I like the idea. How quickly do you need such ships? However, what am I asking Fleet Admiral Lavroff? As always, already yesterday, this young man simply does not know any other terms.”
“You know me pretty well,” I grinned back.
“I think I’ll talk to the lizards. No one in this world can build ships faster than they can. For a long time I wanted to take a look at their technologies for use in my household, but never got around to it, and now there’s a nice opportunity…”
“Why put it off? Let’s contact Admiral Lit-ta now. I think this issue is within her competence. And as for the torpedoes, of which we will need a great many, I will talk to the Headman of the quargs. These guys would strain every nerve to play a dirty trick on the toads.”
“Igor,” said the General, “let’s assume for a second that everything worked out and we managed to punch a hole in the toads’ orbital shield. And then what? We have no idea what awaits us on the surface. Given the level of electronic warfare that the toads have at their disposal, no unmanned robots controlled from orbit can operate on the surface. And knowing you, I’m sure you won’t throw your landing party into the unknown… ”
“It depends on what kind of landing party, Mr. Barrington,” I smiled at the corner of my lips, “But you’re right, that’s something to think about, too. It looks like we’re going to need even more small carrier ships than I imagined.”
We never left the toads’ star system, not after six days or a month. When it became clear that help from the outside was not rushing to the blocked planets, I made the decision not to leave, but instead to build up forces in the system for the coming assault.
General Barrington didn’t skimp, and his men deployed five mobile hyperportals throughout the system, through which combat and transport ships were now arriving in a steady stream. The quargs were so insistent on taking the most active part in the assault on their former masters’ planets, that I could not refuse them, and the system was now literally crammed with Swords of Justice, huge aircraft carriers and landing transports of our recent enemies. However, I had already seen enough of the suicidal attacks of the quargs in the battle of Delta Trianguli, and it wasn’t in my plans to let them smash their heads into the orbital fortresses of the toads.
Nevertheless, I quickly found tasks for their ships, forming five cover squadrons consisting of the quarg battleships, which stayed close to our transport rings and were ready, if necessary, to stall an enemy attack before the main fleet forces approached. I also had quite specific plans for their landing force, which had arrived in the system in unprecedented numbers.
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