Nehmen Sie dieses Netz 2.0 - Teil eins

Nehmen Sie dieses Netz 2.0! - Teil eins

Take that Web 2.0! - Part One

He waited, lying in the mud. He couldn’t see his targets, but he could hear it and see the light from them each time they fired up into the sky. He had been waiting, in the mud, for nearly three days now. His pod landed in the forest ten kilometers west from the Earth Government military base. Over the last two days, he had crawled his way through the dense forest, making his way over fences, around landmines and all sorts of traps Earth Government had laid to catch intruders.

He was an elite soldier. When he was born, The Future Wars had already began. His whole life he had known war, being conscripted into the army at age fifteen. He had waited all his life for a mission like this, one that was meaningful and would bring glory to his name when he completed it.

The trees and the clouds lit up with yellowish-red light, and the sound of thunder cracked through the air and rumbled through the forest. The only thing was, it was not lightening that was causing it – it was the Ruby on Rails. Dozens of the machines had made their way out on the sprawl of railway lines that came out of the giant metal doors at the base of the mountain that was lingered above the Earth Government base. The Earth Government military base was buried deep below the mountain, with corridors, tunnels and rooms going on for thousands of kilometers underground.

The entire planet as it were, was dedicated to military production. It was still named IKEA Alfa, as in a past time it was the primary factory planet for IKEA, producing millions of units of stylish yet affordable flat-pack homewares each year. In less than a year into the war, Earth Government seized the planet and converted its factories for military production, and it now produced millions of stylish yet deadly flat-packed machines of war.

The Earth Government base within this planet was one of the most heavily fortified military bases in existence. It was buried deep under the iron rich mountain, and then fortified again with several hundred-metre thick plates made from a honeycomb of ceramic, depleted uranium and other strong materials. It’s weakest point was the metal doors through which the Ruby’s on Rails came through, although it’s positioning made it difficult to strike with heavy weapons.

The soldier’s mission seemed reasonably straight forward; he had two things he had to do: 1. Penetrate the doors to the base to allow for a future ground force to enter it, 2. Destroy several of the Ruby on Rails weapons to allow the Resistance troop ships approach and begin a ground invasion.

All pretty straight forward really, but probably impossible to accomplish due to the fact that no military had ever been able approach the surface of the planet, as the Ruby on Rails prevented any ship from getting anywhere near the surface. How could one man succeed in this? The Ruby on Rails was a terrifying machine – its base was a square nearly 100 by 100 metres wide, and it rolled along on two sets of railway lines. The Ruby on Rails was designed to destroy orbiting satellites and large spacecraft, and it was well equipped to do achieve this. In the centre of the platform was the projector of the plasma particle beam which the Ruby on Rails used to destroy space craft. The projector was nearly 150 metres long and pointed up into the sky like some sort of spire, angled slightly towards the Resistance spacecraft in the distant space far above the Earth Government base. The platform of the Ruby on Rails carried a fusion reactor which provided plasma to a particle accelerator that accelerated the plasma to a speed close to the speed of light. This was the destructive force which the Ruby on Rails wielded. No material could withstand the heat from coming into contact with the 60 million degree Celsius plasma fired from Ruby on Rails. Steel softens and melts like butter and burns like toast when coming into contact with it. The Ruby on Rails could fire a continuous beam of plasma for just over four seconds at full power. When fired against the surface of a planet, it had the equivalent blast effects of a 25 Megaton nuclear weapon.

The Ruby’s on Rails fired again. The clouds and forest lit up once again in red and yellow light. The lone soldier in the mud had timed them since they last fired, and he calculated from the delay between firings that the Ruby’s on Rails were firing at about 35% power. There was a one minute and thirty-eight second firing delay. The soldier began to get up out of the mud, and move along carefully behind trees and shrubs, getting closer and closer to the giant machines. He had proceeded about 400 metres before he could just make out the Ruby on Rails through the tree line. They fired again. He dived back down, into the muddy dirt as they fired. He could feel the heat from the light emitted from them. There was a clearing of about 300 metres between him and the Ruby’s on Rails. Near the end of the tree line, many of the trees were blacked, and some of them even blackened into leafless skeletal memories of trees. The dirt around the ruby on rails was also blackened with a kind of soot; the remnants of disintegrated and burnt dust particles and plant life that happened to catch the scorching light from repeated firings of the Ruby on Rails. Nothing around the machines was alive: no plants, no grass, no shoots, nothing. Death and destruction was the name of the game for the Ruby on Rails.

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