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Chapter 14 - The Administrator

KCGS Kelli Whyte
Winter System
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"I can't get a lock with active guidance, Sirrah!!"

{A ****** nightmare.} the Captain thought. "Increase gain and launch our fighters. Gunnery station, can you knock some of those missiles down?"

"Aye, on it!!"

"Switch seekers from Radar homing to dead-launch. RTO, do you see anything we can lock onto out there?"

"Radiation and thermal from the drives. Those are Clan built engines, spectra Six Alpha on the standard scale, probably from the Homeworlds, sir."

"Tinspawns generally don't sneak around greasing people from stealth...Engineering, get a couple techs down to the missile magazine and reconfigure seeker heads to home on that drive plume!"

"Aye, sir!"

"The drive plume, sir. Those warheads won't survive if he keeps thrusting and if he stops..."

"I'm aware, but it's something we can lock on to. RTO, I want a continuous datafeed to Spider Moon's analysis department, as close to live as you can make it using the Black Box."

"Aye sirrah, working on it now."

"Detecting high velocity dead contacts bearing on our course sir!"

"That would be naval autocannons. Helm, evasion course! Keep us closing, make us a difficult target."

"Aye, sirrah!"

"Fighters away, sir!"

"Launch our pinnaces next, we need to triangulate on that big bastard before he goes dark again!"

"Missiles inbound, signature says Barracuda derived!"

"All hands brace, point defense guns at maximum dispersion."

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