The Dead Worlds: Set in The Human Chronicles universe (The Adam Cain Chronicles Book 1) by T.R. Harris

Author:T.R. Harris [Harris, T.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Harris Creations, LLC
Published: 2019-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

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After Jay left, Lion/El spent the next several minutes in silent contemplation. He was anguished, the choices before him greater than any in his life.

On the one hand, the Human had a point. Lion/El had the potential to make millions of credits by assisting him. But did he really? He knew things which the Human did not, factors that negated much of what he had said.

Yes, the raiders used the planet Masnin to stage their bounty prior to sale. Few beings in The Dead Zone knew this. Unfortunately, Lion/El was one of them. And it was because of that fact that everything else Jay Williford said—about the guns, about the hidden treasure, about raiding the raiders—did not matter.

Lion/El was born on Liave-3 many years ago in the coastal settlement of Balamar, and long before the planet became the center of the universe. His birth parents came here looking for a new start, a place where they would be accepted by the other immigrants who had settled this unknown land. He’d grown up with pet dinosaurs, and with friends who had long since departed, either dead or driven away by the ugliness that L-3 had become.

Lion/El survived because he had a different mindset. He knew everyone and everything that happened in Balamar and the neighboring communities, becoming one of the premier facilitators; a being who could get things done. The problem was there wasn’t a lot that needed doing in quiet Balamar in those early days.

Several years ago—before the time of Kracion—a renegade Human starship repair technician named Copernicus Smith established a small shipyard and repair facility just south of Balamar, along the picturesque coast. For a few years, he helped bring relative prosperity to Balamar, spending credits to clean it up and make it a more attractive place to live. But then that ended abruptly when a Juirean warship landed at the shipyard without warning. After that, Copernicus was never seen again, and Balamar regressed back to its former state.

Then the Mad Aris Kracion arrived in the Kidis Frontier.

The tiny planetary population lived in fear for many months, too poor to afford passage off the planet and with no resources others found worth defending.

In the end, Kracion decided Liave-3 wasn’t worth the bombs and passed them by. At first, those on the planet were relieved, but then reality set in. This entire region of the Kidis Frontier was now a wasteland, and the planet fell off the transit lines, depriving the population of fresh supplies and even the little commerce that had once helped sustain the fledgling communities. Food processors ran out of stock, fusion reactors of pellets, and even the few short-range starships based on the planet saw their power modules drain away to nothing. The people of L-3 returned to a more primitive existence, hunting for food and cooking over open fires.

Then suddenly, it all changed.

It began with the arrival of a dozen refugee ships from the surrounding systems; however, this only made the situation worse. The refugees

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