Invasion

Intense silence engulfed the throne room, as the occupants watched the battle raging in deep space. The defence satellites long range lasers lslammed into the aliens' lead ships setting them ablaze.

The aliens stubbornly remained on course, their advance undeterred by the flames hungrily licking the super structures of their vessels.

As they rapidly narrowed the distance between them and the defence satellites. The alien starships ploughed into the network of strategically positioned satellites, knocking them out of the planet’s orbit, sending them exploding and spinning out of control.

’Immediately deploy the imperial star fighters to intercept and destroy”, ordered the general speaking into a hand held communicator.

“Your majesty we must get you and the princess to safety immediately, those alien ships are going to be falling of the sky like meteorites shortly. It is likely they may have targeted the palace”, urgently implored the general turning to king Krain.

On the giant monitor, the aliens vanguard was entering the planet’s atmosphere. Fighters of the imperial air defence were rising from the planet’s surface to meet the alien threat.

I must address the people”, declared king Krain. Turning to face one of the technicians seated before a bank of consoles around the throne room, king Krain ordered, open all public broadcast channels. The technician moved promptly obeyed his fingers moving swiftly over the console in front of him.

“Your majesty, you are live on all the channels. On the giant monitor the imperial fleet and the alien armada could be seen collide in a fierce exchange of lasers, and missiles.

“People of Plaska in the past when our world faced the danger from falling meteorites, we took to the security of the intricate underground tunnels dug by our an ancestors. Now once again when faces a new peril from outer space we must immediately take shelter in the tunnels. This is my royal decree and is meant to preserve our civilization”.

In a tightly contested aerial amid an explosion of heat and flames, the alien advance was unstoppable, as the burning hulks of the alien lead ships crushed to the surface in great balls of fire.

The rest of the alien starships came up from behind the vanguard blasted the imperial fighters from the sky. They proceeded to strafe the plaskarite ground forces with a hail of deadly laser fire.

Landing on the planet’s surface the alien star ships opened their hatches to release a horde of fur covered invasion troops who rushed out to clash with plaskarite ground forces quickly overcoming them on the way to attack the palace.

“Your majesty we must get to the underground palace immediately”, implored the general to king Krain. ’l must make one more broadcast on all subspace channels to whoever maybe out” , king Krain implored urgently to the general.

“Subspace channels open”, announced a technician. The footage giant monitor switched from the fighting over the skies of Plaska. Instead it was replaced by footage of the different galaxies to which the broadcast was going out to, as king Krain began his address.

‘I am king Krain of the planet Plaska, which is under attack by an alien invasion force of unknown origin. We are appealing for immediate assistance’ .

The alien invasion troops were clashing with the palace’s security personnel in a furious exchange of energy weapons fire as king Krain ls appeal ended. The sound of fighting was now audible outside the throne room. “Your majesty if I may”, requested the general addressing himself to king Krain.

“Proceed general, replied king Krain getting up from the throne, as the others also quickly got to their feet. “Everyone follow me”, urgently called out the general. The technicians jumped up from their posts at the consoles as the general led the way to a panel behind the throne and pushed a knob beside it.

Guards positioned themselves defensively around the group just as the door blew in violently and invasion troops rushed in.