Star Force: Survivor (SF52) (11 page)

“I’ve got several teams doing just that. When you
check out I’ll reassign you to one.”

“Thank you,”
Iden
said,
gesturing to one of the medtechs to bring him a new set of clothes that he was
holding while giving the Archons a respectful bit of space as they discussed
things far above his understanding.

“When you get finished shoot me the results,” Megan
said, lightly punching him in the shoulder as she left him to get dressed. She
carried the regenerator with her, not trusting anyone with it. To date it was
one of the
holy grail
pieces of V’kit’no’sat tech that
Star Force wasn’t even close to duplicating. The pyramid had some industry of
its own, so if they absolutely needed to they could build some tech even if
they didn’t understand it, but the regenerators were something that had to be
built in specialized facilities that the pyramid didn’t possess.

Those facilities had been destroyed during the
Rit’ko’sor rebellion, along with the rest of the V’kit’no’sat infrastructure on
Earth, making these few remaining pieces invaluable. Most remained on Earth,
with a few scattered elsewhere on ‘safe’ worlds. The trailblazers all took one
with them whenever they venture out to field assignments, and it wasn’t
something that Megan ever let out of her sight.

She took it back to her temporary quarters within the
aquatic city and hid it away in a drawer before returning to the command center
and linking into the nexus there, getting status reports on the planetary
battlemap that had signals being transmitted between various relays to link in
the short range signals to the overall grid.

Megan could see everything from individual commandos
in the field to the warships in orbit, along with the enemy blockade fleet and
the maneuvers both were continually making as their chess game continued. Right
now Admiral
Xander
was picking away at the Skarron
fleet with another hit and fade run, which would probably damage two Skarron
cruisers by the time it was finished, with the Star Force drones pulling out on
their superior binary drives before their shields could be taken down.

But any ships destroyed would be replaced by a
continual flow of reinforcements that always seemed to know what was needed.
Megan figured the Skarrons had a courier fleet running requests back to Achkor
or some other staging system. That delay was possibly something she could use
in a large scale counterattack, but right now she was forced into playing the
ground game as well…so long as they could manage a stalemate in orbit.

It wasn’t an ideal situation by far, but had anyone else
been on the border they would have been overrun by now. The Dvapp had fared
well in their matchup, but without the Sentinels deployed there they’d have
fallen to the same large scale blockading fleets. As it was they were fighting an
identical stalemate, with Paul leading the ADZ forces and using the
Dvapp’s
strengths against the Skarrons well, now that
they’d gotten used to following his lead.

If someone was going to find a weakness in the Skarron
fleet it would be him. Until then Megan had to play for time and find a way to
start eating up more of the enemy ground troops…otherwise they’d blossom to
such large numbers that they’d overrun the other two continents no matter how
many short term upgrades she made.

If she could buy enough time for some of the bigger
defense pieces to be built, then that would be an altogether different story.

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