TOPGUN: Requiem (Brutal Response Book 1) by Michael Anderle

Author:Michael Anderle [Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2022-12-12T16:00:00+00:00

Mia hadn’t expected to attend any classes on her second day on arrival, but after the day of in-processing and a night alone in a temporary dorm room, she found herself dropped right into a squadron tactics lecture the following morning. Half the class, including the instructor, spent more time glaring at her than paying attention to the material.

She didn’t care if they didn’t think she’d earned her place there. She’d prove them all wrong.

Her gaze skipped around the room. She was wearing a uniform, but not the right uniform. She needed to move past this program and into the proper KCAP Navy.

Instructor Westing, a short but intense man gesticulating wildly to complicated holographic displays combining carriers and fighters, finished a sentence and snapped his head in her direction. “Cadet Verick!”

“Yes, sir?”

Westing narrowed his eyes. “Did I give you permission to daydream in my class?”

“No, sir, and I’m not daydreaming, sir.”

His nostrils flared. “Then why are you looking off into space while I’m giving you vital information? You think because you passed some tests back home, that you don’t need to learn anything?”

“I’ve been paying attention,” Mia protested.

“Then what was I talking about?” His mouth curled up in a sneer. Judging by his expression and the eager looks of others nearby, everyone thought they’d caught the new arrival in a trap.

“You stated there are three methods to cripple a capital ship with a fighter,” Mia recited.

Westing looked disappointed. “Yes, I did.”

“What I don’t understand is why you’re letting us off so easy.”

Murmurs swept the classroom. A student rolled his eyes and shook his head.

Westing's brows knitted closer together. “You think I’m letting you off easy?”

Mia nodded. “I was thinking through all the methods I know how to cripple a capital ship and laying bets with myself over the three that you’re going to share.”

Westing stared at her, his jaw tightening. “You’re saying you already know more than three ways to cripple a capital ship with a fighter?”

“I know at least twenty that are practical under most circumstances,” Mia confirmed. “And a dozen more with basic modifications of the fighters. After that, the strategies become questionable as to their practicality. Though, I would argue that I know all the ways that would be used in a typical battle.”

“And how many methods are you claiming to know?” asked Westing.

“Forty-three, sir. Again, those are based on simply having fighters available and modifying them. If you take into account a battle taking place near a planet or star, I could come up with six more.”

Westing narrowed his eyes. “Forty-nine ways…to take out a cap ship?”

Mia frowned. “Yes, sir, though, to be honest, I thought the focus of the Top Gun program was fighter-to-fighter superiority with some secondary considerations. Because of that, I haven’t put as much thought into anti-capital ship operations as I have ship-to-ship combat. I could have easily missed something, and I’m eager to learn from you.”

“Is she for real?” asked another cadet.

Westing shook his head as if clearing it. “Why don’t you stand and explain these methods to us?”

Mia stood at parade rest.

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