Astra Pt. 05

Artificial Sentient Terraforming Robotic Automaton (ASTRA)

Synopsis: With the fall of humanity the fate of its survival and resurrection resides in the hands of a very attractive female Android and the man chosen to be that champion; Jack Travus.

Inspired by so many things but not endorsed by any of them. © EmotionalStorm March 2020. This story cannot be transferred to any other site besides Literotica.com without prior authorization in writing from the author and EmotionalStorm must be credited for this work.

Authors Note: For those who have not read my bio, please note I write as a form of therapy for a Traumatic Brain Injury. I know the English majors will probably encounter issues that annoy them. If these are your focus, instead of the story itself, then this is not the story for you. I am not and will never be a professional writer. I do it to tell the story, for those who wish to read them.

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June 20th, 2449

Captains log, "We now have 155 hybrids. The last 3 were young and married to each other. They took up roles on the bridge crew. I forbade them from making any more hybrids in this system. They know they are the next leaders for a new colony if they survive that long. I am taking 15 hybrids back with Grace, Sprits, Aiko,

Ash, and myself among those numbers. I have 6 of my eldest children that wish to be hybrids. Two of Ash's eldest, both of Sprit's eldest, Holly's eldest son, and one of Aiko's sons. One is one of Carol's daughters Cheyenne.

She is close to getting her boards completed at 17 to be a doctor. That will happen en route. I will start evaluating the next group of my children. So far only 3 have stated they are interested but they are 18 months out and 2 of them are Grace's sons and 1 of Carol's daughters.

They are capable but not old enough yet. There is always a surprise 1 or 5 that show up at the decision date and commit. I deal with them on a case by case basis. I have 170 of my children on board.

To date, I have only had to execute 3 hybrids for failing their nature and breaking hybrid law. The local courts ruled on them and Grace and I reviewed each case before carrying out the order. None of my children are old enough yet to have that happen. We raised them to understand it is a choice to take on such an extreme burden. Most have expressed no interest in being hybrids.

We left 43 of our children to be raised by friends of the order. Two of whom I have authorized to become hybrids when they were old enough. I left them with Paul and his 4 wives. Ash's Eldest, Zander, is ready to take command of the 3rd Dreadnought, at 17, a few months shy of his 18th but given his brain and command testing scores, he is ready. He will become a hybrid.

His IQ measured at 202. No telling how much higher that will go once he is hybrid. The other is Carol's other doctor daughter who is empathic like Aiko. Paul will evaluate others with his wives. Balance of sword and shield. I had many volunteers to watch over them from those who support the hybrids as guardians. That was the vast majority of the population.

We have a combined population of almost 436,000 people with another 35,000 expecting mothers in the next 3 months alone. I am confident this was Astra's doing. That number of progeny is a bit daunting.

Tau Ceti has a military to be reckoned with as I incorporated two phases of weapons upgrades prior to departure. With orders to bring the 3 phased on in 2 years. Another round of shield upgrades we are deploying with. The fourth phase upgrades 10 years from now unless attacked again. I got 6x drives working and an ID system together to support it but it has no further room for expansion. I have 8,000 traveling with us in 2 Super-Dreadnoughts.

Each ship is equipped with a 120 Lancer V fighters, 24 Manta-Ray VI shuttles, 12 Stingray V Scouts, 4 Broadsword III Destroyers, 2 Katana II class battleships atop the 2-Super-Dreadnought Factory Carrier Bases that they all separated from or launched from. A total of 324 ships. They will think it is an invasion until they find out the truth of the matter.

The 6x FTL drives cannot be used on the fighters; not yet anyway. They will have to remain in the bays during travel. More to do with the ID systems and pressure on the pilots. System drives are 6x on everything. The fighters had high-end EVAG-suits that helped to counter the turns at those speeds with 5x FTL drives if they needed to fight while in FTL speeds we will slow it down to bring them to bear.

The Excalibur is gone. What was left of the core was stored inside of a mid-deck room with 6 self-contained explosives 150 terawatts power cores. They provide power to the servers and all of the defense systems of the core.

While each base was run by 8x 8a 200 terawatts power cores. In both the Dreadnoughts and Battleships. Not counting the 2 research labs I have set up on BS-1 and it's Dreadnought base. All ships are armored in titanium-HO a titanium Hydrogen with a bonded Onyx power coating; except where the names of the ships were displayed. Most ships just had call letters. Names were reserved for the Battleships, King Arthur, and my personal shuttle Danyelle. They all had ID numbers."

