Warlord's Invasion (Starfight Book 1) by Lee Guo

Author:Lee Guo [Guo, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wicked Muse Productions
Published: 2015-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

Betelgeuse Combined Fleet

Dreadnought Beginner's Luck

Bridge…

SECTOR INTEL’s intelligence seemed to be right so far, Vier pondered as she watched the holomap. The enemy’s 4700 ships appeared as a gigantic spheroid with the forward facing surface flat against her and her allies. The 4900 human ships organized as a very thick concave lens. It was immediately obvious to Vier, as well as any battle tactician, that the ships in the forward sections would be in greatest risk. That was true in any battle, unless the technology gap was so wide that ships in front had no chance of being sunk. As Vier recalled, in a normal confrontation between conventional hyperlight combatants, there was an extreme chance that ships in the forward ten percent would be sunk in a battle of this size. The risks increased as the battle prolonged.

By ordering the attack, it was, essentially, signing the death warrants of many officers and ratings in the forward surface. But sacrifices had to be made in order to reach greater gains. As a strategist, she knew that some of the biggest rewards required sacrificing some other less significant resource. To believe that four million lives were insignificant was tantamount to megalomania, but it was necessary.

But that feeling—the feeling that this was a vain sacrifice just would not go away. Worse, the feeling that not only would the forward surface be sacrificed, but the entire fleet itself, stayed like a constant throb in the back of her mind.

She cursed, massaging her scalp with her fingers through her cropped hair. In all her years of service, that danger sense had not dissipated. She could feel when something was wrong, she could sense it like a sixth sense. It stayed as a physical and emotional sensation in the back of her brain, making her on edge in a way that was completely different from the enormity of what was to come. It was suffocating. She had to do something about it. She knew what she did would probably be in vain, but it didn’t matter.

On her chair, there was a button. She pressed it.

Ten seconds later, a holoimage appeared next to her, showing Mu Pei’s head. “What is this about, admiral?” said Mu Pei.

“I have to tell you. I have a very bad feeling about this...sir.”

Mu Pei was silent for a moment. “You have told me that. My decision did not and will not change. Unless you have new information to back up your claim, I cannot withdraw from the attack.”

“I have no new immediate facts other than those obscure neutrino emissions. But what I do have is this feeling.”

“I cannot—”

“You don’t understand, sir. This sudden feeling is never wrong. It is never wrong. Through all my years of service and all the conflicts I’ve been in, this feeling has always been there for me. It has saved my life and that of my command in countless situations. It has never been as strong as it is now. I can feel it coming, Admiral. I can feel them about to spring their trap.

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