Assorted Flash Fiction Writings
Copyright© 2024 by Chaon
Despite a successful air campaign, the ground invasion goes poorly
Earth’s first line of starships were disabled within 30 minutes of the alien fleet appearing in system in a flash of light from their warp jump. Their fleet moved into Earth orbit and disabled all defensive platforms, satellites and took command of the stations in orbit in a blitz attack that we were just not ready for.
Our atmosphere defenses were just as weak and they disabled everything we had flying within 5 hours of them sending their shuttles, fighters, bombers and troop transports down from their ships.
And this is where they screwed up big time.
Their main weapons were all energy based and were fantastic to use on computers and complicated ships and planes that couldn’t operate without all their computer assisted components.
But on the ground, our weapons weren’t smartguns; energy based weapons that could think for you and pick out targets within sight with just a click of a button. No, we still had simple, slug throwers that relied on centuries old technology of explosions and physics.
So when their troopers started to land and spread out, they suddenly started to drop in droves as humanities soldiers and armed civilians all aimed with their optical scoped rifles or iron sights and started to pick them off from hiding.
And there were a lot of targets, so many that we had to fall back because they would just keep on coming no matter how many of them were dropping.
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