[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] Colman nodded. He wouldn t have risked their deciding to fire first either. Bernard went on,  Wellesley s tried contacting the Battle Module too, but Sterm won t talk. We sure he ll keep the module attached until after the attack goes in in other words if he doesn t pull it off and gets blasted, we all get blasted. The same thing applies if the Chironians decide to press the button. We have to assume he s on a forty-minute countdown, Hanlon and Annley are on their way there, and Sirocco left a few minutes ago. Borftein is sending through everybody he can scrape together. What are the chances? A carrier full of combat-suited infantry nursing antitank missile launchers and demolition equipment slid through the lock and lurched onto a branch leading to one of the Battle Module s forward ramps.  Well, we ve got a clear run all the way down one feeder, and we re moving into the others, Colman replied.  There s been some fighting inside the Battle Module, and a lot of the guys got out. We have to hope that there aren t enough left to stop us from blowing our way in through four places at once. Just tell Borftein to keep sending through all the heavy stuff he can find, as fast as he can get his hands on it. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT THE SD CAPTAIN commanding the defenses at Number 2 Aft Access Port inside the Battle Module pulled his forward section back from the lock as the inner doors started to glow cherry red at the center. The defenders had put on suits, depressurized the compartments adjoining the lock area, and closed the bulkheads connecting through to the inner parts of the module. From his position behind the armored glass partition overlooking the area from the lock control room, he could see the first of the Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html remote-control automatic cannon rolling through from the rear.  Hurry up with those RCC s, he shouted into his helmet microphone.  Yellow section take up covering positions. Green and Red prepare to fall back to the longitudinal bulkhead locks,  You must hold out to the last man, Colonel Oordsen, who was following events from the Bridge, said on one of the control room screens.  We re almost ready to detach the module.  We will if we have to, sir, the captain assured him. Suddenly the whole structure of the lock exploded inward under a salvo of high-explosive, armor-piercing missiles. Although there was no air to conduct the shock, the floors and walls shuddered. Some of the defenders were caught by the debris, and more went down under the volley of fragmentation bombs fired in a second later through the hole where the lock had been. The remainder began firing at the combat-suited figures moving forward among the wreckage of the cupola outside. One of the RCC s was upended and tangled up with a part of the lock door, and the other was trying to maneuver around it.  Red section, move to fallback positions, the captain yelled.  Covering  Another missile salvo streaked in and smashed into the walls and structures inboard from the lock, wiping out half the force that had just begun to move. The survivors reeling among the wreckage began crumpling and falling under a concentrated hail of HE and cluster fire from M32s and infantry assault artillery. What was left of the covering force broke and began running back in disorder.  Get everybody out! Pull back to  The glass partition imploded under a direct hit, and a split second later a guided bomb carrying a five-hundred-pound incendiary warhead put an end to all resistance in the vicinity of Number 2 Aft Access Port, On the Bridge of the Battle Module, Colonel Oordsen turned his head from the screen that had just gone dead in front of him. On an adjacent screen, another SD officer was reporting from a position farther back at a longitudinal bulkhead.  Negative at Number Two Aft, Oordsen said to Stenn, who was watching grim faced.  They ll be through there in a matter of minutes.  How long before the Kuan-yin is eclipsed? Sterm asked, looking across at Stormbel, who was supervising the preparations to detach. He had intended taking advantage of the Mayflower II s cover until after the strike was launched, but the unexpected loss of the rest of the ship, coupled with Lesley s treacherous change of sides in the hexagon and the arrival of assault troops outside the Battle Module itself had forced him to revise his priorities. There would be little point in destroying the Kuan-yin if he lost the Battle Module in the process. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] zanotowane.pl doc.pisz.pl pdf.pisz.pl blacksoulman.xlx.pl