Galactic Empire Wars: The Alliance by Weil Raymond L

Author:Weil, Raymond L.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raymond L. Weil Publications LLC
Published: 2015-05-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Colonel Wade Nelson was in the Command Center of the troop assault ship Defender gazing at the large viewscreen on the front wall. They were in the system of Lanolth. Lanolth was very similar to what Earth had been, with large oceans, white ice caps on the poles, and a warm to hot equatorial zone. It was also heavily populated with a population of nearly five billion. Lanolth was the fourth planet out from the system’s sun with two small moons orbiting it. Both of the rocky moons had large habitats sprawling across their surfaces where another two hundred million Lanolthians lived and worked. There were twelve planets in the system and numerous mining and scientific posts existed on most of them. Every one of their major cities sat inside a ring of ion cannons. It was the most advanced former nonaligned world in the Alliance. Wade could see several large oceans and wide swaths of green around the equator where tropical jungles existed. It saddened him to know that because of the Kleese, Earth would never look like this again.

“We’ve accomplished wonders with the Alliance,” spoke Hyram Blake, who had only recently arrived on the Defender. He’d been down on Lanolth finalizing the admittance of several new nonaligned worlds.

“How many worlds do we have signed up now?”

Hyram turned toward Wade with a huge smile. Colonel Nelson had been instrumental in helping to form the Alliance. “Twenty-nine, and soon Diadem will make the thirtieth. Lanolthian President Raytol feels confident that once Diadem formerly joins the Alliance more nonaligned worlds in Sector Twelve will follow suit.”

“The only problem is most of the nonaligned worlds in that sector are already under Kleese control,” Wade responded.

“President Raytol has told me they have confirmed the Zaltule have temporarily pulled back their battlecruisers. He’s proposing launching a number of attacks to free six high tech star systems. The systems still have their orbital shipyards and infrastructure intact. The Lanolthians are already in the process of constructing more ion cannons to be used to protect those worlds once they have been freed.”

“Systems without space fleets,” answered Wade, cocking his eyebrow in doubt. “Can we afford to allocate resources to systems that can’t defend themselves?”

“I asked him the same thing,” replied Hyram, nodding his head. “I was surprised to learn that Lanolth, Nalton, Pradel, and Tureen have greatly increased their warship production. Other members of the Alliance are following suit. Each system will be sending a squadron to help defend these new systems.”

“But it takes time to build a thousand-meter battlecruiser.” Wade wasn’t convinced ships could be built fast enough to cover the growing military needs of the Alliance. He didn’t want to see their forces spread too thin in case the Kleese retaliated for the loss of their two trade stations.

“I’m not so sure,” Hyram said, looking toward the viewscreen and gazing at Lanolth. “Their ship construction technology is amazing, particularly since they have begun to share technology with each other. Only last week a

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