Star Freedom by D R Rosier

Author:D R Rosier [Rosier, D R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2018-06-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“You’re beautiful my love, you know that?”

We’d just spent the night together, not to mention the wakeup call he just gave me. I was currently pasted against his side with my head on his shoulder. I felt warm, content, and my body was humming with post-coital bliss, even the soreness felt delicious.

I smirked playfully, “I’m already in your bed, remember?”

He snorted, and stole a soft lingering kiss that made my body melt against him, and my heart soared.

“Thank you,” I blushed, “What brought that on? Not that I mind.”

He shrugged, “I don’t tell you enough, just how much you mean to me.”

I kissed his shoulder, and said softly, “I love you too.”

I giggled, when he slid off the bed, pulling me with him, and scooped me up and carried me to the shower. He was affectionate, and loving as we cleaned each other up, and then it all ended as we joined the others for breakfast. I understood though, out here he was the admiral of the fleet, and in charge. It could have been worse, at least he didn’t demand formality.

The first thing we did after breakfast, was recap the plan we’d come up with, late night yesterday.

Vik asked, “Any other ideas, or changes that might be better?”

I shook my head, “No, but we should team up our people in fours this morning, and have the A.I.s create a few simulations. It’s an entirely new tactic, a little practice wouldn’t hurt. Then we can let them rest about six in the evening until the enemy arrives. Which should be the middle of the night if they don’t slow down.”

Jillintara nodded, “We can also assign all the targets to the different groups, so there’s no overlap in effort. The weapons officer on each ship will be fed a red enemy ship, the rest yellow until it’s destroyed, then their second target will turn red, and finally the third. They’ll know which one to lock onto and fire at. We can get that data compiled almost as fast as it comes in, so a second or two after they de-cloak.”

Telidur asked, “Should we bother cloaking most of the fleet, will they fall for that a second time?”

Vik tilted his head, “Can we set up a missile malfunction? One they’d detect?”

I frowned, “A realistic one? Probably, why?”

Vik said, “The best, or perhaps simplest plan, would be to sucker them in extremely close, so we can retreat and have several minutes, many times the amount of time we need, to blast them with plasma. Even if they don’t chase us. But… it’s not realistic, I don’t think that plan has much chance of success, not after the blitz attack that was tried and failed yesterday.

“Instead, let’s show our whole force of a hundred and fifty ships, in a defensive formation a few light minutes in front of the planet and build yards. We don’t have to be too close to them, because we have the multi-function orbs as the last line of defense there.

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