Storm' Fury: The Shenkar War by Seth Libby Read Free Book Online Page B

home world and with that the location data for our fold engines.”
                  At this point Shizta got a little confused. True, they had the coordinates but the major drawback of Shenkar fold technology was the fold engines had to actually have been in the location before to be able to use the data to fold there. Before he could voice this very question one of the overlords spoke up, Overlord Gyliene he believed.
                  “I do not understand. How does this matter when we all know we cannot simply fold our ships to any location without having been there before?”
                  The scientist smiled at this question as if he had fully expected it to be asked.
                  “Overlord Gyliene is correct; previously we simply could not fold our warships to any location, at least not with the fold engines he speaks of. However, things have changed, now we do have such ability. We were able to recover some data from some of the wreckage of the human’s battlecruiser they used in system 238. While we were not able to completely reconstruct their exact fold technology we were able to create fold engines that are close to the humans. We will need to make several folds to make the trip but we should be able to fold our entire fleet to the edge of the human’s home system,” explained the scientist.
                  “Why not simply fold our fleet into direct proximity of the human’s home world?” asked Gyliene.
                  “While we were able to create a fold engine we still couldn't overcome the problem of folding a ship into the gravity well of a planet. If we were to attempt such a maneuver it would result in the destruction of the fleet,” explained the scientist in a voice that plainly said the scientist was severely annoyed with not being able to solve this problem.
                  “We are still looking into another possible solution for this but it is yet untested.”
                  “When will the fleet be ready?” asked another Overlord Shizta didn't know.
                  “The fleet is ready, or as ready as I am willing to wait for. I will not be deterred anymore,” commanded the Shelecore.
                  Shizta knew the fleet wasn't large enough to effectively decimate the human’s fleet and defense platforms with any certainty. In fact the fleet did not even meet the the numbers of a Dread fleet so he was unsure of why they had stated the fleet was mightier than a Dread fleet.
                  “Shelecore, the humans will most definitely have rebuilt their fleet by now as well as those massive defense platforms that were so deadly against Krailsha's fleet. I am willing to bet they did not stop at just replacing the two we were able to destroy, I would bet my life they doubled if not tripled those automated monstrosities. I believe we should wait till our fleet is double the size of a normal Dread fleet,” explained Shizta, fighting to keep his voice neutral and not show the anger in his voice.
                  “You would bet your life, would you? Shizta you will have your chance to do just that. You will be accompanying the fleet when they assault the humans. But do not worry for I have a plan to diminish the fleet around the human’s home world before we assault the planet. If you recall system 238 you will remember the humans effectively delivered severe losses against Krailsha's fleet. They did this even when we thought we had driven them off. After we successfully destroyed their battlecruiser they still managed to capture the Tryliene and use it to destroy the command base attached to Krailsha's fleet. I believe the humans had a secret outpost somewhere in system 238’s asteroid field that they were using to launch attacks from. Now you may believe that since they defeated us they may have abandoned the base as this is not an area