Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all but he doesn t know where the enemy is located.Ace, 2003, 259 pages, C$9.99 mmpb, ISBN 2-0
The raid is successful, but victory is short lived. Determined not to leave any of his people behind, Black Jack Geary orders the fleet to strike hard and fast to rescue the POWs with minimal Alliance losses. Thawed out after a century of cryogenic sleep, Captain John Black Jack Geary has led the Alliance fleet through Syndicate World space, thwarting the enemy at every turn including those within his own ranks during their long journey home.Īlliance prisoners of war are being held at a labor camp in the Heradao star system, which also happens to be the location of the majority of the surviving Syndic warships. Weary from endless combat, the officers and crew of the Alliance fleet can’t see the sense in charging deeper into enemy territory prompting a mutiny that divides them and leaves Geary with higher odds against him than ever before. There, a multitude of possible routes home give the Alliance fleet a better chance of avoiding their pursuers and an attack on the Sancere shipbuilding facilities could decimate the Syndic war effort. Realizing the fleet’s best and only chance is to do the unexpected, Geary takes the offensive and orders the fleet to the Sancere system. Geary is convinced that the Syndics are planning to ambush the fleet and finish it off once and for all.
Led by the legendary Captain John ‘Black Jack’ Geary, who returned to the fleet after a hundred year suspended animation, the Alliance is desperately trying to return home with its captured prize: the key to the Syndic hypernet, and the key to victory.
Outnumbered by the superior forces and firepower of the Syndicate Worlds, the Alliance fleet continues its dangerous retreat across the enemy star system.
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