The shattered edge

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The XKR sat silent, its reactor thrumming quietly in the background as the Captain studied the sensor data that was flowing across the Coalition TAC-net.

Whenever Coalition vessels operated in unison, their sensor data was automatically updated and relayed, feeding real time battle data into the CnC network, shared by every vessel assigned to it. Simultaneous tactical feeds, communications, and situational analysis from command.

With the Kerimov out of action, it was Alvarez who now commanded the field.

The Botev'€™s plan was a risky one, it depended on the fact that alien emp weapons weren'€™t, themselves, shielded from emp damage. If Alvarez were to use a weapon like the drones, it would be the first question he would have asked. The last thing he would have wanted were missiles that could knock out other missiles in their pack.

'€œBotev, this is El-Coyote,'€ he said with some reluctance. '€œHold your fire, hermano. I do not think it will work, and it may provoke the drones, si?'€

He ran a check of their weapon systems. The AK-2s on his fighter, the same on Santorini'€™s Odin'€¦ Drags on Brooks'€¦ Pulse/Razors on both gunboats. They simply didn'€™t have the rapid fire gun support they needed. The Social Credit, the only gunboat outfitted for the task, being down for the count.

Time was ticking away, and El Coyote needed a plan.

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