Battle Group Avalon (Castle Federation Book 3) by Glynn Stewart

Author:Glynn Stewart [Stewart, Glynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Faolan's Pen Publishing Inc.
Published: 2016-04-28T19:00:00+00:00

18:00 March 25, 2736 ESMDT

Landning City

The shuttle landing pad on the outskirts of Fyr’s capital city was crowded. Kyle watched through his implants as his pilot neatly slotted Avalon’s Shuttle One in next to the pair of shuttles carrying Rear Admiral Alstairs, Captain Solace, and the Admiral’s staff.

Most of the shuttles were local, suborbital craft delivering personnel from around the planet. The fourth Alliance shuttle was from Zheng He, carrying Force Commander Aleppo.

Kyle wasn’t sure when his and Aleppo’s temporary ranks would be canceled, but they were still the titles they’d been invited to the surface under. Alstairs might have brought enough people to justify the second shuttle, but his only companion was Lieutenant Commander Jessica Xue. His XO was in command and his CAG was—thankfully—asleep, so the tactical officer drew the straw of playing Kyle’s “staff” for this affair.

Stepping out of the shuttle onto the surprisingly cool surface of the pad—there had to be some impressive heat exchangers and cooling systems under its surface—Avalon’s commander watched a local ground-car zoom across the landing pad and come to a perfect stop several feet from him.

A dark-haired young woman in a crisply pressed Frihet Defense Force uniform sprang out of the passenger side, quickly opening the rear door for Kyle and his tactical officer.

“Welcome to Fyr and Landning City, Force Commander Roberts, Lieutenant Commander Xue,” she said brightly. “I’m Lieutenant Yvonne Svenson, Frihet Defense Force. I’ve been assigned as your attaché for the duration of your stay on Fyr.”

“Thank you, Lieutenant,” Kyle replied, gesturing Xue into the vehicle as he looked around the pad. “Your people seem… Well, you seem to be back on your feet surprisingly quickly.”

Svenson looked askance for a moment and then shrugged.

“Appearances are everything,” she said quietly. “Most of the government and military managed to go underground before the orbital platforms fell. Now we’re coming back out of hiding, hence”—she gestured at the suborbital shuttles—“we’ll put our best foot forward with the Alliance,” she said brightly. “Shall we?”

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