Kaiju Wars by Eric S Brown

Author:Eric S Brown [Brown, Eric S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2017-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

“Right now, we’re gonna reach out to the support units we left at Canton and allow them time to catch up to us. Pressing on as we are would be madness.” Captain Merrick seemed to wait for Peter to challenge him, but to even Campbell’s surprise, Peter didn’t.

“Stay alert in the meantime,” Captain Merrick ordered and then ended his transmission.

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“Major Leiber is confirmed dead, sir,” Major Steiner informed Colonel Jaeger.

Colonel Jaeger frowned as he sat in the command chair of the war room. There were several techs in the room aside from the two them. The techs each manned their own comm./satellite/drone stations, keeping an eye on the developing situation with the two taskforces in route to the Greenery’s capital. Taskforce Alpha was nearing its final stopping position before reaching the capital. Aside from a few almost guerilla-style attacks, it had encountered very little resistance. Instead, the Greenery forces that could have truly engaged it had merely continued to pull back out of its path. Taskforce Beta on the other hand had suffered severe losses. It had been assigned to dealing with the Greenery city of Canton, and while it had destroyed the city, that battle and the engagement with a swarm of kaiju that followed it had taken its toll on the unit. Colonel Jaeger wasn’t overly concerned with the losses in regards to the lesser units of the taskforce, but the loss of Sand Stomper and Major Leiber was a powerful blow to his plans by the enemy. Mechs weren’t cheap or easy to build. Each took months and a great deal of resources. They couldn’t be replaced as quickly as the Greenery’s kaiju could even before the new rumors that the Greenery had discovered a real means of mass-producing giant kaiju on a level that could likely mean the end of the long war and of Steel Heart itself.

As if the loss of Sand Stomper wasn’t bad enough, the loss of Major Leiber, Taskforce Beta’s commanding officer, was an even harsher blow. He had handpicked her to lead the assault on the Greenery’s capital. With her gone, that left a young tank captain named Merrick in command of her half of the overall assault force and Major Rowley in command of the overall force. Rowley was even younger and more inexperienced than Captain Merrick was in a sense. Rowley had joined up straight out of Steel Heart’s academy and worked his way up the ranks inside the safety of the capital itself. Before being assigned to accompany Major Leiber as her support, the young major had led only a few defense skirmishes along the now-shattered front lines. There was no way in hell that Colonel Jaeger was going to leave the major in charge of the overall assault on the Greenery. There was too much at stake. Handing over full command to Captain Merrick was an equally bad idea. Mech pilots looked down, no pun intended, on tankers and truthfully a lot of tankers were troopers who didn’t have what it took to pilot a mech.

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