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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. <\/strong><\/p>\n C. S. Lewis<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhat happens to my ship Cristian?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat would you like to happen?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI would like to keep flying her.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe would be separated, sweetie.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMany of the men and women that are here are separated from their loved one’s Cristian. Why should we be any different?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI have no answer besides I would miss you?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI would miss you too sweetie. I want to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI will be taking most of your staff.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am good with that, I need to have my own.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI will be taking Tuseer, the chef and my men.”<\/p>\n \u201cI will send them over.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLorelei I don’t like this. Should I take this as a breakup?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI just need some space.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd there it is, soon followed by I just want to be friends.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo I mean I need to fly in some space.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI will have your ship brought in.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBrought in?\u201d asked Lorelei.<\/p>\n \u201cMy flight deck has room for two Galaxy Class ships. You will become a medical transport and fighter support for the Magellan on resupply to this verse. You can also handle Search Rescue and Recon.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBoth ships will enjoy a spot in the flight deck between missions.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou want to fly, this is where I want you. No Arguments Lorelei. If you want to be treated as any other this is it. You have almost no combat experience.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOkay Cristian\u201d she said giving in.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n Cristian knew he had to let her go, once Lorelei had made her mind up about something, there was no changing her mind. He knew she would do okay he always had faith in her. This was her way to shine and he had to give her the support she had freely given him. It still sucked.<\/p>\n The meeting took place in his ready room the ship’s AI brought the Captains and Officers up in the cubes. The cubes would handle ten easy, fifteen if crowded. There was another cube within a second of one leaving. The cubes were free moving and could travel to any point in the ship. There were hundreds of them all controlled by the ship’s AI.<\/p>\n \u201cTraining has been sent to your cores for distribution to your crews and your fighters. We are heading into a different universe using a trans-dimensional device.<\/p>\n You will need to know that this fight was the result of an industrial accident. The Gray scientists experimented with the first device and destroyed a world. Now the enemy is pissed off and wants to take our Universe.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we are cleaning up after the Gray again.\u201d said one of the Captains.<\/p>\n \u201cI will not tolerate that kind of talk again. It could have been one of our own scientists that made the mistake and some probably will in the future.\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe Gray, the Reticulans\u00a0and humans are all part of the same Alliance. There is no separation. Look at the deck plating you are standing on. Where the hell do you think it came from?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSorry, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNow the ships will be separated into five Squadrons. Each squadron will have an Admiral in charge who will report directly to me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAssignments will be sent to your cores this afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHave all new personnel head in to your med bays for bots and comm interfaces. Red squadron you will host the Marines. Yellow Apaches and tanks and ground fighters. Blue will take the Shrikes and extra Gryphon. Green will\u00a0handle long range Missiles. The S\u00e9adhna will run Search, Rescue and Recon plus Escort the Magellan on supply runs.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEach ship will continue to carry it’s own fighters and the ground troops you have carried already.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAny questions?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSir about the last Squadron.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPurple is to escort the Heavy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDismissed let’s get our ships loaded. Load as many supplies as you can carry who knows how long we will be out there.\u201d<\/p>\n In a few days, the ships were loaded and had the Trans-dimensional drives installed. As a precaution all the ships had a self-destruct sequence so that the enemy could never capture a ship.<\/p>\n The Magellan and S\u00e9adhna had made three supply runs back to Earth. They had brought more troops and even brought a few of the world leaders to see the fleet assembled.<\/p>\n \u201cBob good to see you?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou too Cristian.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMadame President good to see you again, have you come to Co-pilot my ship.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIs that a possibility?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo ma’am just a comment.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCristian you are such a tease.\u00a0The new ship is big.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRemember it is not the size of the Army but the fierceness of its onslaught.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think you just found another way to say size doesn’t matter,\u201d said the President.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, that is what I said. We are taking a small fleet into a Universe that will probably have superior numbers and most likely superior technology.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere is one thing they do not have Cristian.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is that Madame President?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou, now kick some Nukpana ass and tell them we will fight to the last man woman and child.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI will take them the message.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI will have My XO take you on a tour of the ship, I have a war to prepare for, Join me later for a meal.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBob, Madame President.\u201d<\/p>\n They had a meal together put together by Chef Armonde.<\/p>\n His first officers were present as was Lorelei. After the meal and conversation, it was time for the Captain of the S\u00e9adhna to take them back to Earth.