Lost Empire
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Chapter 109
0001 - Tempro
0003 - Conner- Thomas
0004 - Norice - Sesa
0011 - Adam
0097 - Ace - Zimmel
0098 - Lucy
0100 - Derry (father ship)
0101 - Shelby (mother ship) - Derrick
0122 - Maleen
0125 - Lars
0130 - Gillese
0200 - Ellen
0201 - Jake
0222 - Helena
0250 - Tendra
0280 - Frela
0301 - Rodrick
0321 - Hardy
0403 - Johnathon - Hartwell
0499 - Henry
0505 - Craig
0660 - Realla
0661 - Raff
0667 - Marco - Brown
0778 - Jan
0798 - Celeste - Shelby (human)
0805 - Toran
0808 - Radella
0881 - Handrax
0882 - Teal
0888 - Clara
0908 - Tara - Mara
0921 - Tomack
0995 - Kyle
0996 - Tesal - Ara
0999 - Zan
1000 - Sherry - Lucie (only other one that can prime all ships)
Ungrown - unnumbered
Rescued from Tendraxians
so far bout 66 left
1 on Shelby in re-gen (hospital ship on Shelby)
2 on Derry in re-gen
5 on ellen
3 still on Sherry
Known and OR numbered
0501 - Thaddeus
???? - Lena
The big man turned back to Derrick a little angry, “So now you threaten us?”
“No, but if you wish us to, then we can,” Derrick said. “Oh, and for your information, your weak shields won’t stop us. Target the power node outside the city.”
The big man smirked ‘til an explosion sounded at the outside of town. “What in the hell was that?” the big man asked.
The mousy scientist looked up from a pad he had and looked stricken. “Sir, it was the largest power node outside the city.”
The big man gulped and turned back toward Derrick, “We will never surrender. You’ll have to kill us all and leave this a lifeless ball.”
Derrick sighed and shook his head, “We don’t want your surrender, nor is the lifeless ball gonna to happen. We just want to enter into negotiations.”
The big man started to smirk, then he thought of all that had happened. “For what?”
“To become a part of the empire again,” Derrick said. The big man and all there, all of their mouths dropped open.
The big man’s mouth was only open for a second, then it turned into a smirk. “Why in the hell would we want to do that, huh? The empire left us alone to the ravages of the pirate consortium.”
Derrick’s Holo-gram smirked as he stated, “Yeah, betrayal has a tendency to do that on all ends. I am the last of the original royal line.”
This, of course, had the effect of shocking all there as their mouths hung open again. The big man sighed as he had heard things like this before.
“Not sure that I can trust a man that won’t appear in person,” the big guy said.
“I apologize for that but after a few assassination attempts, the Palace A.I. won’t let me,” Derrick said with another smirk.
The big guy started to laugh ‘til Mary shocked the hell out of him with the probe. After the man spasimed for a few minutes, he got off the floor with an almost crazed look.
“You really expect us to,” then he stopped when there was a crackling of electricity before him. He gulped as he nodded toward Derrick, who grimly nodded back.
“Never fear,” Derrick said. “I have felt it also, before I was made emperor. She is nothing if not fair.”
“Thank you sire,” Mary said a moment later. “I have always strived to be so. Also,” she turned the probe to the big man. “I do not take disrespect toward the emperor lightly, so please remember this.”
The big man nodded rather nervously. “Unfortunately, I can not speak for everyone, only this country.”
Derrick sighed, it was going to be like that, he just hoped that the third person was in a friendly country. He had been surprised when the knowledge that there was another one out there was revealed.
“I think that we need to contact all the major countries to get this rolling. I am hoping that we don’t have to put down another evil group,” Derrick sighed.
“You’ve had to do this before?” the big man asked. To which Derrick nodded.
“It was a huge collection of pirates, was. They decided that we weren’t a threat, before we destroyed their base and ships. I believe we took over a thousand prisoners, “Derrick said.
There were more than a few gasps when Derrick revealed this tidbit of information. The big guy was on the phone immediately with as many leaders as he could reach at one time.
All were shocked and were ready to comply except for one that laughed at Derrick. That was ‘til Mary launched two missiles that destroyed both their power centers.
The leader started to yell at Derrick, telling him that he had no right. That was ‘til Mary exploded a third missile beside the building he was in, making the whole thing shake.
Sadly, Mary soon found that the third person was also in that country. The leader started to smile evilly as he tried to make a deal.
Mary warned him that the next missile was aimed at him. Oddly enough, several soldiers walked in and arrested the man, dragging him away screaming.
Derrick sighed again, he’d hoped that they wouldn’t have to aggravate the situation. He hoped that they had a trial for him and not straight out execute the man.
The rest of the leaders rapidly agreed to joining the empire. Derrick nodded as several more of the Eig’s were suddenly in orbit.
“As a peace offering, I have several ships loaded with grain and other supplies to ease your conditions. We hope that this will usher in a new era for your planet,” Derrick said. All that were there and on the screens agreed, as Derrick had a draft already made up that they all signed. They all received and signed a copy that Mary Kept.
Then the real work started as the food was offloaded to each country. Then Mary started to search again for the one that she had detected before.
It was two days later that she was afraid that the person had died or been taken off the planet. Finally, though she found him, though he wasn’t in that great of shape.
