VC Chapter 37-Home Front

Sector 1600

Planet 1602

January 26, 2052

“Any inspiring words Admiral?” Chase watched as the their ships were quickly reaching the enemy ships.

“This is Admiral Charlie Chu to all allied channels. Today, were are not only fighting for our lives, but we fight for our homes, families, and friends here. These mobsters think they can come here and rule the sector thinking they can take what they want and that nobody can stop them. We reply to them with a message that this...this is our home and we will fight back to defend freedom and peace!” Charlie spoke intensely on the communications during a period of silence.

“Yeah!” the officers in Charlie's ships shouted in unison.

“Hoorah!” Krawiec cheered in his comms from the base.

“My men will follow you to the death.” Dimitris replied honourably.

“That was some speech Charlie.” Owens felt his strength renewed as his ship was busy repelling invaders.

“It sure was. Let's take back our homes from these wankers!” Tarbuck cheered.

“It was an honour sir.” Paul smiled and clapped lightly.

“Now....fire all weapons!” Charlie commanded as the first MoB ship rammed into the front row of cruisers.

Weapons on both parties lit up intensely in the sky. Lasers flew everywhere followed by a bombardment of projectiles and explosives. The lead MoB ship was already peppered with fire and engulfed in flames as the testudo formation pushed forward.

“Enemy battleships port side!” Chase interrupted in comms as Trident's fleet broke formation and unleashed a barrage of hex missiles.

“Shields are still holding Charlie. Don't worry about us.” Dimitris watched as his Revelation cruiser absorb the explosions.

Wicker manoeuvred his ship left and right finding gaps in the formation and firing off mass driver rounds to engage the enemy. Barely nothing was getting through the turtle formation leaving the ships in the centre completely unharmed.

“We lost one Apoc!” Vorzer watched as an Apocrypha blew up in the front row leaving a massive gap.

“Tighten the formation! Push forward!” Charlie commanded as he watched one his Destiny corvette rush to close the gap.

“Charlie, my shields' are all out mate. I'll falling back.” Tarbuck steered his critically damaged ship into the centre of the formation.

“I got you covered bud!” Chase strafed his ship into the gap just in time before an enemy Revelation punched through the line.

“Sir, we got a problem!” the scanners officer reported as he looked at his radar.

“What is it?” Charlie got out of his seat and dashed to look at the radar.

 “That....are not friendlies.” the officer pointed at a line of several hundred ships heading towards them from the side with the names “SIN” attached to it.