MechWarrior 3®: Trial By Fire Chapter 9:
Deadly Embrace
(cont...)
According to communication intercepts, Ratache Osis is leading a force somewhere to the south. But he apparently has our measure, and he’s been handed an ultimatum. Keith Andrew intercepted this and passed it along:
…These freebirth may get to Durghan City, Galaxy Commander, but they will die there. I promise.
They will die there, Ratache Osis, or I will have you in a Circle of Equals. Contain them. Destroy them. Or I will see your Blood Heritage dishonored and your DNA removed from our breeding cycles. Is. That. Clear?
Aff, Galaxy Commander! Sir? Galaxy Commander Corbett?…
Count on Osis to dog our tracks all the way in, Lieutenant. If you want to avoid him, I recommend fast action.
* * *
Durghan City was not large. Hardly more than a good-sized town, really. Certainly no replacement for Lootera back on Huntress, but here on Tranquil it was what the Smoke Jaguars had to work with as a new capital. Hastily erected prefab barracks, built to house the expected influx of warriors as the Clan continued to regroup on Tranquil, doubled the number of buildings. Warehouses had been converted to crude ’Mech bays, and everywhere the various Clan castes worked to improve what they could.
When the Damocles Commando struck, Connor Sinclair noticed at once the strains on Durghan. Administrative and logistics functions demanded by the military had so overburdened local resources that clear lines of communication no longer existed. Having the top two commanders currently absent from the city only compounded the problem; the number of junior warriors looking for direction matched only by ambitious officers ready to claim the mantle of leadership. The cacophony of conflicting reports and orders quickly escalated to the point where Sinclair ordered the MFBs to filter out all but the most critical intercepted communications.
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