The Alliance by Isaac Hooke

Author:Isaac Hooke [Hooke, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-02T07:00:00+00:00

13

Jain found himself in a quandary.

When the Void Warriors discovered that not only had the Bolt Eaters abandoned humanity, but the War Forgers, too, they began to question why they were staying.

“We’ve already saved the world,” Medeia said. “There’s no point in pressing the fight. How long do we want to keep fighting this war?”

“But we’ll have to save it again at some point, if we don’t stop the Link,” Jain said.

“But the Link have warred with the Fresnal for centuries,” Medeia said. “Is that how long we want to be doing this? I don’t think so.”

“You forget that we know their vulnerabilities,” Jain said. “And are familiar with most of their ship designs, and other offensive capabilities. That’s what happens when you ally with a former member of their Empire.”

“Yeah, well, it’s still not going to be easy,” Medeia said. “The Bolt Eaters, and now the War Forgers.” She threw up her arms.

“Remember, the Bolt Eaters are coming back,” Gavin said. “Just as soon as Eric deals with the insurrection.”

“Yeah, that could be months,” Medeia said.

“He did say two days,” Gavin pressed.

Medeia chuckled. “Once the Link start attacking a system, they don’t let up. Sure, Eric’s original estimate to repel the Link was two days. But wait until the enemy start sending in reinforcements.”

“The number of reinforcements they send, if any, depends upon how much of a debilitating blow we dealt them in the last few battles,” Sheila said.

“I have a sneaking suspicion we’ve barely harmed them,” Cranston said. “Though we’ve hurt their staging infrastructure, and probably significantly depleted their world killer supply, their space navy is probably very much intact. They wouldn’t have diverted too many from the front lines with the Fresnal, or they’d risk losing the territory.”

“Do we even know where the fight against the Fresnal is taking place?” Mark asked, looking at Jain.

Even Xander was looking at him.

Jain frowned. “Well, according to my database, the fight is near the outer perimeter of the galaxy,” Jain said. “Well beyond the Eastern Galactic Front of the humans. So it’s kind of their eastern front, whereas ours is their western.”

“It’s too bad we weren’t able to press our attack against them over the years,” Sheila said. “We could have forced them into a war on two fronts.”

“They’re already in a war on two fronts,” Jain said. “Multiple, actually, if it’s true that they’re planning to invade Tyrnari. And they’ve already attacked the Banthar. They might be spreading themselves too thin.”

“We can only hope,” Mark said.

“So we’re staying, you’re saying?” Medeia asked.

Jain studied her carefully, and then glanced between her and Mark. “You can leave whenever you want. No one is forcing you here. There’s no Containment Code wrapped around your mind. And any military contracts you signed would have expired years ago. You certainly owe nothing to me.”

She sighed, and lowered her gaze. She glanced at Mark. “I’ll stay with you, for now. I like to see things through, once I start them. It’s why I didn’t drop out of bootcamp all those years ago, after all.

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