The Divine Sedition [Complete]

Chapter 38 The Attack on Proxima Thule.

The officer in charge of Proxima Thule, Captain Berndt Messerschmitt was looking worried at a screen. He felt that the station he oversaw was threatened. For some unclear reasons, the spoilt, arrogant brat Bjorn Muller had authorised everyone to leave the station, leaving the Proxima Thule station with only 10 per cent staffing. This amounted to only a dozen security officers and around 50 scientists and engineers.  Considering the number of valuable resources and technology on the station were being put on hold, Berndt was genuinely concerned that the station would get attacked and looted.  Bjorn Muller had dismissed the concerns and said that they had enough automated defences to deal with any enemy before they entered the station.

Suddenly, a display started beeping saying that a ship had docked with the station. Berndt looked out and to his shock, he saw that an old, rusty, and burnt-looking House Goldstein transport vessel was docked with the station. House Goldstein! They were no longer part of the Terran Council, and had no business being there. House Goldstein’s power had diminished, and they had slowly have lost all their power as their finances were solely targeted on building Eden to satisfy the late Abraham Goldstein’s narcissism and ego. How had the ship managed to sneak up on him unnoticed? Fearing the worst, Berndt activated the emergency beacon and tried to contact other stations close by for backup. But the communications were down, all he heard was eerie static.

Berndt grabbed his gun and ordered the other security officers on duty to come with him to the docks. What he saw down there shocked him. Down at the docks was the infamous, supposedly dead, terrorist Keila Eisenstein flanked by a group of soldiers with wings-like space suits. As he approached her, she called out:

“Captain, I require that you surrender this station to me. Do this and you’ll live. Do not, and you will die”

Berndt noticed that Keila and her soldiers were standing out in the open, with no defensive armour. It didn’t make sense, but they were easy targets and killing her would certainly bring him a promotion. “Fire at will!” he yelled out to his men, and they all started shooting at Keila’s group. To his shock and awe, the bullets just stopped mid-air and they fell to the ground as the bullets came close to Keila and her troops. Keila ran up to Berndt and shot all the other soldiers in their heads with her pistol. She then said, “You should have surrendered Captain”. It was the last thing Berndt heard before everything turned black.