August 2nd, 2451

Location: Terra system outer belt. The entrance to Corridor 10 started the day before. TRD Shiloh Bridge.

The XO looked over at an alert that was coming in in the middle of the night, "What do we have comms?"

He heard, "XO Chief comm officer Patty Blade We have multiple sensors reading dead ahead that are massive and moving at greater than 5x speed!"

He looked over, "Get us out of the corridor. Captain to the bridge!"

The ship moved quickly to get out of the corridor. The XO yelled, "Move us further out! Christ!"

They punched it up to full as they felt the pull of a gravity field move the ship sideways and then it stopped. They continued to move, "Cameras!"

The XO looked out across the cameras and saw two of the largest darkest ships of his life. The only thing that scared him more as a kid was the images of the Drakor destroying the Pralon and he was thankful it was not him. These things moved side by side behind the ship, "Hard to starboard!"

Take us back full speed. He watched the two massive ships just walk through the last part of the asteroid field sucking in asteroids as it hungered for more. He heard, "XO This is Comms, We got no Terran ID's so far but we are picking up a slew of other ID's."

The XO walked over to the screen and looked and saw transponder codes but not Teran, yet all in English." He called out, "Unidentified vessels, This is the TRD Shiloh please identify yourself."

He watched the screen and saw a list of transponder numbers and names that were all unknown except one. The captain came on deck, "What is going on at this... What the hell are those."

The XO pointed, "Non-Teran transponders, Except for one. It just came online. All the other codes begin with C instead of T. The one T code is the TAR-2 King Arthur."

He looked over, "This is the Captain. What kind of game are you playing at? Two massive ships cannot have that many transponders."

He watched them open from end to end straight across the middle and top to bottom. They separated away from each other. They grew both in height and width. They then saw hundreds of fighters pour from the two vessels and form up in front.

Then a series of 24 scouts and 4 destroyers came from between the lower pylons on each one. Then they closed and flew in a tight formation in the direction of Terra. The Captain called out, "This is the captain of the TRD Shiloh to TAR-2 King Arthur. Please respond."

He looked at two young men who were manning the ship. "Captain, I am lieutenant Tray Travus of the Ceti Home Guard. How can I help you?"

He looked at the twin men who were more like boys and he asked, "Is Jack Travus with you?"

He shook his head, "No Command Admiral Jack Travis is aboard the Katana II class battleship Kirishima that has yet to launch from the Super-Dreadnought Factory Carrier Bases. The other Battleship is the Haruna. Also, a Katana II class battleship. The carrier bases are a little slow at expanding this close to an asteroid belt. He wanted the other combat craft out first before undocking."

He watched as two battleships rose out of the top center of each section. "Captain, did you wish to escort us into Terra space, it has been 2 years since we left Tau Ceti. We can run at 6x system drive speeds if needed or we can take it down a notch. My father thought you might contact this ship first."

The Captain nodded, "Let us take point and 5x speed is fine."

He ended the call and looked over, "Get me comms to Titan or Jupiter station now!"

He went and moved his ship ahead of all the fighters and other craft. His tactical officer seamed skittish and the Captain looked at him, "Put your hands in your lap. I do not need you starting something we have no chance of finishing."

The officer nodded and put his hands in his lap. A communication channel came open, "JS-1."

The Captain tried to remain calm, "This is the TRD Shiloh in route to Terra we are escorting almost 250 spacecraft from the Tau Ceti system under the command of Admiral Jack Travus."

The guy asked, "Repeat that message?"

He hissed, "Look at the early warning net you fool!"

The man nodded, "Putting a call through, just a moment."

He saw a man he did not know. "Who the blazes are you?"

He looked up, "I am James Treven based on the message you are being forwarded through Jupiter Station. I am the VP in charge of its operations. What is the problem Captain?"

He looked up, "Jack Travus is here. With 250 war vessels."

He sat up, "Jupiter station put me through to the Excalibur."

The captain called out, "He is not on the Excalibur, in fact, it is not here. He is on a Battleship Katana II class called the Kirishima."

James nodded, "Jupiter station, conference us in with Jack Travus."

