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MKP-10010        GK Fleet Book 1 - Entomolian Invasion         $15.00

Rear Admiral Alice Lorenz sat in her command center aboard the flagship Harrisburg, a super galactic dreadnought Only two others occupied the compartment, both her aides. Only two, because any more created more clutter than she could deal with. Although Admiral Lorenz was in command of the entire 23rd squadron at El Dorado, more than 20 ships in all, she learned long ago to delegate all but the most critical tasks to her commodores. One of which just reported in.

“Admiral, I have Commodore Lewis on tight-beam transmission.” She just nodded as the lieutenant patched the call directly to her screen.

“Admiral Lorenz, I have confirmed contact with hostile invaders, the Bugs ma’am. The Entomolians have at least six capital ships, a dozen or so cruisers and batttlecruisers, and more than 20 various light escorts. I have ordered all three of my destroyer leaders to engage and harass the enemy, but at best we can only slow them down a couple of hours, max.”

“Very well, but don’t let your task force get overwhelmed. Send orders to all of your Swiftsure destroyers to break past the enemy for the jump point back into Beta Sector. I am sending you all the necessary data for Fleet Admiral Corrida right now. We MUST get at least one ship back to Earth directly Ignore ALL orders to the contrary. This is critical I want you to deliver it to him yourself, if you survive.”

“But Admiral, I cannot leave my task force behind to die without me. I’m sure the rest of my ships will be adequate...”

“You must obey my order, John. It’s your own fault for refusing the cruiser commission when I offered it to you. Now you have no choice. You must escape to Earth. I am ordering the rest of the fleet to engage the enemy as soon as possible. We will attack the enemy soon, and I don’t expect any of us to live through. You must survive this disaster and get High Command to counter-attack.”

The commodore swallowed hard. He survived three other wars, rising the hard way from an enlisted to a full captain in his forty year career, a nearly impossible feat in the Federation Navy He knew all too well that the admiral was not exaggerating. No ships left in this star system would survive, and the few spacers to live would all be POWs to a race of hideous monsters.

“Ma’am, I just want you to know, it’s been an honor serving you. I have sent orders. All my task force is scattering as ordered. All are pursued, but the Bugs don’t have anything in the area fast enough to intercept us. We will get free. I will avenge you, Admiral.”

“Thank you John,” she said quietly. “Admiral Lorenz out.” Then she turned to her aides, both shocked to hear the Admiral say that they would soon die. “All right you two, now we make the maggots pay for this!”