Free Battleship Avenger (Conquest of Stars Book 2) by Sid Kar

they had been through this exact type of space combat
training and knew how to concentrate on the operations using muscle memory and
concentration of thought. This would not have been a problem in space where the
artificial gravity generated by the spaceship kept the bottom always under
their feet, but planet Nestor’s gravity easily overwhelmed the starship’s. The
starship was stabilized soon thereafter.
    “A fully paid for
roller coaster ride courtesy of Starfire Army,” Tollvyk chuckled while he shook
cobwebs out of his head.
    “A few more
moments of it and we would be seeing the star field right in this room,”
Barryett said as he held his head with both hands.
    “Flyptar, yank us
out of the orbit and into space,” Raptor said, “I don’t want us to waste fuel
countering our own gravity weapon’s pull.”
    Flyptar and the
junior flight officers boosted the speed and changed the course of Starship
Conquistador out into the space. 
    Meanwhile, the
Mercurian battleship was headed to the planet on automatic controls. After the
danger of collision had passed, the Mercurian flight officers switched the
controls back to manual just when the Starfirian Gravity Weapon was activated
on full power and its artificial concentrated gravity kicked in with a powerful
jolt and suctioned the Mercurian Battleship towards it. The Mercurian officers
were at lost to understand the phenomenon because the downward tug on their
ship was significantly higher than the combined pull of Nestor’s gravity and
their own momentum. They tried to pull the battleship horizontal but to no
avail as the Micro-Black Hole weapon dragged it down further and further below
at higher and higher velocity.
    Finally, the MBH
weapon smashed into the ground and its gravity was instantly dissipated but by
then it was too late and soon thereafter the Mercurian Battleship crashed into
the rocky surface and shattered to bits and pieces on impact leaving behind a
deep and wide crater and a massive fireball from the explosion that reached
hundreds of meters in the sky.

     “Mercurian Three
is gone,” Barryett remarked looking at the scanner readings on his display.
    “Hedgewyk, give me
the total battle report,” Raptor said.
    Capitan Hedgewyk
collected all the signals from all the scanners and sensors and fed them to
multiple battle analysis programs that each applied a distinct criteria to
evaluate the progression and to forecast the eventual outcome of the battle. He
forwarded the results to all the senior officers’ terminals.
    “Vice-Commodore,
it seems like the Nestorians are taking a real beating out there,” Raptor said,
“After the initial success of their arguably brilliant deception taking two
enemy spaceships right out of the battle, they have performed poorly
thereafter. If not for their higher number of ships, the Mercurians would have
likely taken Nestor in our absence.”
“I agree sir, the Mercurians are far more advanced than these people we have
to protect,” Barryett said, “I am afraid if Mercurians have another fleet out
there, we are going to have to fight the next battle for them.”
     “We are the
X-Factor in this battle equation,” Tollvyk said, “Mercurians didn’t count on
our presence here. Let’s push this to the hilt.”
    “What are you
suggesting Toll?” Raptor asked.
    “Let’s charge the
Mercurian battleships engaged against the main Nestorian fleet under General
Bakus out there,” Tollvyk said.
    Raptor looked at
the gravitron display. He was aware of the huge battle taking place much
further away in space. He looked at the live database of the ship’s arsenal. He
was also aware of the rapid depletion of their weaponry and fuel supplies. 
    “Flyptar, bring us
in the rear of the Mercurian fleet,” Raptor said.
    “On our way,” Flyptar
replied.
    “VC Barryett, I am
thinking we should try to run the Mercurians off,” Raptor said, “And wait for
the Sixth Frontier Fleet to arrive and reinforce