Counterstrike by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

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August 18, 2264

Epsilon Eridani System

Corneria

Dozens of short range missiles leapt from the launchers on the line of three Star Force gunships floating in position over a phalanx of Clan Davion and Clan Thrawn mechs. The tiny projectiles shot out in plumes, individually tracking towards the incoming lizard fighters swarming up out of hidden hangars in the snow covered trees to the southwest. Beyond that lay the completed shield generator tower, standing high above the forest canopy but partially shrouded in white flakes from the storm that was blowing in. Barely visible in between were tiny bricks rising up slowly to follow the fighters out against Star Force’s approaching mechs.

The lizards had to split their defenses, however, given that the assault was happening on multiple fronts. The base was located on the far side of the northern pole, with more tree clusters than snowy plains, but there were three ground approach corridors into the base, branching out into a myriad of crisscrossing paths that led to the wider plains further north. The mechs had kept close to the trees during their long run up to the base, which they were still a few kilometers shy of, to stay undetected by the lizards’ sensors.

The ploy had worked, because until the fleet of aircraft came in to supplement the mechs the base hadn’t responded. The gunships had flown at ground level ahead of the main force of dropships, skimming the snow so they could catch up to the mechs to be in ambush position when the base defenders came out, and had just caught up to this portion of the marching mechs less than a minute ago.

As the dozens of dropships set down well back from the base, 8 Clans marched forward on the snowy approaches at a steady pace, no longer running as they had been earlier. The forward line of mechs on each of the three attack groups was comprised of mad dogs that had their shoulder weapon mounts that typically held missiles replaced with anti-air lachars. Due to the erratic paths in to the base the mechs couldn’t see the approaching fighters, so they waited patiently, watching the gunships’ missiles fire off over the trees.

Ten seconds later the first of the surviving fighters flashed by overhead, firing at one of the gunships and hitting its shields with a small plasma orb before the autofire setting on the mech’s weapons tracked and knocked it out of the sky. Several more suffered the same fate, some of which fell into the mech ranks but most had enough momentum to carry them across the angle of the path and into the forest on the far side.

Likewise, anti-air lachar clusters on the gunships mowed through the approaching fighter swarm, which had been diminished in size due to having to split up to attack all three approaching mech groups. Within a minute the Star Force troops took out 90% of the defending fighters, with skeet squadrons coming up from behind to track down the survivors

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