Chapter 15 Chapter Six

Kassad had worked in Luthers for a standard year and had saved more than six thousand marks.He performs physical labor at 1.3 gravity, letting him say goodbye to the willow quality of his body on Mars.He then used his savings to board an ancient but makeshift solar sail with Hawking drives and head to Maui.Kassad was still tall and thin by Ring standards, but his muscles worked better than anyone else's. He came to Maui three days before the notorious battle of the islands.The joint military commander at the first station couldn't stand the young Kassad waiting outside his office, so he was assigned to the 23rd Logistics Regiment as a hydrofoil pilot's assistant.Eleven standard months later, Corporal Feldman Kassad of the 12th Motorized Infantry Battalion received two Distinguished Service Medals, a Councilor's Award for bravery in a campaign in the Equatorial Islands, and two Purple Hearts medal.He was also selected to enter the command school of the Ministry of War, and returned to the Web on the next fleet.

Kassad often dreamed of her.He didn't know her name yet, and she never spoke.But even in complete darkness he could distinguish her touch and smell from a thousand others.He thought she was an enigma. While the other young officers went out to flirt or date local girls, Kassad preferred to stay at the base or visit strange cities.He has always been obsessed with various mysterious things, and he also knows what the results of his state will be in the psychological report.Sometimes, in a campsite lit by multiple moons, or in the cabin of a uterus-like zero-gravity troop carrier, Kassad wondered how crazy he was in love with a ghostly being.But he would recall the little mole on her left breast, the little mole he had kissed one night, when the ground near Verdun was shaken by the great artillery, and his lips felt her at the same time. heartbeat.He would also recall the way she couldn't wait, her hair pushed back, her cheek in his lap.So, young officers would go to the towns or villages near the base to have fun, and Fedman Kassad would rather read some history books, or run laps, or run tactical strategies on his comlog.

Before long, Kassad jumped into the sight of his superiors. During the undeclared war with the Free Miners in Lambert's Ring, it was Lieutenant Kassad who led the surviving infantry and fleet guards through Peregrine's ancient asteroid-drilling shaft and led the inhabitants of the Overlord and Consul successfully evacuated. However, it was not until the brief period of the New Prophet's reign over Qom Riyadh that Captain Feldman Kassad came into view of the entire Web. At that time, the New Prophet decided to lead thirteen million New Shia organizations against Sunni shopkeepers on two continents and 90,000 overlord heretics. The military captain of an overlord spaceship is paying a respectful visit to them.As a result, the captain and five executive officers were all taken as prisoners of war.Urgent meta-luminous messages came from the center of Whalti, demanding that the senior officers on the orbiting "Denif HMS" immediately resolve the situation in Qom Riyadh, rescue all hostages and depose the new prophet...and not Use of nuclear weapons within the planetary atmosphere. The "Denif" is an old orbital defense and surveillance ship, and it does not carry nuclear weapons that can be used within the planet's atmosphere.And this senior officer is Joint Captain Feldman Kassad.

On the third day of the revolution, Kassad landed in the main garden of the Grand Mosque of Mashhad aboard the Denif, the only assault boat.He and the other thirty-four soldiers of the army watched the mob gradually surround them. In the end, there were 300,000 fighters huddled there. , and awaiting the order of the new prophet.The new Prophet himself was not in the Grand Mosque, he had flown to Riyadh in the northern part of the planet to join the victory parade there. Two hours after landing, Captain Kassad stepped out of the spacecraft and delivered a brief statement.He said he was raised as a Muslim.He also claimed that from the day the Shiite ships landed, the interpretation of the Qur'an clearly stated that no matter how many jihads proclaimed by infidels like the New Prophet who can only brag, Allah will neither allow nor condone Any act of indiscriminate killing of innocent people.Captain Kassad gave the leader of thirty million zealots three hours to release the hostages and retreat to their home on the desert continent of Qom.

