Warrior One: Fleet Action IV

By Connor G. Madison

Fleet Action IV - The Battle for Rigel continues... The FOP fleets assists the K'lar Conglomerate to throw the Gar from their Home System. The Saxons join the fray battling the Gar.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Connor G. Madison
• Release date: Sep 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311968326

Connor G. Madison

Connor was raised on the southwest side of Chicago. His parents lived the American dream, a nice house on a nice street back when people treated each other decently. Back when children could play outside without fear. Connor grew up reading everything, fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, everything. As he grew up, he found he loved science. He also loved science fiction, all the greats of past decades. Heinlein, Reynolds, Dickson, Drake, Azimov were his champions of his youth on into adult life. Today, Connor writes science fiction for his own amusement. Yet he wondered if people would like to read what he writes. So he is delving into the eBook arena with a few of his musings. So have fun reading, he had fun write them.

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Warrior One

Fleet Action IV

by

Connor G. Madison

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Warrior One

Fleet Action IV

The Battle for Rigel

by

Connor G. Madison

Copyright © 2015 by Connor G. Madison

Chapter 1

Seeker, a two-man scout hung in space, silent, watching. With the most sophisticated electronic detection gear, the Federation had, the two men sat, each watching a different quadrant of space. They were six thousand light years from Rigel, down the spiral arm of the galaxy, watching the star systems farther down the arm. They were watching fifteen hundred Gar ships as they made their way up the spiral arm toward Rigel.

They were also watching a group of Saxon ships crossing the void between spiral arms. The Saxon's were headed toward the Gar ships. What their intentions were Commander Nolan Tóla did not know, but he watched them. After about two hours of watching, the blob of Gar ships started to break up. A small group had already broken off and turned toward the advancing Saxon ships. The bigger blob now broke into two blobs.

Nolan watched, while the computer tracked the blobs and calculated their headings. One blob never deviated from its course. The second blob was headed to Earth. Both groups of ships were still almost a month away...at least fifteen thousand light years from their destinations. The vastness of space made for long periods of inactivity and never-ending anticipation, but most of all, boredom.

Nolan typed his report into the computer for transmission to Rigel and Homeworld. He finally pressed the send key and listened to the comm unit hum as it came to life to send his message. It only took a microsecond, then the comm unit was once again silent.

Are we going to move again? asked Patrick Egan, Nolan's partner, and co-pilot.

No, we can stay here a while longer. They sure aren't in a hurry to get here.

No, they aren't. In fact, the computer says they have slowed significantly since we returned from Rigel.

Could they too, have a scout checking us out? Pat asked.

I don't know and I don't want to go active to find out. Re-check all our passive scans, Nolan said, bending over his console punching keys and touching screens.

Aye, aye, Pat replied.

Lieutenant Gillian Saraid sat in a corner of the mess hall aboard the Donegal, silently eating