Star Force: Blood on the Stars by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2021-01-18T22:00:00+00:00

Oni was mad. Boiling mad, because this was largely her fault. She could have brought with her the mobile comm ships, big and bulky as they were. She could have waited a few years until more were built, but she’d wanted to hit the Web Wall as soon as the others did. A coordinated strike so the Hadarak couldn’t send all their reinforcements to one location. She had Ghostblade here to build interstellar communications equipment on site, meaning all she had to do was take and hold these systems long enough to get a proper comm network up and running.

And because of that choice, 38,291 people were dead.

All due to a new type of Hadarak that wasn’t in the Neofan database, and wasn’t in the Maty records. Either it was brand new, or they’d both missed it somehow. Either way the dead were dead and not coming back, and her gamble of coming a few years ahead of time…or pulling units away from elsewhere…had failed.

But there was work to be done, and there was no way to get the mobile units here. So Oni was going to have to hold these systems without a comm network and rely on couriers only. And she only had one ship large enough, and powerful enough, to break through one of those fully deployed nets…except were they fully deployed? If given a few more years to grow, would they become so massive even a Borg vessel couldn’t get through?

Possible, but the distance they were putting them at out from the star pretty much eliminated the use of the jumpline for the Hadarak. Their Wardens certainly couldn’t jump from the other side of it. Their Mainline warships maybe, at a creep of a creep. Oni’s ships could, if they wanted to go the slow route, and that’s what she was going to have to do for the cargo ships if a courier hadn’t signaled the all clear within a few days’ time.

She could work this, but her failure burned her into a seething rage that was not likely to go away any time soon. Oni had to be better than the Hadarak…much, much better…to turn the type of numbers required to win this war. And right now she’d just been made a fool of. She hoped the others creating breach points through the Web Wall hadn’t been caught off guard like this. If they had, they’d adjust like she was…unless they rammed it themselves without the Essence enhancement she had added.

The thought of losing one of them kicked her hard in the stomach, but her analytical mind found that to be very unlikely. And all of this was due to the fog of war without a damn comm network up and running so one system could talk to another!

But Oni wouldn’t dwell on the past any more than necessary to prepare for the future. She had a discovery on her hands, two actually if you count this new weapon. The other was the Megaloids wanting out, with the insistence that all they needed was to get through the Web Wall.

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