Star Force: Uriti Strike by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2017-04-19T06:00:00+00:00

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March 4, 4832

Tarric 3 System

Stellar Orbit

When Hera’s Warship-class jumpship finished its deceleration and linked in to the Star Force battlemap in the system she saw the battle with the blockade fleet already heavily underway. The 284 Canderous sedas were clumped up around the jumppoint to Grid Point Stargate, with the V’kit’no’sat having hit them already but now pulled away from the much larger space stations to engage the smaller warships…who were not grouping with the sedas.

There were Canderous warships and others from the Grid Point with the sedas, but the attacking Star Force fleet had mostly recombined from its numerous arrival jumppoints and was engaging the larger blockade fleet in more than just probing action…with the V’kit’no’sat deciding to smash it first then go back and get the sedas. If they hit the sedas first the big stations would soak up too much damage, allowing the Star Force fleet to get free shots off at them. That meant Star Force needed to group up and force that fight…but they weren’t, and the V’kit’no’sat were going to make them pay for that.

Hera smiled dangerously. Everything was going as planned, and even though Kara’s fleet was taking a beating, the Queen of Diamonds knew how to drag out a fight like this long enough to get their heavy hitter in…and to keep the enemy from running. By now Kara already would have given the ultimatum to leave…which the V’kit’no’sat obviously had ignored…and now was the time to see if word of Bahamut leaving the Preserve had made its way to the V’kit’no’sat yet.

Some 40 seconds after Hera’s ship arrived the last in their convoy came through, that being the massive transport ship that dwarfed the Wrangler’s vessel. Jeen was already here and engaged in the fighting along with the other jumpships, guiding drones that were doing the actual attacking while the control ships dodged any attempt by the V’kit’no’sat to get to them, and that’s where Hera’s ship was headed now as she stood in the command nexus onboard her warship. Linked in to the battlemap network she ordered the transport to begin opening up as she focused and triggered her gauntlet to connect to the massive transmitter onboard her ship, giving her a telepathic link to Bahamut.

It’s time, she said, in a mix of thoughts that weren’t quite words but a type of shorthand they’d developed over the centuries. Follow my lead and I’ll get targets for you to kill. Do it just like training and be mindful of your targets. I need as much precision from you as possible.

Bahamut signaled he was ready as the gator-like doors continued to crank open, exposing the Uriti inside as the transport continued to move closer to the battle. Hera wished she could see the V’kit’no’sat’s reaction…especially as Interdictor-class drones in the fleet began pinning various ships in place and stacking up the massive blockade fleet so it couldn’t run as well as normal.

Go, she said when they were finally in range.

Bahamut surged out of the transport, slow for a starship but fast considering the speeds he used to be capable of.

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