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Post by lordroel on Aug 9, 2017 15:11:40 GMT
Well if the Stewards fire their orbital guns we will still die. So then we not make them fire their orbital guns. As long as they are what they they say they are i do not think humanity will be stupid in having the Stewards fire their orbital guns. |
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Post by spanishspy on Aug 9, 2017 19:27:57 GMT
So then we not make them fire their orbital guns. As long as they are what they they say they are i do not think humanity will be stupid in having the Stewards fire their orbital guns. Hopefully this is true. |
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Post by stevep on Aug 9, 2017 22:26:45 GMT
So then we not make them fire their orbital guns. i do not think humanity will be stupid in having the Stewards fire their orbital guns. That of course is the question. Just to clarify are those orbital guns only pointing at Earth or can they point either way? If the former I would have to consider that a very ominous sign.  |
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Post by spanishspy on Aug 10, 2017 1:04:42 GMT
As long as they are what they they say they are i do not think humanity will be stupid in having the Stewards fire their orbital guns. That of course is the question. Just to clarify are those orbital guns only pointing at Earth or can they point either way? If the former I would have to consider that a very ominous sign. Currently the Steward guns are pointing away from Earth. That can change. |
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Post by lordroel on Aug 10, 2017 2:53:55 GMT
That of course is the question. Just to clarify are those orbital guns only pointing at Earth or can they point either way? If the former I would have to consider that a very ominous sign. Currently the Steward guns are pointing away from Earth. That can change. As long as humanity does what they want that is. |
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Post by spanishspy on Aug 10, 2017 3:28:49 GMT
Annette knew she could teleport almost anywhere else other than the charred ruins of her hometown, but she didn't want to. She was simply overwhelmed, and did not have the mental fortitude to do such a thing again, and would not for a long time.
She wandered the remains of what was once Greater Los Angeles. She could sense that there were new psionic forces arriving on this planet. She felt like she could interact with them, but she chose not to.
It was for days she rambled about the ruin, not talking to anyone, eating whatever little she could find.
"Annette."
She looked back. This was something clearly mundane, not psionic. Accompanying the words was the whir of helicopter rotors.
Accompanied by an armed guard was John Gonzalez, the scientist who had ultimately made the decision to give her these powers.
"Gonzalez," she said as she retained formality (through her own psionic power of course), "what are you doing here?"
"We've been searching for you for some time now. Apparently what you did drained a lot of your own energy and so your psionic emissions were weaker, and we couldn't tell you apart from normal people from infrared and satellite scans. Now, though we found you."
"And for what purpose?"
Gonzalez grimaced. "The President needs you to lead a crack team of superhuman operatives in the main assault against Yugoslavia."
"An assault on Yugoslavia? What?"
"You have a lot of catching up to do," he said.
"What of Bakos and Ormanni and Wheeling?" she asked him about her former compatriots.
"If all goes well you will see them again, after this mission. Rumsfeld has a lot in store for you."
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Post by lordroel on Aug 10, 2017 14:11:31 GMT
Annette knew she could teleport almost anywhere else other than the charred ruins of her hometown, but she didn't want to. She was simply overwhelmed, and did not have the mental fortitude to do such a thing again, and would not for a long time. She wandered the remains of what was once Greater Los Angeles. She could sense that there were new psionic forces arriving on this planet. She felt like she could interact with them, but she chose not to. What remains of Greater Los Angeles. |
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Post by spanishspy on Aug 10, 2017 17:21:41 GMT
Annette knew she could teleport almost anywhere else other than the charred ruins of her hometown, but she didn't want to. She was simply overwhelmed, and did not have the mental fortitude to do such a thing again, and would not for a long time. She wandered the remains of what was once Greater Los Angeles. She could sense that there were new psionic forces arriving on this planet. She felt like she could interact with them, but she chose not to. What remains of Greater Los Angeles. Ruins. |
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Post by lordroel on Aug 10, 2017 17:25:26 GMT
What remains of Greater Los Angeles. Ruins. So California is in ruins. |
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Post by spanishspy on Aug 10, 2017 19:37:31 GMT
So California is in ruins. Pretty much anything south of Bakersfield, yeah. |
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Post by lordroel on Aug 10, 2017 19:37:54 GMT
So California is in ruins. Pretty much anything south of Bakersfield, yeah. And the rest of the United States. |
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Post by spanishspy on Aug 10, 2017 19:38:53 GMT
Pretty much anything south of Bakersfield, yeah. And the rest of the United States. Draw a line starting around Stockton, California to New Orleans. Anything below that line has undertaken serious damage. |
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Post by lordroel on Aug 10, 2017 19:41:16 GMT
And the rest of the United States. Draw a line starting around Stockton, California to New Orleans. Anything below that line has undertaken serious damage. And a lot of people death i would guess. |
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Post by spanishspy on Aug 11, 2017 12:44:13 GMT
Draw a line starting around Stockton, California to New Orleans. Anything below that line has undertaken serious damage. And a lot of people death i would guess. Yes. |
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Post by spanishspy on Aug 12, 2017 4:38:40 GMT
Modling Air Force Base, south of Vienna
None of this made any sense to Annette. Aliens to whom the US government was beholden? An international force to be sent to other worlds?
And she was to lead them?
She didn't want to. But when she was shown the footage of their landing, she recognized them. When she had received her powers among the visions she had seen was a battle between two great fleets in space, one colored a silvery blue. Those were these Stewards. Who else were they? She didn't know. But they were here, and they could destroy this planet.
So she would lead them.
But first, she was to take down a rogue dictator in Yugoslavia.
As the plane she was taking to Modling touched down, Gonzalez introduced her to a team of superhumans, seven in number. They all wore combat fatigues with white and red accents, with a shoulder patch she recognized as the coat of arms of the District of Columbia.
"I would like to introduce you to the Magnificent Intentions," explained Gonzalez. "A new team being nurtured by the Defense Department. As an attempt to better represent our nation's capital, they are all from the Washington, D.C. area.
Their leader walked forward. She was a blonde woman, just under six feet. "Allison Campbell, otherwise the Taser," she introduced herself, with just a hint of self-absorption.
Annette could sense that this woman was a pampered little girl who simply happened to have superpowers. She reminded her of the annoying white liberals of metropolitan Los Angeles, where she had grown up. This young woman was thoroughly convinced of her own intellectual and moral superiority, she could sense. She nevertheless said nothing.
She sat through the introductions, giving token words after each of them. After Campbell had introduced herself, she conversed only in psionic emissions; they were a bit taken aback but they figured out the point of her actions.
When all was said and done, she turned to Gonzalez. "Since this is done, would it be permissible for me to test my powers? In the air, of course, and no property damage."
"That actually was the intention," remarked Gonzalez. "Go ahead."
She nodded, and looked into the sky. She focused at one particular point, and there she was.
She zipped and zapped over the skies, opening the occasional portal. It worked.
She made one teleport, and was for a moment surprised by a tremendous noise. Her eyes darted to the left and beheld a fighter jet barreling right towards her. However her reflexes were not fast enough, and she collided with the plane.
As she fell, she teleported herself to the ground. She saw the wreckage of the plane tumble down. On one chunk, she saw a roundel, but not the white star of the United States Air Force, nor the white triangle on a red circle of the Austrian air force.
It was the white cross of Yugoslavia.
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