Darkspace Renegade Volume 1: Books 1 & 2: (A Military Sci-Fi Series) by G J Ogden

Author:G J Ogden [Ogden, G J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-03-08T22:00:00+00:00

WOLF SQUADRON

BOOK TWO

1

Alarms wailed inside the cockpit of Hallam Knight’s Darkspace Renegade fighter as another barrage of flak detonated just off to his port side. Shrapnel pinged against the hull and Hallam took evasive action, but the tanker had anticipated his move, and he was soon heading directly toward another thick cloud of exploding shells. He cursed and retreated, pulling the craft away from the armored Randenite tanker. Within seconds, he was too far out of range for Dr. Rand’s prototype new weapon to work. The lights on the device turned red, and then it reset, ready for the next run. Hallam slammed his palm on the console and let out a growl of frustration. Thirty seconds within range of the tanker was all he needed, but this may as well have been a lifetime.

“Damn it, the gunner on this tanker is good,” said Hallam over the comm channel. “It’s probably Dane, or maybe Indi. Trust us to test this new can opener on a tanker with a decent crew!”

The “can opener” was the slang name that they’d given to Dr. Rand’s latest invention, which had been based on the authenticator that Hallam stole from the Consortium HQ on Vesta. Dr. Rand’s official term for the piece of tech was a “brute force code decryption device,” but since that hardly rolled off the tongue, Hallam had coined a simpler and more descriptive name for it instead.

Another curse flew over the comm channel, this time from Wolf Two, otherwise known as the firebrand renegade, Ruby Rivas.

“This is crazy,” Ruby yelled over the channel. “We’re all going to get blown to hell if we stay out here much longer!”

Ruby Rivas and Wolf Squadron’s leader, Dakota Wulfrun, were engaged in combat with the tanker’s two Consortium Security Force fighter escorts. Hallam’s task was to approach the tanker and get within operating range of the can opener. If he could hold position for long enough, the can opener would decrypt the security codes on the tanker’s cargo of Randenite fuel barrels and trigger the containment seals. The tanker would then have no choice but to jettison its entire payload of precious fuel or blow up with a thermonuclear-level force.

“Stay on mission, Wolf Two,” said Dakota. “We need to give Wolf Three a fighting chance to prove this thing works.”

Dakota then cursed, and Hallam saw her fighter thrust hard away from a pursuing CSF ship, while at the same time launching a raft of countermeasures. A missile snaked past, thankfully pursuing the decoy, rather than Dakota’s fighter, before it swiftly vanished into the Darkspace.

“Though if you could hurry it up a bit, Wolf Three, that would be great…” Dakota added humorlessly.

Hallam took a deep breath and realigned his craft with the armored tanker, which looked like a giant flying armadillo thanks to its thick protective shell. In a couple more minutes, the tanker pilot would have reset their Shelby Drive system and jumped back onto the bridge to the garden planet of Tellus. If Hallam didn’t get confirmation that Dr.

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