Star Force: Resurrection (SF84) (Star Force Origin Series) (11 page)

There were no positive matches regarding any genetic
template, for his variant or the engineers.

Following that discovery, he gave the order for all
existing variants to be sampled and compared to templates in the database.

Mage Trevor-153992 was in a forward firebase along
with the Bsidd army he was assigned to as they geared up for another assault.
He wasn’t in his armor yet, nor were most of the other Archons assigned to him,
but the Bsidd mechs were already out and about, some patrolling the distant
front perimeter where they had finished busting up two cities the previous
week. They were going after another one today on the far side, though the
borderlines between cities was almost an arbitrary measurement when the
cityscape blanketed the entire planet.

Usually they measured their centers at the
anti-orbital guns or other major infrastructure, but in truth the entire
subsurface levels made such distinctions nearly pointless. None the less that
was how Star Force tended to chop up the planet with regards to purge and hold
operations, with Trevor’s army only concerned with the surface and a few
subsurface levels. Anything deep would be physically sealed off and another
unit would come through later more suited to that deep probing action. His task
was to keep any lizard units that deep from coming to the surface and flanking
them while they swept the surface ‘cities.’

As was standard before any operation of this size, the
commander would signal the lizards offering a surrender. One could argue that
it was giving away their intention to attack, but the lizards knew they were
coming anyway so it didn’t really matter.

Trevor had his
comm
officer
send a recorded message of his own voice then paid no further attention to it,
moving on to other prep tasks as more supplies were being moved in from other
locations on the planet and orbit. His Bsidd were burning through a lot of
plasma rounds, grenades, and armor, all of which had to be continually
resupplied or their conquering march across this planet would grind to a halt
real quick.

His troops already had what they needed for this next
assault, but the Archons had learned to plan well ahead so as to not get caught
with shortages by unexpected turn of events…like dropships suddenly being
unable to land.

“Trevor,” the
comm
officer
said, his face with a weird expression despite his alien visage. “We’ve
received a reply.”

“To what?” the Archon asked, wondering which request
to the fleet he was referring to.

“From the lizards,” the Bsidd Alpha said, hardly
believing the words coming out of his mouth. “They’re asking what are our terms
for surrender.”

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