Crusade of Vengeance by Jay Allan

Author:Jay Allan [Allan, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-06T22:00:00+00:00

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Captain Leigh stared at the screen. She was still searching for the other ships, some of them, at least…but all she saw was the enemy forces. Her vessel was moving slowly, very slowly, but it was moving, and she knew that increased the chances the enemy would detect her. She was ready to cut off all power, to float along, as undetectable as possible, if the enemy came within a certain range of her. But after scanning the general area around the planet, the vessels set out, almost directly away from her position. She let out a sigh of relief, and she still watched. But she realized she had dodged a problem, for the moment, at least.

Still, her situation was grim, even within an operation she had considered more or less suicidal. She had hoped, for a while, that she would find some of the other vessels, but she had come to realize the chances of that—even if they were out there—were very poor. Any ships operating this close to the planet would be maximizing their undetectability…until the last possible moment.

If the other ships had survived, if they were out there, operating without her own vessel, she would detect them…but only when they launched their attack. She knew the special systems had allowed the vessels to come to the enemy planet, to get as close as possible…but she doubted they would operate within the planet’s atmosphere, and even if the vessels somehow managed to land undetected, a miracle in itself, she was certain the Regent would find them the instant they emerged from their ships. Then, it would quickly become clear whether the enemy had retained sufficient forces to overwhelm and destroy them…or if the mission actually had a chance of success.

She continued to watch as the enemy ships moved farther and farther away. She sighed slightly, a bit of relief that temporarily pushed aside her realization of how poor her chances truly were. She had wrestled with that ever since the force had left Earth-2…and she realized it was irrelevant. It didn’t matter if the mission had a poor chance of succeeding, it didn’t even matter if her ship was the only one. Everybody who had come on the mission had to do their very best, without regard to their chance of survival.

She spent perhaps another half an hour searching for any of her allied vessels…and then she gave up. She knew what she had to do…though how she would do it with just one ship was daunting, to say the least.

But ‘daunting’ wasn’t impossible, and on that thought, she issued the orders. “Redirect our thrust, Lieutenant. Bring us toward the planet…toward the Regent.”

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