Planet Predators by Saxon Andrew Read Free Book Online

the destruction, Hemon, but you’re probably right.”
    Jeff looked at Chris, “You were there when the first ship was destroyed; how should we handle this?”
    “They emerge from Sierra Space after a long, fast jump with their power reduced to their force field and weapons. Their drives use an enormous amount of their energy to travel at high speed in Sierra Space and emerge at a much lower level available for their weapons.”
    Chris nodded, “Jillian is right. If that ship emerges and has just a small amount of time to recover their energy level, I don’t believe we can handle them with all our ships. That first moment of emergence from Sierra Space is critical and when we must hit them.”
    The room was silent. Sasha looked around and said, “We can determine where that ship will emerge.” Dolly looked at Sasha with raised eyebrows as Sasha continued, “If they really don’t know about that chink in their armor they will come in close to the Scout’s location to defend it.”
    Dolly said, “Jeff?”
    “I think she’s probably right. That is exactly what we’d do in that situation.”
    Chris looked at the picture of the Giant Blue Ship on the room’s display and said, “Why don’t we do this. We send in one ship to take out the scout as quickly as possible. As soon as it’s destroyed we jump in two more ships and surround the area where it was destroyed. When the Giant arrives we’ll all start firing at the place of emergence.”
    “And if it appears outside that area?”
    “We’ll just jump away and attempt it again somewhere else until it does arrive where we have set up to hit it. We’ll detect the location of its emergence and can jump away before it can scan and see we had more than one ship present.”
    “How far away would it have to be to abort the attack?”
    “Dolly, if it jumps in closer than two hundred thousand miles, we can be on it in a second at light speed. That’s not enough time for them to regain full power. We’ll program our ship’s weapons to lock in on the Bridge of the Blue Giant and all fire at the same spot on their force field.”
    “That doesn’t leave much time to make a decision about running or attacking.”
    “We’ll set the ship’s computers to do it automatically. If it emerges inside two hundred thousand miles, the ships will automatically go to the emergence. If it’s outside that distance, the ships will go into Sierra Space and scatter.”
    Dolly looked at Jeff, “What do you think about Chris’ plan?”
    Chris asked, “Who will be the participants in this exercise?”
    Jillian said, “The Jukebox, the Havana, and Admiral Ander’s ship.”
    Jeff looked at Jillian, “How did you know Kenny has a ship?”
    “How could he not? And we need him to make the software commands to make this happen. It only makes sense that he would be a participant.”
    Dolly leaned back, “Jeff, I thought you told me you didn’t like that Crazy Cuban?”
    “Dolly, you saw the recording of what he did in that last attack. Crazy or not, he is incredible in his flying skills.”
    “He should be the one to take out the Scout.”
    Jeff tilted his head and smiled, “You’re right, Jillian. Dolly, I think this is a good plan. We need to select a Scout that’s further out on the line away from Earth. We need to continue to nudge their search efforts into another region of the galaxy.”
    “You should select one on the opposite side of the galaxy from where that ship is currently located. That would require a long high speed jump and should drain even more energy from their weapons.”
    “That’s a good idea, Hemon. We’ll set it up after the participants have the proper software installed.”
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    The Commander of the Blue Giant Battleship watched his communication panel and hoped the call would come in soon. He commanded that all systems be on full charge and half of the crew was kept at their Alert Stations at all times. He looked forward to killing the ships