The Slaver Wars: Alien Contact by Raymond L. Weil

Author:Raymond L. Weil [Weil, Raymond L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raymond L. Weil
Published: 2014-01-04T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

War Leader Sigeth stood in former Commodore Anglert’s office staring out the thick insulated window across the desolate cold landscape. His dark eyes were unblinking as he thought about recent troublesome events. The Hocklyn forces sent to subjugate the human colony worlds had been defeated. In all four cases, the attacking Hocklyn fleets had been destroyed. That there had been no survivors was not surprising. No Hocklyn would return home in defeat. Even in a losing effort, a death in battle could preserve a family’s honor and holdings.

Sigeth wondered how this grave error had occurred. When no ships from the four fleets had returned to his waiting supply and invasion fleet, Sigeth had sent out several small surveillance ships to see what the delay was. He had been dismayed to learn that the humans had managed to destroy all four of Commodore Anglert’s war fleets.

Upon learning this stunning news, he had immediately turned his fleet and started the long sequence of jumps back to the isolated fleet base. This serious setback had to be reported to the Hocklyn High Command. His honor would be preserved as his fleet hadn’t taken part in the actual attacks. The invasion fleet was only to move in after the last human warship had been eliminated. Commodore Anglert had failed to achieve that mission requirement.

On the way back, Sigeth had studied the data from the scouts and taken note of the damage the fleets had done to two of the human colony worlds. There was also clear evidence from the sensor scans of numerous destroyed Hocklyn ships in the human systems. It had been over three hundred years since the Hocklyn Slave Empire had suffered such a total defeat to one of its war fleets. Now four of them had been destroyed by the same enemy in a single day!

Already Commodore Anglert’s family had been stripped of all their property holdings, and their family honor was a thing of the past. It had been the commodore’s responsibility to the Hocklyn Empire to ensure victory. His family would now pay for that failure.

“Our masters are demanding an explanation,” his aide spoke in a quivering voice from behind him. The aide had been standing quietly for several minutes, afraid to interrupt War Leader Sigeth’s thoughts.

“Our masters,” repeated Sigeth, continuing to gaze out the window. He let the words come out slowly, knowing the repercussions for failing the masters. Their masters were demanding and did not accept failure.

“I will communicate with them shortly,” responding Sigeth taking a deep breath. A defeat such as the one suffered by Commodore Anglert had to be reported to the Hocklyn High Command, as well as the masters.

Sigeth knew that he should have been placed in command of the attacking fleets from the start. Under his command, this debacle would never have occurred. He had much more experience in battle than Anglert. However, this had been Anglert’s base, and he had used the prestige of his family to convince the Hocklyn High Command to give him the task of bringing these human worlds into the empire.

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