Star Force: Captains Mint (Star Force Universe Book 70) by Jyr Aer-ki

Author:Jyr, Aer-ki [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2019-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

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March 22, 128852

Plucar System (Zavrex Kingdom)

Idolo Wastes

They’d moved camp 8 times in the last two weeks, and Han was beginning to wonder how long they were going to stay out here…but in the positive, because he was actually enjoying it like a vacation, as were the other Captains. No one had figured out what the ‘lesson’ was yet, and they were all still trying, but the urgency had been lost and they’d been admitting to each other maybe it was better if they drew this out longer, because no one was wanting this little camping trip to the middle of nowhere to end.

But then it happened. Someone figured it out as they were sitting around another artificial bon fire on the ice plains in the deepest of night with the stars so clear overhead that you could see the galactic band stretching across the sky like a vertical scar due to the orientation of the planetary fragment on which they sat.

“No safety lines,” Captain Shoginar said, clicking his joints excitedly as the H’kar suddenly stood up and looked to Nuomo for confirmation. “Is that the lesson?”

“It’s the beginning. Continue if you can.”

Everyone sat up straighter and became silent, putting their private conversations on pause to see if Shoginar was going to be able to do it, but at the very least he’d come up with part of it.

“We…Naval…exist in the void. No backup. No safety lines. We have no Archons to guide us,” he said, glancing at Kara who was sitting on the other side of the fire from him, before looking back at Nuomo. “No ground batteries or shields to run and hide behind. When we’re out here, alone in the galaxy, it’s just us. Our crew always has someone to look to, but we don’t. It’s us and the wilderness, and we have to be prepared for that role?”

“Well done, but incomplete. Can anyone else add to that now that Shoginar has broken the ice, pun intended.”

“There are no rules,” Han quickly added, finding his brain was working twice as fast now as it used to. “Limitless freedom and limitless problems with no support structure to fall back on.”

“Quite right,” Nuomo said with a nod. “Now you know a little bit what it’s like to be an Archon, for in this small area we are their peers. When you stand in a line against the wind, there is always someone to help you break it…unless you are at the front of the line, in which case you must face its full fury and unpredictability. Look out there…”

The fire suddenly cut out, dropping everyone into darkness except for the starlight…which became so vivid after their eyesight adjusted it was better than any holographic display.

“That’s where we live. In the void. And so does everyone else, though they don’t realize it. Planets are in the void as well, but insulated by gravity, atmosphere, and sheer mass. When we take to the stars in our ships that insulation is gone and we deal with the raw universe…but our crews do not.

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