The Futility Wars

by Magnus Thollander

  "Breaking news, a massive ship and a battleship fleet of 500 million just entered the system. We got an identification from his warrior id it's S-4XN-001 and it's heading straight for Sol."

  Seyla bit her lips and watched from the station, she saw several human battleships get shredded and keeping their distance from the station, when the news clip reached Sol everyone on the station knew their lives were going to end. But they did not suspect this station was so incredibly armed and it started to shred any approaching battleships. It was not a station it was a battle fortress containing people, News about it scared everyone in Sol that such a strong station could be built so covertly, it had been inspected countless times and no weapons were found, So they were baffled at it being a fortress. Several Luna and Mars fleets were now parked around its exterior and loaded supplies freely since they got docking permission and it was now the official rally point for earths resistance just a jump away from Earth.

  They would engage the earth navy and retreat to the fortress for repairs and resupply and kept chipping down earths fleet slowly, sometimes they got lured into range of the station and the beams instantly cutting holes in the hulls of the enemy leaving holes in the defense so more battleships from the opposing side could retreat in and expand the fleet bigger and bigger, They could also dock on Luna now safely whenever the fortress covered that section of the planet with its daily rotation, Earth was now in dire straits and Luna and Mars had the comeback and the war was guaranteed to last, when the 500 million ships reached Sol it was time for a death push. He had calculated several strikes that would bring earth to heal. He kept going forward, retreat had never even entered his mind, He finally reached a sector with several warriors loyal to earth.

  "S-4XN-001 PLEASE RETURN, WE DO NOT WISH TO ENGAGE IN BATTLE WITH A BROTHER SWORN TO PROTECT AGAINST THE FUTILITY. PLEASE RETURN." said a warrior from the opposite fleet, they were numbered in the 2 billion range, all warriors, so he could be engaged which would make it a fight and not a struggle from their side.

  They knew warriors felt no fear, this was just a battle of scraps of metal versus scraps of metal. He calculated they operated with severe time-lagg, so he decided to just engage first before they could go into battle mode, he opened fire with his 500 million battleships and about 200 million battleships lost connection the first 30 seconds before their armies went toward him to engage, He had the range advantage and their beams did not even scratch the hull when they were so far away. He kept reversing and firing. 2 hours later a system filled with 2 billion traveling hazards was formed, and he kept his course going for Sol.

  "EMERGENCY NEWS BREAK, A battle between several warriors broke out in the central sector today and it was a chilling display from S-4XN-001 that's heading straight for earth, Several human countries have condemned him for his reckless genocide of warriors and putting humanity at risk. We tried to contact the Seeder for any comment but was rejected as always, Earth has now gone into emergency mode and all fleets are to be inside Sol promptly."

  S-4XN-001 moved his fleets past several fleets which was quite uneventful everyone seemed to give his ships room and nobody tried to play a hero, He trekked toward earth which he would reach in five days now. He had no emotions about the slaughter that was about to happen, but he would make it flashy. When he entered from a "hidden" hyper lane and came out behind the sun, earth was shocked that they did not even know that lane existed and their defense crumbled immediately their ships started to dart back and regroup along the planets instead, He decided he would stop by Pluto then mars to uproot all earth based ships and stations. The news feed was constant about his every move, and he wanted that, he wanted them to see the horror of war. The Pluto fleet retreated and there were just several military command centers with minimum amount of staff on the planet, he sent a request for surrender, and they accepted it. An unmarked supply ship came and took everyone of the Pluto moon. He stood there for 6 hours while the news feed watched, and he fired his A1 missile onto the planet and then moved on toward mars.

  "Breaking news! Oh! my god, no please no!. Pluto's five moons have now been destroyed and are constantly burning, the entire oh god please. Stop him! Someone stops him from reaching US HELP!" The broadcaster changed. "Cough Earth Navy has promised they have a way to stop any missile attack striking earth they were just abandoned moons and should not be concerned about this, Earth navy now had 90 billion battleships in the system, and they should just live their lives the way they want."

  The president visibly shook in fear when he saw the moons on fire, It would take him about 4 minutes before it was visible on earth, and he was not happy about it. He summoned all his generals and the answer was "No", we cannot stop that missile, their telemetry did not even detect it. They were blind to this new weapon." Solutions gentlemen, please." he said while chugging the rest of his scotch from his glass.

  "Engage him before he reaches earth, We have several advanced fortress guarding earth's orbit. We are confident in outnumbering and dismantling his fleet before it reaches firing range. We are going to lose a billion ships before we managed to reach him, but that's acceptable, to save earth."

  "SIR, POWER SPIKE DETECTED INCOMING!" shouted a soldier, the general turned away from his vidcall and looked at his monitor. He saw the giant ship fire a beam and snipe a fortress around mars from the moons of Pluto, "Mr president, We just lost a fortress around mars, The... The giant ship has the weapon capabilities to fire cross system, you should evacuate to a ship immediately before it hits earth and takes out the entire council."

  The president shook in fear and several secret service members brought him to a spaceport immediately. "What have we done" he whispered.

