Chapter Eleven
Jia’s mental image of a Fleet base had been shaped by the modestly sized Penglai, which was first and foremost a construction facility. Even though she’d seen pictures of places like Fleet Base Troy, viewing the massive, sprawling network of connected oblong modules growing larger in the forward camera feeds kicked up her heart. It was a city in space.
Beyond its sheer size, the entire base bristled with turrets and launchers. Transports large and small flew to and from the base. Some held supplies, others troops. Swarms of fighters cruised around and near the base in active-combat space patrols. Attacking a place like that head-on would be suicide.
Many of the modules comprised massive docking bays with immediate support facilities. With most of the primary docking bay d
