Banner of the Stars: Volume 4 by Hiroyuki Morioka

Author:Hiroyuki Morioka [MORIOKA, HIROYUKI]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6: Gronile Bitymr (By the Lake)

The battle in the Kemar System had let up for the time being. The Kemar Portal was under the Imperial Star Forces’ complete control. That was not to say they had driven out the enemy from all corners of the system. The enemy was lurking in certain sectors, awaiting their chance to counterattack.

The theater that was thought to possess especial war potential was Akadd. Akadd was a giant gas planet with a number of satellites, which were what made Kemar a munitions-centric star system boasting a concentration of factories and resource mining operations. The Star Forces had laid hold of the inner planets.

After securing a star, it was customary to set up mobile antimatter fuel factories. They also assembled repair ships, réboniac (food supply ships), and garymiac (medic ships) in orbit above each of the planets they secured.

The ships of Trample-Blitz Squadron 1 had moored alongside the repair ships to undergo servicing. While there was a pause in hostilities, it wasn’t yet safe enough to be setting up mobile base canteens. But there were over ten supply ships to serve as replacements, revolving around the second planet of the Kemar System, Menderess. Instead of goods and commodities, the supply ships (all Cetairh-class) were packed with restaurants, bars, fitness facilities, game halls, theaters, aquariums, museums, zoos, and other recreational facilities that could be established within cramped vessels. These supply ships were small models meant to accompany recon sub-fleets, so they were highly maneuverable, and had the same level of armaments as defense ships. In the event of an enemy attack, they could break away from the battlefield with the soldiers (sluggish after a few days off) still aboard.

One of those ships, the Batcetairh, had a peculiar interior design — it had been made a park. The five-story zocrh déür (garden deck) within the ship was 10 üésdagh long and 2 üésdagh wide. Three of the decks were further demarcated, but two weren’t. Trample-Blitz Squadron 1 had reserved Zocrh Déür Gona (Garden Deck 4), also known as the Üapaiss Gronile Bitymr (Lakeside Space) for the day.

“First,” said the Commandant, Kilo-Commander Atosryua, “a moment of silence for the soldiers, both enemy and allied, that fell in battle.”

Over two hundred soldiers lowered their heads, a solemn pall of silence enveloping the place. Atosryua was standing atop a slightly raised tier relative to the rest. It was more of a tiny mound than anything else, and that mound was covered by ticrebh (carpet grass), grass genetically engineered to be short and not to wither when tread upon. It also allowed for small flowers to bloom. The flowers would get crushed underfoot, but the grass was such that new flowers would bloom in a few dozen minutes’ time. The soldiers were also standing on that carpet of grass.

Garden Deck 4 was divided into the carpet grass section and the pond. The lawn was dotted sparsely with trees. The ceiling and walls projected imagery that gave them the illusion of standing on a vast lake shore under an endless blue sky.

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