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Solarans 1: The Gift From Aquarii

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by Don Koch


  The second ship commenced firing at the planetary target when the first ship exploded. The Solarans then boarded the second ship and the same condition ensued. The Sorzans came on like a rabid horde. Again, there was no apparent Captain. The firing controls were destroyed and again someone triggered the self-destruct mechanism. This had the same result as the first ship.

  The third ship commenced firing and appeared to be undisturbed by the destruction of the first two ships. So this time the Solarans boarded in invisible mode. They destroyed the firing control and the Sorzans acted as if this were an everyday occurrence. There was no apparent change in routine. The lead Solaran then tried an experiment. He had one Solaran turn visible. The crew went berserk trying to reach the Solaran. After 10 seconds, the Solaran went invisible and it took only two seconds for the crew to quiet down and resume normal activities even though the weapons would never again fire. The Solarans then destroyed the firing circuits to the ships cannons as well as the repair spares. The Solarans then copied the navigation files on the vessel. No communications systems were found on the ship. The Solorans anesthetized one of the crew members and took him back to the battleship for examination. After scanning the Sorzan, the doctor noted that the creature was non sentient. A circuit board was found attached to what little brain there was. The circuits were diagramed for further review and the creature was returned to its vessel. The Solarans then appeared on the vessel and predictably the self-destruct mechanism was activated and the ship destroyed.

  Sider met with Fema, Ed and Janie.

  They searched the entire system for more Sorzan vessels and found 20 more. The weapons systems on 17 of the ships were destroyed and action continued until each ship voluntarily self-destructed. The remaining three ships were entered invisibly, the weapons destroyed and the navigations systems were reprogrammed to return the ships home. Each of the three ships was tagged with a beacon so it could be tracked and later found as needed.

  # Task Force A Flagship in Orbit at Grell #

  # Monday, August 15 #

 

  He then proceeded to provide Paulo with the descriptions he had earlier given to Nikolay.

  When he was done, Estella turned to Nikolay and said,

  The General was startled and said,

  Nikolay, Anya, Paulo and Rosa were all grinning,

  # Earth Orbit on the Solaran Ship Aston #

  # Tuesday, August 16 #

 

 

 

  # An hour later #

 

 

  The Doctors were positively itching to get going on the project so Andy let them go before the meeting was complete.

 

  Pat Clark offered,

  When this is all done, we expect to have 30 carriers, 60 battleships, 600 destroyers and an assortment of fighters, scout craft, transports, etc.>

  # Task Force A Flagship in Orbit at Grell #

  # Tuesday, August 16 #

  The defeated Grell invasion fleet to Fair arrived in Grell Orbit. A super ship with sufficient stasis capacity had been moved to a similar orbit. Crews from the various ships were then placed in stasis aboard the super ship. When this was completed, the super ship was moved back to join its sister ships in the Grell Oort cloud.

  Nikolay was considering the order in which he must proceed with addressing the issues at Grell when General Tosl asked if they could meet in his office. He invited whoever else he thought might be interested and suggested Paulo and family. A few minutes later Nikolay, Anya, Fass, Ela, Paulo, Rosa and Estella all appeared in the conference room of General Tosl. The General had two individuals with him who were engineers.

 

  He pushed a button on the console before him and a holograph of a battleship appeared before him.

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