Crossroads of Fate (Cadicle #5): An Epic Space Opera Series
“Taelis paced across Banks’ viewscreen, more openly distraught than Banks had ever seen him.
“You’ve said yourself that loss is inevitable,” Banks replied, hearing the hollowness in his own words. This wasn’t just a remote colony. Cambion was a major world.
“All those people…” Taelis massaged his eyes with his thumb and index finger. “We’ve never had a loss on that scale.”
“I can’t even fully grasp it.” Losing tens of thousands of people in a single Bakzen attack had unfortunately be...come a fact of the war, but to have billions of lives extinguished in a matter of minutes was too atrocious to fathom. Worlds like Cambion were protected by redundant shields and enough artillery to put up a substantial fight. Since the planetary shield had been brought down from the inside, that meant the Priesthood hadn’t deployed the counteragent to the neurotoxin in time—if that was ever even their intention.MoreLess
“You’ve said yourself that loss is inevitable,” Banks replied, hearing the hollowness in his own words. This wasn’t just a remote colony. Cambion was a major world.
“All those people…” Taelis massaged his eyes with his thumb and index finger. “We’ve never had a loss on that scale.”
“I can’t even fully grasp it.” Losing tens of thousands of people in a single Bakzen attack had unfortunately be...come a fact of the war, but to have billions of lives extinguished in a matter of minutes was too atrocious to fathom. Worlds like Cambion were protected by redundant shields and enough artillery to put up a substantial fight. Since the planetary shield had been brought down from the inside, that meant the Priesthood hadn’t deployed the counteragent to the neurotoxin in time—if that was ever even their intention.MoreLess
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