Gauntlet Wars: Andromeda (Star Force Gauntlet Wars Book 2) by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2022-12-26T00:00:00+00:00

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EG26

June 13, 158435

ANDROMEDA GALAXY

System 337188

Low stellar orbit

5 weeks later…

Hashnar Degra Mukanna was sitting in the smooth, form-adjusting seat on the left side of the command center of an Olopar. He had never expected to be in this position, for it was an honor he had previously not been worthy of. The mighty Olopar were reserved for the most elite of the Founders’ servants to exercise their will beyond the Temple that he had lived in his entire life.

His race was the Parken, and within the pecking system inside the Temple they were mid-level. No one fought one another in wars, for the Caretakers would intervene and terminate those who killed another Vargemma, but the various races who lived inside the artificial world competed against each other in various non-lethal ways, and the rivalry between some was so intense they would have been killing each other if not for the watchful monitoring of the Temple’s automated guards.

Hashnar never would have been allowed onboard an Olopar due to his race’s status, but when the Founders suddenly arrived…something that had never happened before in the recorded history of the Temple…everything changed. They needed an army to fight, as had been prophesized long ago, but this fight was not against the Hadarak. Not yet. The Hadarak had allies…that had never been told to them…and one of those allies was invading the Rim of this galaxy while the Hadarak perpetually controlled the center and had let these ‘Asferja’ through the great gateways there while preventing others from entering this galaxy.

Worse yet, the Asferja were setting up colonies in the Rim where they destroyed the local races. Hashnar wasn’t too concerned about them, for they were not Vargemma and not the Founders, but apparently two of these races were allies of the Founders and had relations with other Temples. That still blew his mind, for he had not even known there were other Temples known to the Vargemma. It seemed the higher ranking races had kept information from the lower ones, and they had actually met these Klix and Wieanios in other Temples, for an elite few Vargemma traveled between them and dealt with other Vargemma of other races in other Temples.

So much has changed for him since the Founders arrived and explained these things…including giving their names. Veloqueen, Neofan, and Denogi. The ones who had come were Neofan, and their call to war needed so many Vargemma that the ranking races could not provide enough of sufficient skill, and the Founders did not care about the internal politics here. They only cared about who would be the most useful servants, so Hashnar’s training scores on virtual Olopar that he’d never had the honor of actually setting foot in had earned him a commission onboard this one, which was now beyond the Temple in the vast ocean of stars, making him one of the rare few Vargemma ever to leave.

It felt strange, seeing these pinpricks of stars when his normal view of the sky, day or night, was always the view of land and water stretching around in all directions.

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