Star Force: Keyholders (Star Force Universe Book 61) by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2019-03-19T07:00:00+00:00

Paul had been waiting on the surface in one of Beta’s Star Force colonies to see what reaction there was from the Caretakers when the surface exit was exposed, and like clockwork a number of patrol drones were sent to the location and disappeared inside. While he couldn’t see through the null field any more than they could, he did have a subsurface data line that gave him the sensor images from inside that dome, and he could see the defense units there, both mobile and imbedded on the ring of the aperture, take down the Caretakers almost as soon as they crossed the barrier.

If even one of them turned around and made it out again to sound the alarm then things would go badly here in Beta, but there were enough mooring beams set up to snag the fleers that he didn’t expect any problems…but one didn’t know for sure until you tested your theory, and he was glad to see everything was working as planned.

After the first few dozen ships came through Paul took a dropship up to one of the warships and took command from there. Unfortunately the Excalibur and the other Borg vessels were too large to come through the spacial tap or the portals, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t bring an astromech along to plug into. He’d had one specially built into a standard warship hull, and that’s the one that came through first in line along with the other command ships for the trailblazers here and waiting.

Some were donut shaped, but Paul had chosen a regular warship to take command from, because without his Borg vessel to protect him he was going to have to rely on anonymity, and he wasn’t too comfortable taking a command ship. They stood out too much, and they didn’t have any shielding yet that could stop an Essence attack. Designs were in the works, and already deployed on the Avengers, but they didn’t have time to build extra stuff, and those ships would be going to the front of the line where he couldn’t go.

He had to be the spider in the center of the web controlling his fleet, and the same was true of the others, for they weren’t all going to Alpha. They were splitting up and heading to different Temples once they got enough ships here. Paul had the privilege of going first, but he wasn’t going to Alpha either. It was no longer exporting assault ships to hit Star Force worlds, but Gamma was, and since he was the Keyholder to get there, that’s where he’d chosen to start his campaign against the Vargemma.

But first they were sending some ships and Essence tankers to Alpha, and those would be going as soon as the ships arrived. No waiting for a massive fleet. And since they’d had months to just sit and wait, he and the other trailblazers had been practicing the dialing technique, and most of them were now able to manage it in a crude way.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.