General Donniger paled as he read Jack Bauers report. Several million Zentraedi ships in an orbit around one planet and an artificial structure that had a maximum dimension of more than one thousand kilometer.
He leaned back into his chair and closed his eyes. The war had started so relatively well. The enemy hadn't assault Earth or any of the colonies after the initial salvo of the war. And they had reduced the strength of the enemy fleet by nearly fifteen percent. And now this.
He knew that this data was authentic because Intel had done several runs of their computers after getting the original sensory datagram from the Mata Hari.
He needed some minutes to calm himself. It wasn't the time to panic. He turned to the red phone on his desk and picked up the receiver and the flat screen on his desk started to show the seal of the President of EarthAlliance. He had to wait a minute before the familiar face of President Clarke appeared on the screen.
"Mrs. President, we have some really bad problems," he said while tapping something on his keyboard and transmitting the report to the Presidents screen.
"What is it," she asked back before the symbol popped up.
"I just got the report from the Mata Hari. It would be better if we would activate Omega fleet now."
The President looked at him, before staring to read the report. Halfway through the report, she swallowed hard and started to get pale. By the time she had completed the report, she looked like death warmed over, but she was too much of a professional for her to just break down like most other people would do after reading something like this.
"And this data is authentic?"
"Yes, ma'am. Intel had confirmed it."
"Will Omega fleet be enough in this case?"
"I don't know, ma'am."
"Do you have any other trump cards for this case?"
Donniger breathed in deep. After going through the Zor-files, a brain tank had come up with the idea to fight a large enemy with the same strategy as the Tiroleans did. Pack a ship with enough explosives to blow up a large part of the enemies fleet. This had been developed in a relative small secret project, compared to Omega fleet.
Project Armageddon consisted only of ten robot controlled ships, specially designed to be little more than flying bombs with a large number of missile tubes al over the surface, able to deliver two thousand nuclear tipped missiles with Russian 50MT warheads. The ships themselves carried no actual nuclear weapons, but a high number of special quantum singularity reactors. They would destroy large parts of the fleet even when they were destroyed, because the containment of the quantum singularities would fail and each quantum singularity would turn into a micro black hole that would blow up with a force of some Megatons TNT, if not Gigatons.
"Yes, we do, ma'am."
President Clarke breathed in deep.
"Do everything you need to do."
"Yes, ma'am."
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"Activating aft thrusters."
"Maneuver execution looks good. Turn rate one degree per ten seconds."
Slowly one of the largest structures ever build by human hands started to turn deep within the yellow and orange atmosphere of Jupiter.
"We are meeting atmospheric turbulence. Compensating."
This structure had an overall length of 7.7 kilometers and a mass of 22 billion metric tons.
"Accelerate Turn rate to one degree per five seconds."
"Aye, sir."
Basically it looked like a thick rod put into the center of a can, with eight structures sticking into all direction from the back of the can.
"We are at 45 degrees. Activating reverse aft thrusters."
"Turn rate decelerating to one degree per ten seconds."
The color of the structures hull was green and light grey, while the structures on the back were of a blue color. A big black and white Alpha was painted on the can-like aft structure.
"Turn rate zero."
"Bring her out."
"Aye, sir."
Backed by giant gravimetric drives this structure started to leave the atmosphere of the planet, the rest of Omega fleet following.
"Sir, we are leaving atmosphere."
Only when it left the atmosphere of the suns largest planet, accompanied by the six hundred vessels of Omega fleet, some people would recognize it. The giant station was a visual twin of the Babylon Four station from the original home of Babylon Five.
In the Command Center of the giant station, Captain John Koenig turned to the commanding general of Omega Fleet.
"General Pounder, Battlestation Alpha ready for service."
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