Mike Stedman 1: Invasion by D. R. Rosier

Author:D. R. Rosier
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2017-04-24T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“That’s different,” he said absently.

They’d dropped out of subspace a few light minutes out from the planet as usual, but this time one of the ships started to move their way immediately. It was different, so it didn’t seem right. He wasn’t sure what to make of it though.

“Launch three ships for each of the two staying behind at the planet, I think five each was major overkill.”

Three should work as well as five had, in theory. It was also less for Chrystal to keep track of, which would mean she’d be a little more present on the bridge for this battle.

Like at Feilia, as soon as the enemy ship got into energy range, they started to fire, and Chrystal just magnified the energies as they literally circled the ship and shot right back at the enemy, and blew a small hole through the large two-mile-long ship.

The power readings were identical, so he cautiously dismissed his concern, but continued to watch the scans closely. There was something there, but he couldn’t figure it out. It wasn’t until they were halfway between energy and gravity range when it all went to shit and the enemy sprung a trap.

The enemy ship ramped up the power tremendously, and then seven shots fired at once, a sustained barrage of only two seconds, which was too short for him to take advantage of by the time his sensors caught up, but was plenty long enough to cut the six shuttles into scrap, and his ship almost in half.

He dropped his perception filters and everything around him slowed, including his own body, his breathing mask sealed in slow motion. He wondered how they’d increased power like that, and why they hadn’t done it sooner.

Chrystal sent, “What the hell was that?”

“They suckered us, even took damage to hide their upgrade until we were too close to retreat. My guess is they only got one of their ships finished in time to meet us. I don’t suppose you figured out that gravity aperture thing, otherwise we’re probably dead.”

He’d been too damned confident after taking out the three at both Feilia and Selana-Esari. They should have taken the time to figure out how that gravity generation through subspace apertures was done exactly, but he hadn’t wanted to waste the time since it hadn’t been needed then. After all, every moment meant more of their allies on the planet’s surface would be killed and eaten.

Well, it was needed now.

He looked at the scans again, and now that their enemy was using full power he figured out what they must have done. All of their subspace energy was being routed onto their inner backup shield, and then routed up to their primary, which was extremely dangerous. Of course, he supposed it was less dangerous than being less powerful than his ship.

Their primary shield was made up entirely of emitters that only created fields, which gave them about a fifteen percent edge over his ship, a gain of over thirty percent of what they’d had previously.

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