Space Warrior AD 60,400.111102

By John Leader

Peter Blunt policed for profit. Government control of policing lost out.Private business had overtaken and won the job of enforcing civil law. Contract work for law enforcers lasted six months, max. No job security, pension, or health care to argue about. The government, the protectors of the people, had given the job of policing and enforcing civil law to the civilian creeps, the profit makers.
The old timers in the ranks saw it coming. Everyone, including union efforts fell flat. In his favor, Peter Blunt figured the corporations and company businesses did pay for all equipment and supplies needed for the job.
The catch, live to collect, die, and you got squat. A crusty, dirty, business, dangerous for sure, but that’s why he selected assignment, those that provided the high risk pay.
Most of the guys who started with Peter Blunt were dead. The long stretched corridor he cruised stood as a reminder of other enforcers gone before him. Some people preferred to call the policing or enforcing men space warriors. Laws changed from civilized planet to civilized planet. Maybe a desk job? Heart attack, ulcers, or stroke, they were no worse than a ripped throat from a sneak attack. No, Peter Blunt figured, death from direct weapons fire seemed a better way to travel. Peter Blunt stepped square, shrugged his shoulders, his facial expression clicked. He knew that human life follows its own cycle. Enforcement burned and boiled in his blood. He knew it and did it well. His name carried weight and his skills were prized in the wide open economic market and universe of profit and life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Leader
• Release date: Oct 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301625161

John Leader

John Leader enjoys writing science fiction, his first choice. He writes horror just as well. He works using commercial arts techniques and creates his own book covers. His science fiction stories take on action adventure themes.He reads general and technical magazines and books when he can find good materials.He is a part time martial arts practitioner and is familiar with a variety of defense systems.

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Space Warrior

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John Leader

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Space Warrior Stories

Contents

1. Sneak Attack

2. Blade Man’s Blood

3. Sniper Game At Criporas

4. To The Rescue

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Space Warrior

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Sneak Attack

Fire erupted suddenly, Peter Blunt, patrolled along the desert near some rugged rocky mountains behind a forested area. He had just checked his defense shields. They maintained on full power and they held the unseen attack at bay.

Who had fired on him? Blunt checked for signs out along the edge of the sandy terrain, but, no sightings or answers followed. Peter Blunt traveled had traveled from a nearby recreational platform floating between one of the distant and well populated planets and darkness of space. The representatives of a newly inhabited planet paid up front for his enforcing services. According to the representatives the city needed a few weeks of patrolling. The quick extra pay provided financial relief for Blunt and afforded him some extra recreational perks on the distant recreational platform he had left behind.

The recreational platform filled his mind as he went on patrol near the city he scouted and looked for policing event but found nothing unusual and returned to base locate in a shabby dock which maintained a crew of one, a sub-class android. One of the planet representatives waited for Blunt. They had supper together because it was part of the agreement. Blunt preferred home cooked food to the prefabricated stuff, his regular diet while working.

Any news from the outside, Peter Blunt looked directly at Drew, the planet representative. Somehow representatives always had information that ran deeper than they gave out.

No! Drew was keeping something back and it hit Peter Blunt in the face and he decided to let come clean with Blunt.

"It’s this way, Blunt. Several weeks ago our people received a message from someone, an