Just a little bit odd, yes. But it's okay. We're all crazy here.
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It is really not, when you get right down to it, any kind of difficult for three determined people-ordinary people, not even people like them-to get rid of . . .
And there's the difficulty. It's too easy, especially for people like them.
But.
It's their planet, and it's their planet, and even if it isn't (necessarily) where they were born, or even evolved, it is where they belong. And that means that no one, nothing, is going to hurt it while they remain to protect it.
It doesn't matter that it's an alien fleet coming out of whatever form of hyperspace they use so far away from their home that you can't even see their galaxy from here. It's just . . . a threat. An obstacle. Press there, pull here, and the entire blunt, ugly ship goes flying into another one of their blunt, ugly ships and-
The rest of the fleet is turning, the tiny (in comparison) fighters have stopped even trying to engage the small, black, angular ship, because he's better than them and they know it now, too. They've stopped firing on her, because they've noticed that nothing short of a mass driver is going to get to her, and she's throwing everything right back at them. The fleet is turning, trying to run, and if they had faster (better) engines, they might be able to do it without losing another few fighters in the time it takes to do.
They don't follow. Most of the nearer systems know it's a bad idea to try taking this planet already, and informing the ones who don't is. Well. They had an entirely new kind of drive, which only works for hopping really incredible distances, but it takes nearly no time. So maybe they will go home and tell their people not to try again.
Or maybe they will come back in force, and the three of them will have to take the ship they've captured and dissected and rebuilt with all the protective anger they can, between the three of them, muster, and explain to the leaders why, exactly, trying to take the Earth is a bad idea.
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Date: 2008-08-06 11:29 pm (UTC)***
It is really not, when you get right down to it, any kind of difficult for three determined people-ordinary people, not even people like them-to get rid of . . .
And there's the difficulty. It's too easy, especially for people like them.
But.
It's their planet, and it's their planet, and even if it isn't (necessarily) where they were born, or even evolved, it is where they belong. And that means that no one, nothing, is going to hurt it while they remain to protect it.
It doesn't matter that it's an alien fleet coming out of whatever form of hyperspace they use so far away from their home that you can't even see their galaxy from here. It's just . . . a threat. An obstacle. Press there, pull here, and the entire blunt, ugly ship goes flying into another one of their blunt, ugly ships and-
The rest of the fleet is turning, the tiny (in comparison) fighters have stopped even trying to engage the small, black, angular ship, because he's better than them and they know it now, too. They've stopped firing on her, because they've noticed that nothing short of a mass driver is going to get to her, and she's throwing everything right back at them. The fleet is turning, trying to run, and if they had faster (better) engines, they might be able to do it without losing another few fighters in the time it takes to do.
They don't follow. Most of the nearer systems know it's a bad idea to try taking this planet already, and informing the ones who don't is. Well. They had an entirely new kind of drive, which only works for hopping really incredible distances, but it takes nearly no time. So maybe they will go home and tell their people not to try again.
Or maybe they will come back in force, and the three of them will have to take the ship they've captured and dissected and rebuilt with all the protective anger they can, between the three of them, muster, and explain to the leaders why, exactly, trying to take the Earth is a bad idea.
Maybe dismantle an empire.
Or maybe not.