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New Canaan: A Military Science Fiction Space Opera Epic: Aeon 14 (The Orion War Book 2)

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by M. D. Cooper

Tunk replied.

  Kent nodded.

  Tunk replied.

 

 

  Kent smiled. Tunk apparently did see everything—like the soldiers in the platoon always claimed.

  he replied.

  Tunk allowed.

  Kent laughed.

  Tunk replied with a note of humor in his voice.

  Kent nodded.

  The scouts reported no sightings of enemy movement, and the platoon advanced, crossing the final two kilometers to their destination in fifteen minutes. Before long, they reached the entrance to the underground base.

  It was marked by two large doors, tucked under an outcrop of rock. Debris from the cruiser lay strewn about the area, and as luck would have it, all but four of the automated defense turrets around the entrance had been taken out.

  The squads took up positions five hundred meters away—what they estimated the maximum effective range of the enemy beams would be with the dust and ash in the air.

  Kent reported to Captain Nethy, the company CO.

  she asked with a laugh.

  Kent replied, perhaps a bit too defensively. Nethy was a new CO, and it was taking Kent more effort than he expected to adapt to her sarcastic humor.

 

  Kent asked.

 


  Tanis replied.

  Angela said with a mental snort.

  Tanis nodded. Angela was right, and she fully expected that, in a few decades, when the colonized systems in The Cradle saw their activities, the Transcend government would have to acknowledge who was at New Canaan.

  Kelsey, the AI in charge of the government operations at the capitol, broke into Tanis’s thoughts.

  Tanis said privately to Angela.

  Though it took some cajoling and big promises of being left alone for a century, Tanis had managed to get Sanderson to take the reins of the fleet for a decade, while the academies trained up a new generation of enlistees.

  During her time at Victoria, Tanis had built an upper echelon of captains, several of which were more than capable of taking the reins, but Sanderson’s experience commanding fleets numbering in the thousands in Sol gave him experience in strategic management and operations that no other person in New Canaan possessed.

 

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