A.I. Ship Cassiopeia: Escort Class Starship: Book One by D. L. Harrison
Author:D. L. Harrison [Harrison, D. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-19T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter Seven
âStatus?â the captain asked as she took her post. The central hologram showed them to be damned close to the gas giant in the system, and it looked like the two enemy ships had moved.
Dennis said, âTen minutes for weapons range, twelve until they can return fire.â
Susan replied, âThe two ships have moved, according to the logs they waited until they were sure we were committed to our course and interacting with the gas giantâs atmosphere.â
She asked, âAnalysis?â
Maria said, âItâll be harder to dodge their plasma balls when fired straight on, and Iâm limited in how far we can dodge. If we canât recover our original course and wind up going deeper into the atmosphere, then the drag will overwhelm the inertial compensators. The ship will likely survive the rapid deceleration and friction heat, but we wonât.â
She nodded, âJust do the best you can. Anton?â
Anton replied, âCountermeasures are ready to launch captain. I donât think theyâll get more than three volleys each before we blow by them and put the gas giant between us. Itâll take at least ten direct hits to take us down with the Mirixâs stronger EM shields installed. I think between Maria and I we can avoid more than five in every wave of eight.â
Carl said, âWe need to do a little better than that to come out unscathed, sir. We need at least thirty percent on the shields when we hit the atmosphere to reflect all that heat, or weâll take significant hull damage. Avoid or neutralize six of the eight plasma attacks in all three volleys at the least, but if you can avoid all of them, I wouldnât complain.â
Right, they could only take six hits, not nine or ten, since theyâd be plowing into an atmosphere right after passing the enemy ships.
Maria snickered.
Anton said, âGood call.â
The captain asked, âSuggestions?â
Dennis said, âWe donât need to destroy them, just get past them. Iâd suggest firing straight down our course line. That will have them dodging away so they canât fire directly head on once weâre in range of their weapons, which will make dodging easier. They canât dodge our fire with the enhanced course correction abilities our weapons have, but they donât know that. Yet.â
That⦠made sense. Once they learned that, they wouldnât bother even trying to dodge next time and just fire from their best vantage point, which was straight on.
Jessica ordered, âStop our forward acceleration now, and restart it once past. How many volleys will we get?â
Dennis said, âFive. Our reload time is a little faster, since our weapons donât carry as much active plasma it takes less time to load and heat the chamber to appropriate levels. Ninety seconds, as opposed to every two minutes. We can fire four times for their every three, and the extended range will give us that fifth volley.â
She pondered that, âCan we degrade the weapons maneuverability to match theirs?â
Dennis looked up startled, and then said, âWe could limit the gravity fields to fifteen Gs instead
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