Catherine Kimbridge Chronicles 7: Renegades by Andrew Beery

Author:Andrew Beery [Beery, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Goodreads: 30184612
Published: 2016-05-12T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14: When Good Men Fall…

Commander Andrew Martinescu tapped the launch buttons on his CAG control board for the Gold and Blue wings. He was going to hold Red and Green in reserve. Immediately the two groups of Scorpion-class attack fighters shot out from their linear accelerator launch bays.

The Gold wing was under the command of Lieutenant Commander “Jax” Jackson while the Blue wing commander was Lieutenant Commander “Madi” Madison. Jax and Madi were two of his most experienced pilots. CAM, as his team had taken to calling him, was especially interested in watching Jax’s wing. One of his pilots was new to his Scorpion.

Admiral Kimbridge had decided that their little merry band of misfits needed a fully trained Marine Assault Contingent. By fully trained, Cat meant that every MAC should be able to use whatever weapons systems were on hand to get their mission done.

The Yorktown taskforce was operating on its own and so that meant they had to do more with less. As a result, the Admiral had granted a field promotion to Staff Sergeant Anthony Stone. He was now a Marine Lieutenant in charge of the Yorktown’s MAC. As a result he was putting his recent AI enhanced Scorpion fighter training to the test as a temporary member of Gold wing.

“Gold wing leader… this is the CAG. Take good care of our newest recruit. The Admiral likes him and I would hate to have to tell her you got her favorite marine killed.”

A moment later Jax responded. “No worries CAG. Marines don’t die, they just go to hell and regroup!”

***

Newly promoted Lieutenant Anthony Grant Stone sat in the acceleration couch of his Scorpion. Things had happened fast. He thought to himself, ‘The paint on the side of the this ship must still be wet’. His call sign Rubble Maker had been recently emblazoned on the side of the small but deadly craft. Truth be known, it seemed odd to be sitting in a fighter. As a marine he liked a fight as much as the next guy but this was something different.

Up until a few days ago he had been a grunt. A staff sergeant. Something the Admiral had seen in and amidst the alien tech on DE1 had changed his life. The admiral had adapted an idea from what she had seen and he was the first fruits of that idea.

Specially designed nanites had been injected into his body and made their way to his cerebral cortex. There, they interfaced with his brain in such a way that they could facilitate rapid experience-based learning. With the Yorktown AI’s help he had accumulated, what the egg heads estimated was, two years of flight training in just a couple of days. He had access to muscle memory that was implanted rather than developed naturally. Sadly this did not mean his muscles were actually toned to their new role. That was something that would take real hours in a real ship. What that would mean for the mission he was about to fly was anybody’s guess.

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