Jack of Harts

Charles came through at the Battle of Fort Wichita. The Shang had done a real good job shooting commanders all over the battle. It was chaos. The fleet-wide datalinks were down and the chain of command was totally compromised. Fort Wichita was coming apart. Most of the naval squadrons were smashed to one degree or another. And half our fighter squadrons were scattered as well. I didn’t realize how bad it was at the time because some really brilliant commanders were grabbing everything they could get a handle on and holding whatever lines they could establish. Those commanders ended up doing real good for us as The War went on. Charles included. I didn’t think he was up to it, but Betty made me give him a chance. Thank God she did. I sure wouldn’t have wanted to do his job.