The near future:
Intercepted Message Transcript
Initial Planetary Report from sensors (Translation)
A planet with a suitable gravitational and protective atmosphere.
Air and temperate climate that is ideal for sustaining life.
An ideal land and sea mass distribution across the planet.
Rich mineral resources and fuel sources suitable for development.
Suitable land mass for cultivation and providing food for a vast and growing population.
Currently numerous residential animal species capable for cultivation and food provision.
Easily established and adapted infrastructure to provide efficient deployment and development.
Rare and essential metals ripe for extraction.
Current Occupying Species: Expendable or suitable for cultivation.
Message Broken...attempting re-connect...Jamming in progress....
Re-connect...disruption...Jamming in progress....
Attempting to re-connect covert intercept...
Jamming in progress...unsuccessful attempt...signal lost...
Retrieved message fragment.......
Planetary Name: Earth
Lifeform Initial Report:..weak
Expected Resistance:..negligible
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Resident Species ripe for extermination.
As human beings, we become accustomed to believing today will just be like yesterday, and tomorrow. We get up, get dressed, go to work, eat...come home, watch TV, perhaps go to the gym, think about our relationships, then we go back to bed. We content ourselves that life holds little surprise for us, but deep down perhaps wish something exciting would happen, a very personal dream normally concealed from all others.
But our existences are not predetermined, we base our confidence on our continued reality on probability and our own comfort zones…things that are anything but predictable, probability can be very cruel.
Life is fragile.
At any time our lives or world could change…and change dramatically.
Most of us do not even consider, or are far too afraid to consider...that this hour may be the last of that perceived comfortable normality...
…That something has been watching...
The author aims to provide a thoroughly enjoyable and imaginative reading experience at an affordable price for the reader. All three works from the author's World War 2 Series concentrating on the Battle for Stalingrad have achieved Best Seller status on Amazon in the UK and many more stories are outlined.
Imagination is personal, free and to be cherished.
