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Chapter 57[]
Can you tell me where can we start over?[]
KCGS Dinh Diep
Landmark Class Destroyer
Inarc, Lyran Alliance
March, 3066
Captain Pol Nguyen watched as two Fox class corvettes burned, their commanders had chosen to fight, and paid for it.
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Fox Class Corvette
"Send to Higher, we have secured the jump point, god help us." he said quietly. From fighting the Jade Falcons, something he'd been doing since Melissia, to this-fighting in a civil war his own sovereign didn't want to be a part of.
Not that anyone was giving much of an option. Nondi had decided that Adam Steiner was in rebellion, and turned what forces she still had to the task of trying to crush that rebellion, in this situation, with the eager and excited support of the LaRues and their Blackstone Highlander mercenaries.
Two sixth of the remaining active Fox class warships in the LAAF fleet.
The 1/2 of existing Mjolnir class Battlecruiser was still ahead to be dealt with, but that was for 11th Squadron, closer to Ender's Cluster.
Notably, none of those Mjolnir class had been with them when they pushed a salient up into the guts of the Jade Falcons and forced Marthe Pryde to sign an agreement limiting conflict and ending (for the most part) the Falcon offensive.
LAS Robert Marsden and LAS Robert Kelswa had, instead of fighting the Jade Falcons, chosen to obey directives with the result that they used their weapons on surface targets, suppressing 'disloyal' units in other parts of the Lyran Alliance.
Pol found he felt nothing as his own ships passed their picket and the burning, irradiated wreckage of two Lyran warships. Whose crews may or may not have agreed with policy, but whom had apparently consented to violating the Ares Conventions on more than one occasion against their own people for political reasons.
"Lifeboats spotted, sir, from the Robert Marsden."
"Leave a beacon." Pol ordered, "Someone else can save them. All units all ahead full."
"Aye sirrah."
A full squadron of 12 cutters formed up in a spread-arrow configuration ahead of the destroyer. A dagger pointed right at someone who had chosen to side with war criminals. Pol felt nothing but contempt for the people he was about to strike.
It bothered him, that he felt nothing, but only briefly.