Star Force: Internecine (SF55)
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And when Archons wanted to get through something quickly, they hammered.
Paul spent the next 6 hours in high cardio training, a mix of running, swimming, and agility drills before finally retreating to his quarters and logging into the terminal to begin checking updates and messages, with a lot of backlog to get through. He’d had access on the surface via Star Force facilities, but he’d had such little downtime that he had passed over everything that wasn’t priority flagged.
He wasn’t going to get through it all now, but he worked through the recent stuff and got himself up to date on what was happening on the ship and across the ADZ, including the stupid war occurring on the inside. If the Scionate were still here where they belonged they’d have punted the Skarrons out of Dvapp space by now rather than having lost another world to them. That put the count at 3 now, giving them footholds on this section of the border that needed to be routed out sooner rather than later.
But Paul didn’t have the troops or ships to do it, and was barely hanging on to what they did have. The incoming Sentinel would help, both for the planet and his sanity, reminding himself that the longer they held on to territory the more of them would be made back in Sol and transported out here, fortifying the border worlds they possessed, so he wasn’t fighting a pointless campaign, as much as it felt sometimes.
Plenx was so weak right now that a healthy Skarron sneeze would take it, but thanks to the Voku the Skarrons were as starved for reinforcements as Star Force was.
He saw a new message from Cal-com, dated 28 days ago, and pulled it up, intent on it being the last message he read before heading to bed for his eyelids were getting so heavy he wasn’t sure how productive he was going to be if he kept pushing through his stack of mail.
What it contained was a bit of intel taken from the Skarrons, indicating a troop shift spinward, which was in the direction of Zeta Region from Earth’s point of view. The Skarrons were redeploying, and it didn’t appear to be related to the ADZ or the Voku.
That caused an eyebrow to raise, despite his fatigue. If the Skarrons were redeploying away from the ADZ that was definitely good news, but if they had somewhere else to go where was it and, more importantly, who were they fighting that was of higher priority?
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