Adagio of Awakening by Brett Baker

Author:Brett Baker [Baker, Brett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Royal Crown Press
Published: 2019-01-26T22:00:00+00:00

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Eventually they set up in Watanabe’s safehouse. Watanabe, Rin and Lexi shared the loft, while the soldiers set up their quarters on the opposite end of the warehouse, giving both groups their privacy. Before long, the soldiers had set up a demolitions lab, weapons racks, and a full command and control array, and once they had finished getting situated, Chatham asked them to meet.

They sat in the living room, and Chatham paced back and forth, “Prince Torvix told us you guys are some kind of Psionicists, or something.” Chatham began. “Our mission is to give you combat support, so the purpose of this meeting is to figure out how we can do that.”

“This is a waste of time” Blythe complained. “Can’t I just go blow something up?”

“Ignore her” Chatham replied. “Blythe is disrespectful and insubordinate, but she’s also one of the best demolitions experts to come out of the Academy in a generation. Weill is underage, and it’s a miracle they haven’t found out and kicked him out of the service, but he’s also very good at gathering intel through ‘less than legal’ means... Garret, Hastings, and Thackeray are all top-notch. So our team is small, but we know our stuff.”

“And what about you?” Lexi asked.

Blythe cackled as she kicked her feet out and stretched her arms across the back of the couch. “Chatham is papa-bear. He takes care of all of us.”

“That’s right” Chatham replied with a joking smile and a wink. “And don’t you forget it, or you’ll find yourself right back in the stockades you degenerate.”

“What we need is a strategy” Watanabe offered. “It’s hard to know where to begin without knowing our enemy.”

“I guess that’s where I come in” Weill said, leaning forward in his seat. “”I’m writing an algorithm to analyze the pattern of attacks on your world. What I have seen so far is that the horde attacks have been precise, and meticulously planned out targeting this world’s energy and supply infrastructures. Whoever is in control of the horde is following a pretty classic ‘disrupt, and spread panic’ strategy. But your governments have been very effective in suppressing any news of the attacks, so the majority of your world remains blissfully unaware that this is even happening.”

“So somebody’s in command of the horde?” Lexi asked.

Weill nodded. “The Horde is ravenous, but targeted and strategic they are not. Without a hordemaster, they would run amok, consuming until they were wiped out. They need somebody to command them, and he will have a support team around him as well.”

“So the key to beating the horde is to take out the hordemaster?” Lexi offered.

“Not necessarily,” Weill countered. “Like I said without the hordemaster in control, the horde would run amok. The key to beating the horde while minimizing their damage is to confuse the hordemaster. Get him to attack the wrong targets, set ambushes, and whittle away at his forces until he makes a fatal mistake. It’s a game of cat and mouse, really.”

“So where do we start?” Watanabe asked.

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