The Phantom Fleet
By Julien Boyer
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Cold war between Earth and Mars. A massive invasion fleet suddenly appears off the corner of the solar system, headed towards Earth. The nearest patrol ship is sent to investigate, with little chance of survival.
Julien Boyer
Je suis un geek néo-nomade. Si vous vous imaginez un boutonneux à lunettes sur un chameau cybernétique, vous n'y êtes pas du tout. Mais kudos pour votre imagination. Je traverse les contrées de cette petite planète le pouce en l'air et un ordinateur en poche. Quand on aura colonisé Mars, j'irais y faire du stop et y écrire des romans. Je m'arrête de temps en temps. Vous me trouverez alors vissé dans un ordinateur, en train d'écrire mon prochain roman, de bénévoler pour une alternative quelconque ou d'organiser la révolution. J'ai beaucoup d'imagination. C'est ma force et mon calvaire. Parce que d'un coté ça me permet d'écrire de bonnes histoires. Mais de l'autre, j'ai l'impression de vivre dans le passé. Le futur m'intéresse au plus haut point et j'ai hâte qu'on y soit. En attendant, je ronge mon frein.
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The Phantom Fleet - Julien Boyer
Battlestations
You know that feeling when you've just printed out a perfect three-layer sandwich, poured yourself a cup of coffee and loaded a cool video to watch while you eat? You're not even started, but the anticipation of it is so high it's almost better than having it. Awesome, right? On the other hand, I bet you don't know the feeling when your sandwich is yanked out of your hand by a sudden barrel roll, your coffee thrown up in your face and your video replaced with a battlestations alarm.
WTF! Saku!
Sorry Lexi, evasive maneuvers. We might have nukes headed our way.
I wiped my face with one hand, buckling up with the other. Bollocks!
Hurry it up, mate. I'm prepped up for burn. This is serious.
What do you mean, serious? We get a red alert every few weeks. Martians have been more and more...
This is different, mate. This is big.
Saku didn't even wait for the suit to finish latching on. The acceleration hit me like a kick in the face. Hard to do any thinking after that. The console was flashing updates on my helmet's visor faster than I could absorb. Weapons systems hot, stealth down, distress beacon up... Distress beacon?
Saku...
"I know, I know, but this is big, I'm telling you. To be honest, we have almost no chance of surviving this one. I started a backup of both of us. I'm already done, but you need another kilosecond. I doubt we'll last that long."
Blood couldn't drain out of my face, with the suit regulating my circulation. I couldn't even piss in it if I tried. I called up the map. It was quite a sight to behold.
Fuck...
You said it.
I didn't even know Mars had that many ships.
Spot on. This is more ships than we knew they had.
Saku. This could be...
Spoofing? Mate, if they can spoof a fleet that size, we might as well surrender to them out of shame.
So this is it... And we're first wave.
Someone's got to do it, mate.
Right.
Engaging in 300 secs.
I shook my head in disbelief. Earth and Mars had fought over Ceres and Mercury and it had been bloody. But nobody had expected that any side would be crazy enough to go for a proper invasion. Not in a gigasecond. I looked up at the sky. Static stars against a backdrop of black emptiness. Nothing moving even as we were thrusting at fifteen gees. A few megameters away, the largest fleet to have ever been assembled was screaming down on us. The stars of Cassiopeia twinkled idly at the impending doom of the Terran hegemony