She’d sent a probe to talk to him but found that he was unconscious. Mary had to ask Derrick if she could IMT the male to the med-bay to save him.
No sooner than Derrick said yes, the youth was in the med-bay. A few moments later, the new leaders from the country whose leader had laughed at Derrick started to complain.
Mary saw the look of disgust that Derrick had when the new leaders started to demand. Mary’s voice broke into Derrick’s conversation, “under regulations set down by the first emperor. I will destroy all of you for using a youth as a bargaining chip. I am an A.I. and I have no problem destroying all of you. So,” here, Mary dramatically paused. “Should I just destroy all of you, or are we to come to an amicable solution?”
There was an immediate yelling and screaming as the leaders were warned. Their own systems that they were targeted by some major destructive weapons.
Derrick almost smirked as he saw that they were suddenly agreeing to disarm, somewhat. “We will know if you decide that we are of no threat to you any longer.”
Derrick clicked off as he headed to the med-bay where a young male was in the bio-bed. Derrick flinched as he remembered being in one a few times, himself.
“Mary?” Derrick asked as soon as he walked into the med-bay. “How bad is he?”
“I am detecting several broken bones and severe malnutrition. I am working to stabilize him, but he is in very bad shape as his systems are so weak,” Mary said, almost emotionless.
Derrick nodded his head as he felt his anger start to climb. He had an almost wicked smile on his face as Mary informed him that the former leader was still alive.
An idea formed in his mind as he decided that the male needed to be tried by the people that he had terrorized. Mary discussed it with all his officers, Mary and Shelby.
In less than an hour, they agreed to Derrick’s plan as a planetwide announcement was made. Again, the former leader started to scream that the empire had no right to interfere with the planet.
Several of his own soldiers slapped the hell out of him as they showed that all countries had agreed and signed. The former leader sneered at the accord, saying that his name wasn’t on it. He was again slapped and punched as he was told that he had been apposed.
The best thing though, was when he was told that he was to stand a planetwide trial to determine his guilt. He was also told that at that time his punishment would be.
He again started to scream as the guards beat him up again to shut him up. He was then thrown into the worst cell that they had.
Derrick sighed as that unpleasant business was part concluded. He then turned to the displays of the invading fleet, he just wished he had a way to disable the replicant ships.
He suddenly had a thought as he contacted the ships he had nearby. Within a few minutes, at least ten ships were at the outer limits of the Cregon fleet’s sensors.
Derrick smiled as he gave the order for three ships to fire several missiles. The Cregon queen started to scream as the alarms on the ship went off.
She was still screaming when the alarms suddenly were silent as the missiles disappeared. Less than a minute later, she screamed again as the missiles reappeared and hit five of the replicant ships.
Her mouth was hanging open as the missiles took all five, almost completely destroying them. They also managed to take out no less than five hundred of her attack/troop ships.
She stared at the destroyed replicant ships, then her face went into a hateful scowl. She then tried to kill all of her bridge crew, which almost included her first.
Somehow, most of the bridge crew had managed to depart the bridge, saving their lives. Her first had also managed to get those who escaped to safety as they left.
Her first just shook his head as he watched her rage on the bridge, killing only two this time. He still didn’t have the necessary strength to oppose her yet, though he was closer.
Derrick smiled as he saw that almost half of the Cregon ships that were replacing attack ships were destroyed. Though this only slowed them down a bit, they were still making ships.
He shook his head as he saw that five hundred attack/troop ships were gone. This was barely a drop compared to the almost three million ships that they had heading into the galaxy.
Less than a minute later, a portal opened as Norice and Conner slipped through. “From what I can see, the mission was successful?” Derrick asked.
A happy and laughing Thomas and Sesa answered. “Yes sire, we managed to destroy five of the twelve replicator ships. Here’s to hoping that it slows the bugs down,” Thomas said.
“From what we detected we also got a fair share of the surrounding ships sire,” Sesa said.
Derrick nodded as he stared at the two smiling Captains. “Alright, just wish we had gotten more of them but for now it will have to do. I am afraid that they will be on guard for anything like this again.”
“Sir?” Thomas said as he was looking at his wing mate. “Captain Sesa might have an idea about that, but we’ll need a bunch of calculations about it.”
Sesa looked embarrassed as she hesitantly launched into the idea she had thought of when they were attacking. Derrick was rubbing his chin as he listened to what she had to say.
When she finished, he had a wide smile on his face as he was nodding about all of it. “Mary?” he asked.
“I have already started calculations on the suggested problem. It will take at least five hours before I have a partial answer for the both of you,” Mary said.
Derrick nodded as he looked at Sesa, “We should have an answer at that time. I will contact you when she has finished it.”
Both Thomas and Sesa nodded as they clicked off. “I just hope that this will help,” a worried Sesa said.
“You need to talk to your friend?” Thomas asked as he could see that Sesa was indeed worried more than she should be.
Sesa just nodded as Norice contacted Tesal, a familiar face appearing. “Ara!” Sesa shouted when her friend appeared on the screen.
“Hey Sesa,” Ara said, a look of concern on her face as she could see the stress Sesa had. “What’s wrong? I can see that you have a lot on your mind.”
Sesa then went over what she had suggested to the Emperor, then her worry that she was going to be removed. “I mean I just got here, and I spoke to the Emperor, I love it here, I am so afraid.”