Star Force: Capitulation (Star Force Universe Book 73) by Aer-ki Jyr

Star Force: Capitulation (Star Force Universe Book 73) by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2020-03-18T16:00:00+00:00


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March 17, 154929

Shangri-La System (Zavrex Kingdom)

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Lord Daegan already oversaw millions of worlds in the Zavrex Kingdom, and had become accustomed to the immense responsibility that he held while knowing that most of the work was not done by him, but by others more local to the systems and planets. His job was to ‘oversee’ them, and that word was not self-explanatory. It was very complicated, and rather than some system or routine that could be predictable, oversight was more about dealing with the unexpected and predicting problems before they occurred.

What he did nobody else knew about. The things he monitored, the orders he gave…most were not public, rather directed to the specific individuals who needed to hear them, and almost every time it happened they were shocked that the Lord of the Kingdom even knew they existed, let alone knew the details of what they were working on.

Daegan had been proud of rising to the very rare position of Monarch Lord, and while his job was technically impossible…for he couldn’t monitor even a fraction of what he needed to…he had maintained a good hold on their territory while always aware that he could be doing better. Star Force populations were well trained to do their jobs, but there were always ways to make improvements or adjustments, and finding those that others could not find was his responsibility.

Every second of every day he was at work, whether behind an array of holograms or in conferences with specialists. Personally investigating rarities or rifling through intelligence reports from remote areas where Star Force had no official presence. Even when he ‘relaxed’ or trained, his mind was still elsewhere, thinking about the puzzles he was working on constantly, meaning he never had a day off, nor a minute. He was Lord not just in title, but in fact, and no matter where he went his work went with him.

The Protovic’s blue/yellow skin glowed almost as bright as the holograms he was studying now, and was a testament to how far he had progressed within the Protovic faction as far as his individual skills. Blue/orange and blue/green where the two higher skill levels that he had never achieved, for they took an immense amount of training and focus above and beyond what he had had to go through to achieve the first rank above ‘final form,’ which for a Protovic was when they received their final psionics and achieved their pink coloration.

Daegan’s yellow indicated that he had risen above that, and few Protovic did, but his not having reached for orange had always bothered him. He hadn’t made a mistake, but being a Monarch required so much time and effort in other matters that physical training had to be limited to only a few hours a day, and that wasn’t enough for him to develop his physical skills to the level needed for another color upgrade.

There were no genetic modifications for Monarch ranks, and no other race in Star Force had applicable body transformations for such promotions.



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