title: U-Boats at War: Landings on Hostile Shores
author:  Jak P. Mallmann-Showell 
description: Jak Mallman-Showell, the son of a U-boat crewman killed in action, is an author and historian.
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  # **CHAPTER TEN**
  
  Twenty hours later, the two Dendarii ships undocked from Fell Station and
  manuevered to boost toward jumppoint Five. They were not alone. An escort of
  half a dozen House Fell security vessels paced and policed them. The Fell
  vessels were dedicated local space warships, lacking Necklin rods and wormhole
  jump capacity; the power thus saved was shunted into a formidible array of
  weapons and shielding. Muscle-ships.
  
  The convoy was trailed at a discreet distance by a Bharaputran cruiser, more
  yacht than warship, prepared to accept the final transfer of Baron Bharaputra,
  as arranged, in space near Fell's jumppoint Five station. Unfortunately,
  Miles's cryo-chamber was not aboard it.
  
  Quinn had come close to a breakdown, before accepting the inevitable. Bothari-
  Jesek had literally backed her against the wall, at their last private
  conference in the briefing room.
  
  "I won't leave Miles