"Sir," Nestor declared as I woke up exhausted and bleary-eyed form having spent all the previous day visiting volunteer training camps. "They're coming." It was almost four in the morning. "Where?" I demanded, reaching for my pants."It's hard to say for sure yet," my aide replied. "But the timing looks good for New Queensland." I nodded in the dark and smiled; New Queensland was the single continent near the south pole that wasn't part of the major planetary land mass. There wasn't a thing there worth defending; the entire place was a barely-habitable frozen wasteland. Previous to our arrival the Wilkes people hadn't built a single defensive emplacement there, on the quite reasonable grounds that the enemy had no more use for such valueless real estate than we did. This scenario, however, was based on the premise that the Imperials had planned on an invasion from the very beginning and therefore would've brought all the troops and purpose-designed equipment they'd need along with them.
