Chapter 7: Offensive to the capital.

It's been 21 hours since we arrived, and it's already night time. The blitzkrieg was working. More, and more enemies surrendered as snipers killed off more, and more enemy commanders. The enemy was confused on who was attacking them at night and sew chaos amongst the ranks of the republic. Civilians were sent to a few of the reserve frigates because the area they were living in was irradiated because of the fallout being spread by the wind. The gestalts fought valiantly. I'm gonna give them a few medals later, with added benefits such as they can pick what kind of augments or cosmetic changes they want in their bodies, free repairs, and extra free time. Although the gestalts are pretty powerful without augments alone. It's only fitting for them since humans always wanted to improve, and become more efficient in their own merits. I wonder what will they want? Hmm.....

My men continued to march nearing the capital only a few hundred kilometers. Others army corps were already in the other continents attacking their cities but not allowed to kill civilians on purpose. A few of army corps were already attacking enemy factories freeing humans, and xeno's who didn't attack the troops. Although I want to kill them if encase they are informants and the only reason why they surrendered are because they want to relay our military power if not then well... Some of the more empathetic gestalts are going to get mad. I'm not going to risk the possible mutiny. I'm already deep in a lot of shit. I'm not going to back down. If the gestalts did warcrimes then some will be imprisoned for a couple of weeks alone it's basically a time out for the gestalts. A few gestalts asked me why would I need their help I could just manipulate matter, and make myself invincible. My understanding of physics are not too well. But there is no such thing as definitive invincibility. Entropy, and evolution will later catch on. It's only. matter of time that I will get killed. As thing should be. I'm already in my late 70's. While yes I look like I'm in my late twenties it's mainly due to a treatment were the gnome is manipulated in such a way that the telomeres will never degrade to such a degree that I wouldn't age after in my 20's. While yes I couldn't die by old age but I can still die by weapons, diseases, and get eaten.

I still need people. There is no such thing as invincibility. It's only a matter of time that they would find a way to kill me. The nanites suit will do because it repairs by its own by manipulating the carbon nearby them, and add them to the structure of the suit. Essentially you could survive a lot of blunt force trauma, kinetic energy, and projectiles but it's only a matter of time that the people find out how to get through the so called "invincibility". It's inevitable there is no such things as immortality. People seem to forget the consequences of said immortality. Would you want to be immortal? To see everything you built eventually be destroyed by the malevolent universe. Even god only wants to see his creation flourish, and not do any depravities unless needed. He does not want to intervene unless necessary. It's like the way weapons surpassed armor, and armor surpassed weapons. It's only a matter of time people found out how to kill you. People will die, and it's only a matter of time for me. I want people to fight on after I died. He only gave me a chance to bring order to this damned reality. What I think he meant by being order is to bring justice, and order to the galaxy. To prevent the depravities that happens all the time nowadays and rarely does anything truly good can be seen. This galaxy has seen a lot of depravities that even god sent a broken man like me to teach these people to stop by forcing them to stop. Immortality is a myth. As long as the universe exist there is no such thing as immortality. Life has no meaning once you fulfill all your desires. Death is necessary once you really think about it. What loving God would want to watch their children live forever and feel everything even suffering as resources were depleted. Nothing last forever. Even god wants that to happen. Would you want to live forever seeing everything die, and be alone for all of eternity within the lifeless void achieving all you wanted. We weren't meant to be forever. He knows this. He has done this before. Death is but a way to escape if you achieved everything you wanted to do.

Dropships are flying above me while I was riding a scout hover bike that one of the gestalts fabricated for me. Behind me hundred of armored vehicles were driving to the capital. Tracks were visible as they move through the course dirt.

Suddenly I saw a large valley ahead. I pulled out a binocular that has inferred tracking and saw a lot of signatures coming from the valley. What I saw was conserning. Many emplacements littered around the valley waiting to attack, and ambush us. I snickered at the idiocy that these people are letting me see. So they think I don't know about the art of war? It's basically a training manual for officer school. Do they really think their enemies are this dumb? "Halt. Enemy signatures ahead." I said to the armored gestalt channel's. I then sent the coordinates of the enemy to the artillery and watched as the valley was riddled with artillery shell holes. The valley that was bombarded was utterly filled with bloodied corpses, mists of crimson red, and a river of blood along with destroyed emplacements. "Continue." The armored column behind me resumed driving through the desert wasteland area of the planet. Multirole aircrafts fly by around me as dogfights happen in the air. Although the enemy has plasma weapons we are more nimble, and have technology such as rail guns and since they abandoned it. It means with enough velocity from the rail guns armor is basically useless since the Kinetic energy of the slugs hitting the enemy fighters is enough to knock it out of the sky. It's kinda like we humans used to hunt birds by using slingshots to hunt birds. Plus gravity will also increase the damage than being hit by railgun slugs in space since it would just pierce through the armor since the slug is traveling at 40-60% the speed of light. The only reason why missiles are still being fielded is due to the payloads of the nuclear blasts, and the damage that shrapnel from fragmentation missiles cause in space. It would basically travel at the speed of sound without losing speed until it gets pulled down an atmosphere/gravitational pull of a planet or gets pulled down into a star. Yeah that doesn't exactly sound like a futuristic approach considering darpa planned to use bullets in space back when we first reached the moon. Heck there was even this guy I had learned in history class that a man shot a firearm in the moon, and accidentally shot himself because the bullet just orbit the moon until it hit something by something I mean his arm. He later died from asphyxiation. Yeah this is why is space we use overbuilt things because with us it's unpredictable. Better safe than sorry.

Tanks continued to march through the wastelands nearing the capital. A few incidents happened were the enemy tried to attack us but failed miserably. The tanks hull armor was too overbuilt to even consider that as a dent. Although some of the gestalts got hurt, and got them repaired.

