So, of course, she’d jumped at the chance to go to Crucible the Marine Corps training planet as a temporary aide to Major Svensson. But since her last mission, she’d been sidelined into endless briefings and debriefings with no end in sight. She’d survived more deadly encounters and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive than anyone in the Corps, and she was determined to keep that record intact. Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr was a Confederation Marine’s marine. Only time would tell if the ship was what it appeared to be or a trap created by the Others or the work of an as yet unknown alien race with an agenda that could prove all too hostile to other life forms. And Confederation politics had saddled her with a commanding officer who might prove more of a menace to the mission’s success than anything they encountered. She was commandeered to protect a scientific expedition to a newly discovered and seemingly derelict spaceship of truly epic proportions. And Torin’s reward or punishment was to be separated from her platoon and sent off on what might well prove an even more perilous assignment. So after she’d saved the mission to bring the Silsviss into the Confederation instead of losing them and their world to the enemy known only as the Others she let the general know exactly how she felt. But as a battle hardened professional, she took pride in doing her job and getting her troops back alive. Telling a two star general what she really thought of him was the mistake Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr made with General Morris.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |