Yeah, supernatural. Those who were in contact with the blue as if they were going mad and trusting them. It was as if they had seen goddesses, not aliens who looked like humans... And if only they had seen. But we also listened! Of course, not everybody has become like that even on Earth. But a lot. Very much. Especially important people with whom the blue ones tried to contact.
And the cosmos found salvation in isolation and now looked at the Earth with horror. Neriya understood - a little more, and politicians, completely fascinated by the blue, will sign any documents and contracts.
We have to make it.
Having climbed into the scanner capsule, she relaxed. Her mission is fulfilled. Now the information from the implants will be removed without her participation, and in a few hours, the generators of the inertial field for space flights will go into production.
And the next contractions in space will not look like even the incident of 2166. The most successful space battle between humans and strangers. Of the three hijackings that occurred in six hundred incidents with outsiders in a hundred years.
Another bandit was spotted after arriving from Arcturus. The catapult threw it right next to Haron, who was orbiting one of the many satellites of the system, fortunately working. Moreover, he was able to transmit the parameters of the bandit and the direction of his start to the long-distance communication station on Ceres.
By almost unbelievable coincidence, he was heading for the Saturn system. It is quite possible that the bandits even knew that the colony on Titan does not have a fleet to protect at least its moon, not just the colony - but it was at this time in the orbit of Titan was a spaceship with a thermonuclear engine and a crew capable of conducting a space battle.
However, even this did not mean anything. The maneuverability of foreign ships surpassed the maneuverability of Earth ships so much that even being only a hundred thousand kilometers away from the enemy, only a third of the light second away, you could be several days late.
But even here the earthlings were lucky. Aliens landed on the same Titan - apparently, flew in for hydrocarbons - and the unnoticed "Goliath" only needed to complete the spiral.
The fight was short and fleeting - as always. But this time, the earthlings attacked elusively quickly. Having spent most of its fuel on acceleration in the afterburner mode, Goliath turned the nozzle of the main engine forward and fried the alien starship with a beam of hard radiation, slowing down from the recoil.
The outsiders couldn't - or maybe they didn't have time - do anything. Their ship was incapacitated, and the Goliath spent the rest of its fuel to dock with the silent structure.
But even before Goliath combined the orbits and equalized the speed, astronauts in exoframes started to the stranger.
Another squad of them was falling out of orbit to strangers landing on Titan at the same time.
The contractions were short, hard and bloody.
And the people, as usual, were only left with the rugged remains of strangers' bodies, an almost ruined ship, erased drives - and the same thing on the surface at the cost of severe losses.
These strangers turned out to be more humanoid than most of them, and that was the most interesting thing to learn from this most successful fight. In the rest, even if people only got fragmented, radiation-fuelled wreckage of other people's ships shot down on takeoff or landing, but the information extracted was new and interesting. Here, however, the assumptions made at that time were only confirmed.
And the fact that these strangers are more humanoid... What difference does it make? The people who met with them are called goddesses.
Azari themselves, as usual, pretended that there was no ship.
Neria Wei with some hidden pride watched as the first Cosmoflot ship equipped with a generator of inertial field maneuvers.
The huge capital was rotating smoothly and very quickly in different directions, obedient to the will of the pilots. Much faster than even a light exoframe could spin. Its huge inhabited compartments only slightly changed the speed of its rotation, almost imperceptibly - but the emerging forces were enough to spin the almost inertial ship as a cannon.