Dark Stars: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Resonance Book 3) by Casey E. Berger

Author:Casey E. Berger [Berger, Casey E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

The resistance movement on New Sheffield had arisen quickly. Jaya learned from Nima and their parents that day-to-day life on the colony had remained largely ignored by Emory after Simon and Aman had disappeared. The ravaged home was the only evidence left behind by the Union forces who had arrived just after Luka. They had come and gone silently, and the only clue of the war raging in Union space was an increase in recruitment advertising.

New Sheffield had grown since Jaya had lived there. The downtown streets looked exactly the same, but outside the town, the farms were robust. The community had channeled their decades-long recovery into a slow growth in production, and by the time war broke out, they were providing a significant amount of food to other colonies in the sector. New Sheffield was too remote to feed Argos, but a number of industrial colonies relied on the produce from their rural neighbor. With the biological attacks on four major agricultural colonies that had started Jaya’s research into the Sons of Priam, New Sheffield had risen in importance.

New Sheffield was also far from the hubs of Resistance activity and protected by the Union fleet. The rebellion in this sector had come not from Resistance infiltration, but from within the community. First, a nearby manufacturing colony had organized together to strike. The strikes had turned violent when peacekeeping forces were sent in, but the workers hadn’t given in. Their zeal inspired another colony, and then another. And one day, back on New Sheffield, Nima had turned their curiosity about the rumored Resistance into action. They had called together the leaders in the community and declared their support for the striking colonies.

Within a week of that declaration the Resistance had destroyed the lab on Hermia and taken a string of Union shipyards. The Union had made a choice, and it had turned its eyes away from New Sheffield.

Now, Jaya sat in a busy office in the building that had once belonged to the Navy. She paged through documents on her data pad, the activity of the room a blur around her. Someone on Nima’s team had been strategic enough to pry some drives free from the building’s consoles, disconnecting them from Union networks before they could be wiped. Not everything was saved, but there were local files and records available for her perusal. Not to mention encrypted files she had already sent back to HQ on Aurora to be cracked.

Nearby, Luka and Nima were speaking in quiet voices, looking over a different set of records. Jaya could tell by the way his shoulders relaxed shortly after their arrival in this office that he was pleased with the way things were going here. Jaya wasn’t surprised—Nima had always been bright and motivated. They had always been full of ideas and the energy to follow through on them, creative and industrious in equal measure.

Luka glanced over at her and smiled. He turned his attention back to Nima, who was talking with animated hands and lively eyes.

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