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A Call To Vengeance – Snippet 07
A Call To Vengeance - Snippet 07 CHAPTER FOUR "-- about the size of it, Your Majesty," Cazenestro said, looking up from the display recessed into the tabletop before him. "We've got better data on them, but I still wouldn't call it good. And our ships…" "Yes," Edward murmured, gazing at the screen. He'd seen plenty of tactical displays when he was Captain His Royal Highness six years ago, but none of them had painted a bleaker picture. There were a lot of numbers involved: positions, accelerations, times until wedges could be raised, times...
A Call To Vengeance – Snippet 06
A Call To Vengeance - Snippet 06 Peacetime exercises had only confirmed that view on the part of most of her peers. But Clegg had always taken those exercises with a kilo-sized grain of salt. Missiles were far too expensive to waste in live-fire exercises, and she'd suspected that both accuracy and terminal effect -- and the inefficacy of defensive fire -- were overstated in the simulations' assumptions. That was why she'd always argued that those exercises badly understated the importance of close-range, direct-fire weapons. Three weeks ago,...
A Call To Vengeance – Snippet 05
A Call To Vengeance - Snippet 05 CHAPTER THREE "We've managed to refine the original data now that they're moving in-system," First Lord of the Admiralty Admiral (ret) Thomas P. Cazenestro said as king Edward settled himself into his chair in the underground War Room. "No identification yet, but they've been in n-space for about eleven and a half minutes. They're definitely headed for Manticore and there are definitely nine of them, but they're only up to about five hundred and forty KPS and they're still over a hundred and ninety million...
A Call To Vengeance – Snippet 04
A Call To Vengeance - Snippet 04 * * * "…and so he got away," Lisa finished her story. "With our nodes down, there was nothing we could do about it." "Mm," Travis said, taking a bite of his ravioli. A fairly tasteless bite, actually. Not the ravioli's fault, but his. There was just too much uncomfortable camaraderie going on around the rest of the table for him to concentrate on his lunch. The clever maneuver Lisa and Chomps had cooked up during the Battle of Manticore was bad enough. It gave them a connection and a personal history...
A Call To Vengeance – Snippet 03
A Call To Vengeance - Snippet 03 CHAPTER TWO Captain Trina Clegg tapped the release, and the hatch into Vanguard's bridge slid open in front of her. She grabbed a handhold, noting as always the misaligned pair of plates on the inside of the pocket that had yet to be fixed. A lot of these older ships had been slowly warped and twisted over the years from missile launches, high accelerations, and simple age. Also as always, she turned her eyes resolutely away as she pulled herself through the hatchway. Vanguard still needed a lot of work to...
A Call To Vengeance – Snippet 02
A Call To Vengeance - Snippet 02 But no one spoke up. Those who weren't familiar with such military minutiae -- which was probably the majority of them -- were apparently willing to accept Travis's logic at face value. Dapplelake, who did know how it worked, would certainly not do anything to undercut Travis's testimony that way. "So what you're saying," Breakwater said after a moment, "is that Commodore Heissman's entire focus was on the upcoming battle. And that the life of the Crown Prince was never even a factor in his strategy." "The...
A Call To Vengeance – Snippet 01
A Call To Vengeance - Snippet 01 A Call To Vengeance Book III of Manticore Ascendant DAVID WEBER & TIMOTHY ZAHN with THOMAS POPE BOOK ONE 1543 PD CHAPTER ONE The Spanish Inquisition hadn't been the first political and religious witch-hunt in Old Earth's violent history. Nor had it been the last, or even been the bloodiest. But for some reason, the memory of its long and persistent reign of terror had lingered in common human memory up to the Diaspora and throughout the long centuries since. Lieutenant Travis Uriah Long, late of the...
A Call To Arms – Snippet 35
The book should be available now, so this is the last snippet. A Call To Arms - Snippet 35 Well, seventeen, technically, if you added in the group guarding Gryphon. But they were way the hell over at Manticore-B. If the Volsungs did their job properly, that force could be left out of the equation. Llyn's spies hadn't been able to get a complete reading on the ship types in each of the two Manticore-A groups, but the earlier report had said the larger force had a single battlecruiser, and there was nothing in this latest intel to suggest that...