Freedom Vs. Aliens (Aliens Series Book 3) Read Online Free PDF Page A

“The only way to undermine the Communitarian Unity of Earth is to reawaken nationalism among peoples grown used to getting rich, never having to worry about war and who enjoy a standard of living better than many of them knew in the last century.”
    Her words brought to Jack’s minds the comments of his Grandpa Ephraim. The man had bitterly opposed the Unity dogma that personal rights and liberties were secondary to communal rights and needs. Born in Tennessee, his grandpa had celebrated the Fourth of July independence day of the former USA, even after such nationalistic celebrations had been made illegal by the Unity. Along with national patriotic songs like La Marseillaise , the Gosudarstvenny Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii and The Star Spangled Banner . Well, perhaps a new Human Anthem would arise out of the collapse of the Unity.
    He nodded slowly. “Blodwen, you make sense. While the East and West coast elites of old America endorsed the Communitarian Unity, the South, Southwest and Midwest portions of America never liked it. Nor did Australia, Japan, South Africa, Israel and other nations that now exist as member states of the Unity.” He looked back to Hideyoshi. “Admiral, have your decryption people been able to access the NavTrack computers of the two frigate fragments? Do we know who sent those ships after us, what spaceport they left from and who told them about 253 Mathilde?”
    The man turned grim. “We do. Just before everyone arrived here from the outer system, I got their decryption results. Those five ships took off from the South Pole Naval Academy base. There’s a training field there which we, uh, the Unity uses for pilot training.” Jack sympathized with the man’s painful admission that his old military school was the source of the attack. “Fleet Admiral Santiago Narváez gave the orders to travel to Mathilde and attack it. The source of the Mathilde data was not given in the net-posted orders in the NavTrack computers.”
    Well, the new data was helpful in view of the dozens of spaceports scattered across Earth. “Admiral, does the Unity have a ship building factory at the South Pole? One able to construct the grav-pull drives used by those ships?”
    “Yes.” The man paused and looked aside to his chief assistant Zhāng. “Both myself and the Fleet Commander were taken on trips to the factory while still students. So we could learn the interworking of ship drives, ship armaments, ship eco-controls and the intelligent computer systems used to integrate them all into a combat spaceship.”
    Jack welcomed the news that at least one vital Earth target was now known. “But how did the Unity learn about Mathilde? Have the Unity Security Services infiltrated us on Ceres, or Vesta? Or elsewhere in the Belt?”
    “Jack,” called Elaine from where she sat next to his Basque buddy Ignacio. “I think I have the answer to that.”
    A chill went down his neck and back. How the hell could his sister know something that had been hidden from the Unity ever since the end of the First Belter Revolution in 2072? His tough sister, who had chosen a career as a cargo transport pilot and secondary work as a medoc, seemed troubled. Her amber eyes looked wet. “What’s your answer?”
    “Cassie. And Howard.”
    Damn! He’d worried about his younger sister’s safety all during their star-roaming. But his worries had been focused on the danger from riots and civil strife. “Explain.”
    She looked down, as if deeply sad, then took hold of Ignacio’s large hand. As if she needed his strength. She looked up and took a deep breath. “Her boyfriend Lieutenant Howard Goldin knew of Mathilde and its importance to our anti-Alien crusade. My guess is that Howard was, was . . . interrogated, or tortured, into revealing Mathilde as our base. And if he revealed that, there is no doubt he confessed to Cassie being your spy. And likely to her being our sister.”
    Fuck! The Unity’s effort to reclaim control over Sol