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Strategos (A Great Captain Roberts Tale!!) - Part 3 -
Chapter 1 - A Light In The Black[]
Part 3 of Strategos' Introduction[]
Striding to War…
…doesn't go quickly. The fastest way to move smaller assets, is by a chain of JumpShips. This can let you move a force from the far side of a realm to the front line, while Warships are still charging a fraction of the total distance away. The trade-off, is that said Warships have the larger guns, the larger capacities, the extensive command and control systems.
It takes time to move fleets. It takes time and resources to set up supply lines, lines of communication, and to advance a front.
Those interior lines must be protected and guarded, because any link in the chain, can be interrupted or cut.
The most telling thing about a deep space war, is that you need to know where the enemy is, to cut his lines, or strike his capital.
The Raven Alliance and their allies, are seeking out the homeworld of the Sons of Plunder, probing to find where the enemy is, and where he is not.
This too, takes time.
And this is all happening as both sides build up for the final showdown.
Small wars, even with large players, tend to be forgotten in the march of history. In twenty years, few will remember the so-called 'Great Pirate War' outside of the Raven Alliance. Other concerns will predominate, concerns closer to the centers of culture and civilization.
The year, is 3119. The war, is in the Outworld Wastes.
- Note from the Author
- Big thanks to:
Monbvol, who's directly collaborated on most of the last story, and is sharing his "Weapons of War" setting with me for this series.
Daryk, who chores away on editing for us and catches my B.S. along with Monbvol before most of you have to endure it.
2ndACR: who's contributed some invisible aspects and may add more, when he has time.
Readers like you, who for some reason put up with my crappy ideas.
This is going to be the final third of the 'Strategos' stories. we have plans for what happens afterward, but I'm not givin' them up.
Enjoy.