![]() So, Caleb Card's unit is to be security outside the passenger portion of the ship for the 200 years to get to elsewhere, but that goes sour. She's, shall I say, a piece of work, and a continuing villainess throughout the books. His last mission was to extract a doctor and her team from their own technology recovery mission. Or maybe six of them, though Card only knows of the one he ends up at. Turns out what's left of government has created a generation space ship to go elsewhere and reestablish mankind. A Marine officer, Caleb Card, has been the most successful unit leader against them, performing mostly extraction missions for a couple years, but the Earth is gone. Details in book, but the species is called the Xenotrife. The idea is an alien species has come to Earth and devastated it. So if someone who is not the poster is reading this, now is a good time to start to scroll slowly, ready to stop quickly. SPOILER ALERT: Everything that follows (till the last couple paragraphs) could easily be considered as giving away far too much. Perhaps Forgotten Colony? That's a series name actually. But to make that happen, a few of you must find the means to survive!" "One day, we will punish the bastards who did this awful thing to us. "Keep that thought close tonight, and always. And in fifty more generations after that, we will reach out to the stars together. "But in another fifty generations, we can rebuild everything that we have lost here today. Then Joe said, “For the next ten generations, you will need to think only about yourselves. In another week or two, you might relish the extra protein and fat." And then you need to search out those who aren't aware of what I am telling you to do. ![]() Whoever you believe will watch your back always. Get to your families, hold hands with your lovers. "The only way you will survive in the coming hell is to find those very few people whom you trust most. "If you are listening to me, listen carefully. The sun has been infiltrated, its hydrogen stolen to use in the manufacture of an amazing bomb, and virtually everybody in the range of my voice will be dead by tomorrow. But most citizens were too busy to watch this unplanned speech-an important element in his gruesome calculations. "It has been an honor to serve as your President,” Joe told an audience of two and then three and then four billion. And it's not actually generation ships, but rather the farflung bits of humanity who are told to strike back in the ensuing generations. ![]() The "probe" would be the alien ship that pilots into the Sun's corona, causing a reaction that will result in a supernova. This might be "Five Thrillers" by Robert Reed, as per Looking for Sci-Fi Short Story: Avenging unknown alien beings that destroys sun.
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