I agree. Anyway, this post will be an attempt to bring it closer to Alpha Centauri.
If you don't like the events that happen in London, they can be edited out.
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Shaka smiled as the decision was finally made in his mind.
"Sir, the Allies have the upper hand, and are too strong. Something must be done!" his SecDef repeated.
"I know. We will begin Operation Trident!"
"Trident?!" his Foreign Secretary gasped.
"Yes. We have evidence that other nations are near to building nuclear weapons, and this could mean the end of the Zulus when we take over, if they decide to use them. So, I will move to destroy them before they can complete these weapons. And prepare the rocket, incase I have to make a sudden departure to Alpha Centauri because of Armageddon. With our new discoveries of stealth and modern armour however, I do not see how we could fail!"
The SecDef and SecFor looked at each other in amazement. It was finally coming out how crazy Shaka really was! If it wasn't for the fact that he had the total support of the army, they would have thougt about ousting him then.
But he did have the support.
And Trident was underway.
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The B2 bomber penetrated England's defences by night, and the bomb was dropped. It had to be done this way due to the fact that ICBMs could now be tracked on radar.
London was vaporised, but Elizabeth was not. She had gone to Balmoral in Scotland to reflect on her victory over the French.
Then the word came in, and she was rushed onboard Air Force One.
"I will get those damned French this time!" she roared. A woman scorned was deadly, and the French were about to discover that.
"How far is our nuclear weapons programme from completion?" she asked.
"About a month."
"Good, then Paris will feel the might of Britain. And tell that damned Skye woman to hurry up, I'm going to need a rocket to evacuate my Corgis in if the world decides on mutually assured destruction!"
"Your Corgis?! What about you?"
"I'll be on my way to France to give that damned French b*stard a piece of my mind before I die!"
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Daniel glanced quickly at the reports.
"So you're telling me that this nuclear bomb was dropped by some kind of UFO that originated from Zululand?!" he was incredulous.
"We believe so sir. And I don't think it's a UFO, but more likely a plane which has a very diminished profile on radar, to the point that it gives the same signal as a bird. But our new radar satellite is tuned to watch objects even the size of birds if they seem to be moving at high speed for long distances, something a bird is unlikely to do. And it paid off, we have a positive trace."
An aide burst in, and handed a message to the President.
"Oh my God! We have more traces, heading straight for Air Force One! These are smaller, likely to be stealth fighters rather than bombers! Get the word to Elizabeth now to bail out of Air Force One!"
In the chaos, the SecDef forgot one part of his briefing. The Russian nuclear programme was behind schedule, but a new type of rocket was days from completion.
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"Damn!" Shaka listened to the tape from the bugs planted in the Russian President's office. "He's worked it out! Accelerate Operation Trident!"
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The modern armour divisions spearheaded the attack into Egypt, crushing the old style tanks, whose shells bounced off the new armour of the modern tanks. Most were also engaged by the new tanks far outside their firing range.
Egypt was lost in a night, and Zulu divisions took up heavily fortified positions on the Suez Canal.
The Zulus now controlled all of Africa.
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Elizabeth received the warning with her normal calmness.
"I think that we should surprise these Zulus." she said. She had no intention of jumping from her own plane.
Five squadrons of F-15s took off, then stayed below radar range, their own radars set to scan higher skies, looking for fast moving objects that had the radar signature of a bird.
Then they had the lock. All of the F-15s rose, and got a lock with their Sidewinders.
All fired as one, and the twelve F-117s Shaka had sent were obliterated.
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Shaka was puzzled by the loss of his F-117s. He now wished he had bugs on Air Force One so he knew what the hell was happening, but he knew it was impossible.
Then he heard the tape recording of the Russian President calling all of the leaders of the world to a UN meeting in Berlin.
Shaka smiled. He wasn't supposed to know about this. Obviously the Russian would try to get the world to unite against the Zulus.
But they wouldn't see the nuclear bomb heading for Berlin in the B-2 as they talked.
Little did he know the Allies now had a way of tracking stealth units.
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Ignore any bits you hate, just trying to help the story along.
Nemesis