Every Last Mother's Child
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Chapter 10: The Republican Fleet
The fleet was being assembled. Over a matter of weeks the Battle Fleet of the Republic of the Stars assembled in an uninhabited star system. It was only a week from Mother the capital of star nation. It was a week from Trena. It took several weeks to assemble the fleet. The fleet was spread throughout the Republic. Although the largest democracy ever, its fleets were used to maintain order throughout the star nation. It was not the citizens of the Republic were rebellious sometimes the capitalist got their starts as serious robber barons, with a strong emphasis on robber. The fleet was needed to patrol the space lanes inside the star nation’s borders to keep piracy to a minimum. Entire fleets couldn’t just be repositioned. So in drips and drabs the fleet began to assemble.
The republic was rated a third rate military power. It was up to fighting the occasional pirate, but not up to the task of going toe to toe with either the Terran Imperial fleet or the Thonian Realm’s Interstellar fleet. It could and had fought minor skirmishes with smaller star nations. The Republic fleet’s largest capital ships were battle ships. A republican battle ship was about a quarter the size of an Imperial Attack Carrier. Not having the weight in auxiliary space craft like the empire’s infamous landing craft or space superior fighters, it had a heavier throw weight in missiles. Some felt a republican battle ship could hold its own against an imperial attack carrier. That battle had never occurred except in simulations. This time in Trena there might be a meeting. It was why two of the largest battle ships were part of the invasion.
The fleet assembled over a couple of weeks. The first order of business was working together. The spent a couple of weeks working up together as a fleet. They were still weeks away from mounting the invasion. They wouldn’t even be leaving for Trena until the asteroids were a month away from bombarding Trena. While the fleet was being assembled republican agents began to infiltrate the Kingdom of Trena.
Book 4: Messes