The Liberty Fleet Trilogy (War of Alien Aggression, box set two) by A.D. Bloom

Author:A.D. Bloom
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-06-19T22:00:00+00:00

SCS Bangalore

When viewed through the topside windows of the cockpit, the Imperium Ship's salvo seemed to descend upon them from above. At first, it rose from the limb of the battleship's shield like an ugly spinning nebula, and as it curved outwards on its path to strike the battleship from the side, the plasmoid climbed and grew until it looked like it was coming down on their heads. Plasma in discharge arced between the ten spinning arms of the fast-rotating and focused cloud. There was enough electromagnetic and kinetic energy in that hyper-density plasma to turn belt-iron armor to gas and sweep a ship away like a sandcastle in a storm.

"This is the XO," the voice from the battleship beneath them said. "We estimate forty seconds to impact. All Banjo flight elements are ordered to detach. You've got a clear shot at the Imperium ship now. Make it count."

Dice felt Lippmann's eyes on him for a moment then and remembered he was designated flight leader and he should say something while the raiders cleared off first. As the ascending raiders made a cloud so thick it seemed impossible for them not to hit each other, he thumbed the comms to every human ear. "Banjo, Banjo. This is Dice on Bangalore. Lotta' people worked hard to put us here. Let's not fuck it up. I want a LIFO departure from the outside in. If you're one of the lucky ones carrying a new penetrator remember not to flip the switch until we're too close for the Imperium ship to stop us. Otherwise, that big bastard is going to know just which of us to pop on the way in. Everyone else out there, don't worry about sending in the warspites once you see us hit our targets because a salvo from Guerrero will already be on the way. Right. The bugs gave us a little space. Punch it, Banjo. Go, go, go!"

As he released the landing clamps and withdrew the gear, Lippmann said. "Thirty seconds to enemy salvo impact." The glow from the incoming weapon came through the blanket of raiders above them in verdant, emerald shafts. As he eased into the thrust and blasted Bangalore off the starboard side of the battleship's hull with the other junks and interceptors, they passed through one of those shafts. The color made his eyes water.

"Twenty-five seconds to impact..."

The outer rings cleared first. The Sky Jacks from Kodiak Squadron tried to melt the junks behind them with their exhaust as they blasted out hard and fast, curving around the bottom of the departing Shediri swarm.

"Fifteen seconds." Dice rotated his junk's four maneuvering nacelles to thrust in-line with her nose. Once the torpedo junks Portland, Hajume, and Squidy Chow in front of them had fired their mains, he finally had a clear flight line.

Dice gave the main thrusters more juice than the inertial negation could compensate for and in the half-second his head was pinned against the back of his helmet, the 5-km-wide Imperium weapon looked like the sky falling on Guerrero.

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