The War with the K'val - Part 1
In the upcoming novel, The Milk Run, you will find that the passengers aboard the Ark IV followed the colonization plan nearly perfectly for the first few years. On the planet Hades, in the Nu2 Lupi system, while it was cold, they made do and things went fairly smoothly for a brief time. However, that all went to hell in their third year when the K'val arrived.
By the time the inhabitants of Hades encountered the plant people known as the K’val, the colonists were already in the second stage of development. First contact was not expected and the colonists assumed the best of the aliens. However, there was nothing benevolent about the K'val's mission. Without ever saying a word, they abducted one of the colonists and disappeared.
Nobody knew what to make of it. The people from Earth converted some of the levels to laser pulse rifles and stood guard but it was a year before the K’val returned. This time, the humans were ready. They threatened the K’val but the K’val did not understand. They went to abduct another colonist and the armed colonists opened fire. Their pulse laser rifles just went through the bodies of the K’val and seemingly, they didn’t even notice. The aliens unleashed a "pain" weapon that caused any that were struck with excruciating, agonizing pain that lasted for months. Another person was taken.
The colonists decided to employ a much more aggressive plan. They moved deeper into the woods, spreading out. The only people exposed would be the farmers. Each block of farmers were assigned a protector armed with the particle beam cannons, mounted on the transports, similar to what we saw in Jack Henry's story in The Ark Lords.
Sure enough, one year later, the K’val returned but this time the colonists were prepared for all out war. They deployed the cannons and wiped out the K’val ship and all its occupants. This was the only year that a human was not taken. They didn't even have time to take out their pain weapon.
The following year, a group of K’val vessels landed far beyond the confines of the settlement and approached using a flanking maneuver. There weren’t enough of the mobile cannons to stop them all and the K’val deployed their pain weapon and successfully abducted another colonist. The colonists were able to destroy one of the K'val's ships but that was all. The rest left.
Tomorrow, the turning point of the "war" with the K'val. And it isn't good.
By the time the inhabitants of Hades encountered the plant people known as the K’val, the colonists were already in the second stage of development. First contact was not expected and the colonists assumed the best of the aliens. However, there was nothing benevolent about the K'val's mission. Without ever saying a word, they abducted one of the colonists and disappeared.
Nobody knew what to make of it. The people from Earth converted some of the levels to laser pulse rifles and stood guard but it was a year before the K’val returned. This time, the humans were ready. They threatened the K’val but the K’val did not understand. They went to abduct another colonist and the armed colonists opened fire. Their pulse laser rifles just went through the bodies of the K’val and seemingly, they didn’t even notice. The aliens unleashed a "pain" weapon that caused any that were struck with excruciating, agonizing pain that lasted for months. Another person was taken.
The colonists decided to employ a much more aggressive plan. They moved deeper into the woods, spreading out. The only people exposed would be the farmers. Each block of farmers were assigned a protector armed with the particle beam cannons, mounted on the transports, similar to what we saw in Jack Henry's story in The Ark Lords.
Sure enough, one year later, the K’val returned but this time the colonists were prepared for all out war. They deployed the cannons and wiped out the K’val ship and all its occupants. This was the only year that a human was not taken. They didn't even have time to take out their pain weapon.
The following year, a group of K’val vessels landed far beyond the confines of the settlement and approached using a flanking maneuver. There weren’t enough of the mobile cannons to stop them all and the K’val deployed their pain weapon and successfully abducted another colonist. The colonists were able to destroy one of the K'val's ships but that was all. The rest left.
Tomorrow, the turning point of the "war" with the K'val. And it isn't good.
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