Prominence: Retribution

By Shane Griffin

Vaslus is a doomed world orbiting an unstable star. To preserve their civilisation the Vaslusians have embarked on the greatest colonisation scheme ever imagined. However the first intelligent beings they encountered have attacked them without provocation or reason. They are now at war and in a race with an unknown enemy with violent intentions. In this second story of the Prominence series follow Relv, survivor of the Abarath, as he fights in the first fleet to bring the attack back to the enemy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shane Griffin
• Release date: Jun 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310235467

Shane Griffin

Poupichou Press now also live on twitter - follow if you dare !!Shane Griffin is an ageing scientist, cricket fanatic and long term indie writer. He lives at the foot of the Blue Mountains.. He has completed over 30 titles including short stories, novella's and two full length novels.Shane is now focusing on e-publishing under his own label - Poupichou Press.Newest novel - Vendunari - Gene War is out now as an ebook and a hard print book. Newest shorter works Venudnari -Exile and Vendunari - Grenig's War.If you are interested in regular updates about my work please follow Poupichou Press on TwitterCurrently working on : new short story set in Visions of Magic realm, plus tinkering with ideas for Necrofaires 3. Its a slow process as a part time indie author so please be patient :)

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Prominence

Retribution

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Shane Griffin

Smash Words Edition Published by Poupichou Press

Copyright Shane Griffin 2015

Cover Design by Nadya Vahedi 2015

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Relv paced back and forth inside the crane control room anxiously. He had agitated loudly and boldly for such a long time to get a place in the fleet and had exhausted every official avenue along the way without success. To be invited suddenly to a private meeting with the Fleet Admiral had caught him completely off guard leaving him stunned and ill-prepared. Then to find out that he was meeting at such short notice at such a late hour and in a very unofficial place filled him with foreboding. He wondered whether he might find himself in an isolation cell before the night was done and not let out until the fleet actually left...or worse.

He stopped pacing for a moment and stared out of the observation window that stretched across the entire length of the control room. The giant boom stretched out for over a kilometre into the vast orbital construction hub. It was idle as was the rest of this part of the ship yard with the recent completion of its latest battle cruiser. Unlike the majority of the other battle cruisers, which had been manufactured as giant glass cannons in the aid of speed, this one was much more bulky and heavily armoured.

Nicknamed Brutes by their builders there were only a handful made due to the precious additional manufacturing time and resources required. By all accounts they were going to pack a hell of a punch with the addition of a dark matter beam generator to complement the normal full array of anti-missile defences and other more conventional energy weapons.

Relv pushed his face up against the glass not unlike a child looking into a candy store window and with about the same level of unadulterated desire. What he would not give to be allowed onto the crew on one of those!

His appraisal of the warship was interrupted by the hiss of the airlock behind him. He turned around and immediately stood at attention and threw a picture perfect and practiced salute.

At ease Lieutenant Commander, ordered Fleet Admiral Mafex as he entered ahead of Relv’s own unit Commander and two armed MP’s. Fleet Admiral Mafex was in his late sixties and chronologically 20 years older than Relv even though he was technically born a hundred or so years earlier. He was the most renown and experienced military officer on all of Vaslus and he was a long term spacer.

He had been handed overall command of the fleet from construction to strategy and ultimately to battle. Relv had not met him in person before and was a little shocked at the depth of the worry lines on his face. Despite all his experience handling local disputes on colony worlds nothing of this scale and importance had even been tried before and the pressure was showing right through the stern and confident facade that he was trying for.

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