New Beginning 655

Waurubr T'Saurakil, Consul to Earth of the Third Kimust Empire and captain of the Gaia-class space ship Daughter of Nausk, shook with rage as he gave the order to open fire. 'This is for Hamari,' he thundered through his side-mouth, as the first of the electromagnetic pulse devices detonated three thousand kilometres above the surface of the planet below. 'And this is for Tureni', as, ten milliseconds later, the anti-proton particle cannons - carried by autonomous micro-scout craft in higher orb