<\/p>\n Cristian continued his plans for the fight. He had the drones and the Retribution equipped with TDDs, they were also equipped with explosives that would destroy anyone attempting to tamper with them. The Trans dimensional devices gave them the ability to send progress reports back to the home verse.<\/p>\n The personnel from the entire fleet was trained and cross trained. Even Chef Armonde could take a Gryphon into battle if needed.<\/p>\n Cristian was different, colder, less emotional, more focused, \u00a0beyond what a human should be. He seemed more machine than man. His people knew he would win this war. Cristian knew failure was not an option.<\/p>\n The day came when it was time to do the jump into another dimension. This war was about to get busy. \u00a0Cristian boarded an updated Retribution, and before the ramp closed Gracie climbed in.<\/p>\n \u201cHey Boss we going for a ride?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGracie I was going to make this trip alone.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo can do Boss, I still serve and protect. I know where you are going.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am going to have a quick look Gracie before I risk the lives of all those men and women. I need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFiring up engines Boss we will want to make the jump before everyone catches on.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the Retribution we are leaving on an inspection flight Foxtrot Lima Oscar Mike.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is your destination Foxtrot Lima?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDestination classified.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTDD engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n A rift in space appeared in front of the Retribution. For a moment they could see into another universe. The Retribution went through the rift.<\/p>\n \u201cBoss we have an inhabited world just ahead. We have not been detected.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTake us in Gracie let’s have a look. Record everything.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAlready doing that Boss.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou added some piercings to your look, Gracie.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGoing for that EMO thing Boss. Added some tribal tats as well\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNice the projection\u00a0is complete\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo projection Boss remember I am a fully functioning synthetic. I have skin and flesh over my exoskeleton. Not organic flesh boss something else.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRight. Can you be damaged, Gracie?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy exo no, the new skin yes. I am armoured to the nines boss. They can’t touch this.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGood I would like to make sure you are safe.<\/p>\n \u201cBoss I have some new tricks.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCan’t wait to see them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWatcher find me some military, let’s see what they have.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCristian I am monitoring broadcasts. I am learning their language now. They are being bombarded with anti-Alliance Propaganda. We are being portrayed as evil. The population is being controlled by some kind of transmission. It is coming from micro satellites around the planet. There is no military presence anywhere.”<\/p>\n \u201cWatcher can we hack those birds.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOn it.\u201c<\/p>\n \u201cCristian I have stopped the Transmissions.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGracie I need one of those Satellites. There is a suit in the locker in the back.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWatcher disable one of them and bring us alongside.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGot it, boss.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWatcher take out all the satellites.\u201d<\/p>\n “Cristian I have sent an overload through the satellites they have been destroyed.”<\/p>\n \u201cWatcher send a broadcast through their media.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYour population has been freed by the Alliance. You have control of your world. We will not interfere with you. If you need our assistance we will come. This is Cristian Wolf First Leader of the Alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGracie take us home.\u201d<\/p>\n The Rift was opened and they flew down to the Prodigious. \u201cCristian where have you been you have been gone for nearly a day.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor us, it’s been only a few hours Lorelei.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat have you been up to?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMe and Gracie just freed a world from tyranny and mind control.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh is that all?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat the hell Cristian?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGracie better broadcast everything to all the fleet and then the Alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWatcher upload the language to all cores.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDone.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell let’s land the thing I haven’t eaten for a day.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are coming in now Boss.\u201d<\/p>\n The Retribution pulled into the flight deck and Parked in her spot. Cristian jumped in a cube and headed straight for the bridge.<\/p>\n \u201cNice to have you back on board First Leader.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDo we have a name for you yet AI?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNot yet First Leader.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we are alone call me Cristian.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes, Cristian.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThanks, Audrey.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAudrey, I like it Cristian, For Audrey Hepburn?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThank you, Cristian.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have arrived at the bridge First Leader.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThank you, Audrey.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFirst leader on deck.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThanks, Tiny good to see you.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou too sir.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhere is Maria?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cShe is back at the cave with the kids sir.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cReport Tuseer.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe fleet is ready for departure First Leader.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSignal the fleet Red and Blue and Purple are going through the rift.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTake us through Tuseer.\u201d<\/p>\n On the other side of the rift, the ships assembled outside of the planet that Cristian liberated.<\/p>\n \u201cCan we reach anyone on the Planet Watcher?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI have the leader of the government.