7: Goldwood
"Where the hell do we go now? Our mission just became much less linear in nature."
" I say we just go through all nine planets in order, starting with Juno's three, than back to our three, and finish up with Lupus' three. Wait, you were warped here, why can't you just warp to the asteroid with Lupus and I onboard?"
"I've been nervous about using the warp drive, because the last time I used it, I ended up here. Not that it's been a bad thing, I just don't know where we'll end up. Also, you two would be cramped in the cabin, it's a one woman ship you know."
We flew to Goldwood, the planet we were orbiting when I arrived. It was a very beautiful, Earth-like planet, ideal for the evolution of intelligent beings.
"If this asteroid impacts, Mizar will die, right?"
"Yes, but so will countless innocents."
"Why not evacuate them to this planet, it is Earth-like, than destroy the facility that produces the near-infinite drone army. With their leader dead, and the lack of reproduction, they will eventually die off. We could even assist them in doing so, if they did not become barbaric without a leader."
"This is why I love you, you can kick ass, you have awesome technology, and you are very smart. I may have said this, but I like the purple."
"Thanks but, we should inform the council of this attack."
We turned around and called back our ships. When we were in orbit, Vela contacted the council.
"Lords and Ladies of the High Council, this is Vela Gemini of the Jet Force militia. I have come to report that the Gemini team are the only surviving militia. Juno has been killed by Mizar, and that Mizar is launching an offensive against Earth via an asteroid."
"Miss Gemini your attempts at muckraking us into action have failed because we just don't believe that Mizar would actively launch an offensive against Earth."
I managed to feed my visors video of Mizar's threat to the council.
"Humans how dare you to attempt an assassination of the great Mizar. I shall destroy your precious planet Earth, even if it means ending my own life."
"Gentile men, the video you just saw was Mizar's final threat. It has not been edited or forged for the purposes of muckraking. Mizar is heading for Earth in an asteroid, and is crazy enough to drive it into earth and kill himself just to sooth his ego. You officious pricks need to stop with your bureaucratic ignorance and act, be it evacuating Earth or using some sort of defence cannon to destroy the asteroid. Scans from my ship have determined that he will impact within two weeks and will release enough energy to disturb Earth's orbit enough to knock it out of orbit."
"We shall discuss and vote, than return to you within the hour."
Vela clicked off their radio frequency.
"Officious pricks will get everyone killed, including themselves. Bureaucracy is horribly inefficient."
As I finished, the council had come back on the radio.
"Miss Gemini, the process of democracy has decided to ready the defence cannon and place an emergency state for Earth."
Again they shut off their transmission.
"Bureaucracy is what now?"
"We managed to scare them into action. This is an exception that proves the rule. About the drone's cloning facility."
"Lupus went through it after we found him on Ichor. He reports that it is called the Spawn Ship and is orbiting Rith Essa."
We set our ships to fly to this Spawn Ship.