Star Force: Melee (SF20) by Jyr Aer-ki

Author:Jyr, Aer-ki [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Published: 2013-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

7

March 25, 2266

Epsilon Eridani System

Corneria

Paul stood on the roof of the command building, a wide, flat, square plain that stood higher than any other structure in the Star Force colony. From his perch on the north side he could see out over the tops of the rest of the buildings, but not a lot of what was going on in the streets below. He could see the 7 defense towers they had left, each of which co-tied for the city’s second tallest buildings, and were mostly spaced around the perimeter along with six closer ones in what he thought of as a second ring of defense. Four of those were down, one thanks to a cruiser and the other three to lizard ground teams.

The two that were operational were keeping the cruisers off the command building. The lizard ships would fly over them, once directly over, to deposit more reinforcements elsewhere in the city but they wouldn’t linger. The plasma from those towers was potent at the closer range, doing more damage than the lachars if and when the shields came down but to date Paul hadn’t seen that happen. Granted, he’d been incommunicado for a great deal of that time and inside the urban structures most of the rest, but it seemed the lizard naval crews were being smart about their reinforcement raids and only braving the city defenses if they knew they could keep their shields up for the duration.

The damage the lachars were doing to them, however, was significant. Many of the shield-penetrating blasts had been targeting the cruisers’ heavy plasma batteries, reducing their available kill power when they flew over the city. After the majority of those had been hit they began sniping the harder to hit anti-air batteries, as well as the docked kirbies the cruisers were carrying in.

To compensate for this the cruisers began flying lower and lower, trying to eek out some cover from the various buildings and picking landing zones along the perimeter so at least the underside of the giant ships wouldn’t come under fire from the towers, that way their kirbies would be safe while docking and undocking. The cruisers had also got in the habit of rapid approaches and departures, minimizing the time the towers had to poke at them.

As Paul zoomed in on the northeastern combat zone with his helmet scope he could see the top nubs on one just sticking up above two midrange buildings. One of the remaining perimeter towers was hitting it from the flank, but he didn’t think it had a shot on the underside. Several small flashes were visible as the long range plasma streaks hit the shields, doing less damage due to the dispersion factor associated with range, let alone the atmosphere it had to travel through. The lizards’ plasma cannons didn’t have such a limited range, nor did they fire in squirt gun-like streaks. Somehow they managed to hold their plasma together in a compact orb past its departure point from the cannons.

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