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each one.”
    “So
their total numbers are one thousand and fifty two,” responds Cruise. “The
fifty two are most likely commanding officers. Each one has a certain amount of
soldiers working under them. They probably already have a base set up
somewhere. Can you locate that?”
    “Sorry,
Captain,” replies Caleo. “This is merely a biological detector. It doesn’t give
the ranks of the entities.”
    “For
that,” says Garza, “We’ll have to activate the Radio Diagnostic Sensing
Analyser and lock it into their frequency. Then we’ll be able to see where they
have the largest concentration of emitting frequency waves.”
    “Are
you sure that won’t give our position away?” asks Cruise.
    “They’ll
know they’re being scanned, but will not be able to trace it,” replies Caleo,
“because we only need to send a signal for a few seconds, since we are using
Earth’s terms of measurements. To them it will look like their vessels are
still trying to communicate with them.”
    The
commander of the Ergaddi pirates is notified that a communication signal had
been sent down to earth from space. “It must be our spacecraft attempting to
communicate.”
    “How
much longer with this whole process take?” Demands the impatient commander.
    “We
will be completely finished and ready for transport to the cargo vessels in
three miscils.”
    That
conversation was enough for Tactical Officer Garza to locate the central base
of operations of the pirates. “We got it, Captain. Here are the coordinates.”
    “Captain,”
speaks up Caleo, “according to the Biological Organism Detector, the base seems
to be located a great distance from the mines.”
    Garza
turns towards Cruise. “That gives us a chance to wipe out all of their
leadership in one fell swoop, Captain. We may never have this chance again.”
    “No,
I won’t do it that way, Garza,” replies Cruise. “We are not heartless mercenaries
who kill first and ask questions later. I, unlike many of the ruthless dynasties
that fill the limitless universe, believe in taking prisoners.”
    Cruise
gives the command for two thousand five hundred crewmen to suit up in full
battle gear and to be battle ready. G arza
grabs all the portable equipment he could and goes to suit up also. Caleo is
right behind him. Cruise grabs the portable Universal
Language Decipher Unit and prepares himself for battle.
    Cruise’s
orders his warriors to engage the Ergaddis with the intent to take prisoners.
That means to wound and not kill unless there is no other option. Each
crewmember had a wrist locator device leading him or her to the coordinates of
the mines and Ergaddis they had been assigned to respectively. They used Infinity’s
Bio Teleporter to get to the planet surface.

Chapter 5    Queen Millennia

 
    After
being teleported nearby the Ergaddi base of operations, Cruise and his team of
two hundred and fifty warriors navigated their way to the target point where
the base of operations was set up. It was in a small canyon. A team of commando
engineers set up a device on a tripod. It was called the Beam Porter Module.
The function of this device was to project life-like holograms of commandos
running from place to place sporadically to deceive the enemy into targeting
the holograms instead of real commandos. They would only use it if the fighting
came to the outside of the bunker.
    If
the battle escalated to the point of Cruise having to surrender, they brought
along another option. Two exact android replicas of Cruise; mechanical copies
that would pass for the real one once they were activated. In the past they had
been used to confuse and confound the enemy so as not to tell which Cruise was
the real one. That gave Cruise a slight door in which to make his move and take
the vantage. There were ten altogether, but he only brought two to the surface.
    There
were also mechanical commandos with the prime function of being decoys. These
also could be used to enter a place