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“I need carriers, cruisers, battleships, Marine divisions—everything I was promised.”
“You told us you could take the Alliance with the resources you had,” Burns reminded him. “I’m afraid you may have to prove that.”
“I can,” the Fleet Admiral said flatly, yanking gently on his long black braid. “But it will take time. Years, not months.”
“You will have it,” the Senator told him. “And more ships as I can scrape them up. We both know how this ends, James. Unification is inevitable.”
“It is,” Walkingstick agreed with a sigh. “Let me know final numbers on what I’ll be getting as soon as you can. We’ll work with it.”
A few more pleasantries and the channel closed. Walkingstick stalked across his office, studying his strategic plot.
He was certain the Tau Ceti Raid had been an Alliance operation—and he knew Burns agreed with him. They’d been too clean, too precise. Too self-sacrificing, not something he would expect of mercenaries like the condottieri.
In one move, they’d cut the force he’d planned to crush their systems with in half. He would adapt. That was what he did.
The answers often lay in what one’s enemies had already done, and his gaze settled on the rimward side of the Alliance, the scattered systems where Castle and Coral still politely struggled for economic and political dominance among systems that hadn’t been worth recruiting for the Alliance.
“Jessica,” he raised his senior aide on his implant. “Get me…Commodore Tecumseh. And see if you can dig up which ships here in Niagara are fully fueled and supplied for long-term operations before he gets here.
“I have a job more suited for the good Commodore’s talents than logistics.”
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Other books by Glynn Stewart
Castle Federation
Space Carrier Avalon
Stellar Fox
Battle Group Avalon
Q-Ship Chameleon
Rimward Stars(upcoming, see www.faolanspen.com for latest estimated launch date)
Starship’s Mage
Starship’s Mage: Omnibus
Hand of Mars
Voice of Mars
Alien Arcana
Judgment of Mars (upcoming, see www.faolanspen.com for latest estimated launch date)
Duchy of Terra
The Terran Privateer
Duchess of Terra (upcoming, see www.faolanspen.com for latest estimated launch date)
ONSET
ONSET: To Serve and Protect (upcoming, see www.faolanspen.com for latest estimated launch date)
Stand Alone Novels
Children of Prophecy
City in the Sky
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45