At the top of the Crow's nest mountain, the radio station antenna was twenty miles away from Black Reef Bunker, its high ground position gave it a tactical advantage in war. But now there was no one left to defend it but Colleen alone. Furlong's daughter planned an escape route knowing that a single rebel could do little in this matter. She also had a Xemx track device that showed her the Pemakan, land and air traffic in the area. Most of the time they passed by oblivious to that technological relic. Colleen was careful enough to broadcast only when there were no signs of enemy activity.
Hum... there is an abnormal traffic nearby. I'll go to the hideout just in case and ceased communications for a while and contact Black Reef's control center if there is no attack in two hours. Said Colleen while watching the tracker.
The moment she laid down the tracker in the station's office table, there was a loud sound, outside, followed by a land tremor that almost shook the antenna down.
Oh my! They were faster than I predicted. Time to run as fast as I can to avoid direct contact. Colleen thought.
She grabbed her backpack, shutdown the power that stopped all transmissions and ran through the stairs down to the hideout entryway.
They won't catch me. If they do, I have a last card in my sleeve to destroy them.
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Ephemeral-D - Human Diaspora
FantascienzaAfter two hundred and fifteen Earth years of the Pemakan dominion, with the military training and devices from the humanoids species Xemx, or the star worshipers, two fleets transporting almost seventy thousand people escaped and left Earth with no...
