The Medusa Fold by Nick Adams
Author:Nick Adams [Adams, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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The bridge, starship Gabriel, the Prasinos system, Milky Way
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âHoly moly!â exclaimed Phil, as he jumped the Gabriel into the Prasinos system.
Itâd taken a few days for them to reach the home system of the GDA back in the Milky Way. Theyâd thought it strange there wasnât a Katadromiko guarding the gateway as they went through. Now they found out why, as the holomap updated above them.
They had conformed to the warnings by jumping into the system a much greater distance from Dasos than usual, in temporarily set up jump zones on the outer edge.
âAh, crap,â said Linda. âLook at all that shit flying around. How are we going to find a way through all that?â
âDasos is completely covered in clouds and storms,â said Pol, zooming in on the home of the GDA. âItâs bloody cold and windy down there.â
âYouâd think theyâd have more ships cleaning up all this debris,â said Phil.
âI think the debris are the ships,â said Pol. âJudging by my readings itâs all bits of navy and domestic vessels.â
âWhat the hell happened here?â asked Linda. âTo do this amount of damage wouldâve taken a sizeable enemy fleet and where are those bloody huge defence platforms that surrounded the planet?â
âDestroyed too,â said Pol. âThereâs lumps of them everywhere.â
They watched for a while as the few dozen naval ships returning from around the galaxy had been hastily assembled into some sort of defensive screen around their capital planet. Between them theyâd managed to staunch the flow of all but the smallest flotsam from dropping into Dasosâs gravity well.
âThe damage on the surface is extensive,â said Pol. âThe massive change in climate must be down to that Klatt octaship thing they were going to use on Paradeisos. Perhaps we need to find that and destroy it.â
âNo need,â said Linda, studying her screen. âIt destroyed itself, it says here. After utilising its beam on Dasos, all the shrapnel cut it to pieces.â
âThey didnât think that one through did they?â said Phil, shaking his head slowly.
Linda put a call out for Commander Loftt. It only took him ten minutes to reply.
âItâs Admiral of the Fleet Loftt now,â came a tired but familiar voice. âAre Ed and Andy aboard?â
âI was kinda hoping they were with you,â Linda replied in a disappointed tone.
âThey went back to the Medusa galaxy to find you a few days ago,â he said.
âOh,â she said. âWe must have passed somewhere on the journey here. Congratulations on the new job by the way. I thought you were retired.â
âAll the GDA senior naval officers were lost, along with half the council members in various places.â
âThe President?â Phil asked.
âLost too,â said Bache. âVice President Milne is now the new President.â
âAh, I think Iâve met her,â said Linda. âShe has a strange accent fromâ¦errâ¦â
âScolain.â
âThatâs it,â she said, now recalling the conversation. âA beautiful but cold planet somewhere distant if I remember right.â
âIndeed, it is,â Bache confirmed.
âIf you managed to rescue Ed and Andy, have you got Salft in detention now?â she asked, changing the subject.
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