Trinity's Children by Dave Bara

Author:Dave Bara [Bara, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure, Military, General
ISBN: 9781625798831
Google: ytx5EAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2022-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

The VTOL ride back to Camp Alpha was rough and fast. There was no room for the comfort of his people now. When they landed, Clement was out of the vehicle and making for his shuttle as fast as he could, sending orders to Yan via the com to detect the incoming fleet and deploy her defenses. He also filled her in on the surprise of seeing Mary again, and the implications she had made about the mysterious Makers. He left Lubrov and the Marines behind on the surface to work on the colonists’ ground defenses.

Another twenty minutes and he was aboard Agamemnon and in the CAC, at the command and control console, surveying the looming battlefield. “Situation report, Captain,” he demanded of Yan.

“We’ve detected the attack fleet, Admiral. More than fifty ships of various classes inbound from the orbit of T6. They used the gas planet’s gravity to accelerate inwards toward us, and Bellus.”

“Is there a capital ship?” asked Clement.

“There is a vessel that matches Agamemnon for size and displacement. Our estimates are that it’s the lead battlecruiser of the attack fleet. But they also have twenty heavy cruisers, eighteen destroyers, and most worryingly, fifteen automated hunter-killers.”

Clement studied the potential battlefield. There weren’t many options. He had only eight destroyers and six light cruisers plus Agamemnon and the five small gunships she carried like children in her belly. It was far too weak a force to face what was incoming at them.

“Do we split our forces, sir?” asked Yan.

Clement shook his head. Likely splitting his forces would merely lead to their quicker destruction. “We’d get torn apart. We’ll have to form a defensive wedge behind the Agamemnon. Like it or not, this ship is really the only modern warship we have in the fleet. Everything else we have is either outdated or upgraded to barely functional levels.” He stopped then, and contemplated the board one more time before oming to a decision. “Deploy the fleet per formation Delta Seven-one.” Delta Seven-one would put the Agamemnon at the point of a wedge, supported above and below by three light cruisers each, and further back by the eight destroyers in a spread formation. Beyond that, he only had the five former Rim Confederation gunships. It wasn’t much, but Clement didn’t have many options. At least the formation would put their most modern and powerful ship at the forefront of the battle. Likely the enemy fleet commander would do just the opposite, stay behind her forces and let her heavy cruisers, destroyers and HuKs do most of the damage.

Her.

He realized he was planning his defense as if the other attack force was being led by his former lover and great betrayer, former Fleet Admiral Elara DeVore. He wasn’t sure if that bias was good or bad under the circumstances. He pushed those thoughts out of his mind for the present. “Lieutenant Adebayor, do your scope scans give us any indication of where these ships are based at? A fleet this big must have some sort of supply vessel or support ships elsewhere in the system.

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