  S-4XN-001 would hammer in the "futility" of humans going against him, He kept orbiting the moons and destroying any earth based fortress around mars and Luna. He was striking fear into earths navy and their morale plummeted, deserters on the space station was now a reality and even their high-command had evacuated all of them, he took his shots until he was happy all the fortresses were gone, then he would move on to engage the fleet. They would yield, he was surprised they had not yet.

  "Sir, we have to engage! We cannot just wait for our timely destruction! We should just surrender if we don't!" said a general with his face down. The president wanted to chide him for his cowardness, but he was afraid to even land on a planet in Sol and had wanted to escape off Sol if he could, but if he left the system the war was over and his goals were done for. His family would have been tortured to death and anyone that knew him would be locked up, He knew he would have to spend his life running nobody would support him.

  He took a stance for his last shot to win. "In his file, he had two parents and two little brothers right? Get them, and then put them under camera to plead to surrender. Make it look realistic that they want it and not being forced to do it." said the president. "Sir! This is a war crime, we can't just!-" "Do it! Or find someone that will!" he yelled back.

  A special strike force was made to attack Luna and grab "his" parents, They rushed a full million men to take control of a tiny little colony with just 800 thousand people, The colony was just a worthless piece of real estate where they just farmed and relaxed, They knew the owners were two extremely rich businessmen according to the file, but they knew it was S-4XN-001 parents from his old human life. They did not feel good about kidnapping three people, but they wanted to keep their families safe. They broke in extremely quickly and found them, they had a two-story rustic house, and they just stood outside. The soldiers held the colony and then started to set up camera equipment in the house and brought in a few actors and sound coaches to tell a message.

  "My son would never do such a thing like setting earth on fire, you guys should just surrender and stop bothering him!" he yelled in rage. Oscar and Jess were incredibly upset that they had been taken hostage by earth for knowing their "son", Oscar and Jess had profited incredibly by his constant donations every month, but they did not wan
t wealth they wanted their son to be at their side.

  James was only 14 years old, but he was more awestruck than fearful knowing his brother were kicking ass and taking names, Richard was their little "shame" since last family meeting over the net was packed with 18 different wives and so many grandchildren they could not even remember their names, they tried to teach him humility and responsibility but money was a WEIRD thing that threw wisdom out the window. Several of his "older" wives and grandsons had settled on the colony as well.

  "You can't do this, this is illegal!" cried Jess. Oscar held her in his arms while the soldiers demanded they record a message or else! "I want to contact my lawyer, i know some really important people, You people will be homeless or in jail if they hear about this!" yelled a lady in the background.

  The soldiers just escorted everyone out except the three people and put the camera on. "Now, are we gonna do this the easy way or the hard way? We just want you to read this message, and we will leave the colony." said the commander.

  Jess and Oscar agreed when they saw the soldiers loading their clips in front of them and started to record the message. They broadcast an edited version live on the net.

  "Matthias, Your crusade is not righteous and only causing pain and suffering to everyone involved, I as your father are incredible proud of you defending humanity, but humans need to solve their own problems. You dont have to go beyond and try to keep everything in order, Humans are very competent in solving their own problems. And there should be a solution that everyone can be happy with." Jess was choking tears and Oscars eyes were red. "Y—you will always be my son, Please go home and forget about war among men. Stay on course. You always said you wanted to explore the galaxy" tears ran from Oscars eyes. "Please forget about us. We thank you for all you done for us." The broadcast ended.

  S-4XN-001 was processing the video, and he was stuck in a loop watching it in real-time instead of the nano seconds he needed. He wanted to hear his mother and father speak, it's been so long. He realized something, He did not really care about humans and their reckless ways. He just wanted to fight back when he got punched. He sent his entire fleet toward the Luna colony and everyone panicked, Earth navy got out of the way, and he hovered above the little colony. He sent down a shell to the surface, and there were several hundred of thousands of soldiers in the colony.

  "I WANT EVERYONE IN THIS COLONY TO COME WITH ME, AND ALL SOLDIERS OF EARTH TO EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY." he said with a commanding voice.

  He walked inside and a few soldiers pointed their guns at him, and he just kept walking toward his fathers house. Several soldiers radioed ahead. He entered the door to the house and it was empty "WHERE ARE THEY, HUMAN?" he said.

  The commander put out his cigar into the cup of water on the table. "Well, we got to have you sign this surrender agreement first, and then you can get them back." said the commander with a smile on his face. "YOU WILL HAND THEM OVER, AND YOU WILL EXPECT NOTHING TELL YOUR PRESIDENT THAT, I AM NO STRANGER TO BLOODSHED, AND IF THEY HAVE TO GO TO THE GRAVE WITH SEVERAL OTHER BILLION HUMANS. THEN THAT IS AN ACCEPTABLE ELEGY FOR ME." he said commanding.

  The commander visibly shook at his memory of that missile starting the fire on Pluto moon which was still raging a month later. "Now you listen here!" "NO, YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND, I WILL MAKE IT CLEAR NOW OR ELSE." The commander just shoved the physical surrender in front of him. S-4XN-001 took one look and waited.

