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Colonel or the ship, in orbit. The only communications with the ship
continues to be clandestine conversation, among the AIs.
    Finally, as the ship is leaving orbit, Colonel Kax sends him a text
message telling him that the ship is withdrawing, because of an imminent
threat, and that Company K is ‘on its own’.
    ***

Chapter 2
    The Third Moon
    The extrucian civilians from the cave decide to accompany the Nemesis,
even after they are told that the Darinx ‘mother ship’ has abandoned Company
K. When he hears of the extrucians’ decision, Captain Nemo thinks: “They
must be really desperate.”
    It’s a tight fit for Company K to accommodate the 23 natives, but the
troops’ attitudes remain good, even after Captain Nemo informs them that they
have been abandoned. His troops are confident that the Captain will get
them through - somehow – he always has.
    The Nemesis is nestled down in a crater on the third moon, hiding under
an overhang with all systems powered OFF, except for life support and passive
sensors. There is a good chance that the Verm warships are unaware, of
their presence. The Verm and the officials on Parin probably assume that
Company K had rejoined the ‘mother ship’, before it left the system. Why
would they think, otherwise?
    Captain Nemo has the time to open a dialog with the extrucian
civilians. It turns out that they are indeed desperate - there is a
bounty on their heads. When the Verm took control of the planet, they
ordered that all civilian and military leaders be killed. This group is
the only surviving leadership from the pre-Verm era.
    ***
    Captain Nemo is contemplating Company K’s situation and can’t think of a
way to get the Nemesis back to Darinx Empire space. The Nemesis doesn’t
have a ‘Faster Than Light’ (FTL) drive, and the Verm previously destroyed the
entire extrucian space fleet. The Nemesis doesn’t even have an FTL
probe. The only available FTL ships are the Verm warships.
    More and more, the Captain thinks about the Verm ships. From
previous encounters, the Captain has observed that Verm Navy leaders tend to be
proud and arrogant, holding contempt for anyone who isn’t of the verm
species. They just might be overconfident and relax their defenses.
    The Verm ships are visible from the third moon, for about half of the
planet’s cycle. The Captain can’t see the Verm ships from inside the
Nemesis, but he has cameras set up on the moon’s surface, so that he can
observe their behavior. The extrucian civilians tell the Captain that the
small vessels, which are coming and going between the warships and the planet,
are transporting young extrucians – for military service - and materials, which
the Verm require as ‘tribute’.
    The Verm don’t appear to be aware of the presence of the Nemesis, and
therefore, would not be expecting an attack from anyone. If Company K was
aboard two of those shuttles, they would be delivered to the cargo bays of the
warships. If the two vessels arrived at the same moment, it would put 50
heavily armed augmented humans, wearing combat armor, inside each Verm
warship. The Verm are so arrogant that they probably wouldn’t be prepared
for such an assault.
    He opens a conversation with Bartat, the leader of the extrucian
civilians.
    “Who are the pilots of these shuttle
craft?” the Captain asks.
    “Extrucians,” answers Bartat. “They were
starship pilots, before the arrival of the Verm.”
    “Who controls the flight of the
shuttles?”
    “Extrucians,” answers Bartat. “The
Central Command is in the Impuy Colony. They tell shuttles when and where
to go.”
    Are all of the shuttles launched from
one place,” asks the Captain.
    “No. The shuttles come from many
different sites,” answers Bartat.
    At that point, the Captain knows that the mission is possible. It
will just be a matter of careful planning, perfect execution, and divine grace.
    Captain Nemo opens a comm link to his Senior Officers.
“Immediately begin to