Dusts of Avalon - Beastwithin.org

XII. T Q“Fellow Citizens of Earth. I have lile to say today, because we are at a brinkof a great calamity — a calamity we will prevail through. e humanity has beenthreatened by the Planners for years, and all that time, we have prevailed. Wehave fought primitive robots, we have fought advanced robots. We have foughtcrude robots with clumsy weapons, and robots that exceed our own productioncapabilities. But one thing has remained certain: With ea of the so-called ‘improvement’the Planners produce, we have responded with our own. Over time,we could not only counter, but anticipate. e tide has been turning in our favour.e latest aa on Britain was not a demonstration of what the Planners can do;it was a demonstration of what we can do. Fellow Citizens of Earth: In our continuingconflict, we have been beaten, but remained unbowed. We have takenlosses, but we have shown that losses can only strengthen our resolve. It wasnever our intention to draw a line in this conflict, because we could not tell whatcould be done. But the Planners have drawn a line yesterday. ey have shown,with crystal clarity, that they want the conflict to end, and they want to die fighting.And the World Federation Defence Forces is ready to end the conflict, if thatis what the Planners desire. Do not believe their lies. Whoever speaks of annihilationforgets that annihilation is far more difficult than it sounds like. e Knightsof the Round Table, who stand behind me, were annihilated and forgoen. Yethere they fight by our side, and when you think about it, they have always foughton our side. We will fight until our idea dies — and our idea shall not die. ankyou.”February 21, 2632, 14:22 UTC“So that's the gloat?” General Pyrehill was fairly sure he had heard wrong, butwith the Planners around, people usually kept saying bizarre stuff that turned outto be right. e Sword Bea station had seen weirder stuff coming their way.“Seriously, that's the gloat this time, sir”, Lieutenant Anatoly Burrows said.“ ‘No knights. Infantry only. Fields of Armageddon.’ ”“My esatology is a bit hazy, but I thought that was supposed to be in Israel.at coordinate is in bloody Libya.”“Told you the Planners were geing unhinged, sir. I guess the Planners thinkLibyans are sympathisers, but Libyans only order tons of pinball maine parts'cause they love pinball, sir. It's like a national sport or something. ey hate thePlanners just as mu as we do.”“I fail to see what's funny about this situation, lieutenant.”“Sorry, sir.”“No need to apologise, the damage is already done.” General Pyrehill sighed.“Right, swords and sandals and scoring Sun it is, then. Forward the coordinates