Doctor Günter Grass, not related to the German author of the same name, took of his glasses and massaged his eyes. He could only make pictures for the next maybe one hour until the sun was so high over the Atacama Dessert in Chile that it blinded the large 8 meter mirrors of the Telescope.
At the moment Mirror One was pointed at an area that was placed behind L5 of the Earth-Moon gravitation system and Grass still needed the data to adjust the telescope to the right focal length to get the right resolution. To watch what the mirror showed there, he used a high resolution high speed CCD chip that transmitted a picture every half second.
"Was zum..." he said in his mother language and stared at the translucent sphere that suddenly bloomed in the center of his screen and stared at it for a few seconds.
A pity that this was the time some high EU functionaries choose to visit him and his colleagues in the command center.
"And here..." one of the assistants said in English, "What the..."
Like Grass he had chosen the wrong time to take a look at Grass' display. Grass was fast to respond to the new development on his screen and turned around ignoring the functionaries and the assistant.
"Get me Mirror two through four and point them at L5."
His colleagues turned to look at him and than saw the shpere in his screen.
"Oh hell.", "Merde." and "Verdammt." pretty much summarized their reactions.
They turned around and after a few moments their Mirrors were pointed at L5 and the strange object there. The four mirrors were put together and formed a virtually larger optical telescope that had enough resolution to see the writing on a coin that was on the moon. I caught the disappearing sphere and the thing that was left when it had disappeared.
"What the hell is that thing?"
"Looks like an asteroid."
"Yeah, an asteroid hat seems to be modified with technology."
A low murmur went through the room. One of the French functionaries went up to the astronimic scientists and cleared his throat.
"I think we all would appreciate if this wouldn't leave this room," he said a firm voice.
The scientists turned around to glare at the French who suddenly started to sweat.
"Like hell, mister," Grass said," That thing is around one hundred kilometers large. Everyone with a good telescope can see it. Like it or not, we are informing other observatories and the press."
"No you are not," the French said and tried to put steel into his voice.
"Watch me," Grass said and turned back to his screen," Le Vere, inform every single observatory in the world, Morley, get CNN, BBC and the like. I guess we just hit the jackpot of our lives."
Than Grass blinked a few times and looked at a small spot on the screen. He made a few inputs into his workstation and cut Mirror One from the rest of the telescope to zoom into on that spot. Than he blinked again and than smiled.
"Lets see how the Americans dodge that. Advanced Hologram my ass."
The screen in front of him showed the large silhouette if the USS Prometheus, easily identified by its markings.
At a heavily armed, technologically superior, battle ready force.
Can you see where this is going?
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