Battle of Sol by Lee Guo

Author:Lee Guo
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Wicked Muse Publishing
Published: 2018-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

Flag Bridge, Federation Battlecruiser Carpathia, above the wormhole exit

Yamato eyes stared wide open at the perfectly functioning enemy star fortress on the holomap. The enemy battlestation was still there! Gods, its TPCs took the blows of squadrons of fighters’ antimatter bombs… and didn’t self-detonate or self-demolecurize its entire mainframe. Instead, they still functioned perfectly!

How?

Why didn’t the star fortress blow up like the Titans from the previous battle a month ago?

Inwardly, he knew the answer. The enemy TPCs, despite becoming unshielded, had simply fired when it wasn’t being struck by fighter bombs or pulsar beams. Somehow, someway, the TPCs detected when a bomb or a pulsar beam was about to hit, and simply stopped firing the moment the bombs or beams hit… and then fired in the interval right after.

But how did the enemy know exactly when a bomb or pulsar beam would hit?

And even more puzzling was why each TPC still remained there — fully functional — after all that firepower had smashed into it. What was it made of? How was it capable of withstanding so much gigatons of TNT? If it were normal carbon nanofiber armor, the TPC itself certainly would have been utterly destroyed after that much devastation. Even carbon nanofiber armor couldn’t withstand so much firepower…

So many mysteries.

Yamato didn’t know what to do... or even where to start.

And then he unfroze. “Captain,” said Yamato, “I need your mind for a moment.”

The red-headed Captain Rogers took his gaze off the holomap, and walked to Yamato’s command seat. “Yes, sir?”

“Do you know how the Argonans are able to time their TPC perfectly so they don’t fire when our weapons hit them?”

Captain Rogers gazed at the holomap, then back at Yamato. “Well, sir,” he said. “I can easily explain how they’re able to know when a fighter bomb is about to hit. But as for how they know when our pulsar beam is on the way, I can only guess.”

“Explain,” said Yamato eagerly.

“Well, it’s simple really,” said Rogers. “They know when our fighters’ missiles are about to hit through radar scanning. Since our bombs move at 0.65 c, and since radar operates at 1 c, they’ll have time to react to our missiles by not firing the TPC at the moment of predicted impact.”

“I see,” said Yamato. “And as for how they know when our pulsar beams are coming?”

“That requires some assumptions,” said Rogers. “Basically, the enemy has to have some type of faster-than-light scanning system since our pulsar beams move at the speed of light. It is likely that they do have such a system. After all, they have a weapon that can move at 4 c. Why not have scanners that also move at 4 c?”

“I see,” said Yamato.

“It’s the best explanation I can give, sir. I doubt our main computer can do better.”

Yamato nodded, and Captain Rogers moved back towards the forward section of the bridge.

Should he continue attacking the TPCs? His fighter strikes and pulsar beam strikes were doing nothing. What the hell were those

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