(eng) Michael Chatfield - Free Fleet 04 by From The Black

Author:From The Black [Black, From The]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Rick watched the battle rage on Heija, the planet was small enough that the battle was visible from space.

Sensors were dialed in so that Rick could see the battlefield in infinitely deadly detail. The Commando lines were a sea of armored beings rushing from one position to another. Projectiles of all forms spat from trenches, the mountains and even the ships that had landed on Heija.

That fire flattened Kalu, ripping through their lines, leaving rents in their oncoming formations. Heija was dark, but the constant explosions and the light of rail gun rounds kept the battlefield alight.

Salchar had been clear in his orders, no ships were to attack the Kalu in orbit. The ships were there to provide the forces on the ground with support by way of ammunition and fresh Commandos.

Already shuttles filled with wounded, and those ineffective on the battlefield had been lifted from the ground and slotted into medical bays.

Foshunti's fighter commander, Rav and Heston were coordinating getting the MEF's that had been on the planet, changed out with those stored on the ships in orbit.

The newly arrived MEF's were on standby or in the atmosphere giving the fighters on the ground a chance to leave their posts and get their MEF'S sorted out. They were also piling shot after shot of anything and everything they had at the Kalu swarms from every direction that they could come from.

The Kalu were descending like a wave, their reinforcements never stopping. The Star-destroyers didn't descend like the Star-warriors and the fighters the destroyers released.

Also with them all being around the planet, Rick had been able to get solid readings on the ship numbers, there was two thousand ships in orbit, fifty of them were Destroyers with no fighters, another four hundred were filled destroyers. Three hundred Star Warriors had descended onto Heija, leaving 520 Star-warriors.

The fighters and the warriors didn't descend according to any battle plan, other than when enough Kalu died, they rushed in to replace them.

“The ammunition has reached all of the weapon systems,” In Sook said, the weapon systems went from only firing bursts, to firing on full automatic. They ripped into three Star Warriors as they came down, turning them to hulks, smashing into their fellow Star Warriors that had been landed at the edge of the battlefield.

Explosions bashed the Star Warriors, sending them careening away, like candy out of a broken piñata.

More warriors were already headed to Heija as destroyers opened up, and PDS turned to the fighters. Hosing them down with hundreds of thousands of rounds.

“Damn,” Marleen said, shooting a look to Rick.

Maybe married couples don't read one another's minds, but we have very similar thoughts. Rick smiled slightly at the odd thought.

The swarms were shedding fighters at an alarming rate, the weight of HAPA's the Destroyers, MEF's and PDS were taking their toll, actually stopping them from advancing because of their casualties.

HAPA's transferred their fire onto the Kalu warriors.

Rick checked the main incoming feeds. Planner had taken over the PDS and firing algorithms.

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