Brulaxian World Ships have destroyed seven Earth colonies and are approaching Colony Two. Rogue One arrives with a promise of a way to defeat them. But can he?
This is another of my Science Fiction stories. The SciFi is mainly in Chapter One and Chapter Six with the sex in Chapters Two, Three, Four, and Five. If you just want the SciFi, you know what to skip. If you just want the sex, you also know what to skip. But if you want both, like me, read the full story.
I have divided the story into three parts. Each part contains two chapters. This is part One.
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Chapter One - The Brulaxians
"Incoming! Incoming!" the shrill voice of the communications tech for Earth Base Two Omega screamed loudly just before the auto-defense alarms began blaring, drowning out her screams.
"Report!" barked the commander after silencing the alarm and the tech replied a little more calmly, "I'm reading an incoming ship traveling at light eighteen." The communications tech's bright blue eyes were wide with a mixture of surprise, amazement, and fear as she scanned her instruments.
"What else, Darlene?" Commander Sylvia Blackstone asked curtly.
"The engine signature is the same as a class seven Star Cruiser with Zorloxion reverberating quad thrust drives, Commander," the tech reported. "But the ship reads as a... a... a... size much, much smaller than even a class one Planet Cruiser." Then she added in a quivering voice, "It reads even smaller than a star fighter, but I can't trust my instruments on anything that small traveling at that speed... if it is actually traveling at that speed." Her voice dropped to almost a whisper as she turned to face the Commander and added, "... if anything can truly travel at eighteen times the speed of light."
Everyone's attention was drawn to the weapons tech as she called out loudly, "Incoming missile launched from craft. Small... very small... heading directly for the base."
"Size? Type?" Commander Blackstone said tersely. After a moment of silence she added angrily, "Amanda, can we defend against it?"
"Unknown," weapons tech Amanda Dawson said slowly. "But it is small, very small." Then she added, "Arcing in almost directly at us. But we can't do anything as long as it is beyond light." Her eyes were wide with fear. Sweat glistened on her ebony skin as she awaited impact.
The base shook violently. Compressed light and space particles that are pushed ahead of anything traveling faster than light slammed into the mountain just west of the base as a small communications drone dropped out of overlight directly overhead and began circling the base.
A male voice immediately came over the communications speakers. "This is Rogue One requesting permission to land at Earth Base Two Omega," he said in that calm voice pilots use when requesting landing clearance. Then he laughed and continued, "Actually, there is no way you can give me permission to land because you can't communicate with me while I am in overlight. But I will be dropping out of overlight shortly before landing and I would really appreciate it if you don't panic and start shooting at me." He paused and then said somewhat rapidly, "I have important information for the base commander. I have a way to penetrate the Brulaxian shields. The fate of Earth depends upon you allowing me to land." After a pause, he returned to his calm pilot's voice and said, "I am assuming that you got this recorded message. I will be landing shortly."
Nothing was known about the Brulaxians other than the name broadcast by Earth Colony Nine shortly before that planet was destroyed. That heavily garbled super burst transmission said simply, "Under attack by Brulaxian fleet." An even shorter burst a few moments later said, "No hope."
Earth defense fleets responded immediately, but the shields of the Brulaxian invasion fleet were impenetrable. Every type of ship, weapon, or even communication attempt simply bounced off the Brulaxian shields.
Advancing within those shields, the Brulaxians captured, or more accurately, obliterated six more earth colony planets as well as countless uninhabited planets and planetoids like Base Two Omega. Earth colonies Eight through Three disappeared one after another along with all of their perimeter bases and any Space Force defenders in their vicinity. Those planets, which had been terraformed to allow habitation by earth life forms, were turned into clouds of jagged rocks floating in space. It was as if the Brulaxians had vaporized the inhabitants and then mined anything of value from the planets, leaving only a drifting pile of slag and overburden in their wake.
