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"He burned the life out of millions of thralls trying to kill us," Alyssa said, stroking John's back when she felt his deep-seated sense of remorse. "When there were none left, he was finally weak enough for John to incinerate that bastard."
Jack looked horrified, his expression warring between disbelief and revulsion.
Calara nodded, empathising with his reaction. "When Larn'kelnar slaughtered all his thralls, he also wiped out all the Larathyran women manning his fleets. That means there's a thousand highly-advanced thrall warships sitting out in deep space without any crews. Our absolute highest priority, to the exclusion of everything else -apart from taking you home to mom- is capturing those fleets and manning them with Maliri women loyal to John."
"Loyal to you?" Jack murmured, still reeling from everything else he'd just been told.
"I've claimed the Maliri," John replied, his voice sombre. "I lead them now, but they're not my enslaved thralls. I'm doing whatever I can to protect them and get their fleets ready to fight the Progenitor War."
"There's dozens of Progenitors, dad. We're outnumbered at least 40 to 1," Calara said, a bleak look in her eyes. "Each of them has more ships than the entire Terran Federation, and their battleships are nearly as strong as the Invictus. If we can't reactivate Mael'nerak's hyper-warp gate, capture Larn'kelnar's ghost fleets, then find a way to upgrade them and the Invictus... we're doomed."
"Stop!" Jack protested, holding his hand up, a wild look in his eyes. "Please... just stop! I can't take any more... just give me a second!"
Alyssa sat next to him and gave him a sympathetic sideways hug. "Total mindfuck, right?"
He nodded, holding his head in his hands. "How the hell can you be so calm about all this? There's dozens of Progenitors, they've got massive fleets of Invictus-level warships, we're all teetering on the brink of total annihilation... and you're our only chance of stopping them?!"
"I've been preparing for this war my whole life," Calara said resolutely. "All those years I spent obsessing over strategy and tactics... all the time you spent teaching me everything you knew about fleet combat; this is where it all comes together. I'm going to lead John's forces against the Progenitors in a war that will make the Battle of Terra look like a pirate skirmish."
Jack stared at her, experiencing a moment of epiphany. "And John enhanced you to be the perfect Fleet Admiral."
"I'm serving the greater good of the galaxy, dad," she said, holding her head up high. "There's no one else that can do this... and I'm not going to let our family down. You've given me the strength and resolve I need to see me through the war."
He marvelled at Calara's confidence, her calm composure filling him with a renewed sense of hope. "I didn't think I could be more proud of you than that day at the award ceremony. I was wrong."
They hugged fiercely, drawing comfort and strength from that embrace.
Alyssa's eyelashes fluttered and she wavered slightly on the sofa.
*What was that? Are you alright?* John asked, reaching out to steady the blonde.
*Goddamn that was a rush!* she gasped, her eyes glowing with a brilliant incandescent light.
- COMMENTS
FVLL3N2 months agoTo address you concern about the outer rim thing. She said it herself John would've helped even if she didn't say anything if the outer rim was threatened by admiralty. And it could actually act as a deterrent to anyone who tries. Also the trading and stuff is fine it isn't harmful. You've obviously never had a good relationship if you can't joke like that regardless of her position. And lastly, there is actually a good reason she acts more like an actual Progenitor than John but you probably wouldn't know if you aren't part of his Tefler's Patreon, best advice is to keep reading until it reveals itself.
Anonymous8 months agoPlease do something about Alyssa. She becomes more and more a danger for John and the girls. She makes all kind of stupid decisions without talking with John first and then she becomes angry with John when he feels guilty that he can’t help everybody the way he likes to help people. And it is very weird that she made a sex related joke in front of her Jake. There was so much tension how can she believe that making a joke like that was a good idee? And why does John except all this behavior? She is constantly undermining him with her teasing, her jokes are mostly at his expense, why?
When someone has a key position like that you would expect some mature behavior. I agree with the captain, she is a dangerous woman who likes to play god. Power corrupts and she is standing on the edge. She is scary because she starts to behave just like a “real” progenitor.
txtraveler196011 months agoJust returned in moderation. Should be open tonight, tomorrow afternoon at latest unless moderators are slow, which a double chapter might slow 'em down
Anonymous11 months agoChapter 130 is up for moderation on Literotica ... hopefully it would be available to us in a few hours.
