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England is the Property of New Delhi
England is the Property of New Delhi
England is the Property of New Delhi
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The year is 2075 AD and India is in control of much of England and Wales. In an act of unbelievable treachery (at least from London’s point of view) the Irish government has sided with New Delhi. England and Wales are being rapidly cleared for Indian colonization and only a few thousand English rebels remain in the mountainous areas. These rebels are difficult to flush out and the Indian military is using a mix of Indian commanders and Irish “Hunters” to find the remaining Englishmen.

Amitabh Gavaskar is the Indian Military Governor of North West England. Most of his area is clear but there is one valley in the English Lake District that has been giving odd readings on scans done by automated skimmers flying over the area. Amitabh Gavaskar has five brothers serving in the Indian military and his youngest brother Rahul has just been assigned to the North West England district. Rahul Gavaskar’s first assignment will be to take two of Amitabh Gavaskar’s best Irish Hunters and search the valley using a skimmer. They are to land and search the valley on foot if necessary.

Amitabh Gavaskar has promised his father faithfully that he will take good care of young Rahul and this should be a good first assignment for him. Rahul Gavaskar’s skimmer lands in the valley and he and the two Irish Hunters exit the vehicle and begin to search the valley. Unbeknownst to them a Chinese weapons system developed in 2047 and capable of firing obsidian ball bearings at a speed of 4,000 kilometers an hour has detected the approach of the men. The Chinese system is currently in standby mode but if it is activated by any of the Englishmen in the valley then Amitabh Gavaskar will have some very bad news to give to his father.

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“That tree is artificial,” Gavaskar yelled. “Stop her, she’s almost there.”
Dempsey threw himself into the air and came down bodily on top of the woman. He grabbed her wrist with his hand but he was too late, her fingertips touched the tree.
“Fingerprint ID confirmed, awaiting your command,” the tree said or to be more precise a Chinese computer buried one hundred and seventy meters below the surface relayed a voice command to the artificial tree.
Shane Jennings had reached the woman too and he grabbed hold of her ankles and pulled her away from the tree.
Dempsey turned her over and clamped his hand over Emmeline Sanderson’s mouth. She fought Dempsey turning her head from side to side and biting the Irishman as he fought to keep his hand over her mouth. Gavaskar saw blood starting to seep between Dempsey’s fingers.
“Weapons system is active, awaiting your verbal command,” the artificial tree said. It spoke first in English and then repeated the words in Mandarin Chinese.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherMike Ward
Release dateMar 3, 2016
ISBN9781310932625
England is the Property of New Delhi
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Mike Ward

Mike Ward was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently lives in Florida, United States with his wife and two children. He is the author of two novels, two non-fiction books and six series of novellas:Parallel Realities seriesThe House on Mars seriesJacksonville Jack seriesStephen Haggerty Assassin seriesLisa Molin Assassin seriesDangerous Scotsman seriesHe is also the author of 60 short stories and novellas

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    England is the Property of New Delhi - Mike Ward

    England is the Property of New Delhi

    by Mike Ward

    Cover photo taken in Labadee, Haiti by Mike Ward

    Copyright 2016 Mike Ward

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    England is the Property of New Delhi

    Rahul Gavaskar looked down into the valley below. He turned to the two Irish Hunters beside him. Eoin Dempsey was looking right at him, Shane Jennings was scanning the valley using a high powered portable viewscope.

    Do you see anything Shane? Dempsey said. He spoke in Hindi for Gavaskar’s benefit. The viewscope noted the use of Hindi and temporarily switched its reply language from Gaelic to Hindi. Since it had been manufactured at a plant just outside New Delhi, Hindi was actually its command language. The machine responded to the question before Shane Jennings did and it began a polarized scan checking for incongruities. The incongruity software was brand new and was in advance of anything possessed by any other nation on the planet. It scanned the whole scene multiple times in the same way that an insect’s eyes would and then it compared each cell of the picture against every other cell at hyper speed. There was more processing power in this one little machine than had been available on the fastest supercomputer back in 2015. If the machine found an incongruity it wouldn’t necessarily tell them anything but it was the closest thing they had to the sense a human used to tell him that somewhere in the scene in front of him there was something wrong. In the six weeks since they had introduced these machines more than twenty thousand of the last remaining Englishmen had been found and executed.

    By the time Shane Jennings opened his mouth to speak the machine had performed more than twenty billion comparisons of the different cells for the valley below. The picture cells the viewer used were so small they were measured in microns. He reported that there were no incongruities in his scan and that was true, there were no incongruities in the scan performed by Jennings but there were multiple microscopic incongruities in the scan performed by the machine while it waited for Jennings to speak. The problem was that the machine just hadn’t found them yet.

    Jennings looked down and checked his scan. There are no incongruities, he said also in Hindi.

    Okay, let’s move on to the next valley, Gavaskar said.

    No, we stay here.

    Rahul Gavaskar looked back in surprise. It was the machine that had spoken and not one of the Irishmen. Gavaskar was used to machines speaking, that had been going on for a long time. What he was not used to was a machine issuing a command to a human. He was composing a reply when it happened again. This time the machine changed its tone to convey a sense of extreme urgency. In addition to issuing a command sounding like a human voice it added frequencies audible to the human ear that no human voice could produce.

    Incongruity, incongruity, incongruity. Shane Jennings, Shane Jennings move to the right, move to the right, move to the right.

    Jennings was fast, he threw himself to the right and rolled. He only just made it. A ball bearing one half centimeter in diameter and made of obsidian emerged from the ground traveling at a speed of 4,000 kilometers per hour. It missed Jennings’ left foot by a fraction of a centimeter and hit a tree. It was going so fast that the men didn’t even see it but the machine did. When the obsidian ball bearing hit the tree in the center of its trunk the transferred momentum caused the tree to shatter. The viewscope calculated the trajectories of every tree fragment as a side issue to protect the men while it performed a three dimensional 360 degree scan of the whole area for a radius of ten kilometers. Its internal galvanometer caught the change in an underground relay seven kilometers away. It issued a command immediately. The command was issued verbally for the benefit of the humans and also over machine to machine high speed datalink.

    By the time Shane Jennings lifted his weapon all the targets were already loaded into his gun. The recoilless gun began to fire at a rate of ten rounds per second and seven kilometers away the hillside began to blow apart. Trees and tree parts exploded into the air and once the rounds had penetrated to a depth of twenty meters the remains of reinforced concrete walls and the two humans inside them began to fly into the air. As soon as it had counted enough bone fragments to make up two human skulls the viewscope switched Shane Jennings’ weapon to idle mode.

    Eoin Dempsey looked at the mess made of the hillside seven kilometers away and thanked God that Dublin had aligned itself with New Delhi and not with London. He took a deep breath. Analysis, he said in Gaelic.

    The machine replied immediately in Hindi. Two humans detected and destroyed. Two heartbeats detected once concrete shell pierced. Analysis of bone fragments reconstructs two skulls. Conclusion is that both humans are dead.

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