Chapter 16: The Republican Fleet Arrives.
The fleet ghosted into the asteroids. It took several days for the large fleet to arrive in the asteroids. It was a combination of things, coming out of faster than light drive in the middle of an asteroid belt, avoiding the Surveyors, and the various Trenan, Imperial, and Thonian fleet elements whose ships could detect FTL transitions. The trickiest part was the insertion into the asteroids. One of two of the fleet ghosted into the asteroid field at a time. Although the fleet had good maps of the asteroid field no one was taking chances. They didn’t want to do more than one or two at a time. They didn’t want the commotion that a mass arrival would cause. So the first ships came in mapped the asteroids, and sent the revised map and where the new arrivals were to a picket ship in the outskirts of the Trena solar system. It was a tricky piece of navigation. If the navigator and helm got it wrong there would be a very attention getting explosion as a ship came out of faster than light where an asteroid or another ship existed. The entropy experiment would be very spectacular.
Now a couple of days before the assault all of the republican fleet was present. The fleet admiral received the news that part of their plan had failed, Hozenbur was dead and so the distraction they hoped the Ebio officer would cause wasn’t going to happen now.
Book 13: The Final Days
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