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Galactic Encyclopedia: The Jovian Moons Campaign: Part 2
Posted By: Dark Void<gregoryprill317@hotmail.com>
Date: 8 February 2005, 5:15 AM
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Entry GE6-766:
2160 March-June:
The Jovian Moons Campaign began. Jovian secessionist attacks on United Nations Colonial Advisors in orbit around the moon Io led to three months of fighting between the UN Jovian military presence and Jovian "Frieden" forces. Though this was not the first armed conflict in our Solar System, it was easily one of the bloodiest, and is generally considered to be the spark of increased friction and militarization that followed. [Continue reading article] Y/N?
0721 hours, February 19, 2160 (UN Military Calendar)
Io Orbiter 001, Sol System, Colonial dedication speech
Robert hit the glass shield, fully expecting to break through it, living a few moments longer before his blood began to boil, and the gases within attempted to equalize the pressure by exploding through his skin into space, leaving nothing but a floating, frozen, debased, corpse.
But that didn't happen. He hit the glass, felt in bend under the combined weight of several people. He hit it hard enough that the air was forced from his lungs. The glass, which he now realized was not glass but ferrofibrous crystal, did not break. He did not explode from the inside, but bounced back off the window, only to discover the gravity had kicked out.
He sped on an upward angle toward the ceiling, and, while struggling to regain his breath, his days back on the older orbiters around Earth came back. The older models had less reliable gravity, and tended to flicker on and off every once and a while, so before you enter a room, you looked around to see angles and obstacles you rebound off of if, and when, the gravity disengaged. It became more than a habit, because a lot of the time your life depended on your ability to do this, so after a few years on the orbiters, it did it not matter where you went, you checked your surroundings. The Commander had done so when he entered the room, so he knew the angle of the roof, and twisted his body to meet it feet first. Already recovered from the first impact, he feet contacted the concave roof, and pushed off toward the door.
He again twisted to meet the floor, ready to make soft contact, meaning he would use his legs to absorb the impact and kill his speed, so he could shuffle along the floor at negligible height, so when the gravity kicked back on, he wouldn't be incapacitated by the fall. He hit, absorbed the impact, flipped so he was parallel to the floor, then used his hands to push himself towards the smaller space of the entrance hallway.
As he was quickly moving towards the exit, he heard a very familiar sound. Gunfire. Close. Then again a few seconds later, even closer. More, probably return fire. Then all of a sudden, it goes quiet. Robert pushed forward off the floor as fast as he can, but he's not aiming for the door, he's aiming for just above the doorframe. He made soft contact just above the door, just as two uniformed men, black with a red swastika, a symbol derived from former Nazi Germany of the twentieth century, walked in. Yes, walked. Must be magnetic boots. The Friedens, he thought. Friedens were simply people who opposed the Koslovic movement. Frieden literally means "peace" which is opposite of the violent Koslovic beliefs. Vladimir Koslovic is a neo-communist who decided it would be better if people he liked ran the Governments, and apparently he was his only friend. He founded and ran the Koslovic terrorist organization, a group of Communist zealots who attack UN- and Frieden-held locations.
He grabbed on to the doorframe and shifted positions to aim at the closer man. He was armed with what looked like standard AR5M assault rifles, except for the odd bugle in the stock. He leapt at the closest one, as the front one began shouting orders. Cole pushed off the wall, aiming at a downward angle, just behind the first man. He pulled up his legs behind him, used tucked them in, and used his inertia to twist around so his feet were the first, and last, thing the man in black would see. He silently floated up behind him, keeping his legs close to his body. He waited till the last possible moment, just as the Frieden started turn his head. Cole's legs snapped out and grabbed the man's head. Using what inertia he had left, he threw his body into a spin. The lack of gravity magnified the Commanders strength several hundred times, and the Friedens's magnetic boots acted as an anchor. The man's neck held for a moment, then snapped with an inaudible POP, and that was the last thing he heard.
Turning his attention to the second man, Cole grabbed the AR5M from the first man's body. Using the dead man's anchored body as a shield, Cole hid behind him, taking aim, but it was to late. The other, apparently noticing his partners silence, had turned around, and seen the head at an odd angle. He launched into a run towards his partner, closing the distance in a few awkward, magnetically-enhanced steps, drew his rifle, and shot into his dead partner, just as Cole shot upward toward the ceiling, then back down, firing as he went, hitting the man only once before the clip went dry. Apparently these men had done quite a bit of shooting before reaching the observation platform. He came down on top of the man, swung the empty assault rifle like a club, missed, and crashed into the Frieden. Recovering quickly, he grabbed for the second mans gun, and attempted to wrestle it out of number two's hand. They struggled together for a moment, then the Frieden pressed his thumb against the bulbous protrusion on the stock, drew it toward him with all his might, then shoved Robert away from himself.
Cole, taken by surprise by this move, looked down at his knew prize, just as it began to glow red, heating up quickly. Realizing what was about to happen, he put a quick burst into the Frieden, then threw the AR5M into the open hallway. Using the reactive force of his throw, he sailed slowly away in the opposite direction, watching the rifle as it sailed into the passageway back toward the security checkpoint. It quickly heated enough so bright that you could not look directly at it. As the first radiation began to leak from the device, the radiological alarms went off, sealing the passageway, and depressurizing it, flushing the device, obviously a mini-neutron bomb, into space, outside the shielded station, where the device, designed to kill with radiation instead of explosive force, detonated harmlessly against the Iron and lead shielding designed to protect against cosmic radiation.
Several hours later, after they had left the isolated compartment via service tunnel, and several "thank you"s from the politicians, "Well done"s from the military staff, and "you've made my career"s from journalists, who of course caught the whole event, from the initial explosion to the nuclear detonation, on holo-tape. There were only three casualties during the attack, the two guards, one on duty the other off, and a politician who was crushed against the wall of a bathroom stall when the gravity kicked out just a moment before the explosion.
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