Birthright: Battle for the Confederation- Reprisal by Krauter Ryan

Author:Krauter, Ryan [Krauter, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Silver Impala Press
Published: 2011-12-21T05:00:00+00:00

The main fleets hovered just at long-range weapons distance from each other, neither wanting to fully commit to close-in action. The gap in between the forces was filled with fighter craft, each trying to get past the other to inflict their own damage on their opponent’s ships.

It had been a widespread misconception that Priman fighter ships and their pilots were somehow inferior to their Confed counterparts. This had been based on engagements from the first few months of the war, where Confed forces had adapted to the Priman technique of sensor and targeting jamming. The truth was, the Priman pilots were simply used to their jammers working so well they didn’t have to concentrate as much on the individual engagements and were more focused on the battle as a whole. After the Confed pilots had learned to disable or adapt their targeting computers, the Primans had been caught off guard. Much the same way that in the beginning, Priman warships had a slight edge on Confed vessels due to their more advanced sensors and shielding, Confed forces enjoyed a brief advantage in fighter combat.

This had proven to be short lived. Like their Confederation adversaries, the Priman pilots had adapted, and could hold their own against Confed forces, much to the Confederation’s chagrin. So the melee was evenly matched, with fighters chasing each other, blasting, destroying, always whirling about trying to cheat death while at the same time attempting to deal it out to the enemy.

Fleet Admiral Dant watched the chaotic scene on the holographic display in the C3 of her flagship, Galaxy. While the ship’s captain had operational control of the vessel, the Admiral was directing the battle as a whole from the command center.

She turned to bark orders at her communications officers.

“Keep pushing that CAP screen forward. We need the room behind them. Stand by to launch reserves in a holding position on the fleet on my mark.”

She silently urged the pilots onward, willing them to push far enough from the fleet to give her enough room to launch the reserves. That would give the fleet enough breathing room to either send some of the reserve forces out on an attack, or at the least allow her to create two layers of fighters between her forces and the Primans. Of course, the fighters would be a non-issue if the fleets closed to main battery range, but she would plan for that as a possibility and deal with what she actually had in front of her.

The only capital ships she was keeping in reserve was a battleship division numbering four of the Starshakers. They had arrived too late from other stations to be built into the main fleet body, so she had decided to keep them as a separate force. Having the mighty ships on hand was a comforting feeling. She had to admit that Admiral Nodam Bak had been right on when he instituted his program to recommission the vessels. The Starshakers were a match for anything she could think of, in this quadrant of space or any other.

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