Warlord's Invasion (Starfight Book 1) (32 page)

“The evacuation of civilians on the planets in their invasion route is still continuing at fastest pace. We do not have the transports to evacuate more than two or three percent. The same goes for Serenal and all the other planets in Betelgeuse.” He sighed, then he added, “Since we have nothing that can combat the Cats in hyperlight even with your fleet here, we won’t be able to offer the Cats even minimal opposition to their main thrust. Even when the other sector fleets arrive, the only thing we can do is delay their thrust with distraction attacks of our own, forcing them to reclaim territory while we escape combat to buy ourselves time…”

Vier spoke with Mittermeyer more. Eventually, the meeting was done, and she stood up.

Mittermeyer stood up, too. “I do not know when I will see you again, Vier Kleingelt, but I hope it will be in better times. There is always a chance that one or both of us will not survive the next month, but — it’s best not to dwell on pessimism.” He extended his hand. “Goodbye, Vice Admiral Kleingelt.”

Vier felt overwhelmed with the earnestness in his words. She didn’t know what to do for a moment. Then, she bowed and shook his hand, a firm shake, like she had learned long ago. “As with you, sir. Goodbye.” She turned and headed out the door.

“Oh, and Kleingelt,” Mittermeyer called out.

She turned around and faced him, once again.

“Show them how a Federation Vice Admiral fights up close.”

She smiled. “Yes, sir. I will.”

As she exited his office in a bout of excitement at the danger and opportunity, she was about to partake, little did she know that she would never meet him, again…

Galactic Battlespace

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cross a thousand light years, the Ga attacked. Their wedge drove deep into human space – a wedge six hundred light years wide and one thousand light years deep. Without a sector fleet to hold the Ga back, the Ga conquered system after system at a pace unseen before in human military history. Eight hundred additional human colonized star systems fell to the Ga onslaught. Six billion humans fell into their control. Another seven million humans died in their wake. Their ground troops marched into every human city, proclaiming it and the citizens within it – theirs.

Meanwhile, throughout the human sphere, the evacuation of its star citizens from the warzones proceeded at the quickest pace. Every transport, whether civilian, merchant, or military, now ferried as many civilians as it could from the incoming Ga menace.

At the same time, newly appointed Vice Admiral Kleingelt prepared the sector’s remaining ships for a mission behind enemy lines. Her mission – to destroy as many vulnerable Ga supply and auxiliary ships she could find, while keeping her fleet alive — the most dangerous sortie she had ever taken on.

She knew fully well that without those remaining human ships, the Ga would have no frontal opposition to their thrust, but hopefully her ships would slow the invasion down from behind.

As for the battlefront, it was now up to the human ships from the other human Starzones to reach Betelgeuse to protect the sector capital…they were coming — in mass. The greatest human armadas the human side of the galaxy had ever seen were being assembled…

Although the largest battle humanity had ever fought had already occurred – as well as the largest losses; the largest battle humanity will fight – and the largest losses humanity will lose – had yet to come…

Letter from the Author

Okay, so I did it. I actually ended a book at a cliffhanger. Now, this time I really do have to write a sequel. I imagine that if I don't, I will have readers fuming at me and no one will ever read another book of mine, again. So expect one in 2-6 months.

This time, I really think the sequel will come quickly. In Stars at War (another book I wrote), I didn't plan to write a sequel at all initially. But in this book, I planned to have at least 4 books in this series from the very beginning.

I intend to write a sequel to both SAW and to this. The order of books I intend to write is currently (as of 8/18/2015):

War of the Dark Mage (progress: 50,000/70,000 words)

Stars at War 2 (SAW series) (0/80,000)

Warlord’s Invasion 2 (Starfight series) (0/80,000)

Star Strike: Might of Empires (0/80,000)

Starfight sequel’s name will probably be:

Behind Enemy Lines? (Don’t know for sure yet)

Glossary

Blurza - forsaken

Escarat - army

Huka - trophy

Ka - People

Kael - Superior

Kavic - shit

Kohlar - Reception Room

Krushcha - a large wild carnivorous reptile that could camouflage and could outrun most other predators
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Nakra space - Hyperspace

Pra - Inferior species

Sela - Subordinate

Skra - Soldier

Subjugator - Fleet Commander

Suffra - Clan Territory

Sturka - general (as in army rank)

Tesi – flotilla

Tra - week

Ga names work like this:

Gor-Eben. Gor is their individual name. There is no such thing as first or last name.

Eben is their clan name. Gor belongs in the clan called Eben

Hal-Dorat. Hal belongs in the clan called Dorat

Warship classes in the human starfleet:

Dreadnought

Battlecruiser

Heavy Cruiser

Light Cruiser

Fast attack cruiser

Destroyer

Trivia:

- A lot of major and minor human characters have names that are copied from my favorite anime Legend of Galactic Heroes. Vier Kleingelt comes from the episode (the woman in the picture is Vier Kleingelt):

http://gineipaedia.com/wiki/When_the_Rain_of_Grief_Comes..._%28episode%29

Other characters:

http://gineipaedia.com/wiki/Arthur_von_Streit

http://gineipaedia.com/wiki/Kubersly

http://gineipaedia.com/wiki/Wolfgang_Mittermeyer

- The novel starts on December 12 3986 AD. That’s because December 12 1986 is my birthday.
So, by 3986 AD, I will be exactly 2000 years old (and hopefully still alive).

- I started the novel because I had an idea of a really bad powerful bad guy doing bad things, but as I wrote the novel, I realized that the sequel will feature the big bad guy and so I made him more sympathetic or at least developed his character more

- I wrote really fast at the beginning of the novel (8000 words a day) but by mid novel my writing speed was (2000). Several things contributed to this. 1) I destroyed my brain from drinking too much beer. This led to memory loss and concentration. I had trouble remembering what I wrote and had to do many edits. 2) As I progressed, the novel was harder to write because there were more constraints due to what I had written earlier. I had to make it synchronous with what I had written before and I couldn’t just go into exploration mode and write anything. 3) I became obsessed with editing. I started the habit of first draftiness, where everything I wrote became lesser and lesser quality because I knew I would edit it later.

- During the course of the novel, I started really enjoying elaborating on character motivations, history, and backgrounds, as well as history of planets and nations.

- I realized during the course of the novel that I really like dark, passionate characters
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- The human crown world, Trantor, is also the name of the administrative center of the galactic empire in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy

- Similarily, the name of the Ga capital world, Lakfakalle, is derived from the capital of the Ahb Empire in the anime Crest of the Stars

- Yeah, I know a captain (Huang Rui) in the marines is not supposed to be in the forefront of an infantry battle, and he’s not supposed to command a platoon, nor is he supposed to charge at the head into every danger point, nor is he supposed to be the first one to scout whether the enemy is dead or not… but dang it! I needed him to be at the forefront of danger, and I suppose he had to have a command rank as well
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Links

Visit my website to see what books I’m coming up with and what I’m doing. I’m a frequent procrastinator, so don’t expect much.
leeguo.weebly.com/

If you’re a novelist and you liked my novel cover (or the clan/nation logos and emblems), here is the email of the cover artist who did it. She charges very low or sometimes even for free.
[email protected]

I have a wikia set up for this series, called the Starfight Wikia. You’re welcome to browse or edit it, if you’re into that type of thing.
http://starfight.wikia.com/wiki/Starfight_Wikia

Any comments or questions can be sent to my email.
[email protected]

Bye, bye!! See you next time, I hope.