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feet of the landing pad. He sprinted into the open port and it slammed shut behind him. He ran to the bridge and went to the command chair, “Get us to that planet!” The Two hundred yard long Battle Pod shot off the top of the building and moved through the atmosphere at slightly less than the speed of sound. It went into the barrier while still in the atmosphere and the sound of air rushing into the place it disappeared from caused a massive thunderclap. Michael looked at the monitor and saw the Virgo Cluster pass in an instant. In another twenty seconds, the glowing ship slowed and stopped half a million miles from the Legends’ Planet where the monster ship was being built. “Show me what you’ve got, Angelo.”
    An image of the planet appeared on the tactical monitor and it was still too far away to see details…but…it was easy to see the millions of Black ships around the planet even from that distance. “Do you have the status of the assault force?”
    “The ships are completing their formations now. We still have a few hours before the Heavies are armed.”
    “Michael!”
    “Yes Luke.”
    “Where are you?”
    “I’m at the Legends’ Planet.”
    “Alone?”
    “The others will arrive in a few hours.”
    “I can’t order you to do anything now but I am going to insist that you assign a bodyguard to your ship before any other attack. I’m asking you to do this because I love you.” Michael sighed. “Your father didn’t want one either but you know accepting one turned out to be one of the best things he did. Please do this for me.”
    “I’ll talk with you about it when I get back.”
    “But…”
    “I’m not saying no. I just want to discuss it, ok?”
    “Plan to see me as quick as you get back.”
    “Luke, there’ll be some things I have to do after the smoke clears on this operation but I promise I’ll meet with you before I go out again.”
    “That’s good enough.”
    “Commander.”
    “Fleet Admiral, are your warships ready to launch?”
    “They are. The Heavies are having their cannons loaded and will be ready to go shortly.”
    “Audrey, we have got to develop a faster way to get them ready!”
    “The only safe place to do it is out in open space beyond the Solar System. Those rounds are temperamental and it’s a slow process getting them into the barrels.”
    “I know, but if we intend to use them, we need to have them ready.”
    “Perhaps we should just assign he ships to the munitions center and keep some of them loaded. We can always skip the crews in.”
    Michael thought about it and sighed, “Then we’d have to leave a heavy guard to prevent them being taken by an invader. Have we not developed another round that would do the trick?”
    “Not yet. There’s also something I’ve just been told by Hengel that causes me some concern.”
    “What is that?”
    “He’s heard some of the Black Ship commanders talking about the portable force field that’s been placed around that ship. He’s of the opinion that if one of the heavy rounds doesn’t penetrate the force field, the ship may not be harmed because of the blast the heavy round will cause around it.”
    Michael didn’t like hearing that. “That means the heavies will have to have a clear shot at it.”
    “It does.”
    “So six groups with one heavy in each group will attack the ship?”
    “Yes Sir.”
    “I really hope that Legend sends the bulk of its fleets out to the Sentinels.”
    “I agree. Otherwise, we’ll have to fight our way in close.”
    “Does Laney know about the force field?”
    “She does and she’ll be informing the assault fleets that they must get a clear shot in from at least one of the heavies.”
    “If they fire and the round hits a Black Ship…”
    “The blast from it will prevent the other rounds from making it to the ship.”
    “We shouldn’t have waited. They didn’t have that force field earlier.”
    “It is what it is, Commander. We have a good team going