Birthright: Battle for the Confederation- Consequence by Ryan Krauter

Author:Ryan Krauter [Krauter, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silver Impala Press
Published: 2016-05-10T06:00:00+00:00

Ten

Loren and Velk sat next to each other in the shuttle as it approached a Priman heavy cruiser. Their bindings were tight and there were severe looking guards sitting across from them; no talking allowed, apparently.

Loren saw through the viewports the ship they were docking with. Something was different; there were extra blisters by the engines and a protrusion ran around the circumference of the ship around the waist. It took a second, but he finally placed it. It looked like the experimental Priman stealth ships Avenger had discovered what seemed like ages ago. The Primans had attempted sensor cloaking technology like Confed, but they just couldn't master it. Avenger's fighter screen had detected the arrivals and attacked, decimating the formation. Apparently there was one more in the inventory. Interesting that Tash would use it for his flagship.

The shuttle set down and the guards roughly prodded Loren and Velk to their feet.

"Looks like you're more prisoner than you thought," Loren muttered to Velk, and got a rough shove in the back as a consequence.

They were paraded across the landing bay, then down a corridor a few frames and into a conference room of some sort. The Commander was waiting there. He stood and indicated the guards should stand Loren and Velk up against the bulkhead across from him.

"This will make things considerably easier," the Commander said simply as he nodded, as if checking something off a mental to-do list. "Commander Stone, anything I can do to impede Avenger and her crew is appreciated. And Representative Velk. You are going to ruin the Priman takeover of this galaxy. Why bargain with these savages?"

"Many reasons," Velk said. "They've earned our respect, at the very least. They won't stop fighting us until we've laid waste to this entire part of space. And the longer we do this, the more we lose our own way. I'm absolutely convinced of that now; we have gone astray as a people."

"On the contrary, Representative. We will win. And I'm going to do it right now." The Commander touched a panel on the bulkhead behind him. "This is the Commander. Execute my previous cached order; we move for Confederation space."

Loren and Velk both looked at him in shock. "What are you doing?" asked Velk.

"I'm going to settle this now," the Commander explained as if he were talking to a dim pupil. "We have a treaty with Confed. We will approach and your fleet will do nothing. Once we are in your midst, we will open fire and ravage your fleet before you can fight back. We will repeat this until we are at Delos itself and I raze the planet to the bedrock. No more of this talk of concessions, of negotiations. We are in charge here, and after we destroy the Confederation nobody else will stand against us either. We will take back this galaxy! And once that is done, the council will see I was right after all. You have grown weak, Representative. You started this war with such purpose; where has it gone?"

"I look at you and see why we must change, Commander.

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