Date: 23 Jan 00 11:52:54 MST From: Christopher Leeson Subject:
TG (Sci-fi Magic) story revision - Under the Moons of Eden
Copyright 1996 Revised 1/2000 UNDER THE MOONS OF EDEN by
Christopher Leeson Chapter 1 *The sly slow hours shall not
determinate The dateless limit of thy dear exile.* KING RICHARD
II Our outfit, the 54th Battle Group Earth Alliance, was in
transit to Cathara when an Asymmetric search-and-destroy mission
intercepted us off Ophir. Since our light escorts had no
firepower to match theirs, they did a good job of turning our
fleet into slag before the escort commander broadcast the
general order for a cold jump. A cold jump for hyperspace! You
have to be suicidal to try that, but our ships were going out
like Christmas lights on the day after New Years and there
wasn't any other way out. Against every rule in the book the
surviving fighters and freighters flooded their unprepared
converters with antimatter and pushed the button. We watched the
beleaguered ships blink out of this spatial continu