Don't Mess With Earth (21 page)

“What government, Terran? You do realize
you had your military wipe out my homeworld and that I and my fleet
here are almost what are left of the grand and glorious Ragnor
Empire. You must answer for your crimes.”

“Your home has been destroyed? When?” asked
the astonished Terran President.

“
Do not pretend to not know about the
massacre of my planet. You will answer fo
r
whomever or whatever committed this atrocity. Who ordered the
attack on my planet?” insisted Sudano.

“
I have no idea, but, I can assure
you it wasn’t me or anyone else in my administration
that ordered it, since we have no idea where your
solar system is located. Besides, if you are blaming the Terrans
for wiping out your planet, then I’d like to see some proof of
Terran duplicity. Can you provide that proof?” asked the President,
as sounds of explosions roared in the background and pieces of the
Presidents’ office were coming down around him.

“
Of course I can provide the proof,
Terran. We found a computer virus in our systems written in a
Terran computer language. It was designed to shut down our space
station, shipyards, cloaking devices, and everything on our planet
tied into a computer network. We know you did this and now you will
pay dearly for this crime.”

“
Wait, wait, wait. You’re basing this
whole attack on the fact that someone attacked your planet using a
Terran computer language? Maybe we could figure out who actually
did this if you let my computer engineers take a look at the
computer language used to shut down your network. Please, before
more innocent people die.”

Sudano cut the connection to the
Terran President so that he could take a few minutes to consult
with some of his aides and other military leaders directly under
his command before he gave an answer. Ten minutes later, the
connection was re-established, and Sudano gave his answer, “I will
give you time to prove your innocence, Terran. My computer
specialist is sending you a screenshot of the Terran computer
language as we speak. You and your engineers have two of your hours
to confirm or deny that someone on your planet wiped out my
planet.
In the meantime, all bombing will
cease. That will be all for now.” Sudano cut the connection before
Homer had a chance to respond.

President Homer looked
at the downloaded screenshot on his computer and
having done some programming of his own in his spare time before he
was the President, realized the computer language used to take down
the Ragnor was at least, for computers on Terra, four generations
old. He consulted with the computer programming specialists in his
own administration, who were still working in the remarkably quiet
basement of the government building and not panicking about the
planetary bombing, to be sure he was right, and they confirmed what
he had suspected, nobody on Terra would have taken down an enemy
using such an outdated language. Homer contacted Sudano an hour and
a half later, “Admiral, I have confirmed that we were not the ones
who used this computer language to create a virus for your
planetary computers. The computer language is four generations old,
and, as far as I know, nobody on Terra even uses it or has software
running based on the language. I think I may know who might have
conducted this terror campaign against your world,”

“
Who would that be, Terran?” asked
the skeptical Admiral.

“I have reason to believe that it was the
people of Earth who somehow figured out how to upload a computer
virus written in Terran to your networks, then kill off your
planet, and knew you would blame us for it. It appears that their
scheme worked, because we might’ve killed each other off if cooler
heads hadn’t prevailed,”

“
You actually think your cousins on
some backwater planet on the outskirts of the galaxy had the means
to do all of this? Last I heard, they were just inventing aircraft
and had fought a major planetary war, so excuse me if I’m
skeptical, because that was a very short time ago,”

“
I do think my so-called backwater
cousins could have done this, from the last report I received from
the Mars Outpost, the
people of Earth were
sending out robots and probes out of their solar system and even
landing some on the other planets of their solar system. They have
advanced quite a lot in less than a hundred years; we were
expecting them to land on Mars in the next ten years. So, for them
to do something so bold like this, doesn’t surprise me in the
least, especially since we haven’t heard from the Mars Outpost in
more than eight months. If they’re responsible for no
communications with my people on Mars, then I too have a grievance
with the people of Earth.”

“
Do not pretend to sympathize with
me, Terran. We will take care of our Earth problem
too
,” then he said to someone off screen,
“resume the annihilation of the Terran homeworld, we’re done
here.”

President Homer
went from a hopeful look to a shocked look on his face and was
about to say something when an explosion in the background
interrupted the video feed, leaving a dead connection. Terran
cities evaporated faster with Ragnor bombs than with human made
bombs, and the Ragnor laid waste to the entire planet, making sure
it would take more than a century for the planet to be inhabitable
again. Terra was cleared of all Terrans in less than a day. Sudano
sent out an order to half of the fleet that the remainder of the
Terran starships needs to be hunted down and destroyed, while the
rest of the fleet would hunt down and kill the people of Earth,
once all of the ships that needed repairing were repaired. Two
months later, the half of the fleet that was repairing at the
Ragnor Shipyards was ready to strike out at the humans of
Earth.

Two weeks later, one hundred
starships arrived at the coordinates of the Sol System, or at what
the Ragnor thought was the Sol System. Instead of finding a system
of nine planets, all they found was emptiness. Admiral Sudano
suspected that the system was cloaked, even though he wasn’t
entirely sure, since how could the
se
primitive humans have that kind of technology already? He ordered
his best scientists to scan the area, with everything available to
the Ragnor, but they found nothing discernable. Sudano ordered a
ship to stay behind and watch for any changes, while he sent the
fleet to protect the last two worlds of the Ragnor, he didn’t want
any more sneak attacks on the worlds left to his people. The
Admiral was now tasked with the rebuilding of the Ragnor
civilization.

As the Ragnor fleet had approached
the Sol System, the sensors on Mars detected the approach. General
Jay Wilson, who was in command of the American Base,
contacted Secretary of Defense Houston, “This is
Mars Command; we’ve detected one hundred Ragnor ships approaching
the solar system, they should be here within the next two hours. I
advise we activate the cloaking field to hide our star system,
sir,”

“
Thank you General Wilson, I give you
permission to activate the system. Once they are gone though, power
down the cloaking generator
. If that is all,
then I’ll sign off and let your team get to work.”

