Star Force: Initiation (SF61) (11 page)

More speeders zipped off down the road, taking them
over to one of several base entrances where they would begin itemizing the
contents for decommission and removal. They weren’t going to take the time to
destroy and remove the entire base given that it was built underground, but
they were going to gut it, do some patchwork repairs, then seal it up for
either future use or reclamation…which would see the lizard structures broken
down piece by piece and replaced with Star Force ones without caving in the
ground over your head.

That would be long into the future, for most of the
techs would be busy building Star Force structures on the surface and tearing
apart the lizard bases that orbital bombardment had wrecked while
safing
others like this that were below ground. Star Force
was keeping this system and building up this planet into a fortress world…or so
was the plan, and that wasn’t something that happened overnight.

This was the beginning of the big push into lizard
territory, not merely for raids to ‘mow the
grass’
but
to start taking back systems by the dozens and call the enemy’s bluff. Jason
knew it wasn’t a true bluff and they’d be in for a big counterattack at some
point but now was the time to do it before they grew any stronger. They were
committing so many resources to Skarron space he wasn’t sure what kind of a hit
the lizard would or could throw at them, but he doubted they’d just be left
alone. The design of this planet’s infrastructure told him that the lizards
were gearing up to defend against Star Force and he doubted that they wouldn’t
have another surprise or two waiting for them.

Jason still had numerous sites on this planet to take,
plus the waterworld that was reporting continuous small-scale fighting. It
would be a while before both were securely in Star Force hands, then even
longer for them to get truly secure, though a few Sentinels were already on
their way here from the ADZ. Those combined with the fleets heading this way,
of which the Voku were only one, would be able to hold this system while Star
Force built it up along with a few other guests.

Once they had it secured they’d begin funneling all
resupply through the system and branch out as they began the long crusade towards
the
Pagalis
System, sweeping up the systems in
between and along the Zeta Region border as they began returning the Calavari
to their former worlds.

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