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Chappy's Howling Siegers - Book 3
Chapter 6[]
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Bridge of the WarShip Beast of Terra
Zenith Jump Point
Risin, Outworlds Alliance
August 9th, 2791
The fleet was fully charge and ready to make the final jump to their new home. Colonel Chapman was sitting at his standard station. Captain Phung commander of the fleet was in the captain’s chair, and Damir Chapman was sitting at an unused sensor station. For the majority of the warship crew they came from Devils Breath, but none of the warriors had, and none of the families had, all of them were excited about this jump even Colonel Chapman. Damir turned his chair and looked at his uncle.
“Sir, are you ready to see your new home.”
“Yes, as are all the Siegers I assure you.”
Damir moved his head slightly to give eye contact to the captain. “Captain, you know what to do please execute OPERATION HIDDEN HAND.”
“Roger.” The captain said then switched on the fleet comm. <<“Attention Siegers Navy we have been cleared to commence OPERATION HIDDEN HAND.”>>
She then asked the communication tech to hail the charging station and notify them that they were leaving and thank them for service. She looked at Colonel Chapman and said.
“With the automatic security systems at the nadir and Zenith points we go in at a stable pirate point which is just outside the D1F1 asteroid belt. At which point we will have 2 minutes to notify the two military space stations our identification before they launch an attack on us. Even though they know we are coming the protocols must be met.”
She then swapped to the fleet comm. “Execute jump in three, two, one.”
All ships emerge from the jump in the distance Colonel Chapman could make out the planet, it was a small ball right now but shining brightly in space to the port of the ship he saw the asteroid belt and directly in front was a massive space station the Colonel was speechless this station was bigger than Battle Station Epsilon that orbited Terra. Colonel shook off his awe and heard Captain Phung announced to the space station that they were friendly.
“Helm, plot a course to Devil’s Breath and place us in high orbit.”
Bridge of the WarShip Beast of Terra
High Orbit
Devil’s Breath, Periphery
August 11th, 2791
Colonel Chapman was in his stateroom when he received the call that they were approaching their new home. It had taken almost two days from the asteroid belt at full burn now the journey was almost over. He put on his service shirt and moved out to the hall and made his way to the bridge.
The door to the bridge slid open and the personnel were busy, so he slid into his station and waited.
“Sir we are approaching the secondary satellite Achelous II.” The helmsman called out.
Captain Phung looked at her screen then up to the helmsman. “Adjust course and put us into high orbit.”
With that Colonel Chapman saw the screen change and the planet come into view. The sight was almost unreal, it looked like Terra with green and browns for the land masses and greenish water for the seas, which covered 65 percent of the planet. The only thing different was that in the middle of the biggest ocean there was a dark spiraling cloud.
“What’s that?” Asked Colonel Chapman.
His nephew looked at him. “That is the reason why the planet is called Devil’s Breath. Every month or so the volcano on the island erupts and spews out lava and smoke for about three days and then stops until the next time. So, the founder of the planet seeing the regular activity named the planet Devil’s Breath.”
The ship continued to move around the planet in order to enter high orbit the world spun clockwise as the ship went counterclockwise until they were overhead the main continent. The ship slowed down so that Colonel Chapman and all personnel that were looking out a viewing window or monitor could see the continent and the capital city that could be seen from orbit. The whole fleet continued around the planet until they arrived at their final destination Space Dock Alpha. The dock was enormous several warships were docked at various docking stations and other ships were at stationary orbits. Colonel Chapman turned to look at his nephew, which upon noticing the Colonel’s stare.
“We build Warships here about one a year for our forces and we build several dropships a year mostly civilian to sell on the market, but, if need be, we can easily convert to military designs if needed. We currently have about a dozen warships mothball on our military base on the moon. I have all the details on everything this planet has accomplish or is working on at your office on planet.”
Several weeks passed and Colonel Chapman was just scratching the surface of the planet, the war machine, and Chapman Corporation. He had reorganized the Siegers into three regiments, although none of them were at full strength, in fact in reality they were no more than three reinforce battalions, but with three units he could have them do multiple contracts in different regions either under the Siegers name or a different name in order to grow and keep an eye out for opportunities to become better and stronger.