GalTech and the Shadow Warriors: Growth of a Star Empire by Magnum Indiana

Author:Magnum Indiana
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: SBK3J LLC
Published: 2017-03-01T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8 – Flashback to Shoot ‘n Scoot

"Yo boss," called Danny from the living room of Kip’s house, "there is another guy on the line that wants to sell you five percent of his business for a dollar. He has the grocery store two blocks down from your pub. His name is Alexei Schmidt. He says the Death Merchants disappeared and a new gang showed up to take over their protection game. They asked him right off if you owned part of the business or had a business within a block. We are getting famous. What do I tell him?"

"I have been expecting calls like this," said Kip walking into the living room from the hallway to the bedrooms. He was carrying a reproduction of a very old management book by an old earth author, Peter Drucker. The book was The Effective Executive. "Tell him," said Kip sitting down in an old-fashioned reading chair with an ottoman with a thoughtful look growing on his face, "that GalTech would be happy to buy 10% of his business for book value."

Kip often reverted to using Danny’s Shadow team name, Topa (for “on top of”) or to Top which is what most called the highest ranking non-commission officer in a battalion. A wise Battalion commander knew that Top was the guy that made everything work, both administratively and politically. Kip’s team name was Duke.

“Topa, do you still have the house computer recording all that we say with a fifteen-minute auto-erase unless intervened?"

"Big affirmative on that, Duke. These days, a good deal of what you say is either vision, policy, or instructions that I do not want to miss. If we were still Shadows, I would not ever want to ask a General Officer to repeat himself. My little man inside is starting to think you outrank any General this Empire has. When I clench my fist twice in site of any holo-cam, the computer considers the prior segment to fall within one of the categories I mentioned. It saves it, flags the file on my personal system, and will bug me daily until I figure out what to do with it. All of this is max-entangled-photon-encrypted and keyed to my combination of pheromones, retina, voice, whole hand print, aura and a personal password phrase."

"That is outstanding, Top. Whoops, I am sorry. Now that you finally finished that degree in Business Management and started on a Master’s, you would not be a good Top Sergeant prospect in the Shadows. There would be too much separation between direct leadership and the troops on the Cromwell IQ-General and Specific Knowledge Scale. Someone who paid attention to that sort of thing would insist on a brevet promotion that made you at least a Major. More probably, considering all your experience, they would make you a light Colonel a week after leaving command school. By the way, this ancient Peter Drucker book you found in the TU stacks is outstanding."

"And while we are speaking of delegation Colonel, you

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