Battleship Destroyer (126 page)

No
; Jack could get as much rest as he needed. Safe under his crew's (alien and human alike) watchful eyes and the Vice Admiral's protection as he scoured the area around the cloud entrance looking for a fleet that was no longer there.

Besides the new tactical
signal coming from The Rock showed there was not one Spider ship within range of the many patrols searching space for light years around the cloud. While hundreds of transports dashed to and from The Rock and the surrounding star systems including Earth, stocking up The Rock's holds and warehouses. Preparing for when the Spiders came back as more and more damaged Republic Battleships straggled in from the lost First battle with the Enemy fleet in its impregnable Wall. At least now they knew who they were fighting and what they called themselves even if they were starting to think the enemy was too big to defeat.  But to Humans and the growing colony of aliens still fighting a thousand years later, it would always be the Spider Battleship WAR and Jack, the Ensign, Pan and Red were going to be in the thick of designing and testing new weapons and fighting huge fleets until the inevitable happens when any race is simply out numbered.

THE END