Prologue : Part 2
Earth
Africa, Former Democratic Republic of Congo
International Launch Cosmodrome Space Agencies.
The Mendicant Cosmodrome, the Largest cosmodrome built by the USA after the annexation of DRC and RC. And was specialist in launching all kinds of space battleships like the Retired Donnager class BB and Freedom class SBB(Super-Battleship)
But right now, it is currently holding its ship horizontally as more than 4000 individuals line up to board the vessel. Dubbed, the USS-Confidence and Nicknamed the Columbus. It is 1200 meters in Length and had a Sufficiently large amount of Defense weaponry which Included 300 Rheinmetall Oerlikon Space defense cannons that were much more effective then PDCs. 50 9 inch Railguns, and finally 200 Silos of Missiles with Tactical Nuclear Payloads.
The Confidence didn't include the Office building internal chambers in exchange for Electro- Magnetic Artificial Gravity which is more effective. But not efficient, another reason is that landing the Confidence on the New Earth vertically is almost impossible.
As such, 4000 of these said Specialized people composed of Disciplined soldiers and renowned scientists in fields of Chemistry, Physics, and Biology boarded the Confidence.
Next came Valuable Armament like sufficient Ammo and 6000 Pulse Rifles were included and were sent to the Cargo Bay. This also included 310 Military grade APUs(Search Animatrix APU and you get your Answer). 70 Reconnaissance UAVs, and finally 330 Automated Worker Robots Directly produced from Boston Dynamics. Some with Humanoid looks and Some with Spot Looks.
As People strap in, the Commander of the Confidence, Admiral William Innsbruck Straps himself as well in the Frontal bridge of the ship as he is joined by Other Officers and his XO. Hans.
William POV
"We are Ready to launch Mission control." I say as I put on my Visor, with the glasspart retracted as I like it that way.
"Confidence bridge, we will be examining the weather before we launch."
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"Weather is clear, it's the middle of summer and you're ready to go"
I Nod in front of the video camera as I then cut the video cam in exchange for the holographic control panel.
I enable SAS and a Designated Flight path to the Quantum and Binary Computer AI interface as I then hover my hand over the launch panel. I decided to give a speech before I launch.
"Men and Women of the USS-Confidence, we will be launching soon, and I envy you for your bravery for this mission. Today, we will continue Man's legacy into the stars. Without the Damn bugs interfering, Our expected Destination will be the Minervan system on the presumably habitable planet of Minerva-03. As such, I'll be damn impressed if we make it there. It will be a 400 thousand year journey as such. Say your goodbyes to your familys here who will be with the Father once we awaken."
Many of the passengers and colonists shed tears on their eyes as they had their last moments with their family on Holopad while I Do the Launch protocols which then began.
Many Wires connected to a pulley pull the USS-Confidence into a Vertical Stance like any traditional rocket. As this was completed, one of the bridge members turned up Thrust on the Holopad control panel as the Fusion engines fired up. Lifting the rocket high up as the Cosmodrome separates its arms from the craft.
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The USS-Confidence gets into a High orbit on earth as I watched the view while some of my Bridge members rewatched the horrifying battle between The 100 thousand Earth fleet against 80 million Bio ships that were currently in battle above Venus on the other side of the solar system in earth's relativity.
Railgun slugs firing while they impact many Swarm carriers with PDCs firing everywhere to counteract swarm infiltrator missiles.
I sighed, "Initiate Electro-Magnetic artificial gravity. Switch to the Antimatter reactor as well" I commanded as one of the Operators opened the control panel and did the command. As such, I felt I was back on earth.
"Hard Starboard turn burn in an Interplanetary course to the edge of the system now." I once again commanded as all 4000 including me inject ourselves with a Colorless fluid which will lessen the effect of G-force.
The Helmsmen initiates the command as he activates Port side Ion thrusters as the Ship rotates. The G-force hits the crew like crazy as the rotation is countered by the Starboard side Ion thrusters and The Confidence stabilizes until the Burn is made.
The control panel shows a map of the Sol system with all planets orbital paths while the Confidences orbital path is stretching to the Outer edge where Pluto is.
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Earth
Citizens are kicked out of their homes and into forced schools where they are immediately taught about how to survive the wilderness.
The Citizens were all aware what was gonna happen and as such, did not protest as that would be wasting time.
All citizens on earth which amounted to 29 billion(Due to the act of 2 child policy) learned survival skills in a 6 months span.
