Chapter 151 (1/2)

Chapter 151

Bastion of Evil

The second stage of the plan was now a go. Stealth probes would be sent to the location of the enemy destroyers after they came out of hypers.p.a.ce. These stealth probes were twenty foot long, five foot wide cylinders. What was essentially a battery was plugged into the probes to power them in order to keep s.p.a.ce down. They were equipped with advanced sensor technology and would teleport over fifty thousand miles away from the coordinates they would receive so as to avoid detection.

After five minutes, they got a signal from one of the tagged s.h.i.+ps. After about ten minutes they received signals from three of their s.h.i.+ps. One minute later, signals from the other five s.h.i.+ps they had tagged became available. The reason for the delay was because of when the s.h.i.+ps had reached the jump point.

Checking the signal, he realized all 8 signals were coming from the same location. He waited thirty minutes in order to confirm that this was their final destination. It was a common security protocol to many species to have s.h.i.+ps jump to multiple destinations in order to prevent their enemies from tracking them.

After the thirty minutes were up, 12 probes jumped into the system. Activating their sensor package, telescopes popped out. Being fifty thousand miles away from their target, they would see everything happening there two seconds later then it had.

Cameras on the outside of the probe allowed them to see what was directly outside their stealthed surface. Lucas let Chu Shen, Aslo, and Chrissa see the video feeds.

What he could see though stunned him beyond belief. Huge s.h.i.+ps the size of a moon was all around him. s.h.i.+ps the size of fifty battles.h.i.+ps constantly entered the huge s.h.i.+ps. After four hundred he had to stop counting the moon-sized s.h.i.+ps. Lucas commanded one of the probes to teleport above the solar system in order to get a clearer view of the planet.

Once there Lucas realized what was going on. Those huge s.h.i.+ps were manufacturing plants. The only reason he realized this was because of the constant streams of fighters coming out of the open bays.

The huge s.h.i.+ps Lucas saw going between the manufacturing plants would enter one of the manufacturing plants before going to one of the planets. There something would be unloaded onto the s.h.i.+p before it would take off for the manufacturing plants once again.

Lucas saw that the planet was literally falling apart. Holes had been drilled through the entire planet. Gouts of magma could be seen constantly spewing up from the the core of the planet. Multiple parts of the planet seemed to have caved in, supporting the a.s.sumption that the entire planet was riddled with holes.

This was something Lucas had experience with. It was called strip mining in his world. The entire planet would be mined, over and over and over again. It would eventually reach the point where there was no safe place to mine on the planet’s crust and the materials one needed to mine in the first place would be gone.

So one would then puncture holes from the crust to the planet’s mantle. Magma, rich in metals and minerals, would then flow up the holes creating more places to mine. This process would repeat until the entire planet collapsed into itself and had no more mining opportunities available.

It was a terrible thing.

Two corporations had decided to do this strip mining tactic in Lucas’ universe. A news reporter had gotten wind of the tragedy and filmed the process before going live. The outcry it generated was on the same scale as. .h.i.tler's attempted genocide of jews.