Edge of the Vortex: The Earth Saga V by Donald B McFarlane

Author:Donald B McFarlane [McFarlane, Donald B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-09T22:00:00+00:00

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Etelainen Territory

5 February

The task of subtly finding Admiral Lex was proving more challenging than Rhea, Wey or Roper Daz had envisioned. His command headquarters for the 5th Fleet on Killious was not sure of his location. The worrying piece was that the admiral had left with the Five. The super command ship that was the flagship of the 5th Fleet and carried with it a massive amount of firepower, drone and other attack aircraft, and a large ground force. It constituted a massive threat to whomever it decided to engage.

Etsiva Controller Wey had proclaimed that the trio would use Lex’s office for a few days as a location to draw their supporters. The list that Rhea had had from her first visit to the Etelainen had gotten much shorter. Many of those on the list were missing and could not be found. It was a clear sign that whomever they were on the trail of was spooked.

Rhea was starting to realise that this was going to be a long, slow investigation. And it didn’t help that she was separated from Joe.

At the same time, Joe was sitting in a large planning suite inside the Fleet’s headquarters on Mella II. He had spent his time since he had left Traxis going over all the information that the Alliance had on the Sol System and what forces were known to have jumped in when the Alliance forces had decided to bug-out. Unfortunately, that information was limited. Joe didn’t have much to go on. The liaison that Admiral Taark had assigned to Joe gave him a full rundown on the ships that were spotted in the system, and then his estimation on how they’d control the planet and the system.

What Joe, nor his liaison knew at that moment was that there was a Barrier Generator, a scarce commodity in the galaxy, in operation on the surface, and no matter how powerful an armada Joe returned with, they wouldn’t be able to breach the shield without assistance from the ground, and there was no way of knowing what was happening on the planet’s surface without communications with someone on the ground, and Ranix hadn’t been able to tell him if anyone got off Lasqueti alive, or what the Coalition was doing to the planet. He hoped for the best, but sometimes he feared the worst. Now it was just a question of making a plan and presenting it to Fleet Command for approval. Not an easy task.

Information. The most valuable commodity he knew of, and he was in short supply of it. Standing up from the holo-table he was working over, Joe looked at the three droids that were standing around the table with him, providing him with technical information when needed, and shook his head.

“Why don’t we take a break, guys.” Joe said. The droids had gotten fairly good at understanding Joe and his mannerisms, and without responding, they walked over to one of the walls of the room and shut themselves down.

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