What Price Victory? by David Weber

Author:David Weber
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Military, Space Opera, Collections & Anthologies
ISBN: 9781982192419
Google: oIQ5zwEACAAJ
Amazon: B0BF79Z5HF
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2023-02-07T05:00:00+00:00

Bartoli watched the Manty task force closing in. Autonomy’s impellers had been on standby when the Manties arrive, and the battlecruiser was already racing towards the hyper limit on the far side of the system, but it wouldn’t escape the Manties.

Neither would the remaining Silly ships with Bartoli’s crews aboard. Crews that knew about his base at Quatre Bras.

Only Scimitar would escape. She’d already crossed the hyper limit, which had taken her directly toward the enemy, but unlike Autonomy, she would disappear into hyper well before the Manties could range on her. Which left only one thing to do.

He entered a combination on his keyboard and the Scimitar sent a signal.

One hundred and fifty-two seconds later, the light-speed command reached its destination and Autonomy and the remaining SCN vessels exploded. The nukes he had installed aboard each of those ships did the job.

No prisoners the Manties could interrogate.

Bartoli didn’t like doing it. He’d once worked for StateSec and he knew how to be ruthless, but he wasn’t malicious. He didn’t enjoy it, and he knew that good people were hard to come by. More to the point, if his long-term plans were to work, he needed a cadre of loyal people. Of course, he still had lots of SS fanatics under his command who were almost eager to sacrifice themselves. Some had blown up on those ships, some remained on Scimitar. Unfortunately, he also needed people who weren’t fanatics, and by and large, he preferred living loyal people who weren’t fanatics.

But sometimes he had to be ruthless.

Like at New Rodrigo.

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