Starhawk by Mack Maloney

Author:Mack Maloney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780441009268
Publisher: Ace
Published: 2002-05-01T12:00:00+00:00

Installing this system was a massive undertaking, one that had to be accomplished in less than a solar day. Joxx had used his starship's substantial transfer systems to get the purloined blasters and their crews in place around the planet; sheer manpower put the weapons in place. It was getting all of the weapons connected within his command matrix that took the most effort.

The problem was, Megiddo wasn't overflowing with all the controls and sensors needed for Joxx's dream of an all-planet defense to come true. But that's when his brilliance came into play again. Not everything Joxx had cobbled together for the defense of Megiddo had come from the planet itself. His troops had jumped over to the planetoid called TransWorld 800, the mostly automated advance SG supply base forty light-years away. Joxx had made the initial trip to TW800 himself. His first act was to declare the artificial moon under martial law, another formality, as most of the people on it were in the employ of the SG anyway. The main objective was to secure the materials needed for his defense system on Megiddo. In less than a half an Earth day, Joxx's troops had taken everything they could find from the storehouses on TW800 and had stripped its small fleet of cargo 'crashers as well, mostly of command and control gear needed for the alignment of Joxx's massive blaster deployment.

Everything was carried over to Megiddo in two huge space trucks Joxx had found at Brakes; a half-mile-square area next to the space needle had been leveled as a place for these large vessels to land. Then Joxx drafted two thousand of TransWorld's civilians into his newly christened Army of Empire Defense and had them brought over to his fortress planet as well. The TW800 facility was then sealed and anything able to fly locked up tight.

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