Admiral's Fall by Luke Sky Wachter

Author:Luke Sky Wachter [Wachter, Luke Sky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32: Panic in the Assembly

“Isaak, you assured us your people were up to the task of liberating Sector 26 and securing our voting base without the need to involve the most ruthless tyrant the Spine has ever seen. Your words!” shouted Anton Chat-Hammer, hammering the podium in front of him with both fists. “The fact is we threw him over the side before we’d even properly won the battle! What the blazes were you thinking? I ask you: where are your assurances now?” he demanded stridently. “First Fleet is camped outside of Aegis with no idea of when or if they’ll ever be able to take back that star system, and the Flotilla you decided to send into Sector 26 has just backfired. We can’t afford a war on two fronts—yet that’s exactly what you’ve given us!”

Isaak’s face twitched. “Tread carefully, Chat-Hammer. We still have people out in the field fighting the enemy. With Montagne in the mix anything could have happened,” he warned.

“Or what? We’ll fight a two front war with the better half of our best fleet sitting on the sidelines—where you sent them!” Chat-Hammer ignored that last part of Isaak’s warning as he continued hamming on the speaker. “Or maybe you’ll ensure I never sit on another committee in the Grand Assembly of the Spine? Oh wait, that’s already happened. Get over yourself, esteemed Speaker for the Assembly. What’s important right now isn’t my career and it certainly isn’t your future career if your Flotilla is driven all the way back to the border of 25. What we face here is nothing less than the fate of the Spineward Sectors itself.”

“Can the drama before you get someone killed. What we need here are steady, well-reasoned actions, not the angry decisions of an incensed governing body, Chat-Hammer,” warned Isaak.

“I implore you for once in your life to set aside your ego and your threats, as impossible as that may seem, and do what we should have done from the beginning,” Chat-Hammer said staunchly. “We must restore Montagne to head of the New Confederation Fleet, rescue the Flotilla lead by Bluetooth, and stomp out once and for all the remnants of the Reclamation Fleet. Do what should have been done four months ago, if only we’d still had the Tyrant at our beck and call: free the Spine from the jack boots of the Empire!”

“Montagne’s a greater threat to this Assembly than three Empires. Why can’t you see that,” demanded Isaak stridently.

“I don’t care if you have to get down on bended knee and beg. No price is too high to ensure the freedom of the people and the power of this Assembly! These partisan games must stop!” cried Chat-Hammer.

“Hear-hear!” shouted a large number of representatives.

Isaak Newton’s face turned ugly. “You would have me lick the Tyrant’s boots?” he demanded. “If it weren’t for the Tyrant refusing to sell us his wife’s fuel, my flotilla would have brought the enemy to a decisive battle and finished them before

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