Mass exodus is made as civilians depart the citys with their families who were also trained in primitive survival as the Mass exodus and migration is either to Forests, fields, and Savannahs.
Fusion reactors are put offline as cities go dark. Though the buildings are kept up as they are home to the Urban Biosphere.
As such, on Monday morning 10AM, Year 296 AD, 8000 United Federation Hover bombers(Search Animatrix UN Bomber) depart from either Asia, africa, america, europe, and Oceania as they are in a stable flight at around 50 miles from sea level in the Mesosphere.
We are now shown a cockpit where 2 pilots with Glowing visors are and were controlling the large bomber through Holo-pad and physical Control panels.
The Pilot of one of the Bomber grasp the bombay opener lever as he then commences the operation to all 8000 bombers in different flight paths on earth.
"This is Papa-1 to Hotel Bravo and all Papas, Operation dark preservation is initiated."
He pulls the lever as hes bombay opens and drops more then 200 Bombs. This was all followed up by Papa-1s Bomber fleet and others as these Small bombs drop 5 miles below before Imploding and exposing Nanites to the Mesosphere.
People in mass migrations look up to see the Planes having black smoke go behind them as the Black smoke covers the sky. The Nanites rapidly reproduce to the point of Covering earth's Mesosphere with nanites. All bombers safely returend to their Air base as a bonus.
It was dark for the first few weeks before it got brighter and brighter till the Atmosphere was blue and it looked like nothing had changed. Just that there was no sun or moon in the sky.
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Outside of Earth, Earth looked like a Black planet. A Hell hole of a planet.
And in the distance, were 40 million Bio Swarm ships that were the remaining that battled the UF fleet.
The Gravemind was confused, this was not the Blue planet that her eyes had feasted upon.
The Gravemind orders one of the carriers to drop multiple Bug drops. But the bug drops were instantly shredded into nothing but atoms when in contact with the Nanites.
The Gravemind was furious, she then ordered one of the Carriers to ram the Nanite barrier. In which, the Bio-carrier deorbited with field propulsion and attempted to force its way to the troposphere. Which was once again, futile as it was also shredded into Atoms due to the Nanite storm being 10 miles thick.
The Gravemind vented her anger through her temporary stronghold on Pluto as her prized planet had gone to waste!
Well, that was until a scout spotted a heat signature near Saturn, a Human ship....
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The USS-Confidence
The Confidence nears Saturn in an attempt for an Orbital slingshot. William on the other hand was monitoring the Quantum Radar map which had a range of 950 thousand kilometers.
-William Pov-
"You expecting combat sir?" My XO, Captain Yung huk chook or Yung asked me while I looked over at him sipping his coffee.
"Im damn sure those bugs will be intercepting us, i can just imagine the Gravemind just thrashing around for her prized planet to be protected with an Untouchable barrier to Biological hiveminds like the Swarm. I'm expecting her to send out a High fleet toward us any minute now."
I point out as Yung nods, Yung then dismisses himself as he will be assisting the 4000 who are mainly composed of military personnel and Scientist/IT engineers/Mechanical engineers and peeps with advanced primitive knowledge.
As I then gaze my head at the monitor, suddenly, a ping.......shit, it's a Grand high fleet!
"Fuck! Ren! Put the ship into Code Red! I repeat Code red!" Status officer Ren Access his Control panel as he sets the ships status into Code red where alarms were blared and with repeated words that called out to bridge members not in the bridge.
All bridge officers arrive at the Bridge as they get into battlestations. With the 3 Weapon officers accessing their designated weapons and defenses.
"Launching 5 tactical torps out" The Rear Weapons officer reports as he presses the launch of TNT(Tactical Nuke torp) 1-5 on his holopad.
Vertical launch systems fire the tactical nukes as the Torp nukes stabilize themselves and Thrusted when their Fusion drive is activated.
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"Hit!" After waiting 5 hours for the torps to detonate. They finally did but it seemed it did not do anything to the Grand High fleet of the swarm.
Grand High fleets are usually composed of 15000 Bio-swarm ships. And are made up of Infiltrator bio missile carriers.
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"Sir, Multiple smaller contacts were launched from the Carriers." William Breaths Heavily as he then orders another command.
"Activate all Oerlikon Space defense cannons!"
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The Bio Infiltrator missiles neared the confidence as the Gravemind smirked. She could sense 4031 heat signatures inside.
