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would make his best effort to spread the Belter gospel of personal liberty, freedom of choice and independent thinking to every Alien he and his team would meet!
    He looked down and began sawing into his rare steak, pretending to a confidence and assurance he knew was expected of him as fleet captain. Jack hoped those watching him would believe in his cause and in the necessity of taming Earth. Killing predator Aliens was one thing. Killing fellow humans was different. Soon he would learn how deep the loyalty of his partners ran.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER THREE
     
    The three fleets blip jumped into space just above Earth’s North Pole, an expanse of whiteness inhabited only by the nearly extinct polar bears, a few birds and fish of all sorts. While its oil resources had long ago been drilled into by various nations, no one lived atop the small year-round ice cap that floated atop the polar sea. As for their orbit two hundred kilometers above those icy blue waters, they were alone. For the moment. Various spysats shared their polar orbital vector, but nothing deadly. No doubt that would change once they drew near the equatorial regions. Jack thought that the automated mine fields were in various equatorial orbits, but the stealthy Hunter-Killer torps could move on their own and change orbits as they wished thanks to small onboard fusion pulse engines. He looked to the front screen of the Pilot Cabin, which was half-filled with the faces of 31 captains and one admiral.
    “My allies, move into our Pinwheel Plasma Torch formation but with our fusion drives off for the moment,” he said over their laser comlink, repeating what had been agreed on at their fleet battle conference. “We need Higgs Disruptor ships preceding us, following us and to either side of our formation in case we are attacked by mobile armaments. Admiral, please take the lead in our orbital track. Gareth, please aim your Higgs Disruptor to our stern. Captain Heloise Beauchamp of Ferocious , please take port position. Captain Colin Forsyth of Marshal Georgy Zhukov , you have the starboard side.” He noticed the screen’s true-light image of Earth now grew a split-screen to one side that showed their orbital track and every ship’s position. “Everyone, stay alert! We could face ICBMs launched from anywhere on the surface below, or there may be some stealthed laser platforms that share our polar vector.”
    “Moving to the head of our formation,” said Hideyoshi in the calm, professional manner that Jack envied.
    Gareth, his thick black beard half-filling his bubble helmet, gave Jack a thumbs-up gesture. “Covering our rear!”
    “ D’accord ,” said Heloise, a young Belter commerce raider who had spent the after briefing time chatting up Denise about her family, the teen’s life on Charon and their earlier battles against Alien predators like the Hackmot.
    “As you command,” grunted Forsyth, an older Australian with twenty years of Unity Space Force service. He had been one of the first in the Deimos fleet yard to join Hideyoshi’s call to form a Mars fleet.
    Jack looked past Maureen’s empty Combat seat to Elaine at her Pilot/Navigator seat. “What does your Sensor panel show? Any sign of active graviton emissions? Any moving neutrino sources? Any sign of offensive sats?”
    She shook her head. “IR, UV, gamma ray, x-ray, neutrino and other EMF emissions are all natural. No gravitomagnetic signals from grav-pull drives. We are passing over the Svalbard archipelago and will hit the Scandinavian coast in three minutes. Looking ahead, surface neutrino emissions match one-to-one to fusion power plants in northern Sweden and Norway. No sign of fusion pulse ship drives anywhere within this hemisphere. Though the spysats we and Bismarck launched on arrival will soon let us know what’s happening on the North American side of Earth.”
    Jack looked back at Denise in her seat in the middle of the cabin. The woman