Maybe we should just port into the office of the highest ranking general we can find. Then we give an out-of-this-world show-and-tell. It’s possible we should have laid out our capabilities earlier on. Hold on a second. Earlier on? We’re only 12 days into the invasion. This melting thing will not go well. But it’s probably too late to stop it at this point.
Another call and another round of resistance. The bugs are starting to move people off-world they said. Your very own intel report suggests they have a stargate, or at least they will soon have a stargate. Who knows what will come through that? People are getting nervous. We’re running out of time. Action is needed.
At least they were honest and open enough to inform Mr. T of their intentions with the bugs and their Operation WitchesBrew. We think the name came from a movie. The witch and the water part: I’m melting, melting. You just can’t make this stuff up. The operation is under way even as I write. Mr. T was informed via s-loop call, as the cruise missiles were dumping their loads on three nest ships. They’re labeling it a test run. Now we wait.
What’s that? I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to the creepy Emergency Broadcast Tone. I must have dozed off again. Looks like I’m not the only one who napped.
Your hair’s a mess Para, you should take care of that. Yeah, I see your tongue. You should do something about that too.
This is rare, using the Emergency Alert System to introduce the President of the United States.
It must be terribly bad. Or good. No, it’s bad. The bugs retaliated, destroying the downtown section, and more, of a major U.S. city. Total destruction. Assurances from the president that the bugs will pay for their crimes. Prayers, thoughts going out, etc.
I ... am ... so ... angry. Mr. T is on his s-loop. Again.
He made several calls to get the full story. WitchesBrew was a test run on three bug ships. The science guys have been carefully studying the bug ship we recently ... acquired. They know that nest ships don’t draw air directly. Bugs aren’t stupid. They filter the air, test for contaminants, add oxygen. The toxic formula also had some sort of enzyme or something that was supposed to allow the formula to seep through the filtration system. It didn’t work as expected and they weren’t able to defeat the filtration systems on two of the ships.
But one of the three ships they attacked, in the test run, had a faulty filtration unit. A lot of bugs evidently died on that ship. They didn’t all die though and made sure to announce that fact by lighting up an entire downtown skyline and entire neighborhoods with their laser cannons.
You’re right Rock. Allow that anger to settle in and focus it on the bugs.
We need a plan to kill them all, kill them all at once. That was it, I can see it on all their faces. Now we go to war for real.
September 4th. The invasion has moved to a new level. Extreme retaliation. Moving people off-world. According to the sat-scopes they are being moved to the Moon. Not too many yet. Most are still in holding-pens on Earth. We did manage to steal that bug nest ship, resulting in at least some bugs being called back to protect the remaining ships and their queens. That has slowed up their people-gathering program. It will probably start up again soon with earnest. The situation has become even more fluid.
Let’s do a count. The bugs started with 60 large ships including both of the mass landings. There are 55 ships currently on Earth. The military has managed to destroy 4 ships. We stole another. A lot more momentum is needed. Our primary strategy is to eliminate bug capacity to wage war. That will involve three primary tasks. The 3 Ds.
Destroy or otherwise incapacitate all bug ships and invasion forces on Earth.
Destroy the bug base on Mars, along with any remaining ships there.
Destroy or take control of Moon Base Bug, the teleportation gate, and all remaining bug ships. And in the process, liberate the human captives at the Lunar base, while keeping them from harm.
Earth, Mars, Moon.
We know from Mr. T’s interview with the bug queen that all the bug ships are exactly the same. The only exception would be a ship housing high royalty such as the High Queen of the invasion. Evidently it would show great disrespect if one regular nest queen had it better, or just different than another queen. That could lead to a bug civil war.
We have detailed information of the bug ship layout including a couple of good walk-throughs. That means Rock and Roll should be able to get us onto a ship via teleportation. The best option is to untangle in a fairly large room on the ship. The twins have been paying close attention to that turbulence. Quantum turbulence is the push-back or shaking that occurs when the untangling is going to take place within a dense object like a steel wall, or hull.
They are honing their craft. Gaining confidence. The hope is, if they feel that turbulence, the porting process can be stopped, and we will remain at the original location. The twins still won’t give a guarantee though. Even with all that about dense objects, to me, there’s still an elephant in the room. With bugs running around all over the place, we could untangle in the same space occupied by a bunch of bugs. How gross would that be?
We had talked about it before. I brought the subject up again. Rock shrugged and tried his best to ease my furrowed brow. A bug exoskeleton and plating, they are somewhat dense. There had been one
