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The first invaders

The warning from the first Jumper was taken very seriously. “Train to preserve your peace. They will find you one day.”

She had given us weapons to hunt with and told us to use hunting game as training to ambush those who would want to enslave you. Make them the game. Game can be hunted or trapped. When we considered what she said and what was written, we knew what she hinted at.

Though the Jumpers were generally gentle, were very passionate when it came to our planet.

They made sure that we could and would prevent any one of us from becoming slaves again.

She warned us, “Once even one of you gets taken from this planet, the rest will be vulnerable. Protect yourselves.”

Over and over the Jumpers would tell us that they were not gods. They were only humans that respected all life. They most likely could not come to our rescue. Their rescue of us from slavery was a completely planned operation. Our defense of that freedom lay entirely on our shoulders.

With those dire warnings, we practiced and practiced our defense and offence. We sat for strategy meetings until everyone did not even have to think about it. Traps and ambush points were set up and routinely gone over.

The expectation was not if but when this planet is found. The plan was to have a group play panic and lead the slavers away from the community and more importantly, away from their ship. Our plan was rehearsed with someone guarding the ship and the ship’s crew thinking that the intelligence level is low and all pursue us, leaving the ship unguarded.

It was around the twentieth year that our planet was stumbled upon. It was a slaver ship. Fortunately for us, it was a loner. Slavers never share their finds or course. Because we have a well developed village, we have a typical goblin village made far away from the developed area. All outward appearances were that this was a feral site. A slaver would not be going into a modern village, they find the feral one.

The people that man the feral village are to be commended. They are all volunteer. To go from clean to a pig stye takes a special dedication. We make sure that they are rotated regularly.

One big difference between a real goblin settlement and ours is that there are built in hides. Some in the village but also quite a few in the field near it. A ship will land in the clear area and then the crew would go to catch the helpless goblins.

True to form, the ship landed in the field. We had a few people there and they threw rocks at the ship. Sure enough, the crew spilled out and chased them the way we wanted them to go. The ship’s crew had only one problem, they did not know where the traps were. We did.

All of us had, at one time, been abducted and sold. We were not going to be caught again.

Those traps were deadly. Figuring that the slavers would slow down or even stop after one or two of the traps, there were ambush teams.

By the time they realized they were in trouble, between the traps and our snipers, there was only a third of the crew left. They decided to retreat to the ship. Bad move.

It was discovered that all the crew left to chase us. They had almost a full load of slaves.

Again’ bad move. We entered the ship to the cheers of the captured goblins. They were released. It turned out that most of the maintenance workers for the ship were goblin slaves. They showed us how to lock the ship down so when the remainder of the crew made it back. They were locked out. Fatal for them. The sad thing was that we did lose four of our citizens.

The slaver’s bodies were gone by morning. The animals of the forest need to eat.

We welcomed the captured slaves into our family. It did not surprise anyone when they all wanted to stay. Most were tired of running scared. The captive maintenance goblins It wanted nothing more than to feel the earth under their feet.

The maintenance goblins were able to show us how the systems worked. They had all the spares needed for our research teams to study and they were eventually replicate all the parts but with major improvements.

The only problem was duplication of the shell. Thanks to the library that the Jumper brough to us, there was found a metallurgy book. The Jumper had chosen this planet well. All the minerals needed were in great abundance. Soon we had a small fleet of ships and well trained crews.

These ships have been armed. Among those books there was one book that went into great detail on new weapons that were used in space. When asked, the Jumper said that it was from a very advanced dual planet system that had caused mutual self-destruction. She said that the first female jumper’s mate had written about one of them he visited. He called it a news planet. When the new Jumper visited it it was almost completely destroyed. Only a military library was partially intact. She said she knew that we would eventually need it.

Our first task was to communicate with the other planets in this system. At first they were afraid. They did not have the space capabilities. Most have heard of the slavers. Some recognized the ships and thought that the slavers were here. It was explained to them that we had destroyed them and duplicated the ship.

After some negotiations’, we came to a treaty. The goblin ships would defend this system from intruders. In return, they would trade us some livestock or minerals that we needed. Our planet is now the guardian planet of the system. There have been challenges. We overwhelm them. Now it is our practice to confiscate ships. We have made a fleet of shuttle ships that will accommodate those crews that surrender their ships. Low tech but they are advantageous for spreading the word. Don’t mess with this system. You will lose.

Eventually we became well respected. The word had spread. We became known as the fair but feared fleet. The warning was that if you wanted to enter our system, stop and wait for us. Any peaceful ship will be met in peace all others will either lose their ship and return in a shuttle our just become so much space debris.

From those books, there was one on the war planes of their world. One picture of a plane became our ship’s identification. All our ships are painted the same. All green but at the front of each ship are a pair of angry red eyes and a very large open snarling mouth full of teeth.

It was told to us that when a shuttle was found, all the survivors would say was that it struck fear in them at the sight of those eyes and teeth.

With that reputation, we have not lost one citizen to the slavers only those first four who have gone on to be seen as hero’s that made the ultimate sacrifice for the good of our planet.

The other planets under our protection are now accepting escaped slaves of other races as free citizens. We get goblins drifting in space, in some of those shuttles. They will tell us that our shuttles are just left drifting or taken back to other planets and used to transport slaves. A great many of them had the crew tossed into space and then flown to our space.