Free Jesse's Starship 3: Joshua's Walls by Saxon Andrew

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    Alex turned his attention to Mike and said, “It is, Councilor.”
    “What did you do to cause this? You know how important they are to our efforts against the Weg.”
    Alex was stunned by the question, “Nothing, Sir. This was a decision they reached together. I was just as surprised as you are.”
    “I asked Josh to come here to discuss the possibility of getting them to accept a position in our Government. I gave him all the information about the positions and asked him to try and prepare them to accept. Was I out of line to ask him to come and visit me and his Godmother?”
    Alex stared at Mike and shook his head, “No, Sir. I would just like to be notified if he’s going to be away from his duties.”
    Alex saw Josh’s nervousness as Mike said, “I really didn’t anticipate it would take more than a couple of hours. However, while he was here, I asked him about what we’ve learned about the Weg. He shared the videos he has with me. Why have I not seen them?”
    “Sir, I sent them to you more than two weeks ago.”
    Mike shook his head, “Alex, the Alliance is not Sparta. You have no idea of the bureaucracy I have to deal with every day. I want you to contact me directly in the future with developments as they happen. Can you do that for me?”
    Alex smiled and was thankful Josh had gone to visit. This made it worth it, “Yes Sir. Thank you.”
    “What are you doing about the jump difficulties with your warriors?”
    Josh said, “I shared the latest video of my First Brigade’s jump efforts, Sir. He saw pretty quickly we’re not anywhere near where we should be to go into battle.”
    Alex sighed. He was troubled by this as well and was glad he had someone to discuss the issue with, “Sir, it appears humans just don’t have the reflexes to all jump simultaneously. The messages from our eyes and ears are not equal to the Gracken. The method they use to escape won’t work with us, especially with large numbers.”
    Mike nodded, “I called the Alliance’s Senior Engineers together as soon as Josh showed me the exercise and”, Mike looked at Josh, “Why don’t you tell him what you told us?”
    Josh nodded, “Sir, I’m sorry about surprising you with this.” Alex waved his hand in dismissal. “I suggested to the engineers that we have to take the jump out of the control of our warriors.”
    Alex’s eyes narrowed, “You suggested what?”
    “Sir, we’re not physically capable of all jumping together. I asked if there is a way where our warriors could be pulled out technologically. I don’t know how it could be done but if the carriers that drop them on a Weg planet could pull them out automatically when a signal is sent…or something like that?”
    Alex tilted his head, “Is that possible?”
    Mike looked at one of the attendees at the table, “Our Senior Engineer thinks it is?”
    Jek looked at Alex and said, “We think so. We have made significant advances in the use of magnetic fields over the last decade. We’ve managed to manipulate them to the point where we can use hundreds of thousands of different magnetic frequencies in close proximity to each other. We think we can put magnetic devices on a carrier such that each warrior on the ground is linked to a single device. Once the device on the carrier is activated, it will pull the warrior off the ground to the device.”
    “How fast would they be pulled up to the carrier?”
    “We don’t know.”
    “How can you pull them up in large numbers and avoid them hitting each other?”
    “Again, Commandant, we won’t be able to answer those questions until we actually start building them. “However, your Officer here with us has also requested other items that need to be part of this new carrier design.”
    Alex looked at Josh, “Such as?”
    Josh took a deep breath and said, “Pricilla and I have discussed the way the Weg can evolve a new species of warrior in a short time. The Jumper they currently are using against the