Star Force: Resurrection (SF84) (Star Force Origin Series) by Aer-ki Jyr Page B

engage lizard orbital assets but not having tried punching down to
a major planet or assaulting a shipyard ring yet.
    He’d been keeping in the loop from his armor link, but
that was primitive compared to what he could do in a proper nexus. After
getting his space footing again he went into a side task, detailing a report
for Davis that he was going to send out with a courier within a few minutes.
One had already been sent back requesting the relief fleet in order to get it
here as fast as possible, but he wanted Davis to get to work on what was going
to be a small, but major shift within Star Force. The population of the
prisoners wasn’t large, but there were so many races here that had otherwise
been eradicated it was going to take a lot of work to keep them from expiring
now that the lizards weren’t forcing them to reproduce via sometimes horrific
means.
    Paul activated the holo-recorder rather than sending a
text transmission, for he expected this to be a very long message.
    “Davis, I’ve got a lot to put on your plate this time.
As you’ve already been told there are a lot of prisoners from races that have
been thought extinct or nearly so that need to be rescued, but we need to do
more than just take them in as refugees. The lizards didn’t pick these races
because they were collecting samples. Each one represents a significant
opponent that they had to overcome, meaning there is a lot of potential in
these guys. The Kvash especially, but there are others here who, I’m guessing,
could hold even more assets for Star Force down the road.”
    “If we treat them as refugees and put them into Axius
we’re going to lose them through attrition. We need to insure that we get
access to younglings and create programs to rebuild these races as a part of
Star Force. Ward status for a lot of them, but with the Kvash and others we
need to fast track them beyond that. I personally want to oversee the Kvash
program, not so much as in spending every waking day with them, but I want to
design it and run it from afar. I think I can turn these guys into a naval powerhouse
once again, but there are only around 12,000 of them left so we have to hit the
ground running with this.”
    “I need a program set up for them to get into
immediately upon arrival in the ADZ or wherever you think is suitable to plant
them. It will take centuries before their population even hits nominal levels,
but this is an investment we need to make. Forget their history, these guys
have potential with us based off of what they are now. I haven’t had a chance
to sense a Kvash mind before, but even broken as these are they are impressive
as hell.”
    “There are 283 races that we have discovered here,
though we have not visually inspected them all as of yet, and some of them were
being kept strictly as a food supply and some of those will need sanctuary
status. Priority has been on eliminating the lizards and making sure they
didn’t kill off the prisoners. Thankfully that hasn’t happened, but we couldn’t
take chances. All the races here are in bad physical, and especially mental
states, but they’re worth salvaging.”
    Paul sighed. “You might think I’m just getting
sentimental, but I’m not. We have a huge opportunity here to reshape Star
Force…not that we need it, but this is too good to pass up. We already have a
lot of wards, and this will more than double the count, but I think we can get
some full factions out of the Kvash and others someday down the road and I
think we should be gearing them towards that immediately, not using a ‘wait and
see’ system.”
    “We didn’t know these guys would be here, so we’re
already a step behind. I want this to be the last lapse and I need you to work
your magic on this. We’re going to have to evaluate the new guys, but as far as
the Kvash are concerned this is what I want to do…”

 
 
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    June 7, 3204
    Krachnika System
(lizard capitol/homeworld)
    Semtric

 
    Greg-073