"The garrison command network is now fully fragmented," she said. "They cannot respond as a unified force."
That was enough.
Aurelian looked at the tactical display one final time, then gave the order calmly.
"Begin the strike."
As soon as he said that, the first to feel the changes were the communications, as the Kharov communication networks began to break apart in layers.
Not all at once, and not in a way that looked clean enough for people to immediately recognize as an attack.
Orders repeated themselves. Fleet channels drifted out of sync. Starports kept sending out old packets as if they were new.
Emergency systems were clogged with fake priority requests, while local commanders received conflicting warnings about threats coming from different directions.
The second garrison suddenly found itself cut off inside its own system.
Then Solenne launched.
