It was completely humiliating. A week ago he’d been learning to fly and fight with the best pilots on earth. Now he was a waste management tech, second class. He’d missed out on an important mission. Jack Figgin and his squadron took a group of trainees out, crushed a Ch’zar security patrol, and ...
He stuffed those bad feelings deep inside and tried instead to come up with a way to save his sister. He couldn’t risk the lives of the pilots in the Resistance to save her. And even if he was willing to do that … Colonel Winter wouldn’t let him. &nbs...
FLIGHT SUITS WERE MADE FOR HIGH-G COMBAT maneuvers, not strolls in the desert at midday. It was like walking through an oven wearing a plastic bag. The internal moisture pads were soaked and squished with each step Ethan took. Of course, Ethan and his team had to keep the suits on for the extra r...
This game, though, was much, much bigger with thousands of players on either side. And winning wasn’t about breaking records or taking home a championship trophy. It was about the continued existence of the human race, and maybe the freedom of a dozen other intelligent species on other distant wo...
how the then leaderless Immortals and Infernals signed a neutrality treaty (the Pactum Pax Immortalis) in 326 C.E. . . . which provided stability for the mortal magical families to surface and thrive . . . and prompted a fragile cooperation between mortals, fallen angels, and Immortals to preserv...