already and got a transmission coming from the other side of the planet, they are beginning the bio-cleansing in five hours of our time, but first they seem to have something called Purlge, I think that we call them butchers."
"Butchers, great I wonder what they want down there?"
"No matter what it can't be good, do we have any Black Rogues on board?"
"Only one squad, but that should be fine, there are only 3 on the surface guarding what seems to be a new sub-species of the Butchers, they call them Harugatha which if I have all of their language correctly translated up to this point, means research-engineer."
"Well no-matter what they are called we need to send them and their trio of butchers back to the gene-pool."
"Where the heck did we get a squad of Black Rogues?"
"Classified."
"Wow, when do the two of you become such stiffs?"
"Dad, please just tell them while I translate this message that the Arbodu just sent to all four fleets from their home planet and I almost have their location."
"Fine, it will be easier to explain then keep saying Classified, we both got black classification for an assignment, that's also why we got all the upgrades they had for ships instead of just the weapons."
"Well that explains it, thanks for telling us, sending the orders to the Black Rogues now."
Over the intercom "Sir you want us to go down to the planet with only five hours to bio-cleanse? And locate three butchers escorting some engineers."
"Yeah, but you aren't blind we have their exact position updated every minute because they don't realize that they are transmitting on an open channel."
"Exactly what J said."
"Alright sir, we have our mission and will complete it if we can but butchers are hard even for us to take down sir."
"Don't sacrifice your lives, if you can't capture the engineers.."
"Kill them, yes sir we understand."
A half-hour later the Black Rogues were on the planet. "We have them in sight, it's worse than in the report, two butchers and a slicer."
"What is a slicer?"
"Slicers are rare but only one has ever been taken down, they are covered in armor they are the same race as the butchers but the slicers have photo-plasm armor and electro-plasma blades, the blades allow them to take down heavy weapons used against them, the only time that one has ever been defeated we found the corpse in the remains of a small nuclear blast which went off when he tried to cut it down. The photo-plasm armor allowed it to actually survive the blast but it was so weakened that we were able to kill it and take the armor. The Black Rogues suits are based its armor system."
"Yeah the vice-captain just summed it up, I don't think that we can take it down but if you want we can try."
"I have an idea how to beat them, I studied them and they don't have any powers beyond that of their armor and their blades, the blades can be taken down by a concentrated EMP burst, I put one in Rogue 4's pack just in case we came across one. Now from there I found that the armor has weak spots, the same ones yours does, the legs have little to no shielding so rogue 2 and 3 check your bags for the twelve part rocket launchers that I included, one of the rockets has a magnetic accelerator add-on that you need to use to put a hole through the under armor and then launch the remaining rockets in its wake because if you launch them right the other three rockets have triplacy convertors in-order spin forward in such a way that they will magnify the power of each of the explosions to the third so they will have a explosive power of 28** 3 ****3 tons of explosive power so make sure that you get the engineers out of there before you fire the triplacy."*
"You really know what to do to kill them don't you?"
"Well I need to improve the rocket launcher so that it can all be done with one rocket launcher."
"I'm sure you can do it, thanks for all the help"
An hour and twenty minutes later we got word from the Rogues. "We got the engineers thanks for the net gun you also included. The rockets completely blew the slicer and the butchers to pieces."
"Good you need to get back, you only have about three hours left."
"Loud and clear, on our way back now."
After a half-hour the Black Rogues were back on the ship leading the engineers to the cell-block.
"Good now that the Rogues are back use the PMSG and get us out of here."
"Dad, we have a huge problem, the Arbodu are still attacking the other three planets and I've got the same messages from those fleets that we did for this one, engineers want something from these four planets, we need to find out what, the good thing is that those planets have force fields protecting them because they are small enough for it, so we have about a day to get to each and take the engineers before they bio-cleanse each."
"Well then, plot a course for the nearest one."
"On it already, Rogues get the stuff I prepared for you for the other planets and get ready to head out."