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.He gave the command for the ship to reduce speed and drop shields.It was now or never.His fleet thought he finally had come to his senses, and surrender would take place.Yoshi’s ship arched to come on course to run close alongside the Pacific.The pain will be soon be over, he thought.* * * *The Pacific Battle Bridge Commander had the con and paged the Admiral to advise the Sentinel Mother ship prepared to draw along side.Everything pointed towards a surrender, even her shields were down.She was within five hundred meters of the Fleet’s Flagship when Admiral Rose entered the bridge, together with the ship’s captain and his chief advisor.“Bring her on screen and let’s see her come in.Let’s be cautious, everyone.This is not over yet.Jump ships and gun teams to standby.”Rose enjoyed this.There was precious little to enjoy about the last few weeks.“They are coming alongside.Wait.Sir, they are accelerating and have drawn in by five degrees.Sir, they are going to ram us.”“Take evasive action,” said the Bridge Commander, but it was too late.They collided a few seconds later.The Sentinel Vessel crushed the battle bridge, and then followed through, smashing the Pacific central command and munitions sections before coming to a complete halt.Thirty seconds later, both ships exploded.Yoshi ignited all three atomic weapons in the nose of the Sentinel vessel.Devastation was complete.Admiral Rose and his colleagues on the Battle Bridge were killed upon first impact.The nuclear explosion put and end to any salvage plan, ripping the innards of both ships into oblivion.There was nothing left.Yoshi saw the destruction of the battle bridge before the charges ignited.He prepared his sword and his fate was decided with the short fuse delay.He allowed time to confirm the Alpha ship was destroyed.Yoshi took his sword and took his last breath.He raised his sword into the air and brought it down, slicing through his abdomen from his left shoulder to his right thigh.This is my victory, he told himself and he smiled.Five seconds later, his body and 5,000 others were ripped to pieces.Yoshi and Rose were dead.Chapter Fifty-SixRose Is Dead“We have confirmation, sir.Admiral Rose is dead and the Sentinels have surrendered on an unconditional basis.”“Thanks, Commander.” Koenig turned to Admiral Koln.“Well, the Sentinel War is over.They have already pledged their forces for a joint initiative against the Kryl.I am calling for the Admiralty Bench to sit in special session to discuss this urgently.”“I thought you wanted to keep this close to your chest?”“I do, but the deployment of one hundred plus ships is not exactly non-substantial.We don’t need to say anything at this stage, other than their arrival is a possibility.That’s all we do know anyway.”“Rose, this is a big loss.”“My God, yes, it is.He will be missed.Shenke is more than adequate and he is growing in stature, but whether he is up to commanding a full fleet in a combat environment yet, I don’t know.There is no one in the area more qualified, so he will remain in command.”Roslyn should have been worried.He should have been gravely concerned about the Kryl and what they would do if they came through the wormholes.All he could see was political advantage.He drafted header terms for a draw down facility for Alpha, which was to remain on his desktop and not released into general contracts.This was standard protocol for unofficial documents of this type.The leak would have to come internally from his technical team.This would not be easy, because hacking into the mainframe of Alpha’s Commander In Chief would never be a simple task.He must make sure other ‘non-critical’ data leaked at the same time to give this ‘security breach’ some credibility.He spoke to the on-duty tech team manager at Alpha’s Central Command HQ, who provided remote access to his desktop, allowing a periodic security sweep.The leak files were all in the same file, for which he deleted the password and set as default
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