No Fail: A Military Science Fiction Thriller (Dark Operator Book 3) by Doc Spears & Jason Anspach & Nick Cole

Author:Doc Spears & Jason Anspach & Nick Cole
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Galaxy's Edge Press
Published: 2020-10-06T07:00:00+00:00

They sat around the module—the team, the colonel, Nail, and the division chiefs from the intel and planning cells. The colonel had recommended the change in venue from the conference room and dismissed the rest of his staff. The colonel sat in one of the loungers while they sipped their hydration pouches. In the team room, it would’ve been natural to share brews on an occasion like this.

Intoxicants were not allowed in the ISOFAC.

“I was younger than Sergeant Turner by the time I’d already seen three Savage actions.” The colonel had regained the steel in his bearing. “Even before I went to Recon. Three times I saw what the Savages were.”

Everyone listened intently. Firsthand Savage Wars stories were becoming a rarity as the participants aged into retirement or senescence and death. The men who told them were legends to the legionnaires of Kel’s generation.

“My first Savage battle really wasn’t much. That’s because the Savages were a tribal collection of psychopathic mongoloids, any trace of humanity long extinguished. It was quickly decided we weren’t needed. They pulled us out and quarantined the planet.

“The next was a colony of pirates, hijacking ships in the travel lanes and abducting spacers. That was a pursuit mission. We found their nest. Slaughtered them. They were still human. Human-like, I suppose. Tribal. Crude. They relied on stolen tech. I was on the rescue force to secure the surviving abductees. There weren’t many.

Only the women, penned like animals. Breeding stock. When there were no humans left to rescue, we backed off and the Navy bombed them into the Stone Age. We went down for a damage assessment afterward. Nothing survived.

“The last… the last was the most memorable of the three.

Trexel Two had been attacked and devastated. The colony eradicated. Another group of raiders. We tracked them. Our planetary assault was textbook.

“These were a different kind of Savage. This time we found a highly advanced civilization. The colony’s infrastructure was the work of hundreds of generations—hundreds of generations of clones.

There were three primary lines. Workers, warriors, and leaders. The workers had low IQs and did not resist in any way, but went about their various tasks. The warriors were aggressive and had augmented strength. We slaughtered wave after wave of them. No matter how relentlessly we cut them down, they sent more.

“Finally, we punched through the inner walls of the capital where the leader class ruled. All clones from the genotype of a single individual. When I shot the first one, the clones nearest it shrieked and collapsed. It was a psychic injury. Our scientists later determined that the clones were linked telepathically. I never learned if it was technology that linked them through some device, or whether they had true telepathic abilities. I’ve often wondered.”

Kel tried to imagine. It would be unbelievable coming from anyone other than the colonel.

“Anyway, in each case I observed that the Savage cultures were outwardly different, but at their core the same. Barbaric.

Inhuman. Vicious. So, after my experiences on three Savage planets,

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