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He growled, low enough that Colonel Elzhan Mordetti, a Tiri and a woman, didn't hear him from<br />
her near<strong>by</strong> station. It wasn't that he didn't like his second in command, it's just that, well, damn it,<br />
she was a woman and the General was from an era that had accepted the fact that woman were to<br />
be shielded from the horrors of combat unquestioningly.<br />
The transition had not gone what he would call smoothly.<br />
There had been more than a few sparring matches which had resulted in everything from bruises<br />
to broken bones.<br />
He'd sported a few bruises of his own during the past few months.<br />
"Who's going to be hit first?"<br />
Elzhan, finished typing in commands, and looked up from her console.<br />
"They'll hit over southeast Asia first."<br />
The General chomped on his cigar, and settled in to his seat. He had a bad feeling about what<br />
was coming down on his people. No matter what they were going to hold the planetary shield,<br />
but they were going to bleed to do it.<br />
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North Star shuddered, the massive five-kilometer long ship shaking as Bak'ra warp missiles<br />
clawed at her shields. The tall black haired woman in the command couch gritted her teeth<br />
against the pain. Being a Guardian allowed her to bond to her ship self and control it's direction<br />
and attacks at the speed of thought, but that bond carried it's own price.<br />
Pain flowed through her as her ship self suffered damage. It was minor so far, and the tall woman<br />
easily shunted it aside.<br />
From experience she knew it would only get worse.<br />
For now though she was worried about the humans, the new Guardians. So far the over a<br />
hundred strong fleet of Guardians were holding together. That was only through a constant web<br />
of communications though and she worried about what was going to happen when they reach<br />
earth. So far she'd had to personally reach out and calm the others a half dozen times, and they<br />
were still a half hour away from the fleet in front of them.<br />
The first ships of which had just reached high earth orbit.<br />
They're hitting southeast asia , oh my god Emie, look at all that.<br />
Emily knew exactly what Julie meant. Through their sensors the Guardians, and their crews,<br />
watched as fire crawled along the planetary shield. Thousands of missiles slammed against the
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