In the first three days, the new prophet's revolutionary army once occupied the main cities of the two continents and detained more than 27,000 hostages of the overlord.Firing squads were busy day and night settling ancient theological disputes, and it is estimated that at least 250,000 Sunnis were killed in the first day or two of the new prophet's occupation.In response to Kassad's ultimatum, the new prophet announced that all infidels would be executed after his televised speech that night.He also ordered his men to attack Kassad's assault craft. In order to prevent the explosion from damaging the Grand Mosque, the Revolutionary Guards used automatic weapons, primitive energy cannons, plasma guns and crowd tactics.All photos of the hidden field are accepted.

Fifteen minutes before Kassad's ultimatum expired, the new prophet began his televised speech.The new prophet agrees with Kassad, saying that Allah will punish those who violate the teachings severely, but he says that the infidels of the overlord should be punished.This is the only time the New Prophet has lost his composure in front of the camera.He screamed, spit spattered, and demanded that the wave re-attack the assault craft that had landed.At this very moment, he declared, a dozen fission bombs were being assembled at the Power for Peace reactor in the captured Ngari region.With these things, even Allah's own army will be sent to heaven.The first fission bomb, he explained, would be used that afternoon on the Pagan Kassad's wicked assault craft.The New Prophet then began to specify exactly how he would execute the Overlord's hostages, but by then Kassad's stated deadline had passed.

Qom Riyadh is an ostensibly pristine world, both by its own choice and by accidental remoteness.However, local residents are not so far behind that they do not have data networks.And none of the mullahs who led the invasion and supported the revolution were particularly opposed to the Overlord Science Demon, who would not object to the connection of personal comlogs to the global data link. The Denif Overlord had dropped enough scout satellites so that, at 17:29 Qom Riyadh Central Time, the Overlord identified a total of 16,000 Eight hundred and thirteen mullahs supported the revolution.At 17:29:30, the reconnaissance robot began to transmit real-time target data back to the twenty-one circular defense satellites left by the Kassad assault boats in low orbit.These orbital defense weapons were so old that Denif had been ordered to send them back to the network for destruction.Kassad suggested that they be put to another use.

At exactly 17:30, nineteen of these small satellites detonated their fusion cores.A nanosecond before self-destructing, the X-rays caused by the explosion were focused, aimed, and released into 16,813 invisible but correlated beams.These ancient defense satellites were not designed for use in atmospheric environments, and the effective damage range of their radiated light is less than one millimeter.Fortunately, that's exactly what they wanted.Although not all of the rays penetrated the obstacle in front of the mullah, 15,784 rays hit the target. The whole effect is immediate and full of drama.The brains of each target boil instantly, then gasify, and the skulls fly away.At the moment when 17:30 came, the New Prophet was in the middle of his live global broadcast, and he was chanting the word "Heretic".

For almost two full minutes, the pictures on the television screens and visual walls all over the planet were fixed on the new prophet's headless body, which collapsed on the microphone.Feldman Kassad then cut all the bands, claiming that his next ultimatum is due in an hour and that anyone who dares to harm the hostages will get a more dramatic proof of Allah's displeasure . No one retaliates. This evening, on the Qom Riyadh track, the mysterious woman came to see Kassad for the first time since his cadet career.He fell asleep, but that visit was not just a dream, nor was it another reality simulated by Battle.net.The two were lying under the broken eaves under a thin blanket.Her skin was warm and exciting, her face a pale outline against the night.The stars overhead are about to fade into the twilight before dawn.Kassad felt that she was speaking to him; her warm lips spoke, and her voice lingered just at the threshold of Kassad's ear.He stepped back, trying to get a good look at her face.However, the moment he moved back, he lost contact with everything.He woke up in his sleeping bag, his cheeks moist, and the drone of the ship sounded oddly like the breathing of some half-asleep beast.

After nine standard weeks of life on the ship, Kassad was sent to the military court on Liberty Island for review.He knew that since the decision to carry out the operation in Qom Riyadh, his superiors had no choice but to execute or promote. The Military Department takes pride in being prepared for all contingencies on the Web or the Colonial World.However, they were unprepared for the Battle of South Brescia, and ignorant of its hints of the new Bushido.