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Jack contacted them back, "Tell my children I love them, Paul. We just arrived and I got a call coming in from Jupiter Station. Probably your brother."

He laughed, "Tell him to contact me. Heck, I will contact the station later."

Astra put up the incoming call. He looked across, "James, good to see you."

He nodded, "I heard you are making one of your usual big entrances."

Jack nodded, "Why are we running 5x speed?"

Sprits looked up, "They stated that the lead ship can only go 5x."

Jack sighed, "Don't tell me Francine has not managed to kick up the speed while I was gone?"

He laughed, "Speed yes to 5.5 but having issues with the ID system; that company has made no progress. We cannot even get them to confirm they are even researching it."

He nodded, "Well, I will have to see what they do with the 36,947 patents I have for them. Including 6x and ID system that will support it on a shuttle on up. Fighters must use an EVAG suit to compensate for some of it and cannot handle more than 5x FTL speeds.

It could not be helped without increasing the size of the ID device; so far...still working ideas. System drives they have are all 6x speeds. I also have weapon and shield upgrades. Provided nobody has been fucking around with my patents and our law firm."

He laughed, "A couple of the weapons guys wanted to get you declared dead about 5 years ago. Then they learned you set it so your will and estate could not have you declared dead until 25 years with no contact. They were warned that you had contract termination papers waiting to cut those contractors out who attempted to have that done to you. The president laughed his ass off at that. He knows their days are numbered."

Jack smiled, "Astra, Boost the signal to Terra direct, cut Jupiter station out of the loop and connect in the president for me."

He got the Capitol switchboard. The operator was new, "Hello sir, do you have a connection number?"

He nodded, "Yes connect me to the President."

She laughed, "I need a connection number."

He smiled, "How about I just give you a name and if that does not work you can ask him to contact me back aboard my ship. The name is Jack Travus."

She looked up again. "One moment sir."

He was put on hold and he saw a bleary-eyed president sitting there. He looked worse for wear, even with the cure in his system. He laughed, "Jack, good to see you. It has been a long time."

Jack nodded, "Longer than I planned. I did not expect to get hit by 20 ships from the future from the Brisen either. They just got FTL drives but the ships they hit us with punched holes through the Excalibur.

We destroyed them but we lost both our destroyers and I finally gave up on trying to repair the Excalibur. I built what I could salvage into one of my Carrier Factory Bases that is with me."

The president looked at him, "Carrier what?"

Jack laughed, "Picture 4 of your last model battleship. Now four of them side by side, then 3 long and 2 high. Now when it is expanded out it is 6 wide, 3 high and 3 long.

Each one is carrying 120 Lancer V fighters, then the 1 Katana II class battleship, 4 Broadsword III destroyers, 12 Sting Ray V scouts, and 24 Mantis V shuttles which have not launched yet. That was per carrier base and I brought 2 of them." We are following the TRD Shiloh now."

The president looked at Jack, "For fuck sake Jack you bring your whole fleet? Jack shook his head, "About 10% of it but they have rebuilt what I took out with us. 324 ships." He shook his head, "You got 10 times that back in Ceti?"

Jack smiled, "At least; I did not ask for the latest figures. I think Paul said they were around 3,500 ships. Fewer carrier basses and a few more shuttles, scouts and destroyers. An extra handful of battleships in orbit. While space stations are being built to go with the docks. I lost Danyelle on the trip out at the asteroid belt another two in combat.

Holly and your friend Carol. The shot took out the bridge and punched a hole down the bridge and into deck 7 shuttle bay when it came in. I was in the lab at the time on deck 6 but it was sealed and isolated in the rear of the ship. I lost 6 children from my wives. 11 unborn when the 3 wives died. I have around 8,000 with me and 170 of those are my children."

Grace corrected him, "180 with another 8 on the way. 43 stayed behind Including Commander Zander Travus who oversees Battleship 3rd group and his Super-Dreadnought. The population is just under half a million people. 60% of those on Geos and the other 40% on Meos. Meos took the worst of the fighting."

Jack looked over, "James, Contact Jupiter station and have them connect you with CHGS-457. You can talk to Paul. I got a new satellite in orbit and it will hit Saturn and Jupiter if they are close enough. They could boost and hit ships about mid-way between." James dropped, "Captain what were you doing when we interrupted you?"

