Venus 7, Chapter 11 - Infiltration

Saya, Regh, Shaai, and Xziak all sat together at a restaurant on Venus 7. It was late at night and a lot of people in Venus 7 have retreated to their quarters.

"Avvey told me that he saw Jurranian ships near Mars when he arrived here yesterday. Is it time we form blockades and organized lines of resistance?" Xziak asked.

"It would not hurt to do so," Regh answered.

Saya sighed, "This is getting very serious. I agree, we need to begin now."

"Perhaps we should have already have began?" Shaai asked as she took a sip of water.

"I think so," Saya said. "How's the Venus Project coming Regh?"

"It still needs more time. However, the workers are doing their job superbly. Everyday, a large number of decks is added to the Venus Project," Regh replied.

"Hopefully our forces can resist for the time needed to complete this ship," Xziak hoped.

A bright light came from the sky over Venus 7. All four individuals saw the light from a ceiling window in the restaurant, which they met in. As the light passed, the four confirmed it was a Jupitern vessel.

***

Dirga walked up to his first officer. "Did you get the mimic devices from our baggage?"

"Yes, sir, here they are," Dirga's first officer handed out the mimic devices to the units. He brought in five dead Jupitern crew members that were killed by the virus. "Copy their appearance."

The appearance of the Jurranians was altered to the deceased crew members of the Jupitern ship within seconds.

"This is Venus 7 Control to Jupitern ship. You have entered visual range, please identify," an officer in Venus 7 Control requested.

Dirga sat down in his seat, "This is the Jupitern ship," Dirga looked at the data console before him, "Gre'pok."

"Gre'pok, this is Control, please explain your arrival."

"My crew and I were dispatched to patrol a region of space when our planet was evacuated. We were never recalled to the rendezvous point here. I suppose that our commanding officer was killed in an attack, otherwise we would have received the message. Without word from him, we decided to come here," Dirga explained, completely making the story up off the top of his head.

Control reported back, "Confirmed Gre'pok, please land on ground platform nine. Welcome to the resistance."

"Thank you Control, Gre'pok out," Dirga cut the communication.

An officer approached him, "Good work sir. When do we deploy?"

"As soon as we land," Dirga replied.

***

Saya reached Venus 7 Control and saw six officers at work. She approached the officer at the communications post. "Who is that?"

"Jupitern ship ma'am. They report to be the Gre'pok. They claim to have been ordered to perform a patrol during the evacuation of Jupiter and were never recalled here when the evacuation was completed. So, they just came here out of suspicion."

"Alright, did you give them landing orders?"

"Yes, ma'am, they are on platform nine."

"Good. We need all the ships we can get for the resistance. Carry on." Saya left the room.

***

Dirga was talking with his ground assault team near the ship's exit. "Alright, you know President Chadon's orders. We are to cripple them from within. First, before we go in with weaponry, we must find a vital target. Let's accomplish that and then execute the order. Chadon also wants us to bring Jorii Inga back to him, alive. Keep your eyes open for her. Does anyone have any questions?"

No one spoke up.

Dirga nodded, "Good, let's go to work."

***

"So everyone is out?" Saya asked.

Captain Warren replied, "Yes, every human in the Solar System is here on Venus 2 or on ships."

"How are you? I heard that you were attacked during the evacuation."

Warren sighed, "Yeah, they were in the asteroid belt. By now, they're probably through. We have almost no time Ms. Tanaga."

"Exactly why I called you. I want you to get all available military forces form all worlds and create a line of defense about fifty thousand kilometers from Venus. I want you to be in charge of that line. While you are at it, get all civilian crafts grounded before dawn."

"That's no problem."

***

It was a usual gloomy morning on Venus 7. The storm clouds hovered above the buildings and the environmental force fields on Venus 7 kept all of the harmful material in the atmosphere from getting in.

Dirga and his group of five walked down several corridors and found a balcony overlooking the Venus Project. Dirga took a good long look.

The thrusters, main decks, and main structure were all completed. The ship was enormous and the only way it could leave the establishment was to levitate to the top of Venus 7 and exit through the upper environmental force field when the field is shut down.

Dirga looked around before he spoke, "It looks like they're building a ship to counter our forces. A ship of that size can wipe out several cruisers of ours in one instant. Let's get back to our vessel and report this to President Chadon. This is definitely our target."

The Jurranians walked down two outside corridors and reached and elevator that leads down to the ground platforms.

Dirga and his team traveled down to the ground platforms and entered the Gre'pok. He entered the bridge and got the attention of the communications officer.

"Get me President Chadon."

"Yessir, one moment."

Within a few seconds, Maag filled the view port screen.

Dirga disabled the mimic device.

Maag spoke, "You had me confused there for a moment Dirga. How goes your mission?"

"Fine, sir. I believe that the Solars are building a ship that is worthy of countering our forces. They're resistance may be stronger after all."

"Where is this ship?"

"It is being constructed inside one of the colonies on this planet."

"I ordered you to cripple them from inside, make this your primary target. I will organize an offensive in the meantime. If everything goes well, we will have no more Solars in this system."

"If you attack, you will have to bring reinforcements. A Terran captain is organizing a line of defense ships about fifty kilometers from the surface. The line is thick and the forces gathered here are thicker."

"I will keep that in mind. Utilize the explosives I have supplied you with to knock out that ship. Once rigged, get of there and detonate it. Good luck Dirga, if everything goes as planned, I will see you soon."

The view port showed the outside of Venus when the transmission faded. Dirga signaled for his soldiers to find the explosives and they went on their way.

Dirga said to himself, "Good bye Solar scum, forever."