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So, now what? Someone needs to post.
<Sorry, Two. Jason's suit runs on a closed network. The only thing it's connected to is his brain, and I don't have the resources to hack that.> Yelgir turned as the lass, Sheila, told him her name. "Sheila? Nice name. I'm Yelgir. If you work for the Alliance, then the ship should have something on you. Don't worry, we can match you by looks and a biological sample as well." <News, Saber 2. The girl's name is Sheila, and she claims to work for the Alliance. We can ID her on the way back to the Argon.>
They arrived back at the hanger, and passed through the airlock. The energy barrier was back up; the atmosphere in the docking bay breathable. The Xien had no suits designed for human use, but Shroedinger's spacecraft should have some adjustable spares on board.
A ping in his mind signaled the arrival of Thor. "Duck," Yelgir told Sheila, and covered his ears. "My ship's coming in." The shield opened just wide enough for the small craft to enter, and the roar of its engines filled the hangar. Yelgir's ship touched down, and the deafening sound faded back to the soft hum of machinery.
Yelgir recently told Sheila his name. She forgot already?
Sly! You live! Quick, get a post out so my brain doesn't kill me! (JK, take your time.)
What happened to Slypheed?
Jasonhero said
Jason pulled away from Shroedinger and ran through the ship, towards the bridge where he downloaded all the intelligence onboard and forwarded it to the Dark Abyss Battlegroup. Then he set a course straight for the sun and set the computer to wait for his signal before blasting into Earth's sun. Then the boy returned to the Hangar.


That was fast. And you didn't pass by Yelgir and Sheila in the passageway. Too bad the destroyer is doomed, I kinda wanted to commandeer it.
A message came from Shroedinger, and Yelgir replied through the same system. <I found a human civilian, a prisoner on the ship. She was very upset by what happened. We're headed your way.>

"You can come back to the command ship with us until we can find a colony for you to stay on. The ambassador quarters are empty; we will find rooms there for you to stay." He turned and started walking back to the hanger, the girl following. "Can you tell me your name? I need to introduce you to my team." They paused for a minute, and Yelgir used the destroyer's communication systems to recall Thor, before continuing to the hanger.
The destruction of the Earth was a catastrophic blow to Yelgir as well, even though he wasn't very fond of it. It was the governing body, and military headquarters, of the entire Haven Alliance. With the command structure now just Cthulu and his staff, the time and cost of recuperating their losses would be enormous. Years, maybe decades, as well as an inconceivable amount of money would be required to rebuild their forces. The Xien Coalition had lost next to nothing, and it would be easy for them to finish off the remainder of the Alliance. Yes, there were still some ships and fighters left for the Alliance, but they were scattered across this sector of the galaxy as protection for the planets they guard. Yelgir ran calculations, scenarios, and odds through his head, and only came up with two alternatives. Surrender, or death. Either way, the Alliance had fallen.

With this realization, he sank to his knees, staring out the opened viewport. No tears ran down his face, but his heart, or wherever emotions came from, was heavy. The whole purpose for his existence was to fight this war, and now that it was over, he realized he didn't know what to do. For his entire life, he had been training for, and participating in, the war against the Xien. His maker, Jasta, had been on one of the ships caught in the explosion, and now he had no-one to turn to. The members of his team were still alive, according to the signals from their suits, but they weren't the same. Jasta was as close as a father could be to Yelgir; had given him life, a goal, and the tools to achieve it.

Soft sobbing from behind made Yelgir turn. Apparently the human girl was unnecessary to the Xien any longer, as they had left her here on the ship. She was crying heavily now, tears streaming, breath heaving. He wanted to comfort her, but had nothing to say. Entire libraries of scientific, tactical, and historical data in his head, and he knew nothing that could help. He could quote The Art of War in its entirety, but that still wouldn't comfort a hurt person. "I--I'm sorry." he ventured. "I wish there were something I could say to help." He went over and patted her shoulder, something he'd seen humans on the ship do to help someone hurt. A lump rose in his throat, and he wished with all his heart he could do something to make it better.
So the whole representation of Earth is the four ships in the Dark Abyss squadron, the destroyer we commandeered, and various settlements and space stations throughout the solar system? (And maybe a few stations outside the solar system.) Also, I'd like to point out that the moon is pretty much doomed.
Is there anything left of the Haven alliance fleet? Or is our decrepit destroyer the only thing left?
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