Humans by A G Claymore

Author:A G Claymore [Claymore, A G]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Eth and Meesh jogged onto the bridge. “What’s the enemy status, Captain?”

“Looks like they came to their senses,” Oliv said, nodding at the main holo. “They’re pulling back from your minefield but their sacrificial goats are still beating the shit out of each other!”

“The ways of Nergal are ineffable,” Meesh said solemnly.

Father Sulak grunted. “Well, there’s no effing way they’ll figure this out any time soon.”

“If they’re not going to play,” Eth said, “then we’ll leave them our toys and go home. Captain, I’ll trouble you to deploy a coated drone programmed for SSD broadcast.”

“Already spooled up,” she replied. “Sending it now.”

The drone, coated with the same carbon nano-tubules that rendered their ships almost entirely undetectable, would send out a search or self-destruct command to the similarly coated missiles in Heiropolitan orbit. It was the best way of sending the signal without the risk of giving away their ship’s position.

The remaining missiles received the signal and, of the seven left, four were able to identify military targets. They activated their MA fields and streaked out toward their prey, hammering into two frigates and two cruisers at velocities that would make light blush.

The last three weapons decided they weren’t going to be finding a target any time soon and so they maneuvered close to each other and group-detonated their warheads. Their radiant energy had little effect on the one weapon that had failed its detonation sequence but the vaporized osmium packed around the warheads did an excellent job of erasing the failed weapon from existence.

There would be no evidence of Lady Bau’s gift for the enemy to analyse.

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