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Having dismissed her from his mind, Galen halted abruptly in his tracks at the
sound of her voice and swiveled around to look at her. His gaze flickered over her
perfect face and then down her equally perfect body. He released a disgusted sigh.
Don t bother. We re done. You may return to the pool.
He realized as he strode purposefully down the narrow corridor to the lift that his
pulse was pounding with far more excitement now than it had been when Onyx had been
trying to arouse him. He supposed he wasn t really surprised. A steady diet of pleasure
bots could put anyone off of them. It had been annums since he d even been within
sniffing distance of a real, honest-to-gods, flesh and blood female.
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And, at that, he hadn t been much closer than that.
Not that that she-devil of an attorney he d had actually qualified as female in his
book. The conniving bitch had thoroughly screwed him over or he wouldn t be here now
& on the backside of nowhere, going nowhere.
Dismissing the thoughts as he felt his temper rising, Galen paused before the lift,
stepped inside when the door dematerialized, and braced his legs slightly apart for
balance, clasping his hands behind his back. Bridge, he said in a clipped voice.
The sensation of movement was brief, the jolt when the lift stopped shimmying
his knees despite the braced stance. Ken-so met him at the door as he stepped off.
Galen lifted his dark brows in surprise.
We re missing a planet, Ken-so announced immediately in a low voice
resonating with the panic Galen had seen in his eyes on the com unit, turning to follow
Galen as he strode past him and headed toward the vid display.
Galen stopped and threw a disbelieving glare at his first officer, wondering if the
wet-behind-ears recruits had wandered into the wrong solar system. Missing & ? How
the fuck could we be missing an entire planet? Computer malfunction? Are they even in
the right gods damned solar system?
Tale Ken-so nodded vigorously. I checked, Sir. The coordinates are correct.
There s no malfunction. It s the right system, alright, but the fifth planet s gone.
Nothing but a belt of debris where it was.
Galen s lips compressed in a look of disgust. Any idea when it happened?
Tale shrugged. The computer is calculating maybe ten or twelve thousand
annums give or take. The orbits of the third and fourth planets are stable.
About the time they charted the system, Galen muttered after a quick
calculation in his head, turning and striding toward the vid display to study the system
they were approaching.
Sir? Should I inform mission control? Ken-so asked, following his senior
officer and hovering near his shoulder as Galen studied the display and finally took a seat
before the console to read the reports coming in.
Do you think they give a flying fuck, Ken-so? In any case, they d know by
now. The sons-bitches-had probably observed the collision or whatever had caused
it before they were halfway to their destination if the calculations were right, since their
home system was roughly that many light-annums from the target system.
The question shut him up, thankfully. He was a good officer, just too damned
fresh faced and eager as far as Galen was concerned and at that he was a sight more
mature and level headed than the majority of the men under his command.
It was a motley crew of soldiers and colonists he was leading. About half of them
were like Ken-so. Young, eager, and stupid, buoyed by dreams of glory, they honestly
saw this as a grand adventure that would earn them a place in the history books. There
hadn t been an attempt at colonization in centuries. Once all the prime real estate in the
closest systems had been settled, the government had been content to reap the benefits
and ignore the more distant systems as too costly to bother with, whatever they might
have of value. The war had changed that and the eager young recruits that had
volunteered to man the colonization mission to the new star system they were entering
would be the first colonists in generations. They were going to conquer the universe and
all that rot.
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Another quarter were blatant undesirables, men who d already proven they were
virtually useless to society. He strongly suspected they had been rounded up from the
prisons and workhouses, and probably from the streets, from the look of some of them.
The mission was a good way to take out the trash.
The rest were screw-ups.
And he fell into that category.
Not that he actually had screwed up his mission. He d done exactly as he d been
ordered by his senior officers. Where he d screwed up was in failing to consider that, as
the youngest admiral in the entire armada, he was going to end up being the scapegoat
when the shit hit the fan particularly since he already had one strike against him his
birth.
It galled the hell out of him that the others had not only dismissed his input when
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