Ursa Major: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Resonance Book 2) by Casey E. Berger

Ursa Major: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Resonance Book 2) by Casey E. Berger

Author:Casey E. Berger [Berger, Casey E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-10-11T16:00:00+00:00


19

It took a few weeks of connecting to members of the Providence arm of the resistance before Kier was able to roughly map out their network. And it was much larger than he or Father had anticipated.

They had struggled to get information out of the colonies, and so they had focused on getting their message in. The people in most of the colonies had bigger things to worry about than politics—Kier could still remember the way oppressive poverty bent the will of everyone he had grown up with on Hermia. His family had always been comfortable, and Kier suspected that before the disastrous raid on their home, they had even been wealthy. But Kier knew that Mama’s students were often hungry, that she purchased more food than her own children could ever consume in order to fill the stomachs of the neighborhood children. Most people on Hermia spent every moment not filled with work trying to find creative ways to stretch their meager share of the harvest just a little farther, to scrounge up money for necessary medical treatments in order to avoid falling into the well of debt from which there was no return. He saw it in their exhausted eyes.

So how would they have time to entertain the white-knight antics of a privileged ex-naval-officer alighting on their planet to ask them to sacrifice in her name? Especially now, with Chancellor Emory in office, promising a new era in the Union.

But somehow, it was Jaya’s message that took root, burrowing deeply into the colonies. And Providence was a major hub, Kier had discovered. While outwardly, Providence was the pride of the Union, a center of industry and culture brimming with energy and creativity and money, Jaya had found a way in and twisted her influence deeply into the colony. Kier hadn’t understood how skilled the resistance was, how receptive the people were to their message, until now.

Father said it was no wonder Kier had been able to identify the resistance operatives here, when everywhere you turned there were traitors.

Jaya wasn’t on Providence; Kier had ascertained that much. The leaders of the resistance movement were hidden away somewhere, and only top leadership had access to that information. So they would have to capture top leadership, if they wanted to follow the trail to the very end.

Kier stood now on the bridge of one of the twelve unmarked destroyers Father had dispatched to Providence, watching the colony grow on the screens. He had never seen the planet like this—on his previous visit he had arrived on a cheap passenger liner, confined to a small, windowless berth. The planet was a tangle of deep, wild forest. Its natural flora and fauna were hard to tame, but some cosmologically recent impact event had left a massive crater that the planet had not yet reclaimed when the Union first arrived. It was in that crater that the official colony of Providence existed.

The crater hung on the edge of the planet, slowly turning from the dark of night into the day of the star side of the planet.



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