Omega Force: Rebellion (OF11) by Joshua Dalzelle

Author:Joshua Dalzelle [Dalzelle, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-17T06:00:00+00:00

Stop thinking like a military man. The Machine doesn't. It needs to solidify its own power before too many people begin questioning who actually authorized an attack on a neighboring sovereign power.

Cas's voice in his head was disconcerting among the other conversations. He withdrew from the debate and tried to put the pieces together as Mok, true to his nature, asserted control over the briefing and began ordering Kage to put up different graphics for them to argue over.

Instead of participating, Jason pulled one of the tablets off the table and accessed the Phoenix's database on known active ships and did a search based on location. Kage had built a system that wormed into over three hundred orbital traffic control systems and reported all the ships arriving and departing back to a slip-com node on S'Tora. That system then updated the Phoenix's main computer and, despite the limited number of systems they'd managed to infiltrate so far, gave them a surprisingly good image of where most of the major players were moving their ships to.

He looked up the traffic patterns over the ConFed capital world, the Pillar World from which all power emanated: Miressa Prime. There were the expected things there that never left like the Cardalir Shipyards and T'Acren Base, the massive orbital facility that was home of the ConFed's mighty starfleet. There was also the Miressa Home Defense Force, a fleet of ships that were state of the art…a hundred years ago.

The Miressa System was the seat of power for the ConFed. It was widely considered impregnable for any nation foolish enough to try, and it was the center of the quadrant's political universe for the last half a millennia or so. The HDF was mostly ceremonial. It was there to provide honor guards for incoming dignitaries and consular ships as it was strictly forbidden for any member worlds or visitors to mesh-in to the capital system with ships of war. The rules were always respected because the reprisals from the main battlefleet for such a faux pas would be swift and brutal. The ConFed's main fleet was vast, but it also had to cover a lot of space, and now they'd tied up one of their battlegroups as an occupational force in the Eshquaria System.

While the others babbled on, he tried to put himself into the mind—so to speak—of an insane AI that was trying to rule an empire without anybody seeing who it was behind the curtain. The Machine needed people to respect and fear the Adjudicators, who were now apparently its puppets, as well as the ConFed's military. A sneak attack on an unsuspecting power wasn't enough. It had to crush not only their legend but the hope of the people who thought that the Empire might rise again, to let the death of Eshquaria needed to serve as an object lesson for those who wouldn't bow to the ConFed.

"Holy shit…I know where they're going," Jason said, speaking mostly to himself.

"Would you care to share with the rest of us, Captain?" Mok asked.

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