Earth fleets had been forced into a retreat. It wasn't that the Brulaxians had superior weapons, speed, tactics, or numbers. Their weapons capability was unknown because they never returned fire on the Earth Star Cruisers except when destroying planets, and then the cruisers defending the planets had no chance to report what had obliterated them. The highest speed recorded for the Brulaxian ships was just point eight light. And there were only nine ships in their armada. But each of those massive ships-- if that's what they were-- was inside a giant translucent shield sphere that shimmered and glowed so that it looked like a giant marble floating in space.
Earth fleets buzzed around them at up to light two point three firing every known weapon at the advancing threat. But that made no difference. Whatever was behind those shields ignored the Earth fleet as if it didn't matter or didn't even exist. The most powerful weapons the Space Force could bring to bear bounced off the Brulaxian shields. Even when Captain Hartford of Star Cruiser SC 2422 snapped and rammed his ship at light three into one of the shield spheres, it did not buckle. Instead, the giant marbles continued to roll across the universe seeking more planets to devour. And those glowing marbles of death were headed directly toward Earth Colony Two.
Earth Base Two Omega was the furthest outpost from Earth Colony Two and was directly in line with the oncoming Brulaxians. The spacers stationed there would be eaten first, and they knew it.
"Let him land," Commander Blackstone said wearily. "It won't make any difference if it is a trap. We can't stop them anyway."
A few moments later a bright arc of light shot across the sky above the dwarf planet on which Earth Base Two Omega was located. The flash was caused by the release of energy and particles which had built up ahead of the faster than light ship... whatever it was. A freighter once carelessly dropped out of light while aimed directly at Earth Base Seven Gamma. Luckily the commander had seen the trajectory of the ship and raised shields or the base would have been destroyed. That base, as well as Colony Seven were now gone.
A small ship began to fire its engines and slowly descend to the surface of the planetoid. The ship looked like it had originally been a small interplanetary shuttle, but now there were four thruster nacelle pylons from a starship along with what appeared to be four or five dozen weapons launch tubes welded to its outer shell.
The ungainly ship wobbled back and forth several times before stabilizing on the landing pad. Then a lone figure wearing a breathing assist apparatus emerged from the ship and walked the short distance to the main airlock of the base. Once inside, he pressed the intercom key and announced, "This is Rogue One. Take me to your leader." Then he said, "I've always wanted to say that," and started to laugh.
He was still laughing when two armed spacers opened the inner hatch. "Come with us," the two women said in that flat, slightly threatening tone common to all security personnel. He was no longer laughing as he entered the main control room and was ushered over to Commander Blackstone's command station.
"You say you can take down the Brulaxian shields," she said calmly. Then she asked in that same calm command voice, "Can you?"
"Yes, I can," Rogue One answered firmly. "And if we coordinate an attack, I can light them up with a laser so you can get past all their other jamming technology and score direct hits with everything you've got."
"Why should I believe you?" Commander Sylvia replied as she carefully assessed his rumpled clothing that looked like he had been sleeping in it for weeks.
"Oh," Rogue One said with a smile, "you don't have to believe me. You just have to believe Archie."
He then reached into a large side pocket and lifted out an insect about twice the size of a football that looked very much like a common Earth cockroach. All four of the women in the room reacted in horror, but Rogue called out, "He's sentient! He's sentient!"
"We've seen these insects before," Commander Blackstone said dryly. "There has been no indication of sentience."
"Yeah," Rogue replied, "but you didn't crash on one of their repair asteroids. I did, and while they were repairing my ship... and me... they implanted a translation chip in my head so I could understand them."
He reached into another pocket and set a small box on the table. The super-large roach reared up on his back four legs and a firm, human sounding voice came out of the box. "Greetings, Commander Sylvia," it began. "Now that our language barrier has been overcome, I think you will recognize our intelligence and accept us as equals. My name does not translate into your thought patterns, so you may call me Archie as Rogue One does."
There was a pause before the commander asked, "Can you disable the Brulaxian shields?"