  The titans' engine started to channel up a beam and it glistened with the force of a sun, Earth's Navy was panicking and asking for orders attacking when the beam struck Sol Federation Headquarters in Brazil, The entire continent was struck with a 2.8 earthquake and the entire Federation Headquarters and the nearby 90 miles was now a crater, He charged off the beam again and fired again hitting North America and blowing up the Earth's biggest military compound and destroying 90 miles of cities around the center of the impact. He kept the beam intensity low, so he could fire twice in quick succession.

  The commander just looked at the shell like he was a complete idiot, did he want to risk his family? The surrender agreement was basically just turn back and stay away. Sure his family would be a piece later for more benefits, but today it was acceptable no matter how he saw it. Then he heard the radio chatter, Earth was struck twice with a beam, Federation Headquarters was instantly vaporized and the biggest military compound in North America was destroyed, Hundreds of millions KIA, and ten times that missing. News stations were panicking and people were fleeing Earth constantly. Earth was in panicked mode 90% of all the representatives of Earth was in the HQ, and they were dead, A few higher up ones were in space knowing about the Pluto missiles effectiveness and impossibility to stop.

  "YOU MUST HAVE GOTTEN THE MESSAGE COMMANDER, MY FAMILY AND THE PEOPLE ON THIS COLONY. NOW. OR SHALL I SEND MY DEMANDS TWICE AGAIN." S-4XN-001 said. The commander relented with tears and sweat rolling down his eyes "Your parents were transferred to the Presidents ship just after the message, the people here you can take we will leave, right now! Please don't fire again!"

  Several massive colony ships entered Luna orbit and took everyone aboard it was escorted by a brand-new fleet containing five titans and 500 million battleships, They were to be kept in the colony ships until this situation was resolved. The people on the colony agreed to stay in the ships since they did not know what kind of retaliation they would suffer, Their living standards improved, but they were scared about an attack on the colony ships. Earth navy had been panicky and too fearful to approach Luna. Although the Navy commanders and generals wanted to strike back before the soldiers adrenaline shook off and fear was all that's left. The president tried to negotiate with S-4XN-001 and it was not fruitful same message of return his family and all other unrelated colonist he had on his ship, He had suffered a near death experience when they broadcast and the titan fired a beam at Earth again blowing up another military base this time in Europe.

  He had contacted warriors across the galaxy, and they would help him, which was needed, but he was alone for several months stalling and hoping. His job would end after this disaster, and he would be sentenced to death he knew that already, But he did not want to see his planet being a flaming fireball, and his family the most hated people in the galaxy. He had to get a WIN, and conserve his fleet to take Mars and Luna at all cost. If he won he might sway the public to keep him in permanent house arrest. It was a long shot, but he had to.

  "Mr President, The Federation has asked you to step-down immediately on your own accord. They are establishing a emergency council to vote you off as soon as they have the newest representatives established." said his secretary.

  "How long do i have before the council is reestablished?" he said "Two days top, Mr President. If you are going to do something you have to do it within 12 hours, The Earth Navy will actively ignore your orders if you take longer to decide to do something." said the assistant.

  The President walked toward the desk and pulled out a communicator and broadcast to his fleet. "People we are in a no-win scenario, and we are going to lose this war badly. Most of us are going to be court martial and executed, Gentlemen. We need a WIN, and therefor i order you to begin immediate destruction of all colonies on Mars and Luna. Burn it all down, we have to make Earth equal or superior to the colonies, I will surrender officially to the warrior, and he will not engage us attacking Luna and Mars. So start with Mars. I will hand over his parents ill buy you guys time for this before i will be officially voted off the council. So this is my last order, bring balance to the Sol system."

  The president walked over to the desk and send a encoded message to the Warrior, complete surrender and in 30 days the Earth fleet would reduce themselves to 1 billion, his family returned and war reparations in all the scrap and leftover ships and station from any ship or station in Sol, He waited for a reply and the agreement was signed, he had 30 days to bring Luna and Mars down to equal standing, Earth would need at least hundred years to bring back their fleet to previou
s levels.

  The Entire Earth navy started to dart their entire fleet toward Mars abandoning the Earth orbit which shocked everyone. It was a puzzling move until the Earth navy began carpet bombing Mars entire surface with missiles and beams, They were losing ships in the millions but entire Mars colonies were under attack and a breach in the shell was basically a death sentence.

  "Emily! Quickly! Earth are attacking get in your suit!" yelled Victor her bunk mate, She darted toward the armory and pushed the stragglers away, so she could get suited, She felt the shakes on the shield generator which was recently installed over the installation which meant they meant business, She saw her entire team strapping themselves into their armors which was copies of the shells the warriors used with a few built in oxygen supplies and filters, she was fully armored and pulled her weaponry from the rack when the lights went out, she waited a second and her headlight turned on she looked across the room and saw everyone else rushing outside, she followed closely when the shield shook again, and she heard the alarm blaring "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO LAND, BUT TO DESTROY THE COLONY. EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY."