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interrupted before Pattrel could respond. “ The Trinx know we’re coming and they’d be
stupid if they didn’t develop some warning system or countermeasure to your
abilities. You could be walking into a trap .”
“ We will do our
part in this invasion ,” the Yisv said firmly. “ We have not been able to do much in the past, but so long as this Uriti
is sedate we will risk planetfall to achieve this
objective .”
“ So all the
Trinx have to do is wake it up and you’re all neutralized ,” the Sety
pointed out.
“ If they do so
the shield generators will be compromised and we will have our entry corridor .”
“Not worth it,” Oni said, holding up a hand to
forestall further comments, “but that doesn’t mean I don’t want your skills. I
just want to save them for situations where you can dominate the enemy.”
6
May 19, 3290
Paquat System
Vikod (Trinx homeworld)
Oni brought her fleet into upper orbit of the planet
after having received no challenge at the star. The warships came out of their
microjump high and began spurting drones as a handful of Trinx ships raced to
engage them, hoping to use the moment of opportunity to take down a few of them
before the Star Force fleet could get itself organized, but with Oni’s command
ship leading the way and actually initiating the combat, she was able to draw
fire to her and give the leading warships the time they needed.
Soon a swarm of the little boxy rectangles moved
forward and intercepted the Trinx vessels before the command ship’s shields
fell. Battle continued briefly then the Trinx retreated back down to a lower
orbit leaving a handful of partially intact ships behind. Oni tagged them for
retrieval and rescue operations after some precision weaponsfire plucked their
remaining weapon systems from use even before the allied ships of the Chamra
began to arrive.
There were a fair number of them, but when combined
with the ships of the other seven races, including only the three warships the
Sety had managed to provide, they massed nearly half again the strength Star
Force had brought with them and when all were visible in orbit they made for an
impressive display.
But just as impressive were the orbital defenses. The
Trinx had a small fleet here, either held back from the previous assault they
had launched or created since then. Immediately Oni saw a weakness and turned
her ships towards a position in mid orbit, highlighting several defense
platforms to neutralize without totally destroying as she sent surrender offers
that were promptly ignored. Her drones went in while the allies stayed behind,
on her order, so no living crews were lost. By massing drones Oni was able to
keep her equipment losses to a minimum but oddly the Trinx fleet did not
redeploy to intercept them.
Not that it would have mattered, but they were sitting
lower in orbit near to other facilities while Oni was successfully surrounding
their primary shipyard. As soon as she had the fixed defensive emplacements
knocked down she called in their allies and they began boarding operations as
she moved on to pluck a few more defensive installations from the Trinx arsenal
here and there on the fringes of their primary cluster. She wasn’t going to
make the mistake of diving in and slugging it out, but was content to take on a
handful while the boarding parties began capturing the surviving Trinx crews.
Taking out the weapons shooting at them was one thing,
but simply blowing away the defense stations was quite another and had been
strictly banned on Oni’s orders prior to arriving in this system. So far the
other races were sticking to plan and following her lead, but there were so
many defense stations in orbit of their capitol planet that it was going to be
like chopping wood to get through them all…not to mention the lesser defenses
around the other inhabited planets in the system.
But the Trinx fleet, aside from that initial attack,
did not move to engage.
stupid if they didn’t develop some warning system or countermeasure to your
abilities. You could be walking into a trap .”
“ We will do our
part in this invasion ,” the Yisv said firmly. “ We have not been able to do much in the past, but so long as this Uriti
is sedate we will risk planetfall to achieve this
objective .”
“ So all the
Trinx have to do is wake it up and you’re all neutralized ,” the Sety
pointed out.
“ If they do so
the shield generators will be compromised and we will have our entry corridor .”
“Not worth it,” Oni said, holding up a hand to
forestall further comments, “but that doesn’t mean I don’t want your skills. I
just want to save them for situations where you can dominate the enemy.”
6
May 19, 3290
Paquat System
Vikod (Trinx homeworld)
Oni brought her fleet into upper orbit of the planet
after having received no challenge at the star. The warships came out of their
microjump high and began spurting drones as a handful of Trinx ships raced to
engage them, hoping to use the moment of opportunity to take down a few of them
before the Star Force fleet could get itself organized, but with Oni’s command
ship leading the way and actually initiating the combat, she was able to draw
fire to her and give the leading warships the time they needed.
Soon a swarm of the little boxy rectangles moved
forward and intercepted the Trinx vessels before the command ship’s shields
fell. Battle continued briefly then the Trinx retreated back down to a lower
orbit leaving a handful of partially intact ships behind. Oni tagged them for
retrieval and rescue operations after some precision weaponsfire plucked their
remaining weapon systems from use even before the allied ships of the Chamra
began to arrive.
There were a fair number of them, but when combined
with the ships of the other seven races, including only the three warships the
Sety had managed to provide, they massed nearly half again the strength Star
Force had brought with them and when all were visible in orbit they made for an
impressive display.
But just as impressive were the orbital defenses. The
Trinx had a small fleet here, either held back from the previous assault they
had launched or created since then. Immediately Oni saw a weakness and turned
her ships towards a position in mid orbit, highlighting several defense
platforms to neutralize without totally destroying as she sent surrender offers
that were promptly ignored. Her drones went in while the allies stayed behind,
on her order, so no living crews were lost. By massing drones Oni was able to
keep her equipment losses to a minimum but oddly the Trinx fleet did not
redeploy to intercept them.
Not that it would have mattered, but they were sitting
lower in orbit near to other facilities while Oni was successfully surrounding
their primary shipyard. As soon as she had the fixed defensive emplacements
knocked down she called in their allies and they began boarding operations as
she moved on to pluck a few more defensive installations from the Trinx arsenal
here and there on the fringes of their primary cluster. She wasn’t going to
make the mistake of diving in and slugging it out, but was content to take on a
handful while the boarding parties began capturing the surviving Trinx crews.
Taking out the weapons shooting at them was one thing,
but simply blowing away the defense stations was quite another and had been
strictly banned on Oni’s orders prior to arriving in this system. So far the
other races were sticking to plan and following her lead, but there were so
many defense stations in orbit of their capitol planet that it was going to be
like chopping wood to get through them all…not to mention the lesser defenses
around the other inhabited planets in the system.
But the Trinx fleet, aside from that initial attack,
did not move to engage.
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