Exodus: Empires at War: Book 6: The Day of Battle by Dandridge Doug

Author:Dandridge, Doug [Dandridge, Doug]
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

CONUNDRUM SPACE. NOVEMBER 11TH, 1001.

The stations were huge, over two hundred million tons of hull, power generating facilities, life support and storage areas, not to mention the living quarters of over ten thousand beings. They were larger than any human built station, other than some in Central Docks, and, of course, the Donut. And unlike most human built stations, they could move through hyper.

Oh, the New Terran Empire had some large stations that could move through hyper. Stations in the fifty million ton range that could be used as repair docks and logistics supply bases, much like this Ca’cadasan version. They could plod along in hyper IV, eventually getting to where they were needed, sometimes in time. But this monster could cruise through VII, the same dimension as all of their warships. It represented a huge investment in time and resources to build, and an even larger investment in trained Cacada.

The Ca’cadasans had originally moved one station into the former Imperial space they had occupied. Two more had been on the way, while that one was being destroyed by an Imperial raid that caught them unaware of the possibilities of wormhole ship gates. They had made it to the front, and had been moved up to the Conundrum system, the former main base of sector IV before falling to the enemy. Imperial command was sure one would be moving, as soon as the Cacas found the perfect system to put a logistics base in. But for now, there were two big fat targets in the Conundrum system, and very little left to defend them.

“All ahead, ten gravities,” ordered Commodore Bryce Suttler, sitting in the captain’s chair of the Seastag. The ship had all electromag screens set to light bending, hiding the ship from visual scans. Almost all of the heat she was producing was going through their wormhole to a just above absolute zero heat sink, over a thousand light years away. The hull of the vessel absorbed any active scans sent her way, what wasn’t bent around the ship by the electromag fields.

“All ahead ten gravities, aye,” echoed the Helmsman. The ship could actually have put on twenty gravities with no problem, her two hundred ton structure radiating fewer gravitons under that acceleration than the thousands of Plutinos within a half light hour of the station. Suttler thought it was better to fly well under those parameters though. Time was not much of a factor in this attack. Getting through the enemy cordon intact, and hitting the target with all ships, was the only important consideration.

“Ten gravities, aye Commodore,” reported Commander Chris Browne of the Dolphin over the wormhole com. His ship was about a hundred thousand kilometers to the port of Seastag, while the other two were to starboard.

Everyone was creeping in, and a quick check of the data feed from the other four ships in the squadron showed that they were moving in on their target in the same attack profile, concentrating on one side of

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