Assorted Flash Fiction Writings
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Human Soldiers Are Constantly Mistaken for Demons
High Commander Hrishtac was standing over the map display looking at the red, green and purple markers scattered across the defensive formations around their war-base on this hell planet.
Over the last four days, too many of the purple, green and orange markers had changed to red, with the last orange vanishing into crimson last night. Along with all those markers, he knew that more of his troopers and mechanical assets were no longer capable of fighting in one way or another.
Way too many of them were simply dead. They were the lucky ones because they no longer had to wait in fear and terror for a whisper in the night and then pain blossoming as a ballistic weapon hits, a knife appears from the shadows or even something as simple as sticks are turned into a trap capable of killing or wounding troopers.
This assault on the small planet 2284-S34, IV, was supposed to be simple and fast. They drop on the planet, establish a war-base, then send out raiding forces to wipe out the human settlements within 183km of the base.
The plan was simple because the humans hadn’t spread out yet and were al concentrated in such a small area, thus not requiring multiple war-bases and units to accomplish their mission.
Yeah. Simple.
It started going wrong almost as soon as their ships had entered orbit. High energy readings were detected on the planet’s surface and then fast streaks of light were seen to rise out of the atmosphere and then target the destroyers and cruiser protecting the troops transports.
Whatever the weapons were they left the ships hit dead in orbit with massive holes torn completely through them. Investigations of the launch sites found nothing but melted metals and long tunnels burrowed into the mountains far from the human settlements.
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