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Death to the Insectoids!By Steve Gordon. All rights reserved. Write me at steve2 УatФ allscifi.com and
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Chapter 1: Gladiator Games

Humanity had let down its guard, and paid a terrible price.
After decades of war a conflict-weary population was eager for
peace. So when the Insectoids offered an armistice, the civilian
leadership of the Alliance jumped at the chance to reach a final end to
the bloody war.
The rest was history. The Insectoids ambushed the fleet at
Vitalics, killing thousands of sailors and destroying the bulk of the
fleet. After that here was nothing to stop them, nothing left to
protect Alliance worlds, both League and Directorate planets. They
landed on Alliance planets at will, killing those who resisted and
enslaving the rest.
The destruction of the fleet at Vitalics was almost total--but
not all the fleet was actually there. A small force under the command
of the legendary War Admiral Norman North escaped an ambush and rallied
the surviving forces. "Escape from the Insectoids" describes their
flight from known space as they desperately searched for new technology
they could use to take back their worlds. But the Insectoids weren't
content to leave them to their search and made many attempts to destroy
them. Finally after nearly twenty years of being chased, when the War
Admiral's fleet was about to be destroyed, they were saved by a
mysterious allied force, which was led by an old friend long thought to
be dead.
During these nearly 20 years there was scattered resistance to
the Insectoids on the worlds they occupied. Small bands of resistance
fighters took the battle to the Insectoids, but at first their numbers
were few and they were relentlessly hunted down. One of the most
famous resistance leaders, former agency operative Clifford Croft, led
one of the most successful teams to hamper to occupation force. But
now the Insectoids struck back hard, killing some of his friends, and
capturing others.

Date: One Year, 11 Months, and One Day after the Invasion

And now they were after Croft himself. The enemy had located his
secret base and a heavily armed platoon of Insectoid troopers had
surrounded it, awaiting only the order to attack.
The Insectoid officer surveyed the scene. Its troops were in
position. It had more than enough firepower to assault the hideout.
The humans had cleverly emptied out a power generator and hidden their
base inside the outer shell. The officer clicked its mandibles. The
successful completion of this operation would give its career a strong