“Stand on the sides and keep the guns in their holsters. I don't want to hear a shot, not even the sound of a gun safety, without my direct order. Remember, we are here to welcome an ambassador, not to fight"
Abe was coordinating a group of soldiers who were stationing themselves along the border between the Great Republic of Beleriard and the rest of the continent, the same border that Jocelyne and her team had crossed a year earlier to go confer with the dinosaurs. Now the situation was the same, only reversed: now it was the dinosaurs who sent the ambassador.
As defense minister, Abe could easily have sent any officer to greet the ambassador, but given the delicate nature of the mission he had preferred to attend in person. Jocelyne had made it clear that this negotiation had to go well, so they could not afford false moves.
The group waited. Abe had thought of everything to make the ambassador at ease: to avoid making him walk, he had brought a truck w
Al's arrival among humans was not the easiest. There were no particular incidents, but that certainly did not mean that the journey had been smooth.First, Abe's security measures had slowed the convoy's speed considerably. Al knew this was for his safety, but it was still annoying for him to stay in a truck in the blazing sun. Luckily, Abe had taken care of that and had a huge industrial fan installed in the vehicle that gave the allosaurus some relief. However, this had further slowed the journey as that object consumed a huge amount of energy and therefore had to stop to refuel the truck. Because of this, it had taken them nearly three days to reach the capital.Secondly, there had been not one, but two assassination attempts during the trip. In the first case it was a massive number of car bombs positioned along their path, and Abe's security measures had proved effective in avoiding them. In the second case, the attackers had become more ingenious: they had tried
J. Wesley McCullough was a veteran of Odaria's old army. The only reason he was alive was his luck: just a week before the disastrous battle with the dinosaurs he was discharged because he was deemed 'too unstable'. That was the only reason why he hadn't been slaughtered like everyone else. After that event, he had been reintegrated into the army by force of circumstances, since almost all the officers were dead, and from a simple captain he had been promoted to colonel. Since more than 90% of the army had disappeared, he had easily obtained a high-ranking position, also because he had very high-level acquaintances.However, everything had recently changed. Householders had been eliminated and McCullough had lost his ties with the government with them. Then, the new nation began promoting peace with the dinosaurs. To which McCullough had firmly opposed. He had founded his own party, Defense Humanity, and had promoted a defense policy against the enemy. Much of the surviving a
Quaritch went inside the hold. He was aboard the flagship that was leading their fleet to dinosaur territory at the time.Inside the hold were all of his subordinates: the colonels, officers and other high ranking individuals, who had come personally from the other ships to learn about the plan.Quaritch spread a map in front of them, on which was drawn the square shape of the continent of Maakanar. “Gentlemen, this is how we will act. We have already contacted all our allies in Beleriard and are ready to act. Here's what will happen in the next seventy-two hours"Quaritch placed a tiny model of the flagship on paper, near the colony of Cartago. “Our fleet will head here. We have taken all precautions against marine animals: our hulls are very resistant and the submarines will offer us cover. Marine reptiles won't be able to stop us from reaching the bay. It will be here that we will attack"He placed a model plane on the coast. “Our job
"So this is the strategy of the Colonel and the NMWA..." Jocelyne smiled. "If he didn't put the country and humanity at risk, I could almost praise them"Odaria's new president sat in her study, listening to Al's words. The allosaurus had explained to them everything Snock and Rambo had discovered.The two were not alone in the room. All the people most loyal to Jocelyne were gathered there with them. There was Jackson, the new foreign minister, who had returned promptly given the emergency situation; there was Abe, the defense minister, who obviously couldn't miss a meeting like that; there was Malcolm, the interior minister, and there was his friend Dreyfus, the new chief judge; obviously there were her parents and there were some collaborators with him.“We did well to put so much pressure on the NMWA and to speed up the peace projects so much” Jocelyne murmured. “If we hadn't, the Colonel could have recruited many more people and fomented a
"... and that's all I discovered""I see I see. Thank you my friend. Are you sure that's all we need to know?""There is certainly nothing more in this world. This is what I know and so far I have no reason to believe that there is more satisfied"Snock and Rambo were gathered in the usual shed. The rhamphorhynchus was carefully explaining to the giganotosaurus everything he had discovered about the location of the outposts.Once all the information had been obtained, Snock's mind had already begun to act. “If the Colonel wants to divide his army in this way, then each outpost cannot contain more than a hundred soldiers. A single team of four or five dinosaurs will be more than enough to deal with it""Are you sure? I remind you that they will have many powerful weapons"“If I were in the Colonel, I would have the most powerful weapons for myself. While the weapons in the hands of the outposts will be strong, they won't be as des
"The fleet is three hundred kilometers from the target""Optimal. No signs of retaliation from the dinosaurs?" Quaritch murmured, chewing his own saliva. "It is now impossible that they have not spotted us"“It is probable, but they still do not act. Not even the marine reptiles are doing anything: our submarines confirm that there are no signs of life underwater" replied the man on the radio. "It seems they want to use our ultimatum to the last"Quaritch sighed deeply. “Keep your eyes open. Don't be fooled: they are around there somewhere”. He stared intently at the screens in front of him. “Let's move on to phase one. Let all the jets take off and bomb the coast"As soon as his command reached the fleet, a flock of planes rose from the aircraft carriers. At least 150,000 jets lifted off the ships' decks and set off for the coast.Three hundred kilometers was not a huge amount for jets that could fly at supersonic speeds. M
As soon as he received the approval from the NMWA, the Colonel immediately set to work. He knew he didn't have much time: he had to act immediately and take over the Eternal Palace as soon as possible.The Colonel was in no doubt that after the NMWA's attack, the dinosaurs would show their true nature as brutal killers and attack Beleriard. Even if the NMWA's fleet could keep them busy, even a small handful of those monsters could have exterminated tens of thousands of people. The nation had to rely on NMWA protection right away, before the dinosaurs made any move.The Colonel gathered his soldiers in his base and made his speech: “Brothers! Today is the big day! We will finally get rid of this plague. Today we will conquer the Eternal Palace and bring the nation back on track. There will be no more room for dinosaur sympathizers; the country will once again take sides with the species to which we belong, humanity! Because humans are the only ones who have the ri
The Colonel looked at the man who had appeared in front of him. "What a surprise... Abraham, the new minister of defense" he laughed. “Or rather, a security guard playing minister of defense. But I imagine that being close to the president has the advantages of her "Abe didn't give in to the provocation. "It's over, McCullough!" he said. “You have already lost. We know all about your plan and all the intrigues the NMWA has set up. Let's avoid further bloodshed. Give up now and cooperate, and maybe the law will be kind to you""Tsk!" The Colonel wasn't intimidated. "Do you think I'm falling for it? I have studied my strategy for a long time. You may know something, but it is impossible for you to know everything. And even if that were the case, you can't hope to stop us. You are too few and we have the best weapons"“Even if you manage to reach the Eternal Palace, how do you think you can rule the nation? With the support of the NMWA?" Abe aske