Sverdlovsk

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We re a healthy few klicks out of Sverdlovsk. South-east, I reckon. Coughs and splutters broke up the announcement like static on a news broadcast. I m told they put a degree of spatial divergence on every beam, so any accidents occur well out in the open. ... 

I see, said the Doctor, although he didn t quite. Sverdlovsk Must be a lot of klicks. The ironic use of the word healthy had not escaped him either. Visibility s very poor, I ll grant you, but we should be on the foothills of the Urals at least if we re within a matter of kilometres of Sverdlovsk. ... 

It beats setting yourself alight, anyway. So, he added lightly, what s in Sverdlovsk these days I d like to know something about where you re taking me. ... 

Colonel Gren De Schalles was a small man who carried himself as if he had, like the mountain-spanning remains of Sverdlovsk, once been something far grander. Shrunken eyes slighdy puffy around the rims, moderately rounded tip of a nose, cropped hair a dull blond, tight lips, a thin oval face... 

They were back out in the freezing, crumbling Sverdlovsk street and the Doctor stamped his feet, more for effect than anything else, and hugged the painting close. De Schalles seemed oblivious to the temperature, something the Doctor put down to the fact that he had donned his gloves and fur-rimmed helmet. That, or the man was quite at home in the cold. 

Something independent of Kinzhal. He has scouted our defences. He and Wargaard will be planning a pincer movement around Omsk. But we will make our move first. We have lost our aircraft, but he has few enough and we have twice his armour. We will strike at Sverdlovsk. ... 

Huo looked at his fellow generals, gathering around with interest. My lord, I authorised one of our remote engineer battalions to steer groups of mines into the outskirts of Sverdlovsk. Their IR sensors are crude, but I expected them to give an approximation of enemy dispositions in advance of any fuller reconnaissance. The data indicates a complete absence of armour. ... 

He is gambling, unaware we would see his hand. He reached over to tear Huo away from his hasty communications. Send a brigade of armour to scout out Sverdlovsk, but send a full division behind it. ... 

Razum nodded. A useful reserve, safely clear of the field of battle. He watched her process the implications. We ll need every available truck and transporter withdrawn to Sverdlovsk, he declared. Including all of these here. ... 

Sverdlovsk, to lure Mogushestvo into a trap, well, he would detect them in time and order a withdrawal to Omsk. Perhaps luring Razum into giving chase. Yes, that would be ideal. 

The truck reversed into position, its tyres ploughing up deep furrows in the snow, and Razum Kinzhal signalled to the driver to halt. The street afforded room - just - for three trucks abreast a formidable looking blockade that would be crushed like a paper barricade under the tracks of any one of Mogushestvo s tanks to encroach this far into Sverdlovsk. A fact of which all his men were acutely aware as they swarmed in under the trio of vehicles to complete the specified conversions of their fusion engines. 

It was Razum s way of telling them all the certainties he had foreseen, the futures he could never relate in words that if the plan failed, then Mogushestvo would raze Sverdlovsk and plough their corpses into the frozen soil, with sufficient armour left in Omsk to grind Wargaard s proud divisions to a fine powder that if the Doctor failed, then Razum would allow that to happen and take command of the Alliance, division by division, to claim the Earth and all its territories as his own. And if the Doctor succeeded, then all of this would be irrelevant, and the Earth and all of his officers, his staff, support personnel and rank-and-file troopers and the rest of the human race would join him and Dusha in a new life. In an embrace of solar flame. 

The weapon is some sort of psionic device, designed for subversion. Another mutant brainchild of Greel s, recovered and currently being adapted under Kinzhal s personal supervision. It s held deep in his own WeapTech facility here in Sverdlovsk. ... 

All over Sverdlovsk, trucks fire their engines. Deuterium fuel, heated to a hundred-million degrees, undergoes fusion modified containment fields are weakened to allow directed plasma leakage. Unleashed, the fusion reaction is unsustainable and dies in a second plasma jets have already streamed into advancing tank columns at temperatures approaching solar. 

But his armour would sweep up to seal the victory The cavalry 70-80km - thirty minutes - from Omsk. As close to zero reaction time, with Mogushestvo so thoroughly engaged with Wargaard s forces, as could be bought. Of course, he would incur losses too 40 per cent of his main battle tanks. But the battle of Omsk-Sverdlovsk belonged to him. 

Meanwhile, tattered remnants of infantry units - Alliance infantry, who had fought practically suicidal holding actions in the name of Razum -drifted back towards the fortress, human litter blown along the wasted Sverdlovsk streets. Few of them would make it home. 

V.I. Arkharov. Okisleniye metallov pri vysokikh temperaturakh- Sverdlovsk Metal-lurgizdat, 1945. 

V. G Granik, in Enaminy v Organicheskom Sinteze, p. 3. Ural Branch of USSR Academy of Sciences, Sverdlovsk, 1990. 

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