Though, this was her unlucky day as the 300 Rheinmetall Oerlikon space defense cannons were activated and fired 40mm rounds at the same fire rate as Assault rifles.
The Rheinmetall Eon CIWs was the most advanced PDC in existence. And as such, destroyed the 8000 Infiltrator missiles fired with its Time to jettison sub projectiles.
The Eons would fire a 40mm round, and when time of flight is over, it would eject more than 5000 Tungsten sub-projectiles at a 1 miles radius which would decimate lightly armored targets which were the bio infiltrator missiles.
"That was troublesome!" William sighs as he then lets out another order.
"Fire the RKVs and target the carriers" He orders as the Frontal weapon officer nods.
The Confidence Ejects more than a thousand Projectiles the size of telephone poles as these things stabilize and Fire their Specialised High impulsed-Fusion engines. Going at a whopping 28% the speed of light.
The Swarm Carriers were not prepared for the UFs Arms program for the duration of 8 years. As such, they were decimated by the RKVs as the Grand high fleet dwindled to numbers at around 6000.
"They are about 30 thousand kilometers from u-" Ren was cut off as William opens his control panel and does what is necessary.
"Initiating Close Combat Engagement, as the Governor and captain I should partake as well." As such, the Confidence railguns retract from the interior of the ship. These railguns were different though.
The Rheinmetall and Darpa made Plasma Railgun was a gun superior to Railguns. These types of railguns did not utilize rails but instead used a powerful laser to heat Gas into plasma in a millisecond and the plasma would push a Tungsten slug the size of a 18 inch round at 3 million miles per hour or mach 3900. With a fire rate of 10 seconds
William then accesses the railguns as he pushes each button on his holo-command panel.
He then sets railgun 1 - 9 at max power as protocol as he then proceeds firing.
The 9 railguns fire their tungsten slugs and after 30 seconds. They impact their target destroying 9 Swarm cruisers that were equipped with biological plasma guns that would shoot a ball of plasma at mach 9. And we're a little weaker than the Confidence railguns.
The Plasma railguns continue to fire as they decimate many carrier and cruiser swarm ships. The gravemind was very furious with this outcome.
While for the bridge of confidence, winning eagerness and smirking spreads throughout it. As such, William smiles as he then orders a bold move.
"Full speed ahead! Its time we show these fuckers the power of Humanity!" The Confidence nears the Swarm fleet as the carriers start launching hundreds of Bio Infiltrator missiles as confidence passes each ship with swifty Ion maneuvering systems.
The Eon CIWs get to work on shredding the Bio missiles as the railgun fires its rounds at the Bio swarm fleet. Tearing them apart and literally exploding into millions of pieces of flesh. Said debri worried the Confidence crew but the Computer controlled the ship in which it would avoid said debri.
William smiles as he sees that the Confidence has exited the Bioswarm High fleet through the Radar and Visual cameras showing a 360 view of the ship.
They have escaped as attempting a intercept in orbit is suicide as you will lower your orbital path and collide with the planet if you decide to do a retrograde burn to chase your enemy. Waiting for your revolution will also take too long especially on Saturn as the confidence would be long gone.
William then connects his Visor with comms and radios all over the confidence as he announces.
"We have escaped the Swarm high fleet entirely. Our duration till the edge of the Solar system will be in safe and calm flight. We also have 900 million stored videos from Youtube in the Confidence database for the duration of the flight. So entertain yourself for the time being."
As such, the Confidences zooms past the camera as the inhabitants decide to watch many of the Nostalgic 21st century videos that made up 40% of the videos stored into the confidence. Watching either Videos retelling the Russo-Ukrainian war that ended with Ukraine seizing 4% of Russia's territory. Alongside the African Continental war and the Second Cold war, which was the Prelude to the Great Solar War.
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Pluto
The gravemind Growls in anger as one of her tentacles had a Bug drone torso. With the head of the drone torn apart.
The gravemind through the Torso as she then decided to thrash around her cave.
"These damn Apes always seem to ruin my plans! They are even more troublesome than the Empire of Dean'noris which was an Interstellar race! Tell me Brain bug! How do these Apes seem to have much more advanced weapons than the Dean'norrans?"
The Brain bug right hand of the Gravemind "bowed" as it then explained once again over 500 times through Hivemind telepathy.
"The Human race aside from us, is the only Sapient species to not have Accessed FTL physics during their so-called era of the "First Cold war" in our Arm of the galaxy. Their orbital understanding of physics nearly rivals our own knowledge. And Their System locked status has seemed to be their Overall advantage against any other Species as they have not been wasting their time discovering but instead innovating. And they've only grasped the understanding through Quantum Teleportation."
