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several years worth of supplies," answered Valkyrie.
     
    "Yes, and we know that there are underground
installations like that. The question is, did anybody manage to go down into
them before being contaminated with the bio-weapon? AND if they did manage to
do that AND if they have working radio gear AND if they're listening with it,
we may or may not be able to send and receive signals through all this
atmospheric crap. A lot of that dust is likely to contain iron or other metal
particles that will interfere with EM transmissions," said Shiloh.
     
    "You're analysis is correct. CAG. The other
consideration is that if we did receive radio transmissions from the planet,
then any alien detection gear in the vicinity will receive them too. The enemy
will know that some humans are still alive on Earth AND that they're
communicating with someone in space," said Valkyrie.
     
    Shiloh nodded and sighed. "So that means we shouldn't
try to establish communications with any survivors right now. They'll just have
to survive as best they can until we know it's safe to establish two-way
communication."
     
    "Do you want to continue this approach, or should I
take us to the rendezvous point now, CAG?" asked Valkyrie.
     
    After a brief pause, Shiloh responded. "Resolute doesn't
need to get any closer. You can take us back out beyond the gravity zone, but
there's no point in jumping to the rendezvous point this soon. The others won't
be there for a while anyway. In the meantime, we can continue to collect data
on the Earth and moon."
     
    "Roger that, CAG. I'm changing vectors now."
     
    Shiloh sat back and folded his arms in front of him. The
enemy had once again shown the extent of their xenophobia. They had gone out of
their way to kill every last human they could find, even though a few thousand
survivors of the bio-weapon, if there were that many, couldn't possibly pose
any serious threat to the aliens for centuries. He remembered the last message
sent by Admiral Howard.  The aliens had called the tune. Now they had to pay
the price for their aggressiveness. If he got the chance to do to their Home
World what they did to Earth, he would do it.
     
    Resolute stayed in a wide orbit around Earth for another 22
hours. Low orbit passes by recon drones confirmed that the surface of the planet
was now a frozen, dark hell. The scan of the moon showed no sign of any alien
detection gear. As Resolute accelerated away from Earth in preparation for a
short jump to the rendezvous point, Shiloh ordered the recon drones to attach
themselves to the large space structures still orbiting the planet, which the
aliens hadn't bothered to destroy. The drones would keep a continuous watch
over the planet and record any transmissions from the surface for future
action.
     
     
    When all elements of TF92 were back together again, the
humans on board Resolute received more good news. All of the far flung
infrastructure built by Space Force was apparently still intact. This included
the refueling station on Europa, which Shiloh actually didn't care about any
more, as well as all the asteroid mining, refining and shipyard installations,
which he did care about. In fact, there were two freighters, the first heavy
carrier and the mammoth million-ton battleship, that were still in their
construction slips. Based on pre-collapse data, they should be very close to
being usable. Shiloh was particularly interested in the heavy carrier and the
battleship, but for different reasons. If they were going to recover all the
fighters stored on the moon and take them back to Site B, Resolute and Valiant
would have to make multiple trips, but if they could make the carrier Midway
operational, then the three ships could bring back all the fighters in a single
trip. The battleship might be useful in a different way. If the aliens who built
that Very Large Object turned out to be a threat to Humanity, then a collision
with a million ton projectile traveling at very high speeds