After an hour we arrived. I then scouted the area, and activated the stealth system making myself virtually invisible in the naked eye except when an EM detector detects the usual spike of energy from the stealth system. The energy used by the suit is from my body. Essentially making me a living thermal powerplant. I continued scouting, and saw a few bunker placements, a few tanks, anti aircraft plasma emplacements, and a giant trench. I was receiving reports that some of the gestalts already captured a continent after fierce fighting. The defenses of that continent was decimated after being bombarded by thermo nuclear weapons with the yield of 70 mega tons. The reports said that the nuclear weapons used are only 50 missiles. Thankfully the slugs used are depleted uranium, and not filled with actual active fissile uranium. Although it would cause more damage we can't risk the planet to have a nuclear winter. It's not gonna cause a nuclear winter per say but it would certainly cause some of the planet to be inhabitable. for a 4 months to three years give or take.

I relayed the locations of the emplacements, bunkers, tanks, and the giant trench surrounding the city to the artillery a few miles back maybe 8 miles from here. I then asked them to use fragmentation missiles or even the hellfire missiles that fires blades that can pierce through solid steel or cement at the emplacements, and bunkers. I then told them to fire off a specific chemical agent in aerosolized form in a gas canister fired off the artillery called SR-208 codename reaper. It's a nerve agent used for putting people in coma, or outright killing them (Depends on the concentration of specific chemicals in the mixture.) after a seconds but after thirty minutes it would disperse. It wasn't a warcrime in the accords but it was usually used to disperse riots from prisons. I then specifically told them to use the coma mixtures because i would later need them for interrogation. Plus it's only a couple of hundred soldiers in the trenches defending the city. I then walked back to the tanks, and my hover bike. After a few minutes of waiting the artillery finally fired the missiles. The trenches were hit by the nerve agent, and after a few seconds of somewhat drowsiness that can be seen in the faces of the defenders they collapsed on the floor. The emplacements were a different story though. They got hit by hellfire missiles killing everyone inside, and keeping the insides intact. I may need them if encase there is a few technological leaps that the enemy hidden from us. Like advance components for unknown weapons, and find a way for countering said potential devastating weapon. I then bought a squadron of gestalts with me just encase. A few minutes after entering the city a blaster shot rang through the air but one of the gestalts with me tried to sacrificed themselves to save me. The gestalt thankfully wasn't shot in the power cell. If it was a power cell. I'm gonna die in a large explosion. Then I saw a glint of a sniper scope, and pulled out the mosin. I then fired to where I last saw the glint. I then saw a spray of blood from where i shot at. Then more blaster shots appeared from buildings. "CODE ZULU! I REPEAT CODE ZULU!" I said over the channels. I then sent the gestalts the coordinates for the artillery strike. I then took the injured gestalt, and the other gestalts to cover telling them that there was an incoming artillery barrage. I then ducked, and pulled down the gestalts to protect them from the incoming shrapnel coming from the artillery strike. After a long thirty seconds a artillery strike hit the area decimating the enemy controlled buildings. "We need reinforcements! I repeat we need reinforcements!" I said over the gestalt channel's. I then covered up the area where the gestalt got shot, and dressed up the area to stop the lubricant bleeding. Then the roaring of hundreds of tanks can be heard. Then suddenly more blaster shots can be heard. Explosions were heard, and a flash of light appeared. I looked at the general direction, and saw dozens of corpses, and gestalt tanks rolling over them. More, and more blaster shots rang through the air. I then looked at general area, and shot at the general area killing two republic forces. Then I noticed that the mosin didn't have cartridges. I then created more cartridges, and also created fully loaded mags at my ak. I then reloaded my weapons, and filled the area with depleted uranium in full auto. After a couple seconds of sustained fire republic forces retreated. I saw over a dozen enemy corpses. I saw a few corpses of the species that enslaved us. I was enraged, and went to the body and desecrated it. I then burned it.

More, and more gestalts are taking the initiative. Taking the city in an hour. Any bodies that I saw that was in the same species as our enslavers were burned. I smiled at the bodies that were burned.

I then asked the gestalts to hack the local communications. "Hello. I'm colonel gespenster of the terran gestalt the order of wrath. You must all be thinking why did we attacked the planet? Well..." I smiled, and said it In galactic common. "It's revenge.. For all of those suffering that the chiss! and the hutts caused! They glass multiple planets under terran consortium rule. Billions enslaved because of the republic. Now I'm just the messenger. This is for revenge for all of those suffering that you caused. That the chiss caused, and your forefathers filthy xeno's caused as they watched our planets getting glassed by lasers by the chiss, and being enslaved. I'm just the collector. This republic is long overdue for collecting it's debts." I then smiled with a wicked glee. "Now for all of those thinking I'm just a warlord. Your wrong. Terra has been long destroy. Our cradle. Humanity's rightful cradle. It had been planet cracked for one last spiteful revenge. Firstly on my decree. Slavery is illegal. Those depravities will now be punished. Secondly droids are going to be treated as equals." I sad over the communication channel's of the local area. Then suddenly I saw a small droid stuck under ruble. I then helped it out, and patted it. After that I let it go without any repercussions. "The species of the republic is a pragmatic bunch. They saw us! Us humanity who just wanted to have friends amongst the stars! As threats because of our history bloody wars. They also saw us as threats because of our insistence of exploring possibly dangerous tech! We will never go back to the times of slavery under this rotten republic! Under the imperialistic, and self serving bureaucrats! It's better for us to do our own autonomy. Bringers of justice speech. What a load of bullshit! Would you want to be either free or be stuck as slaves to the republic. Choose!" I said over the local communications channels.

To be continued in the next chapter.....