The Gravemind then roared as its Tentacle-like arms "fidgeted". The Gravemind then asked another question.
"What are the chances of an intercept?"
"The Chances are unknown sire, We conclude the ship to be a Colony ship. And since our ships move at max around 31% the Speed of light compared to the Primates 2% Ship speed. Though we are still bound to the G-class stars Gravity as such, going at full speed will be Suicide."
The Gravemind then angrily smashed the ground where she irritated the seismic activity of Pluto and a cave-in happened where her entrance and exit to the Surface of Vacuum is cut off.
"DAMN IT!"
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2 Months later
Heliosphere
The confidence nears the edge where they will meet interstellar space. Many of the bridge members stare at their destination as William sighs.
The 4000 within just stare at their Personal Holo-Tablets as the outer Camera shows Interstellar Space.
"Switching to Antimatter Reactor" One of the Bridge Members says as he accesses his Holo-Pad and Activates the Antimatter reactor and Deactivated the Fusion Reactor they were running on.
In the Engine room, a Large Tube like shaped thing Glows Blue as the Strong Magnets Pull Matter and Antimatter from Eachother to not create unnecessary Reactions. Energy is then Created as it powers the whole ship.
The Mass Amount of Energy that Antimatter creates allows it to be more efficient then Fusion 1000-Fold. And a Few milligrams of Antimatter could Compare to the Largest Fusion Reactor Humanity has built. And the Confidence has 134 Tons of it Stored which will last thousands upon thousands of years.
The Harvesting of this much Antimatter Came from the Century long project of Conjuring Antimatter power which started at around 2070-2075. In which further Increased due to the Cold war with the Martian Raj. And said data of Harvesting is stored into the Confidence Alongside an effective synthetic Protium Process for Fusion reactors.
"Alright! Initiating EM drive!" William says as he pushes a button on his holopad as 2 Giant trusses welded into the rocket engine shaped like EM drive retracts from the hull.
William then unbuckles himself from his seat as he then connects himself to the Speakers all over the Confidence.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, All of us are to be Escorted to the Cryo sleep chambers Immediately! I Repeat! You are to be Escorted to the Cryo sleep chambers Immediately!"
Soldiers with Pulse rifles exit the Armory or Cargo bay as they then have everyone in a Single file line to the 4 Chambers that holds 1000 Cryo sleep pods each.
The other bridge members also leave to the VIP Cryo sleep pods while William stays in the bridge. Setting the course of the Confidence and having the computer make the magnetron Pump stuff into the EM drive in 2 days.
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William was the only 1 left not in a sleep pod. Most of the peeps in the cryo pods were still awake as the computer needs everyone to be in the Cryo pods for it to activate.
William walks to his Cryo pod in the VIP room as he opens it. He then takes off his Uniform and Black Naval cap into one of the preservation cabinets for it to last till he awakes. With only his Underwear on, Revealing his muscular build. he then enters the cryo sleep pod as the hydraulics close the Pods glass like seal.
The Cryo sleep pods were pretty much the perfect Controlled environment and could have a person live even a million years with continuous gas like nanobot swarms that would constantly maintain your body while you're in natural hibernation due to the drop of Cold air through an advanced version of AC.
"All biological occupants inside Cryo sleep pods, initiating Hibernation." The Semi-Sentient Computer announces through the Pods as it Pumps Cooled Air into the Pods.
People started getting cold while some immediately slept, some constantly rubbed their hands together while breathing into them while some just had fidgety teeth that kept clicking.
But sooner or later, all of them fall into Cold hibernation as the Computer senses that everyone has fallen unconscious. It then pumps into the pods swarms of Nanobots that would maintain the body for over thousands of years. With an expected lifetime of the bots being a million years.
You would ask, would have we discovered immortality by then? The answer is no, the Nanobots cannot do their maintenance work while someone is conscious and has been studied thoroughly on why this is the case for 90 years ever since this class of nanobots were invented.
Going back to topic, The computer then sends intense energies to the 2 magnetrons connected to the EM drives as Intense microwaves are sent to the Rocket engine shaped drive.
The Confidence starts accelerating fast, and I mean REAL FAST, as it reaches 50% the speed of light in just 9 minutes. Another 9 minutes pass as the Confidence reaches 99.1% the speed of light. Zipping out of view.
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