Today I thought I'd bring you something a little different. Aside from my blog writing endeavours I have also been doing a bit of fiction writing on the side. I'd like to share a bit of my writings with you and I hope you'll enjoy them.
Any feedback would be most appreciated. If this is something that people enjoy, then I might share more of my writings here from time to time.
Alpha Admiral Djenkato stared at the monitors with horrid disbelief. Somehow this supposed rabble of crazed fanatics were beating back her masterfully planned invasion. There could be no doubt now that, after three weeks of fighting, the Imperial forces were beaten.
And it all started so well, the admiral thought. The Arisen force had arrived 23 days ago as a silvery gleaming fist of unbridled power. Her ship “The Lightbringer” had spearheaded the attack on the orbiting planetary defences and obliterated them all in short order with minimal loss of support craft. The planet invasion force had launched from her fleet and within days, all but two of the strategically significant locations had been captured.
Then the Neo-Luddite reinforcements arrived. It started with reports from the planet of massive counterattacks from forces that had seemingly been kept out of the initial combat. It became apparent that large parts of Foenix’s underground was hollow and filled to the brim with Luddite fanatics, who rose up in a coordinated move that wiped out half of the entire invasion force in less than 24 hours. After the initial shock of the surprise attack the Arisen force had managed to consolidate their perimeters and were holding their ground, albeit only barely. For a time Djenkato believed the operation could still be saved with liberal use of the massive orbital bombardment capabilities of her, still almost completely intact, orbiting space fleet.
“Admiral, the final ships from Foenix are aboard the fleet. There are no more Imperial forces left on the planet.” The voice of one of Djenkato’s subordinates broke her line of thought and she looked up from the monitors, blinking a few times to clear her head and focus on the matter at hand. “Very well, lieutenant. Order the fleet to begin withdrawing from orbit and set a course back into Imperial territory. We will remain to hold off the Luddite forces along with the Vengance and Justice until the rest of the fleet is safely away.”
The lieutenant looked nervous, clearly he had hoped that the Lightbringer would be pulled out of the battle quicker. “Admiral… The number of enemy ships out there… perhaps the fleet should attempt to disengage immediately altogether… I’m not sure ho-“ Djenkato cut him off with an angry snarl. “Lieutenant Pedrin, we are the Arisen Imperial navy and we will not flee from battle like headless chickens! The Lightbringer is more than capable of holding her own against these lunatics. Together with the Vengance and Justice we will have more than enough firepower to hold out any attack they can muster for however long is needed. Now go relay my orders immediately or I will have you shot for cowardice in battle, is that clear?!”
Admiral Djenkato did not wait for a response from the lieutenant, instead turning angrily back to her monitors to asses the situation.
It was grim. Even worse than it had been only a few hours ago. Where those techno-hating fanatics had managed to get a hold of all that military hardware she had no idea. Those ships that were blasting away at her precious space fleet out there were like nothing she had seen in her long military career, and certainly up to any standard of the Arisen military.
Comprising of several large carrier ships and their escorts, the enemy fleet had arrived a few days after the Neo-Luddites counterattack on Foenix. Seemingly the fleet had been hiding on one of the planets moons smaller moons. The carrier vessels had spat out their deadly payload of fighters and bombers, like a beehive being rudely disturbed. Pulling off moves defying anything Djenkato had ever seen before, the small craft weaved in and out of the massive blanket of fire from her ships, almost as if mocking the inefficiency of the weapons.
Though eventually the Arisen fleet managed to destroy almost a third of the attacking craft and destroy two of the massive carrier crafts that continually replenished and repaired the Luddite fighters and bombers, it was at a much too heavy cost. Two thirds of the invasion fleet was annihilated during two weeks of non-stop fighting. 13 capital ships were no more and the remainder were not in a good shape...(to be continued)
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