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is First Leader Wolf is there anything we can do to assist you.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo there is not, we are just reorganizing the planet First Leader. We are not entirely sure what happened?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou had satellites around your planet that were controlling your minds and bombarding you with propaganda. We destroyed them. We are hunting the beings that put them into place.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIs there anything you can give us to help?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have charts of this system and the known Galaxy will that help First Leader?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDo you know where they are?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe don’t have their exact location just rumours.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am going to leave one ship here to assist if you need it. They will not interfere with your planet they are only here for protection. You have my word.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThank you First Leader it would be better if we had time to adjust.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThanks for the star charts we have them and will put them to good use.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGood hunting First Leader.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWatcher, what was the name of that planet?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAccording to the charts, it is called Gatera.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow many other inhabited planets are nearby?”<\/p>\n \u201cThere are six\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHave the Gray come up with a counter measure against the mind control? I would really hate to become a drone for these bastards.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Gray scientists already have a solution and have tested it on a volunteer.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey are building units for the other ships. They will automatically trigger on detection of any mind control.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSend a drone back through the rift with the news and specs give them the star charts as well.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWorking on it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLet Tuseer and the other Captains know as soon as the drone has made it through the rift.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDone.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe return drone is already on its way into the flight deck.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe time differential.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAll the rest of the fleet have the units installed. The ships on this side of the rift will be done within the hour.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTuseer when the devices are installed in all the ships here send them to liberate the other worlds. Have them dispatch drones on arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe orders have been sent sir.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is next sir?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI eat and we wait until you have the bridge Tuseer.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSir.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCaptain Wolf could you meet me in the main cafeteria.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI can arrange that First Leader.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFirst Leader I have some fresh Pie just out of the oven, Apple Cristian, Cheddar not much sugar lots of cinnamon. Your wife’s recipe.\u201d<\/p>\n Excellent could use some grub what do you have cooking back there Chef?”<\/p>\n “Anything you want?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe will have a couple of veggie burgers and some deep fried Macaroni and a coffee. I will take the same.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThanks, Captain Wolf. What she said.\u201d<\/p>\n Lorelei kissed her husband. \u201cAre you ever gonna stop that cowboy shit Cristian?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou know what I mean you and Gracie going through the rift without an escort\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJust went to have a look Lorelei, and while we were there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhile you were there you had to save another Planet.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNeeded doing wife.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI didn’t want to send the fleet into a slaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo you decided to send yourself into a potential slaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s all good.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHusband promise you will send others in next time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI can’t make that promise sweetie.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI knew you wouldn’t.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIsn’t that why you love me?\u201d<\/p>\n Lorelei took a deep breath \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n The burgers were brought out and Cristian had deep-fried macaroni for the first time. \u201cThis is good.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI thought you would like it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cStill mad sweetie?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCristian Wolf how could I ever stay mad at you.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow is child version two point zero doing?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cKicking\u201d she reached over and put his hand on her belly. Cristian bent over and whispered at the new baby.<\/p>\n \u201cDon’t worry she is a great mother but don’t piss her off.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAdvice you should heed husband.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLorelei.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI love you?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDo think that will make me melt Cristian?\u201d She paused and smiled at her man \u201cWell it does.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI hear this pie is your recipe. It is very good.\u201d<\/p>\n TEMPUS TWO CHAPTER THIRTEEN Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. C. S. Lewis \u201cWhat happens to my ship Cristian?\u201d \u201cWhat would you like to happen?\u201d \u201cI would like to keep flying her.\u201d \u201cWe would be separated, sweetie.\u201d \u201cMany of the men and women that are here are separated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7losy-10","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/tempustwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/tempustwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/tempustwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/tempustwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/tempustwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/tempustwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/tempustwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/tempustwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"