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    Dark Moon China
    Dark Moon China
    Dark Moon China
    Ebook59 pages51 minutes

    Dark Moon China

    By JC Alva

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    In the future, the moon has become a strategic location for the world powers, where genetic experiments are done

    beyond the control of International agencies. A team from the Special Operations Unit is sent to spy on a base on

    the dark side of the moon and discover things that will lead them to fight for their lives. This short story brings to

    light man's misuse of science and the political powers that firmly grip its dark advances.

     

    JC Alva takes you on a special op, fast-paced adventure using characters that every reader can find themselves

    to be, as this action-packed short story brings you to what will eventually, in the future, be science fact.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJC Alva
    Release dateJan 1, 2023
    ISBN9798215094273
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      Very political for a Science Fiction Short Story, but its elements seem to be based on ongoing events. It's a story that can actually happen. I recommend this book to all Sci-Fi readers.

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    Dark Moon China - JC Alva

    Dark Moon China

    By JC Alva

    A cold morning at the U.S. Military Intelligence Office. Most of the men and women have only begun to punch in with fresh coffee in one hand, and with their Govt. issued work pads in another. Some of them clumsily, still groggy from their weekends’ binge drinking.

    Jackson’s phone had been tuned into the international news, with a robotic newscaster on screen. He could faintly hear the news as it was talking about the Japanese genetic breakthroughs in food development. It was reporting about how they have managed to make supersized marine animals that can grow in half the time, a development that could help the world’s food supply. 

    Jackson has started to go through last week’s reports on international military movements, monitoring all satellite images, and recording any new activity of ground and naval forces. Large Floating Military Posts, armed with anti-Air and anti-ship ordinances, scattered the shallow reefs, while large exploratory stations of different nations were drilling the sea bed for oil and natural gas.

    Large commercial fishing vessels crisscross overlapping sea lanes, forcing different coastguards to intercept vessels that wander into claimed sea routes by other countries.

    Jackson runs his finger on his work pad, skipping through reports that, in his opinion, had no significant changes that would cause concern. He switches to a different satellite scanning another part of the globe. Particularly interesting to him were the naval and commercial movements in the South China Sea. He focuses on some of the floating exploratory platforms that have been moved in from the southern Chinese shipyards.  He further enlarges the images and notices structural differences from the new platforms compared to his image files of other civilian-built platforms. He runs his fingers again on the enlarged image and rotates it, presses a function key and the small built-in printer on his

    desk starts printing the enlarged image on his work pad. He then moves his satellite image further South-East, at the Edge of the West Philippine Sea, where the US has stationed a Floating Military base, and has been assisting other Navies in securing their Exclusive Economic zones. Matters only got worse with the discovery of large gas and oil deposits sitting in the contested waters.

    The dominant country in the region learned its lesson when its ships started firing at destroyers anchored near a group of small islands several years back when other naval vessels were implementing freedom of navigation exercises. The one-day naval encounter was a wake-up call to them when the Surface-to-Surface missiles made easy targets of their attacking vessels and have backed down on their military island-reclamation projects since then.

    Hey, you! Good morning! Have you had your Americano already? It was Sgt. Claire Davidson. Her usual cheerful self on Mondays.

    Must you always creep up on me like that every week? 

    Well, you know how I love to see you jump up your seat and... Before she could continue, everyone stood at attention as Col. Collins came through his door with his usual glass-jawed no expression marine haircut. In Jackson’s 7 years in this unit, he never saw the colonel blink or smile.

    Stone!

    He yells across the room, while some of the men barely looked at Jackson because they wouldn’t dare piss off the Colonel. He noticed some of them only moved their eyes while the others were busy tucking in their uniforms.

    In my Office in 5 Minutes!

    What Did you do this time? Claire said with her big blue eyes sarcastically looking at Jackson.

    Must be about my telling off that CIA operative last week in Pakistan. He was trying to give General Daniels a stupid report on rebel units in the north.

    Yeah! and you probably did it, you know, the way you usually do...

    What! No! I Just....

    There you go again Jackson, always making excuses for yourself and that bad temper of yours. We should give an award for how treated that CIA field agent. Anyway, better get going Stone, you know when he says five minutes, he actually means now.

    Jackson reaches for the printed paper, tears its end off his built-in desk printer, and hands it to Claire.

    See anything different about that platform?

    Claire turns the picture around, brings it closer to her face, and says

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