Re: AQRA
As per orders, all the Troops that stayed to continue the Mission, came around the camp fires in larger Crater. The Shuttle crews of Gunners and Burners began to Unload the Ammo, while The Pilots , Shadow had left, walked around outside the Crater as guards.
Shadow was humming a song, every now and then he 'sing' soem words,"..there's more of me, there's more of you, we're everywhere.."
Will heard the words, and Nodded as he dug into the stew and rolls,..Cold as Ice... that's suits him..."
Lyri chuckles as she takes a deep drink of a cold soda,..then you must have never seen him lose it them!
Shadow said on a COM to Harry,..hey? harry?... we got enough of us out here, if you ..um.. wanna grab a cup of coffee in the crater....we'll be fine.... after all, they'll be moving out in an hour or so...
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Shoey Looks across the way at the Admirals,..So..Sirs? If i may?.... What would be the purpose of fish folk havign those Tunnels hinder this plateau ?. ..I mean?.. there is no water coming in or going out ?
Hennings Hold up a hand that held a Roll, and waited a second or two to swallow the bite he had,..For My part?.. I think they are used for vents.... except? we didn't see any thing in the way of smoke or Vapor.... so?.. it could be used to intake...
Hack nodded as he drank a cup of hot coffee, it looked like he just sipped food of the gods, he smiled at the metal cup, then looked at showy, then the others,..The Pictures Nikki got, shows metal climbing 'vines'.. we don't know how long they have been there? we do not know , for certain..what the tunnels are for....
what i do see , from these few pictures? There is no machinery or, water stains or puddles... it doesn't mean there isn't anything further on... but..... since they sent waves of troops through these... I see no reason we cannot go through these....
Supe is munching down, like a larg, he looks up after taking a drink,..wadda we hope to find, Sirs?
Hennings Unrolled his vid board and punched up an over ehad View of the lake area.
he passed it around for everyone to see...we don't have a clue what the names of most places here are... we'll named them ourselves, and intergrate local names as colonization goes on.... so we call this Lake, Capital Lake...because that City right over there, is the Capital City of the Fish folk.. and the City States scattered around the globe are untied at this point... he snorts,..which puts them a few steps higher in evolution then Earth...
... we have found spots... Hack began,...where there were floating Bodies of Fishfolk.. the Bio techs on the ground, checked them out before burning them, and found some died of clogged gills, but most died from Concussion, from the bombs and such.. what images we can get from research shuttles , show alot of Bodies on the floor of the lakes... the seas are too damn deep, and I won't risk any kind of ships in the water.. we don't need to
Az-el speaks up,..Human's way of speaking is.. confusing... almost as thier thoughts... can you explain?
Hennings scooped some more stew, and made the Motion for every one to keep eating from the large Rectangular pots that were set up over the fires on 4 legged frames...Well. LT Az-EL , the bodies that floated were Civies... we assume the bodies at the bottom are troops, armor , weapons and such holding them down... Their Armor, as you might have noticed as we stacked bodies,is very very light.. and can take on a few Pulse rounds...but..hard ammo goes through it like cheesecloth, and Heavy Pulse can punch right through... Lazars are deflected..but ..if you hold the beam with a long trigger pull.. you'll cut through... any kind of heat wound to the Fish folk.. is a bad one.
Thus.... we are goign with the thoughts, that the bodies at the Bottom are all troops, or?..at very least, people who were armed..so?..why aren't there more dead civie bodies?
Minnet raises her hand like in school,..'cause the wee bastards, are lyin' uder robble in the bloody cities.. aye?
there are chuckles.
..Maybe, Minnet?.. but we feel they might have Underground places to go? After all the Demons were hidden, until the popped up yesterday...
Shoey speaks up,..so, Admirals..what is the bottom line? he munched on a rolls as he swirled his soda in the bottle.
..The Bottom Line, Mr Shoemaker?.... is..if i am right... and those tunnels lead to the sanctuary of the Capital city, we can end organized resistance..... the City states would, most likely, revert back to thier old ways..and we can deal with them piece meal...
One of the Gavas spoke up,why we look..at picture? as he passed the Vidboard down.
We secured, as best we can, the 'upper' part of the Lake.... The Capitol city.., more or less, divides the upper Lake, form the larger Lower lake, and... we know there is another , smaller city, at the south end, near the Domed complex we destroyed...By destroying as much of the Capital as we are able... we destroy the Hub of the Fish Folk government... Think of Capital Lake, being New York... and the city being Times square.. the rest of the larger part of the lake, is the rest of New York City... They may have... if my guess is right, Brough all the 'important' people into the area , right below us... we will see in a few hours....but... if we can do this, as we leave, the Hermes and another ship from our squadron, will pound the rest of the lake with Cap ship grade hard ammo and torpedoes .
Hennings frowns as he sat back, finishing the last of his stew,..if it wasn't for the water..and the Land itself, we would have just took the Hyria route..but this planet is important.. fresh water for Etna and Matterhorn, not to mention Ships who want to top off... or..vent thier old water and fill up fresh?... we can;'t do that. So?.. there were always be outposts here to deal with Aqra... Colonists here will have to be part farmer and part warrior..The Gava, Naragrans and Apefolks that settle here, will be a great weight, on our side of the scales.
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