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Nightfall On August тАУ Insectoids 04



Steve Gordon




Nightfall on August



Part I: Roughing it on August



Chapter 1: The March Across August



It had been victory, but at a terrible cost.

For nearly 20 years the Insectoids had occupiedAllianceplanets,
enslaving the human race. It was only after years of resistance, and the

return of a rebuilt fleet led by War Admiral Norman North, that they were

able to finally liberate their homeworlds.

But their victory had come at a terrible cost. As a parting act of spite,

the Insectoids had used some sort of weapon to disrupt all power systems

on nearly allAllianceworlds. The Queen leading the invasion, Zsst

herself, came to August, the capital of theAlliance, in a mighty Chent

ship, intent not only on disrupting the power on the planet but also

destroying it utterly with a Chent superweapon.

Zsst used an energy dampener to disrupt the power on August, as she had on

most majorAllianceworlds. But then, just as she was about to destroy

August with the superweapon, the Chent ship turned around, and simply

disappeared from known space. No one knew why.