Shadow War (Shadows of the Void Space Opera Serial Book 10) by J.J. Green

Author:J.J. Green [Green, J.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: InfiniteBook
Published: 2017-07-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Pacheco was familiar with the layout of the Thylacine, but he’d gotten lost on his way to the bridge. He suddenly noticed that he was wandering the corridors on the lower decks, which were empty and quiet.

Ever since abandoning the Camaradon, he’d felt light-headed. Everything around him seemed surreal. Images of the battle flashed constantly through his mind, making it hard for him to concentrate on his surroundings and what people said to him. They sounded like they were speaking to him through cotton wool or from a far distance.

He’d never lost a ship before.

He recalled the Camaradon’s jump into the remaining Shadow-controlled sector of the galaxy and the discovery of the gigantic Shadow ship. It sheer size had been impossible to grasp. Pacheco’s first officer had checked and rechecked the scanner readings.

A ship that large had never been built before in the history of the galaxy. Pacheco hadn’t even thought it was possible to build a ship so big.

Pacheco had barely had time to register that it was real and the scanners weren’t lying before it unleashed its onslaught. The Shadow’s terrible ray had tested the strength of the Camaradon’s force field from the very moment it struck.

Pacheco stumbled over his own feet and fell against the corridor wall. He gripped it for support, shaking his head. But he couldn’t shake the memory of the behemoth dominating the holo on the Camaradon’s bridge, or of the fearful faces of his officers when they’d realized what they were up against.

The Unity Alliance had been too confident; too sure of its intelligence. Reports had said that the Shadow flagship was in the vicinity, and the reports had been correct. But they had completely underestimated the size of the craft. It had all been a ruse to trap the Unity Alliance into committing its best ship to an unwinnable battle.

Their final, decisive blow against the Shadows had turned into a crushing defeat.

Pacheco told himself that he’d fought the best he could, but the words sounded empty in his head. His view of the Thylacine’s corridor disappeared and was replaced by the sight of the Camaradon firing pulse after pulse at the Shadow ship, and the awful ray wiping them up as if they were mere annoyances, all the while pouring its dreadful energy at the Camaradon’s force field.

In his mind, the rest of the fleet appeared after their battles once more, called to the Camaradon’s aid. But their pulses were also useless against the enemy. The Shadow ship had never seemed to even weaken. From where the ship derived its power, Pacheco couldn’t understand. He wasn’t a scientist, but he was sure that such amounts of energy were impossible to generate and expend so rapidly.

His legs shook and he dropped to his knees. He slumped against the corridor, his eyes closed, reliving the memory of the last, desperate measures before their inevitable defeat. He’d sent out the fighter ships in an all-but-doomed attempt to break through the Shadow ship’s defenses. He

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