Star Force: Proving Ground (SF66) Read Online Free PDF

properly, but as the first
of the planetary defense beams got through the Ironstrike ’s shields and blasted
a huge crater in its armor the ship continued to move forward at considerable
speed. The mass of air preceding it knocked the fighters askew, then the hull
hit and splattered the wisps like bugs against a windshield.
    The command ship mowed down so many of them that they
fell like bits of yellow/tan hail down to the surface. That storm continued up
to the wall, covering the mechs that were fighting their way to the gash and
then on in to the outer buildings. Before long the edge of the donut passed
over Kara’s head and knocked the wisps out of the sky right down on top of her.
    She held her ground, mentally calculating their fall
angles and having to jump aside once to avoid a collision. Once the forward
edge of the massive ship was past her she saw hundreds, if not thousands of
wisps flying around beneath it that hadn’t been caught up in the IDF, or held
there long enough. Using the battlemap she confirmed that the field was only
extended off the front of the ship, so Kara jumped back into the sky and
started hunting the remaining wisps aggressively now that their concentration
had diminished to almost nothing and they were scattered about with plenty of
room for her to maneuver beneath that beautiful donut.
    As she flew to her first target she noticed on her sensors
as chunks of the command ship also began to fall to ground as the planetary
defense phasers carved up the outer layers now that the shields were down.

 
    Larissa was running down one of the city streets with
two Scionate pacing her when the ‘duck and cover’ order came in, but they were
being pursued by a pair of tanks at the time and didn’t have the luxury of
doing so. They’d been probing a large infantry gathering point and bit off more
than they could chew when several nearby buildings began producing far more
infantry than they had previously contained, indicating a high probability of
additional tunnels beneath this section of cityscape.
    The tanks she could have taken on her own with her
psionics, even fried as she was, but with infantry pacing them there was no way
she could knock all of them down and kill the tanks at the same time, so the
only legitimate option she had was to run, regroup, and find some other place
to probe to keep the lizards’ attention off her Bsidd and more to their own
defense.
    With each corner they turned they got a brief respite
from the weaponsfire, but there were multiple groups of lizards now pursuing
them, including a handful of fighters that ventured down into the narrower city
streets. One of those that got too close Larissa snagged and had it swivel
about and fire on one of the tanks, delivering a pink phaser burst into the
yellow/tan hull armor.
    After that she lost contact with both, running out of
controlling range for the fighter and turning yet another corner as they
zigzagged their way back into ‘friendly’ territory where the rest of the
Scionate and a small group of Archons were patrolling and hunting down any
small lizard teams that ventured inside.
    By the time she and the two Scionate reached that zone
the sky disappeared a la Independence Day as the command ship moved over the
city, plowing into the wisps and gratuitously knocking them out of the sky…save for the fact that she was running where some of them were
falling.
    With a telepathic urge she sent the Scionate over to
the nearest wall and joined them in running there, hoping that the wisp pieces
would bounce off the walls and not hit the ground within a few meters of the
buildings. She was right for the most part, but they did get sprayed with small
debris twice as impacts on both the ground and the buildings above threw
components and glass everywhere.
    Larissa’s shields held up to that sandblast, but the
street was literally dotted with dead fighters and she assumed a great deal
more were covering the rooftops, which