Ambush (The Chohish Wars Book 1) by G. J. Moses

Author:G. J. Moses [Moses, G. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-02T22:00:00+00:00

Change of Plans

A bit later, Zeke and Jeanne walked onto the Bridge. A quick survey showed all the others were present, they were the last to arrive.

“Hello Captains, I was informed by your waiter that you had completed the specials so we all pinged each other it was time to meet. Just out of curiosity Jeanne, what were the ‘specials’, the waiter laughed and said I should ask you when I asked him. Jeanne, are you OK? Something you ate?” Will asked Jeanne when he saw her cough in embarrassment.

“Err… not used to your spices…” replied Jeanne trying to maintain her composure.

“I asked everyone to come here versus the conference room for the sake of time. Did you come up with a mine pattern that you want to deploy Gunner?” Zeke interjected seeing Jeanne’s stumbling. He was close to laughing himself.

“I will let Isolde review what we decided on since most of it is her plan anyway. Will and I added our own little tidbits to make it a bit more interesting for our friends. We would hate to disappoint them. Hope they get a real blast out of it.” a proud Gunner replied. Zeke noticed that Gunner’s voice, though still a little strained, sounded more like his booming voice of old.

Using the controls embedded in her wrists, Isolde brought up a 3D image of the tunnel exit. “Our plan is to deploy the mines in three layers. The first layer will be just a heavy layer of our regular space mines. The second layer, missile mines. The last layer will be a mixture of both.”

The 3D image pulled back quickly within the tunnel. Stopping a good distance from the exit, in the very center of the tunnel, was a line of mines laid out in haphazard order.

“This is a simulation of how the space mines will be arranged. The outside of the mines will mimic the features of the surrounding asteroids. We were going to use the mines normal camouflage, but Dale and Danny made some great recommendations. Along with their crew, they redid the camouflage for the mines to mimic an asteroid. We are hoping the Chohish will believe these are asteroids left over from when the tunnel was built. Maybe a waste if their maps are up to date and identify they do not belong there, but we believe that in their haste, they will ignore some warnings. Or that we placed them there trying to slow their advance. We are using our tractor beams to pull out asteroids and place them in the middle of the tunnel to help with this subterfuge.”

The image changed to show asteroids being pulled out of the side tunnel to be dumped into the middle.

“Gunner came up with that part.” a proud Isolde explained.

“The mines are configured to wait until all the Chohish ships are within range of the mines before arming. Our thought is since they may not be familiar with mines, why waste missile mines when they will, hopefully anyway, run right into them.

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