sitions as necessary."
38 Now Godden ships seemed to be appearing everywhere in the system at
once All that were there already were massing between the attackers and
their Capitol. But The Republic's Forces blew through them as if they
weren't there!
39 The landers dropped away from their carrier ships and began to
descend into the atmosphere. The sky among them became a blaze of fire.
If Morn had not had the sense to drop dummy ships ahead of them, loaded
with extra generators, shields, and automatic weapons that targeted the
enemy's defense beams, they would have lost more than one in ten in
their descent.
40 But still, they were plenty busy when the doors of the landers
popped up and they leaped skyward. The defenders were already in the
air to meet them, and it was vicious sword to sword fighting just to
reach the ground, but reach the ground they did.