Star Force: The Admiral by Aer-Ki Jyr

Author:Aer-Ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-Ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781520270678
Google: wrpJMQAACAAJ
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2016-12-30T08:00:00+00:00

In middle orbit around the giant white star, far enough away from the major traffic lines to avoid close scrutiny, thousands of stealthed warehouses suddenly popped up on the battlemap and began to spew out drone spacecraft…but these weren’t warships. They were minelayers dragging huge cargo canisters behind them like ants carrying bits of wood and leaves far too big for their tiny frames to handle.

But carry them they did, coming from all around the circular orbit and heading for the jumpline the V’kit’no’sat were reported to be entering upon. Already a signal had been sent back to the Vesper System to halt any incoming traffic, and the last reported incoming ship on that jumpline was due to arrive in 2 hours. That gave most of the minelayers time to get in position and ready for when the civilian transport came through, braking against the star amongst the swarm of ships sitting just off the jumpline that began to move instantly as the newcomer was given a specific course to follow in order to get out of their way as they began to disperse tiny orbs with even tinier gravity drives meant to keep them in place rather than floating sideways in stellar orbit or falling inward due to the star’s gravity well.

Each mine was one of several varieties, with the most exotic of them being IDF field generators that would cause havoc with the braking abilities of the incoming ships. There weren’t enough of them to set up a proper slip’n’slide, but they would insure higher impact velocities against the mines than otherwise.

And for the mines, some were comprised of tiny granules charged with various types of shield draining energy that would be enhanced by the collision speeds. Others were solid matter as dense as possible that the ships would run into, further draining shields to the point of breaking as they hit wave after wave of the mines that were lined up off the jumpline as well. When the first of the V’kit’no’sat ships came in and began to plow the road for the others the mines would start to move like conveyor belts into the traffic path, replacing the field as it was destroyed and keeping the forthcoming debris from further taking out more mines.

The Duke and Archon had planned this out carefully long ago, and they wanted to maximize as much damage as they could out of the limited number of mines they had in the outer region of the jumpline. Down low near the star where the enemy ships would come out of their braking maneuvers late thanks to the IDF, there was another cluster of mines spread out further to catch ships that might get wise to the trap and move slightly off the jumpline to avoid them.

Sitting nearby those were also a pair of Sentinels with more repositioning from other jumplines to reinforce them, so there would be some considerable firepower waiting for the damaged ships to drop into their firing lines…assuming they didn’t overshoot and ram into the star itself.

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