Star Dragon 13: Introductory Novella

By Michael Ender

Star Dragon 13 (Introductory Novella)

First Officer Adrianna Archa must take control of Star Dragon 13, one of the Legion's top secret, deep space defenders. Caught in the middle of what might be a trap, the captain tries to blow the ship to protect its classified technology. When Adrianna figures out who was the bait, and what their role was supposed to have been, they learn that just surviving might mean being branded as traitors. In the end, the only way they can prove their loyalty is to finish the mission, no matter how desperate the odds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Ender
• Release date: Aug 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781311258229

Michael Ender

Michael Ender authors science fiction books and stories. Star Dragon 13 is the name of a Legion Defender Craft with a one-of-a-kind antimatter drive and full stealth technology. Star Dragon 13 - Introductory Novella is the beginning of a new sci-fi adventure series. Emerald Oceans the first of many full length novels is coming very soon. To receive new episode/novel release updates directly in your inbox follow this author page. The Introductory Novella is available now.

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Star Dragon 13: Introductory Novella

by Michael Ender

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Chapter One

DSW - SD13 (Deep Space Warcraft - Star Dragon 13)

Near Resource Planet, RP64

5.9 years from Earth

First Officer Adrianna Archa had never felt such oppressive darkness. Captain Jaggen had just given the order to go Full Gone. Their deep space stealth fighter disappeared from view half a second after it cleared the cargo door they’d eased out of.

There was a tight cluster of other, seemingly identical, SD ships moving purposefully out of the other side of the mothership. They could be seen as dots on a projected 3D grid display that dominated SD13’s flight deck interior. The other crews hadn’t noticed Star Dragon 13, nor would they. The ship slowly left the protection of the massive research and discovery craft known as Mother Dragon 3 and settled into an observatory position. Then the grid display flickered off, and they were supposedly fully invisible to all known forms of detection. It was the blackest sort of darkness. First Officer Archa couldn’t even see her tightly gloved hand in front of her face.

Star Dragon 13 was their ship. The thirteenth of a dozen, which meant no one but a select few even knew it existed. It was the advanced prototype. It was undetectable by any known enemy tech, to include their own. Star Dragons one through twelve didn’t have the stealth features, nor did they have the anti-matter drive that had just replaced 13’s original hyperthrust generator. The others, which still had the old drive system, were fast, highly maneuverable, and deadly, but they couldn’t catch 13 if they had to.

Long and narrow, the base shape of the SD fighter series reminded Adrianna, not of the mythical beasts they were named after, but of a dart. She could see the resemblance to the dragons of Earth lore; the long neck