Intransigent by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

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Roger brought the fleet into range of the Mach’nel, accelerating hard to diminish the time spent with it outranging them, then slamming on the brakes to bring the drones in close as the controlling ships stayed far out of the fray. He saw that limited shields had been reestablished over parts of the Mach’nel, but some areas were still unprotected and those were centered around the area where the hull had holes in it.

He knew he had to target those areas and the Mach’nel knew it had to defend them…with the massive ship moving in close to an evacuated Star Force station and pressing its weak side up against it to block incoming fire.

“Nice move,” he said as he ordered his ships to focus fire on a few weapons batteries that were exposed. Each one was redundantly shielded, but if he could start picking away the Mach’nel’s weaponry it would diminish the number of ships he’d lose…plus the Mach’nel had just given his ships something to hide behind as well, with him sending out orders to cycle lightly damaged ships behind the station when able, though those being pulverized by the Tar’vem’jic didn’t qualify.

Roger kept the Ultimas back near his command ship but had the Shivas in the fight to help soak up damage from the secondary weapons. They did nothing but provide big targets to the Tar’vem’jic, but he needed them in there to extend the longevity of the smaller ships, for the V’kit’no’sat gunners seemed to prefer shooting the biggest threat they could find.

Roger saw one Var’ko battery go out after an insane amount of pounding through its tiny, redundant shields. Each time it fired it had to lower them briefly, exposing only a few meter gap in the coverage to get the energy weapon released, but hit them with enough firepower and on occasion something would get back through the opposite way. Roger didn’t think that had happened here, but the coordinated firepower was enough to rip those dedicated shields away and melt the edges of the Yeg’gor armor crater in which the weapon had sat.

One less threat to his ships, but there were thousands of weapons spread over the Mach’nel and hammering through the armor to get at the interior and rip away their power sources was not a good option. As it was, Roger wasn’t even going to hammer away on their intact shields, instead focusing firepower and plucking the few weapons exposed by previous damage…then he ordered his fleet to open fire on the abandoned station.

The unshielded construct held up well to the firepower, for it was armored too, but nothing compared to the protection the Mach’nel had. Roger cut through several sections deliberately while having his ships shoot others for distraction purposes only. Debris was flying everywhere as the Mach’nel kept close and used the delay to continue picking off drones left and right, but what they didn’t see were the channels being cut through the station that several of Roger’s smallest drones, Cutter-class, were sneaking their way through.

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