Exodus: Empires at War: Book 4: The Long Fall by Dandridge Doug

Author:Dandridge, Doug [Dandridge, Doug]
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 2013-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Franklin Roosevelt.

CIMMERIA SPACE, AND CAPITULUM, DECEMBER 30TH, 1000 THROUGH JANUARY 6TH 1001.

So, this is what one of their population centers looks like, thought the Great Admiral, looking at the 3D viewer that brought it to life. There was one living planet in view, a lovely world which expanded in the viewer, blue and white and green, like most living worlds. And totally infested with these humans. He wished he could simply send a swarm of missiles at relativistic speeds into that target and annihilate them all. But the priests, who came along on every mission, would not allow such, so he would have to close the distance and bombard the population centers from space, and possibly land troops to take care of the rest of them.

He knew there was another planet in the system, and not seeing it realized it must be on the other side of the white star. It would take a little longer to kill the humans on that world, but it would still be done. The rest of the system was abuzz like a nest of biting insects kicked by a hard boot. There were ships everywhere, or at least the images of ships as they were hours before. Freighters, tankers, ore carriers, trying to seek some kind of safety that didn’t exist. The interstellar capable were running for the hyper barrier. They were already being tracked by missiles that would blow them out of space before they reached that barrier. Those that made it into hyper would be caught and destroyed by the forces that were surrounding the system in hyperspace. There would be no escape from this doomed system.

“We have located over five hundred insystem bases or settlements,” called out the Tactical Officer. “We are targeting them now.”

The orders went out, and scout ships and supercruisers started to adjust their vectors to intercept those targets. First they would assess them for their intelligence or industrial value. They would ransack those that had any value, and destroy those that didn’t.

“These have been tagged as warships,” said the Tactical Officer, and objects were surrounded by red boxes.

The view expanded on one, a large warship, more than twice the tonnage of a supercruiser. But different from the scout capitals they had seen before. It took the Admiral a moment to discern the major difference. “They’re not hyper capable,” he exclaimed, noting the absence of the human type hyperdrive projectors on the ship. “Why, in the name of all the Gods, would anyone build a warship without hyper capabilities. What a waste of resources.”

“We have targeted extra missiles on those ships,” said the Tactical Officer.

“I want orbital insertion to that planet as soon as convenient,” said the Great Admiral, looking at his Navigation Officer.

“We can be there in twenty-five hours,” said the Navigation Officer.

“Time is really of no importance,” said the Great Admiral, disappointed that there were no more of the enemy forces in the system.

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