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An excerpt featuring the V.E.A.G. 3/13/2007 1:29:30 AM
Here the Vraagas Executive Admiral General has to show some restraint, in defference to Protocol, before he can blow up the little planet he wants to invade...
The VEAG would like to have started the invasion of Earth
but he was a stickler for protocol. The countdown had been
set to provide sufficient time for final preparations. Due to the automation of virtually everything, the preparations had been completed at about ninety-nine point ninety-eight point ninety. No wonder he was bored. Unfortunately for him, the invasion itself was also fully automated. When the clock reached zero, the booster thrusters on every ship in the fleet would ignite and they would all head to Earth on a pre-computed course at a programmed hyper-speed. Each ship would arrive at preset co-ordinates and attack a pre-determined country or city. The targets would be bombed automatically and any enemy attack would be repelled by automatic fire set off by automatic sensors. Droid controlled fighter craft would take care of any
pockets of resistance. There was little need in fact for the
Vraagas themselves to tag along but the VEAG wanted to
accept Earth’s surrender in person as he felt it would be a good photo opportunity.
The VEAG pondered over the decision to start the
countdown at one hundred. He would have preferred ten but
it was just one of those things with invasions that you had to set an invasion time and it had to have an inordinately long countdown. He wondered if there was any way of speeding up the clock at Crewman Twelve’s console but decided against it on principle. There were other matters at the moment that needed resolving. At least they were helping to alleviate the boredom.
