Admiral's War Part One by Wachter Luke Sky

Author:Wachter, Luke Sky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pacific Crest Publishing
Published: 2015-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-four: Outside Pressures

After a good fifteen minutes of wrangling, everything seemed to be going as per usual when Silverback stood up and dropped his bombshell in the middle of the table. Not literally a bombshell, but it might as well have been one.

“I have evidence here in my hand,” he said, pointing to the data storage device that, in point of literal fact, was not in his hand but laying on the conference table instead, “relayed to me from Aegis High Command mere hours ago via courier.”

He was rudely interrupted by the head of the Blackwood contingent, Admiral Dark Matter himself—rear Admiral, that is, but don’t let him here you say that.

“If it’s the same information I received from Blackwood, our intelligence apparatus two days ago you’d probably be better off tossing that data stick in the trash and giving up the whole thing for a bad game, Silverback,” said Admiral Dark Matter.

“Admiral Silverback to the likes of you, Dark Matter,” the Aegis Admiral barked, looking at the Blackwood Admiral with narrowed eyes.

“I don’t see the need to quibble over such minor things as rank. Do you, Admiral Silverback?” Dark Matter drawled, stroking his red chin whiskers as he leaned back in his chair and laughed. “It seems to me an Admiral should be measured by the size of the contingent under his command, rather than the rockets, comets or stars on his shoulder board..”

“Oh, of course not, Rear Admiral,” Silverback gloated.

Dark Matter slammed his hand down on the table and glared at Silverback, who was just starting to roll his eyes when the Blackwood Admiral threw back his head and barked a laugh.

“Good for you,” Dark Matter chortled.

Admiral Silverback stiffened before continuing, “As I was about to say before being interrupted by my uncouth colleague from Blackwood: Aegis Intelligence has recently intercepted information vital to the Grand Fleet and the war effort to save this Sector as a whole,” he said, turning to sweep the room as he spoke and also pointedly ignored Admiral Dark Matter while he did so.

I could tell that he’d caught the attention of the rest of the room. Murphy knows he’d captured mine. I cleared my throat and, even though I knew it had been his intent all along, I still stood up and asked the question that was now on everyone’s mind.

“I think I speak for everyone when I ask what this information is and just how exactly did Aegis obtain it?” I asked.

“Aegis has some suspicion regarding certain individuals recently arrived on our planet and our intelligence apparatus, working in conjunction with our police and security services recently captured an enemy agent,” Silverback said triumphantly. “He was a low-level Reclamationist with limited operational information, which was extracted before he died.”

“What could a low-level agent have to say that was so important?” Dark Matter asked suspiciously. Clearly, whatever he’d heard from his government and chosen not to share with us was different from what Silverback was relaying.

“While his information and understanding of

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