Star Force: Origin Series Box Set (29-32) by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2016-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Aquatics

1

July 2, 2429

Retari System

Atlantica

“Captain, we’re receiving a distress call from Manaan.”

Voru turned from the aft observation display screen ‘window’ and walked across the small bridge, abandoning his ocean view. “That cruiser we picked up coming down from orbit?”

“No, sir,” the comm officer answered. “There’s a major assault underway, with additional aerial forces coming in from the east.”

“Show me,” Voru said, glancing at another bridge officer.

A hologram of the planet popped up just in front of his empty Captain’s chair, then it zoomed in to cover a third of the planet’s surface with icons marking all Star Force ships and installations on the waterworld. The city of Manaan was a few thousand kilometers to their northeast, and Voru could see the additional lizard contacts moving in that direction.

“Sir, the Dutchman says they’re moving to relieve the city and are asking our intentions.”

“Tell Captain Isso we’ll be there as soon as we can,” Voru said, gripping the back of his chair as he studied the hologram. “Mr. Cadren, get us airborne…plot course for Manaan.”

“Aye, sir,” the helmsman said, beginning to work his console.

“Give me ship-wide.”

The comms officer pressed a few buttons, then nodded to the Captain.

“Attention all hands. Manaan is currently under lizard attack. We’re moving to assist, but it’ll take us some time to get there. Make ready all war assets and wait for deployment orders,” he finished with a nod to cut the intercom. His eyes moved back to the hologram, seeing the icon for the Dutchman not far from Manaan and moving out to interpose itself between the approaching contacts and the city…leaving the onsite defenders to handle the ensuing assault.

All around the perimeter of the bridge were ‘windows’ relaying video images from the exterior of the aquatics battleship, and as Voru studied the tactical hologram he caught the image of the ocean line sinking in his peripheral vision, though the view was much better from the outside, had anyone been around to see it.

The 1,840m long warship looked like a giant sea creature, without a single sharp edge or line to the flowing, deep blue hull shaped like a flattened whale. The center line was raised, but from there the sides went well wide of any traditional design, stretching out to a maximum width of 720m. The perimeter of the ship was a curved edge that looked like a blade, but was in fact flat rather than sharp when viewed in close. The angled hull rolled wave after wave of water off it as the blade edge of the ship came up from below the water line, showing the battleship to be much larger than she appeared from the surface.

As the low-powered gravity drive lifted the aquatics warship out of the water the underside of the hull came into view, dripping gallons upon gallons of water back down into the ocean beneath as it cast a shadow on the resettling water, blocking the harsh yellow sun that quickly began to dry out the upper hull. The underside was

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