"Doc Savage Adventure 9 - Dominion War 2" - читать интересную книгу автора (Doc Savage Collection)

Sisko's resourcefulness." Having blithely thus dis-
missed the Vorta, he turned to Damar. "Bring us
around for another pass."
What a majestic sight--the chunky Cardassian
architecture of Terok Nor, a clawed, leggy metal knot
hanging in space, called Deep Space Nine by those
who had occupied it for the past few years... the
United Federation of Planets.

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Soon the station would be Terok Nor once again,
and there would be Cardassians running the powerful
weapons, turning those arrays on Federation ships.
That would be a good moment. Dukat had spent
many years claiming that such a moment would
come, and now it was imminent.
Yet, for just an instant, the order to open fire had
come hard from his lips. Over these years he had
formed a strange kind of relationship with many of
these people, these enemies, upon whom now he
would unleash the power of a spaceborne armada.
Hesitation? Regret?
Destructive energy burbled across the station's
shields, and the shields held. The Federation had
made some kind of adjustment. He had always appre-
ciated the Federation for its ability to come awake
and be aggressive, and now he had been given the
little quirky gift of pointing out to the Vorta that the
Federation could be tricky enough for good defense
too.
At Dukat's order, an entire flank of the attacking
armada had swung around for a second pass against
the carefully directed returning fire from the station's
upper phaser arrays. In his mind, Dukat could see
Captain Benjamin Sisko and his crew working in the
Operations center, doing nothing arbitrary, targeting
every shot, for they knew they were alone out here.
Other than their single battleship, the Defiant, now
clearly visible beyond the station, there was no other
support here.
Although that was a good signal that the Federation
was spreading its defenses too thinly, Dukat knew it




also let Ben Sisko concentrate on only two frontsin
the ship and the station. That made the maneuvers
here simpler, and Sisko was good at punches in tight