Children of Titan Series: Books 1-4: (A Space Opera Thriller Box Set) by Rhett C. Bruno

Author:Rhett C. Bruno [Bruno, Rhett C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2020-05-09T22:00:00+00:00

Five

Kale

I won’t say I was scared as I watched the ruddy, light-speckled orb of Mars grow beyond the viewport of the Cora. Anxious maybe, though I’d become an expert at keeping myself level enough to always appear composed. It was, however, my first time visiting a world beyond the Ring. Sure, I’d stepped onto many of the moons and stations orbiting Saturn since our revolution started, some as a soldier, others to keep the peace, but never anywhere so close to Earth.

We were nearing the end of our month-and-a-half-long journey to Mars. Earther influence on the Red Planet remained strong as always. Venta Co. and Red Wing Co., the two most significant Earther corporations remaining after Pervenio’s decline, called it their base of operations, though Venta was in the process of transitioning much of their operations to Europa. Still, the USF Assembly had the nerve to consider it neutral ground. They initially asked to hold our formal meeting on Earth, where gravity would crush us into submission, so at least on Mars, I’d be able to walk without my heart feeling ready to explode. G-stims could only counteract the effects of gravity stronger than Titan’s so much, and I needed to remain vigilant.

I twirled one of those very g-stims between my fingers, the Pervenio logo engraved into the pack, a constant reminder of how they’d taken everything from us. The concoction of chems used in them was actually a Titanborn invention from before the Great Reunion, when our ancestors started harvesting the gases of Saturn, which were far more efficient sources of fuel than Titan’s abundant methane lakes. That was just one small part of our forgotten history, revealed from data logs after we occupied Pervenio Station.

After the plague that claimed so many of my people half a century ago, Pervenio took over production of the g-stims like they had everything else. The logo remained proof of that. We’d driven them out now but were left with their highly advanced manufacturing plants and labs, and very few with the skills to do anything more than operating the machinery. Some of the elements required to develop their specific product lines also weren’t prevalent on Titan, meaning our supply was limited. We needed to be careful wasting any until we were able to strip back the formula to what our ancestors used. Boosting gas-harvesting yields to gain leverage over Earth was crucial, and Titanborn couldn’t operate the manned harvesters under Saturn’s gravity without g-stims.

So much was crucial…

I tried to act brazen around my people, but I knew the kind of struggle that lay ahead. It was like Luxarn Pervenio had been prepared that in the event we took over, they’d still be able to make our lives a living hell. My people had to simultaneously fight and teach themselves an entirely new stratum of technical skills to make use of their equipment. Not to mention all the repairs necessary after the heaviest of the fighting. From factories to ships, Titanborn men and

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