Dark Future Short Stories - Eight - The Monestry
The Monestry
The search algorithm based net crawlers did not need much time to find traces and hints of a dark magician being active. The AI based on data analytics software even suggested an dark order Pontius active close by the Sprawl.
He remembered that he took out a village of slave hunters with a serious misconceptions of the devils responsibilities in the area some time ago.
The Devil is in charge of hunting, prosecuting and keeping the bad boys in hell. They managed to call in their judge and torturer in this world already.
The village was in the new woodlands north of the Sprawl. During the downfall genetic manipulated plants made it out of the secret gene labs of the old international agriculture companies and spread out, mixed up and mutated further. Many areas turned greener than green. New plants from trees down to flowers spread out in unmet speed and turned all abandoned areas that were not used as farm land anymore during the downfall into a new from of nothern hemisphere rain forest more like jungles than a forest that than again gave shelter to runaways. The green cover was so dense that modern surveillance technology was not able to hit through the tree crowns into houses that were fully covered by plants. Using mixed crop and vegetable fields made recognizing small farms impossible and the woods were full of wild rats and rabbits that ensured the meat supply. The roads turned rivers and moores as they were broken up by roots and stronger rain forcing everyone into good boots willing to enter the new woodland.
Looks like the dark order had taken over a free land region, because more and more surrounding gated villages reported missing persons, cattle and animals crossing over from the woodland into the open agricultural farm land.
The AI suggested based on the profile Striker created by keeping good record over the last decades on the dark orders habits that they most likely had taken over a small valley close to the farm land and the analytics AI provided a quite up to date picture from an old forgotten, but still running espionage satellite.
The fields north of the woodland hill tops were populated by three to four meter high crops of different kind accompanying each other similar only in colour and what looked like villages were actually ruins overgrown by flowers and bushes giving an idea of how the area was populated before the downfall and nature turning mutant taking over. The roads turned lakes, streams and moors and where not usable anymore. Noon could relay tell where the hidden farms were, especially because on a first look it all looked like before the downfall. Looking closer one would understand that there was a new scale in charge.
Just one thing was for sure. A Pontius needed a monestry that hold a minimum of ten cohorts each of a hundred monks. It was massive and needed a massive supply of drugs. Since there was no road they needed to have a constant stream of airborne vehicles.
No one could just jump into a dark order monestry. Not an assassin and no army. They were too strong in a group. They needed to be cut down bit by bit. First their supply needed to go being the basis of their power.
Striker started a profiling reconnaissance script that would analyse the satellite picture stream to find the air born vehicle stream. The ant road. As soon he’d new, if it was helicopters or planes they would be intercepted. The best way to cut down an airborne ant stream is to take out the airfield and Striker still had some mid range pre-downfall war heads on rockets ready to fire. Otherwise the jet would do or dropping anti-aircraft torret robots, would do too. It would just take longer.
Afterwards, they needed to be cut of from connectivity and their information stream ensuring communication. To do so Striker lunched a military grade reconnaissance drone that would land close to the valley and start scanning all frequencies to understand, if the monestry would use radio frequency communication based on terrestrial or satellite communication and scan the sky for satellites creating a catalogue. To be on the save side spider robots would spread out crawling through the frontier of woodland and farmland to search possible cable connections based on likelihood calculated from captured engineering field books of the dark order and cut them.
He also needed to get back into the simulator getting familiar again with the tiny stealth attack chopper and have the workshop AI get the swarm drones ready. He would need them anytime soon.
War was up and running. Reconnaissance phase.
Time to meditate and pray, time to train, time for blood, time to ask for forgiveness in silent prayer, time for the next demon to be put back into hell in this world or whatever there is after.