Wilson had his people power up the
generator, which was placed on Mars due to the sensitive political
nature of the whole project that President O’Bana revealed after he
had committed the United States
, and Earth
in general, to an act of war against the Ragnor and Terrans. O’Bana
and Houston reasoned that if the cloaking generators were on Mars,
no act of terrorism or world wide war would affect the Sol System
from being cloaked, unless, of course, the United States of America
ceased to exist. Once the whole world found out about the entire
mission the
Reprisal
and its crew had been ordered to do once it
returned to Earth two months earlier, the United States started
getting threatened with sanctions and even threats of war against
it. The American people were not pleased either, but this had been
set up by a long dead President, who believed the alien technology
that the United States would have for themselves once the
technology was figured out, would be used in the Cold War against
the Soviet Union.

When news reached the various Earth
news outlets about the Ragnor fleet of one hundred ships having
arrived and not finding the solar system, it started a worldwide
panic. The President of the United States had promised
the world that neither the Ragnor nor the Terrans
would find out about the duplicity of the Americans trying to blame
the Terrans for the Americans wiping out the Ragnor home, so why
had the Ragnor fleet appeared, is what everyone was asking, while
the mainstream media was predicting gloom and doom for Earth. Then,
when a lone Ragnor ship stayed for quite some time, waiting for
something to appear out of thin air, Russia attacked the United
States without warning, followed by China. Russia began with the
launching of nuclear missiles on major American cities, including
Washington, D.C., followed up with troops from both countries
landing near major military installations, Area 51, Los Alamos, and
other strategically important technology research sites. Area 51
couldn’t secure the
Reprisal
since the invasion happened so
quickly, but they did keep the underground part of the base
secured, even after a nuke was dropped on top of it days later,
since the invading forces thought they had annihilated the formerly
top secret installation. The United States of America’s federal
government collapsed six months later when President O’Bana, the
vice president, the Cabinet, and everyone in the line of
presidential succession were systematically targeted and killed,
while remnants of the military fought for the various remaining
states that had enough money and power to fight back, but it was to
no avail. China and Russia brought down and then occupied the
remaining states in less than a year, while some Americans who had
escaped tried to conduct guerilla warfare from the Appalachians and
Rockies.

The American Mars Outpost officially
surrendered when the Chinese used the
Reprisal
to land their armed
forces, capturing the Mars Base with very few casualties to the
Chinese, while the Americans who survived the initial onslaught
were mercilessly executed. The Chinese scientists utilized the
communications array on Mars for their leaders to contact the
Ragnor using a range of frequencies, “This is the Chinese
government of the planet Earth trying to contact the leadership of
the Ragnor. If you can receive this signal, please, we’d like to
talk with you,”

A few minutes later, Admiral Sudano’s voice
came over the speaker, and said, “This is Admiral Sudano of the
Ragnor Empire. State your business, humans.”

“
This is the Premier of the People’s
Republic of China. We would like to apologize for the actions of a
rogue country on our planet for attacking your planet. We seek
peace and understanding with your people. What else can we do to
help achieve this?”

“
A rogue country on your planet
attacked my world? What did you do when you found this out?” asked
Sudano, who was somewhat intrigued by this revelation.

“We and another nation attacked them and
wiped them out. They no longer threaten the peace and security of
either Earth or the rest of the galaxy.” boasted the Chinese
Premier.

“
Very good, you seem to be a people
that are not to be toyed with. As far as seeking peace and
understanding with the Ragnor, you can help our relationship
immensely by dropping that cloak you have around your solar system.
Would you be willing to do that?”

“My scientists on Mars are doing that as we
speak, Admiral. We look forward to meeting you and setting up a
treaty between our two peoples.”

“
I’m sure you do look forward to this
momentous occasion. I have things to attend to, so I will be
signing off. I shall return to your solar system shortly. Sudano
out,” he ended the communication with the humans, and said to his
officers, “Send our fleet to the humans’ solar system. They shall
soon know our meaning of peace and understanding.”

Admiral Sudano and his one hundred
ships arrived in the Sol System,
went to
Mars, ignored the communications from the Chinese, which were
becoming increasingly urgent, and Sudano had the fleet destroy the
Mars Base without second thought. Once the base on Mars was turned
into a smoking crater, the Ragnor headed to Earth. In orbit, Sudano
ordered, “Get me access to their communications satellites, I want
to inform the people of Earth that their time in this galaxy has
come to an end,” five minutes later, the Ragnor technicians gave
Sudano the go ahead to speak, “people of Earth, this is Admiral
Sudano of the Ragnor Empire. My fleet and I are here to wipe your
species out, paying your planet back for wiping out my planet. You
and the Terrans are an aberration, we wiped out the Terrans, and
now you humans are next. Goodbye primitive human scum.” Sudano cut
the broadcast to Earth, and broadcast an order to his own fleet,
“commence the annihilation of the humans, leave none of them alive
on the surface. You have your orders, Admiral Sudano signing
off.”

The Ragnor fleet used
their energy based weapons, since the humans seemed
to have no major planetary defenses or starships to counter the
Ragnor attack. The Ragnor scanned the surface of Earth, and then
killed off every human that they could find, not thinking that
humans were smart enough to hide underground, so they didn’t land
surface troops to investigate possible hiding places. The Ragnor
then went home, satisfied with their revenge, then began building
up their military capacity again, and decided to begin dominating
the rest of the galaxy.