Chapter 1
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Expeditionary Marine Lt. JD Rawlings is nearly as battered and hastily patched as the ship he is assigned to, the Navy frigate Rontar. Scars of recent repair are disturbingly visible on both. But that is not the worst of it, by far. Lt. Rawlings discovered betrayal, an ambush by the alien Shaquaree, but his method of discovery is seen by many survivors as the catalyst which precipitated the battle. The Shaquaree then nearly annihilated mankind's best military and diplomatic personnel in a matter of only minutes. Only one ship, the Rontar, with Rawlings aboard, managed to escape the butchery with an emergency Transition-jump. Rawlings wonders if his next action will be defending humanity against the aliens or himself against the crew members who blame him. When they appear in the Hylea system nothing there makes any more sense than the shocking treachery of the aliens. The system is supposed to be uninhabited, yet there are EM transmissions from the Earth-class planet. There are supposed to be subspace comms with Earth and the remaining Navy and Marine Fleet, yet there are none. Alone, barely functional, defenseless, can the frigate, the Navy crew, and the few remaining Marines survive long enough to gain answers to the critical questions?
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- 2Untitled chapter
- 3Chapter 1
- 4Chapter 2
- 5Chapter 3
- 6Chapter 4
- 7Chapter 5
- 8Chapter 6
- 9Chapter 7
- 10Chapter 8
- 11Chapter 9
- 12Chapter 10
- 13Chapter 11
- 14Chapter 12
- 15Chapter 13
- 16Chapter 14
- 17Chapter 15
- 18Chapter 16
- 19Chapter 17
- 20Chapter 18
- 21Chapter 19
- 22Chapter 20
- 23Chapter 21
- 24Chapter 22
- 25Chapter 23
- 26Chapter 24
- 27Chapter 25
- 28Chapter 26
- 29Chapter 27
- 30Chapter 28
- 31Chapter 29
- 32Chapter 30
- 33Chapter 31
- 34Chapter 32
- 35Chapter 33
- 36Chapter 34
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