Hyperspace (Star Breaker Book 6) by James David Victor

Author:James David Victor [Victor, James David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2022-01-03T16:00:00+00:00

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Camp Vigilant, Mars

Olympus Mons was one of the largest natural features anywhere in the Sol system. An extinct volcano, the vast, sloping pyramid was visible from space. It once spewed forth enough ash and lava to permanently change the Red Planet’s atmosphere and recreate entire continents.

But that was a long time ago, and these millennia, the old warrior of Mars was stilled and silent. She didn’t even smoke anymore.

But there was life on her rust-red, iron-black, and orange-brown slopes.

Near her base on the northeastern arm, there was a bright collection of geodesic domes, aggregated together so that they looked like stilled bubbles from some child’s game.

Only there was nothing childlike about them on closer inspection. The lower edge of the crystal-glass domes had high steel walls forming a walkway boundary wall on the inside and mounted with railguns and landing towers on the outer. Giant air lock housings were located every few miles at the foot of the walls. They led into launch bays stuffed full of military rovers, patrol craft, and attack vehicles.

The buildings inside the domes started out as sheerly functional warehouses and storage spaces before meeting an inner wall (with more checkpoints and small guard towers) leading to the inner camp. Here, there were sedate and grand buildings built in the old European style with pillars and long wings. Each held their own training grounds.

Camp Vigilant was considered by many Martians to be the ceremonial, even spiritual home of the Earth Alliance Marines. It was the place where the majority of the officer and senior staff training occurred and also the place where every Earth Alliance Marine attended their graduation ceremony. Even the top-level Martian military command did a lot of their strategy meetings and duties right there.

Mars was the natural home for the Earth Alliance Marines. Every would-be space soldier who signed up from anywhere across human space was sent to Martian bootcamp. There, they would get their basic training and get used to different gravitational forces. There were a whole lot of different military bases scattered across Mars, from domes to underground bunkers—but Camp Vigilant was the oldest and considered to be the most prestigious.

It was unthinkable that it could be attacked at all and certainly not from within.

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