{"sf1_id":772301,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Exodus - Chapter one: First contact","author":"TauMaxim","words":1371,"posted_at":"2014-10-23T21:41:00.000Z","tags":["German Shepherd","Human","Military","Tau Maxim","White Tiger"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/772301-exodus-chapter-one-first-contact","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/772301","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=772301\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Exodus\n \nChapter one: First contact\n \nIt is the 20th of\nAugust 2166. And depending on one's location on the planet, it is roughly\nmidnight. 1:33 to be exact. Tau's communication satellites only had to transmit\nand transfer minor data packages from various sites across the world. But\nsuddenly, the entire network almost crashed. \"What the fuck just happened!?\" a\ncommunications expert said as he was brought back to real life from his idle\nthoughts. The screens were black. Every one of them. But subsystems still\nsuggested that data was being transferred. \"What the fuck is going on\nWilliams!?\" the supervising officer yelled as he walked into the main coms\nroom. \"Are we being attacked?! Is it a cyber-attack, or are they taking down\nour satellites?!\" he asked frantically as he was already barking orders into\nhis earpiece. Williams, a human, was rather unfazed by the large German Shepard\nyelling in the room as more and more people flocked into the room to try and\nsort this mess up. \"Answer me god damn it!\" the dog shouted once more before he\nwas shut up by what appeared on the multiple screens.\n \nMeanwhile, Tau was sleeping\nin his home. For him, the past few weeks were uneventful. The world in general\nseemed to be void of any major conflicts or controversies from either politics\nor celebrities. So, when the phone rang, he was rather... annoyed by it. \"Sir!\nYou won't believe this!\" a voice shouted through the phone. Tau had to pull it\naway, and his ear rang for a few seconds before he snarled back into the phone.\n\"What the fuck is so important that you had to blow my eardrum in the middle of\nthe night!?\" and the man on the other side went on unfazed. \"Sir you have to\nsee this! This will change the course of humanity forever!\" Williams said\nrather enthusiastically as he sounded like he was going to burst with\nexcitement. \"You have to see it, if I just tell you won't believe me!\" he\ninsisted and Tau just grumbled back as he got out of bed. A few minute later,\nhe had a coffee mug in his hand, and was walking, in the escort of his guards,\nto the helicopter pad. He got into the chopper, and was on his way to his\ncommunications hub somewhere deep in Russian territory, far away from any\nlistening devices, and spying attempts. The flight took him a couple of hours\nto get there, and when he did, he was a bit surprised. The large data\nchanneling facility was bristling with activity. It was actually at full\ncapacity. \n \nWhen he landed, he was\ngreeted by the site main administrator, as well as the commanding officer. The\nGerman Shepard was the first to shake his paw, and he started to give him a\nbrief rundown on what had happened. \"That's a lovely story general, but are you\nsure that this isn't just a hacking attempt mixed with a practical joke?\" Tau\ngrumbled as he didn't quite believe what he was told. \"That's why this nerd\nwill explain from now on\" the Shepard grumbled as they entered the main control\nroom. \"Ahh, Tau Maxim! A pleasure to finally meet you\" Williams greeted him\nrapidly as he hardly contained his excitement. \"Just show me what all the fuss\nis about, and try to convince me that it isn't just some bad joke from a\ntalented hacker working out of his garage.\" Tau snarled back at him before he\nwas pointed to the larges screen on the opposite wall. The screen lit up, with\nwhat seemed to be an oscilloscope pattern on it. \"Not impressed\" he grumbled as\nhe looked at Williams. And then, a sound was heard from the speakers in the\nroom. There was still no picture, only the trembling line of the oscilloscope\nas white noise was heard. Tau was just about to fire Williams, but was\ninterrupted by a voice.\n \n\"Greetings. We are here to\ngreet you on behalf of the galactic community.\" A female sounding voice said.\n\"Please, do not fear us. We come in peace. We are sorry that we couldn't make\nthe first greeting in person, so to speak, but this will have to do.\" She continued as Tau was listening\nclosely. \"We will make proper contact on the 30th of August at what\nyou call 12:00 Greenwich Mean Time, on the following coordinates: 47?20'53.33\" North, 9?03'27.48\" East.\" And the transmission terminated. \"Okay.\nWhy is this so important? It's just a voice recording, nothing more\" Tau\ngrumbled at both men. The Shepard just walked away, leaving Williams to explain\nhimself. \"Well, first off all, it wouldn't be so fascinating, if the entire\nrecording didn't come in a few nanoseconds. Nearly fried our receivers down\nhere and on our satellite. That's what caused the entire system to force shut\ndown\" Williams hurried to explain, but was cut short by Tau. \"You have one more\nsentence to impress me before I fire your ass and send you on a refreshing\nholyday in Siberia.\" He growled lightly as he didn't seem impressed one bit.\n\"It came from roughly the area where the Moon is. So it's not terrestrial.\"\nWilliams explained in what could only be described as a fan boy talking about\nsomething he really like to someone who has no idea what he's talking about.\n\"I'm sorry, WHAT?!\" Tau yelled as he leaned into the closest monitor he could\nfind. \"You have got to be shitting me...\" he said as he saw the numbers and\ncalculations. \"No, I'm not... But sadly, that's not it\" Williams said as he sat\ndown by his side.\n \nA long and exhausting\nexplanation later, Tau was brought up to speed on what happened and what was\nhappening. \"So you're telling me, it was a directed radio signal? Pointed to a few\nspecific satellites and ground stations?\" he asked as he finally thought that\nhe managed to wrap his mind around what he was told. \"Yeah, pretty much sir.\nFar beyond what we can do now\" Williams answered as he took a sip of coffee.\n\"Do you know what this means Williams?\" Tau asked as he looked at him with\nsincere concern in his eyes. \"More or less. What concerns me that now multiple\ngovernments know about this. But so far, everything's quiet\" the other said\nback and Tau just nodded his head. \"If this gets out, people will most likely\npanic. And no one wants that. That's why they're keeping quiet about this...\" Tau\nsaid as he was seemingly lost in his thoughts. \"Where is the location again?\"\nhe asked as he stood up to get some more coffee. \"Somewhere in Switzerland,\nnear a town called...\" Williams said as he looked at the computer \"Bütschwil\" and\nleaned back into his seat and kneaded his eyes. \"And the time gives us roughly\nnine and a half days to figure out how to handle this mess\" Tau said as he\npoured himself a fresh cup of coffee.\n \n\"What I want to know, is why\nhaven't we taken down our main data banks yet?\" the general asked as he came\ninto the room with the latest satellite images of said location. \"Because, if she spoke in English, they probably\nalready know everything about us, and know the best way to kill us. So, either\nthey're really here in peace, or this is just a joke on their part to cause\npanic.\" Tau said as he took a sip. A moment of silence followed, as everyone knew\nthe impact that this will have on Earth. \"So, what now?\" Williams asked, but it\nwas more to break the silence. \"Well, we'll have to get troops there as soon as\npossible. God know what the others will do, especially America. Remember what\nhappened when a kid managed to guess a username and password to the secret\nPentagon servers? That was almost the start of World war three\" the Shepard\nsaid with almost a chuckle in his voice. \"Yes, and that's what worries me\" Tau\nsaid as he turned towards the screen on the wall, showing a satellite image of\nthe supposed landing site."}