Alicia Jones 3: New Frontier (11 page)

The rest of the waves, seven in all, came over the next
week.
 
It wasn’t a battle; it was simple
extermination.
 
It not only worked the
first time, but apparently the following waves had no idea of what happened and
didn’t adapt.
 
All seven waves when they
reached just four light years away were ambushed by the anti-FTL torpedoes, and
had their anti-mass particles stripped away destroying their ship.
 

The next step was still undetermined, the treaty races were
all deliberating whether or not to attack right now, since we had all these ships
left after the waves.
 
The Seltan were
not happy with the idea of waiting a couple of years before striking.
 
I’d said my peace, indicated we should scout
first, and then went back to Earth as I really didn’t have an official standing
anymore.
 
As far as I knew, Earth was
already doing that regardless, mapping the galaxy with stealth probe ships, and
dropping off stealth sensors to expand the sensor net into the adjoining arm.
 
Hopefully they would wait, at least long
enough for me to build out my goal of five thousand platforms, it would take a
few months.
 
At least by then we’d attack
with numbers that could do the job, and we’d also have partial recon data,
although not even close to complete.

It would also be time to try and make more improvements,
although I wasn’t even sure what yet.

So much has happened this last year, I’d never have imagined
myself out here doing what I was doing back then.  Between the bugs,
exploring toward the rim, improving our technology, and all the little things
we ran into and discovered doing those things, it has been a little
overwhelming.  Even if we face all those challenges, what about the
amorphous race, they’ve been peaceful, but what if they were just already in a
war.  It was entirely possible that they are fighting off a similar
invasion from the bug arm on the other side of them.  Will they stay
peaceful if we manage to remove the bug threat?

I also wondered about the race that seeded this
galaxy.  What kind of race seeds a galaxy with four galactic arms, with
several versions of four disparate lifeforms?  Will they ever come back to
see the results of those actions?  Were we an experiment of some sort as
the Seltan believed?  It seemed absolutely absurd on the surface of it,
and yet…

If nothing else, that told me I needed to push the envelope
of knowledge and continually strive for the next breakthrough, because I had no
doubt we weren’t ready to face a threat like that…

Afterword:
 

I hope you enjoyed this story, if you did please leave a
review.  Reviews are the lifeblood of independent authors, and I would
appreciate greatly any constructive feedback or opinions.  I was a little
torn about how I left the ending, but it seemed a good place to stop.
 
I was a little short there about the other
waves, but I didn’t want to bog down the story with battle after battle, that’s
not what the series is really about. 

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Alicia Jones is a genius, and a little odd.  At just
twenty-three years of age, she is close to finishing her doctoral
dissertation.  But when she tests her latest theory in the lab to generate
a strong EM field, it has very unanticipated results.  Results that lead
to faster than light travel, and first contact with another race.

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place as she’d been told.  Her determination to help keep Earth safe takes
her to places more dangerous and strange than she’d ever envisioned.

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complicated and ever more dangerous.

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She’s tasked to start exploring it, and Earth’s leaders don’t want to wait a
couple of years to build the fleets first.

Then there are the Seltan, a race that lives in the core,
they could attack at any time.

Technology is another struggle, as she continually pushes
herself for the next breakthrough in both new fields, and redesigns of the
old.  Especially as she starts to grasp the truth behind the design of
those that seeded the galaxy with life.

It’s a good thing she flourishes under pressure, of course
there is one more thing that might be more disturbing and dangerous than all
the rest that she’ll need to deal with.  Politics.