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in.”
    “I hope you’re right.”
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    “Sir, the six assault fleets along with their heavies are skipping in and will be waiting in the barrier for the Sentinels to make an appearance.”
    Michael thought, “Pat, the fleets will be here in a minute. Are you ready?”
    “Piper is in contact with Admiral Blaine and will wait on her to tell us when to go.”
    “Thanks, Pat. Put on a good show.”
    “We’ll make a face at him.”
    “If you had a tongue I’d tell you to stick it out at him.”
    “Oh, I think we can get his attention.”
    “I imagine you can!”
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    Michael looked at his tactical monitor and said, “Angelo, I want to hear any orders issued by the Elder.”
    “I’ll send them to you. I’ll skip in closer once the attack begins so you will have a better view of what happens.”
    “That would be good.”
    “Laney has just sent the order to the Sentinels, they’re on their way in.”
    Michael listened and discovered he didn’t need Angelo to send the thoughts; he could hear them. The ten Silver Ships came out of the barrier on the opposite side of the planet from the giant black warship and the Sentinels moved out of them. Pat yelled, “Hey, are you planning a party for my arrival!”
    The other Sentinels added their thoughts and he heard the Legend Elder scream, “ALL FLEETS MEET THOSE BEINGS AND FIRE ON THEM!!”
    Angelo skipped in closer but stayed in the barrier. Michael saw millions of Black Ships move toward the Sentinels’ location at their fastest speed. He ignored them and stayed focused on the giant black ship in orbit above the planet. Most of the ships around it flashed away but the inner wall stayed in place. He shook his head. Those ships must have been given standing orders to go nowhere without a direct order from the Elder and he was too frightened to issue any orders except to go and kill the Sentinels. They stayed in place. The Battle Pods were going to have to fight their way through their ranks. The explosions started immediately.
    Michael had seen everything in his father’s mind during the battles that raged in the Virgo Cluster and the Local Group. He saw the first invasion in Chris’s memory along with the destruction of all human life on Earth. He actually saw the videos of the battles his father participated in and he never lost one. The attack on the Goran scared his father in a way that he would never forget. The destruction of the Legends’ Planet in M-87 was actually anti-climactic to that attack. He saw what his father saw and during his years in the Fleet Academy, he pulled the files and recordings of all the fleet actions and knew most of them from memory. Luke was right about one thing, he was a warrior at heart and he always tried to find a better way to have fought those initial battles.
    But now, he could only standby and watch the Alliance Forces move in and attack. There wasn’t going to be anything subtle about it. The use of the Sentinels was the one subterfuge and it failed to get all the fleets surrounding the Elder’s vessel to leave it undefended. He tried to follow the action around the giant ship but the swarming fleets of ships were impossible to follow. One thing he knew for certain, if the giant ship wasn’t destroyed quickly, it probably wouldn’t be destroyed at all. The ships that went out after the Sentinels would arrive and find them gone. They would immediately return to defend the huge warship. He knew the six fleets would attack simultaneously from six different directions. Four would move in from the four sides of the giant while the other two would come in from above and below. So far, the heavies had not fired their massive rounds.
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    Watching a space battle from a distance was simultaneously beautiful and agonizing. The brilliant explosions as warships died was beautiful, if you could divorce yourself from the loss of life each blast represented. In a battle this large, it looked like the finale