Chronicles of Athena Lee 6 Imperial Subversion by T S Paul

Humanity that would make the Imperial Senate scream bloody murder!
     
    The Allied ships joined the PDP’s and the Paney in firing on the large rock headed toward the planet. After multiple tactical nuke strikes the rock was blasted into several smaller chunks which continued their downward arc. If they did not burn up on entry, the defensive batteries could handle them.
     
    “Wilson, did you find out that information I asked for?
     
    “Yes, Athena. There are two sets of orders. The first ones were from Fleet HQ: the Task Force was to observe and watch the conference. They were under orders not to interfere. The second set of orders were the exact opposite. These came from the offices of a Senator Colman, he is the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and then through Fleet HQ. The new orders were for them to disrupt the conference and kill or capture the leaders of the rebellion at all costs.”
     
    I relayed the new information to my sister and her intelligence officer. We looked at one another and both said the same thing, “The Cabal!”
     
    “Min, they made a mistake here. They showed us their hand. If he,” I pointed toward the fleet. “If he is Cabal, I would bet that the rest of his fleet is not. Or at least most are not. We saw how he treated his own ship’s Captain.”
     
    “Ma’am we have another rock inbound. This one is headed away from us..it is aimed at the ice cap!”
     
    “Min that could cause climate change or tidal waves!” Now I was worried. The PDP’s were rather light in that direction.
     
    “Commander George, launch everything we have, target that rock! Communications contact ground command, inform them of the situation and recommend that they support the PDP’s in that area.”
     
    “Ma’am, navigation reports that two of the Allied ships have given chase and are pursuing that rock.”
     
    “Good! Send orders to the Beta, it’s time to end this before they launch that big rock at us! They may fire when ready, target as many ships as possible starting with the destroyers, then the battlecruiser and carriers.”
     
    Beta was the specially modified freighter created by the shipyard techs. At Minerva’s order, the ship’s crews began rolling their pods out of the specially modified cargo doors.The plan was to hit a ship with an antimatter missile first, then follow with a series of normal explosives. The newly designed missiles began firing. As expected the screen of destroyers were the first casualties.
     
    The four destroyers were hit in the aft section with an programmable antimatter missile. The damage caused by the explosion was enough to knock out their engines and in one case the elderly destroyer broke in half from the shock. Weapons Officer’s switched targets and began firing on the the battlecruiser and the carriers.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 16
     
     
     
     
     
    Commodore Vakulinchuk was incredulous. How? How had these rebels managed to destroy the two rocks he had thrown at them and then turn around and start blowing up his ships? He had stared in horror as his destroyer force was completely decimated.
     
    “Sir, the rebels are targeting the carriers! What are your orders, Sir?”
     
    Did he need the carriers to carry out his plan? No, not really, besides they had already lost their fighters. He needed to make sure that planet was secured. “Concentrate fire on the Station, keep those missiles off our ship and away from the space tug force!” No one on the bridge moved. They were in shock. There were thousands of their fellow Navy crewmen on those carriers and he was just going to ‘throw them away.’
     
    “Follow my orders or join your Captain outside, damn you!” The commodore had fire in his eyes.
     
    “Sir, yes, Sir. Targeting the Station.” The XO answered for the other crew.
     
    The missile attack against the station failed miserably. Somehow, they had deployed planetary defense platforms that destroyed his missiles