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Six Astronomical Units outside the orbit of Grugell Word of the crushing defeat of the Grugell Navy had not yet reached the home world of the militaristic race, according to the stream of chatter interpreted by the Shade Tree’s Signals section.  Parked behind a...

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Task Group One, 0112 hours Isaac Gauss blinked hard as the overhead light in his Flag stateroom went on suddenly.  He turned his head slightly, prepared to unleash his Jovian wrath at whoever invaded the Flag quarters.  He relaxed slightly on seeing Captain...

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FourteenJanuary 2253 New Albion Glengarry was now reduced to a smoking ruin; the Grugell had briefly withdrawn from the surface, and three days later bombarded the city with five fission bombs.  The guerillas continued to operate in the Crow Ridge mountains,...

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August 2251 The Orleans Combat Information Center “Oh, that’s very clever,” Admiral Gauss pointed at two new images that suddenly appeared in the holographic ‘tank’ displaying the exercise.  “Captain Wallace brought his task group out of subspace sixteen hundred...

July 2251 Tarbos, six weeks later “Gawd almighty, would you look at that?”  Horace Hamilton gaped at the sight. The Mountain View’s Pilot Lounge offered a good view of space to the starboard side of the ship, and it was there that the newest ship in the Fleet was...

June 2251 The Confederate Star Ship Mountain View, Tarbos high orbit The Mountain View’s hangar bay was truly cavernous, but it wasn’t hard for Lieutenant Commander Andrea Crider to find her personal A-66 attack fighter.  Her squadron, VS-66, Hunter Squadron, was...