He laughed, "Besides sleeping. I was just starting corridor 10 right in the middle of where you came out at." Jack nodded, "Well you might have some minor debris to clear but that should have cleared an 8-10 km wide hole through the field."

The president looked, "You displaced that much?"

Jack laughed, "Super-Dreadnought Carrier FACTORY bases. We processed all the ore through that section of the field at 6x travel speeds.

I lost one wife to an asteroid. I built something to chew through them and make it so we did not have to use shuttles as much for the trip. Then put all the metal in bars that can be smelted and the rest as raw ore but down to the dust level to pack it in better.

Grace walked up, "All ships reported in, all structures sound." Jack nodded, "Good that was 2 years traveling at FTL 6x speeds without stopping. I could be in your office in 15 hours if we dropped out escort, Mr. President."

He laughed, "Do it. Captain, check that corridor. It sounds like he made your life a lot easier."

The captain nodded, "Turning back."

Jack reached over, "All ships. 6x, five-second delay." Jack looked at the president. "They will move by class in five-second delays between them. Your stations will start getting crazy in about 4 or 5 hours about the hundreds of ships coming with unusual or unknown transponder ID's."

He nodded, "Gives me time to crawl back in bed before they wake me then."

He laughed and disconnected. Grace went to his larger office and contacted the lawyer to get them to send the termination letters on whoever tried to have him declared dead.

Jack tried to figure out who he wanted to contact and he did not know. "Vid find Terra news." He saw A new anchor on the desk, young early twenties from the looks of her. Jack contacted Terra news. The operator looked at him, "I know you. Your Jack Travus."

He nodded, "You still have the same editor on the desk there?"

She shook her head, "No he died of a heart attack when his wife got him some of those little blue pills and a couple of 20 something extra wives she wanted. She is still happy and they had to break his cock to get the coffin lid to go down. That was 10 years ago."

Jack shook his head, "Can I speak with the new editor."

He knew the editor did not get the cure, he feared DNA modification. His wife on the other hand did and enjoyed the ladies as well. He knew one of those 20 somethings was a certain camerawoman from his wedding.

The operator nodded and he saw Randy Gonzalas at the desk and she smiled, "Jack Travus. Back in the system. When can we expect to see you?"

He smiled, "Soon. Is your news anchor capable to talk with no lead-in as to who you got for her?"

She laughed. He saw her grab her ear, "I am being told we have a breaking story. Jack's image flashed up and her face went in shock.

"Jack Travus. You have not aged a day!"

He nodded, "Thank you part of being a hybrid, we age a lot slower."

She smiled, "When can we expect to see you?"

He smiled, "Technically you are seeing me right now. Stations Terra 3-5 and 8-10 in about 13.5 hours."

She asked, "How are things in tau Ceti?"

He sighed, "Calming down. Closing in on half a million people, not counting the 8,000 I brought back with me."

She looked at him, "Unhappy?"

He shook his head, "They are all working."

She asked, "At what?"

Jack smiled, "At the moment flying in to scare the hell out of a lot of people at the Starbases."

She laughed, "Another fly-by, by Jack Travus?"

He nodded, "Something like that. Always have to give you news people something new."

Grace walked in and handed them to him. He signed the 5 contracts. He looked, "While I was gone some defense contractors tried to have me declared dead. I just signed the paperwork putting a stop-work to their ability to produce my patents.

I left instructions with my patent lawyers to have it ready for any who tried to do that to get to my patents. We will be putting together 5 new contracts for those and I will be getting with others to see how they have been progressing. I spoke with James Treven already. He told me they have a 5.5 version of the engine ready. The company doing the ID device is having issues with the ID device. I will be inquiring about that.

Francine will be happy to know I have an ID device to handle that as well as 6x engines and FTL drives. We stayed in FTL for 2 straight years and anyone who thinks my ship airframe designs do not hold up; well they will just have to see what I brought back."

She smiled, "No hint?"

He laughed, "It's not 5 ships. Closer to 300 ships."

Her mouth fell open and she smiled, "Well that explains the range of starbases you have put out there to observe from."

He nodded, "Yes. The President already knows, I spoke with him from the edge of the asteroid belt."

She nodded, "Through Saturn or Jupiter?"

He smiled, "Jupiter initially because the TRD Shiloh contacted them but then I dropped them from the call and went direct to the Capitol."