(eng) Jonathan P. Brazee - United Federation Marine Corps 03 by Lieutenant

Author:Lieutenant [Lieutenant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“I already told you a thousand times. When the M665 fire hit the capys, there was a flash of blue light, light blue, but bright, and they just kept coming,” Ryck said, frustration evident in his voice.

This would be the sixth time he’d been debriefed. A Marine captain, a Navy lieutenant commander, a civilian, and a petty officer made up this team. Each team asked the same questions over and over, as if he were a criminal, and they were waiting for him to mess up his story.

To make matters worse, this time, they’d actually let some information slip. The claymores that Howell and Weiss had set up at the cost of their lives had evidently never detonated. That was two more men added to Ryck’s butcher’s bill.

“OK, Dr. Telluren, why don’t we give Lieutenant Lysander a breather,” the Marine captain told the civilian, who had been particularly interested in the shade of the glaring light. “Say, five minutes?”

Ryck shot a grateful look at the captain. He wasn’t doing much of the questioning, and Ryck knew his command had sent the Marines to watch out for him.

Ryck completely understood why he was being questioned. The capys, or Tricnocular majoris, as they were being officially called, were an unknown entity. Not many humans had observed them and lived to tell anyone about it. The Federation was on a full push to take the fight to the capys, but they didn’t know yet just what they were. All they had were specimens of the Trinocular minors, the ones the farmers had slaughtered. The current thinking was that the smaller trinoculars served some sort of livestock function, although there was a good deal of disagreement about that. If the similarities in appearance were an indication of similar evolutions, then the big capys might be vegetarian.

What the brains had been able to glean was that the soldier capys have an unknown but highly effective form of shielding against energy weapons, seem to be more susceptible to kinetic weapons, and have shielding against detection better than anything known to man. They didn’t seem to have armor or supporting arms, but were essentially somewhat slow light infantry. That didn’t mean they were inferior to Marine units. They had devastated 2/6, after all.

The one silver lining was that despite the capy ships seeming to have superior shielding, the Navy intel types thought the Federation ships might have a weapons edge over capy ships, based on their analysis of their brief encounter.

All over human space, the governments were in deep talks on Arrival, the Brotherhood’s capital planet. Humans were gearing up for a conflict, and every scrap of intel on the capys was being processed. The little capys were being analyzed in an attempt to design weapons that might be effective against the soldier capys. Deep space scouts had been dispersed to try to find capy worlds, or hopefully, their homeworld. Ryck knew he had to contribute any way he could. But it was frustrating, to be stuck on his back in a hospital ward, being asked the same thing over and over.

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