Earth -Into the Fire: Galaxy on Fire, #2

By Clayton L McNally

Three uncles from the Galactic Kingdom have attacked Capra and SOL. Capra was attacked as Lady Michelle was betrothed to the future king of the Kingdom. SOL was attacked as the future king. King Lee was raised on Earth.

SOL bore the brunt of the assault. Three uncles were bent on wiping out all life on Earth to ensure King Lee was killed. Each uncle sent a fleet defeated by King Lees' 'Guardian' StarForce, Lady Michelles' StarForce, and Captain Lorans' StarForce.

Eventually, a final StarForce of Quenne Suzzane arrives, and together, they eliminate three hostile fleets. The three uncles have murdered King Lees' father, Randolph. A new star nation starts from the attack and grows to encompass other sentient species from the attack. Much smaller than the Galactic Kingdom, a plan has to evolve to ensure the safety of Capra and SOL.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clayton L McNally
• Release date: Feb 20, 2024
• ISBN: 9798892980333

Clayton L McNally

Clayton McNally writes in a story-telling manner that is fast-paced and exciting. His stories grab your interest from beginning to end. 'To the Stars' will engage the imagination of Science Fiction enthusiasts. This action-packed novel includes hand-to-hand combat using Kenpo Karate and major space battles utilizing unconventional ingenuity.    Clayton is a software engineer and a 4th Dan Master Instructor of American Kenpo Karate, Reiki, and Acupressure Practitioner. Clayton has been a guest at numerous Science Fiction Conventions, including Albacon, Arisia, Balticon, Boskone, Marscon, Ubbercon, DexCon, NonCon, PortConMaine, UMassCon, and others. He provides excellent insight as a panelist. Email for appearances:     Email:       [e-mail] Email:       [e-mail] Website:    www.claytonlmcnally.com                  (Blog on website)

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Series - Books

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Galactic Star Force - Battle Fleet

To the Stars

Surviving Behind Enemy Lines

Liberty and Freedom - To Die For  

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Galaxy on Fire

Treacherous Fires of Civil Unrest

Earth - Into the Fire     

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Vampiric Wars

Blood Let     

Dedications

To Alicia, Derek, Dylan, and Hailey, four people so important to me. They have made my move from Connecticut to New York much more relaxed. They have helped me to adjust to being alone and not too far from family at the same time. Alicia and Derek make a fantastic couple. Dylan and Hailey keep me active with things to do. Life without them wouldn’t be life.

To Jenna and Brian, two other people essential to me. Together, they have made me feel all right in moving farther from them than I like. As a young couple, they find their way in the world, and though they will face obstacles, they will overcome them all.

My daughters mean the most to me; they are all I have left from life as I knew it. I am not ignoring Derek, Dylan, Hailey, and Brian, and they, too, hold sweet spots in my heart. Betsy and I had two amazing young girls that grew into extraordinary young ladies. There is no better legacy than your kids.

Karen. A woman I met after my loss. I am so blessed to have met her and for her to join me for a life together. I would never have thought I would come out of my loss and grief, but Karen has found a place in my heart and has made me feel alive again.

Fan Appreciation

To the many readers who have waited for the other books, thank you all very much. Thank you very much for the interest that allowed a move to digital to take place. I hope you enjoy the second copy of Galaxy on Fire, and I look forward to any comments.

My wife and I were in a head-on collision in April of 2004. It has taken quite a while to get to a point where even a little work could be done. I’m back, and many more books, including two new series that are on the way.

The delay grew longer as my wife came down with Cancer at the end of 2011, and we have been in treatment since then. Finally, July of 2012 brought my heart slowing, and I hit a telephone pole - I went unconscious while driving. I now have a pacemaker, so that won’t happen again.

Now we were in 2017, and my wife has had Cancer again since 2012. I have always been taught that anyone could feel good and act well when things go right. It’s the bumps in life that truly define who you are as a person. Cancer and heart have been bumps in our lives. With God’s grace, we will get through it all.

In March of 2018, I lost my wife and best friend to Cancer. I have been trying to adjust to life alone, and it isn't easy. Betsy was also my editor; I have leased a book editing software - no equal to her.

I thoroughly enjoy the numerous emails from all of those who read my other series. I am confident you will find future stories equally exciting. I hope that the all-new series coming ‘Vampiric Wars’ will also catch your imagination.

God Bless you all!

Contacting the Author

Clayton L. McNally enjoys contact from readers of the Galaxy on Fire series. You can contact him through his email:

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Acknowledgment Starship Art

I enjoyed working with the ‘contract’ hired artist Rick Edmond on Justice and Integrity's starship designs. Both starships will be featured in the Galaxy on Fire series. The second book is Earth - Into the Fire.

Rick Emond is a Connecticut native and entrepreneur specializing in Writing, Illustration, and Concept Design for Comics/Graphic Novels, TV, and Film. Rick began his career as an apprentice to comic illustrator Sal Trapani. Rick got his professional start tasked with inking and illustrating various Marvel and DC title assignments during that time.

Over the years, he became involved in creating an illustration/design for many top Role Playing and Collectible Card Game companies, including Wizards of the Coast’s Magic the Gathering.

Rick was chosen to be part of a team of talented illustrators that developed an online comic series for LNL Partners to create motion comic art for William Shatner’s: Man O War as well as POW/ Stan Lee's published project titled: God Woke. He has served as an illustrator and visual concept developer for VR Press on their live-action Web and Comics series Venus Rises" and created several Big Stick Comics issues.

Galaxy on Fire Starship Categories

Note: There are two different fleets of Galaxy on Fire. The first fleet is used by the Galactic Kingdom - the center of the Milky Way. The second fleet is built in SOL by Galactic Kingdom scientists sent with the Prince/King in the new ‘Federation of Free Planets The Federation,’ a combination of a Monarchy and a Republic.

Galaxy on Fire Starship Categories

Note: There are two different fleets of Galaxy on Fire. The first fleet is used by the Galactic Kingdom - the center of the Milky Way. The second fleet is built in SOL by Galactic Kingdom scientists sent with the Prince/King in the new ‘Federation of Free Planets The Federation,’ a combination of a Monarchy and a Republic.

Galaxy on Fire Starship Categories

Note: There are two different fleets of Galaxy on Fire. The first fleet is used by the Galactic Kingdom - the center of the Milky Way. The second fleet is built in SOL by Galactic Kingdom scientists sent with the Prince/King in the new ‘Federation of Free Planets The Federation,’ a combination of a Monarchy and a Republic.

Galaxy on Fire Starship Categories

Note: There are two different fleets of Galaxy on Fire. The first fleet is used by the Galactic Kingdom - the center of the Milky Way. The second fleet is built in SOL by Galactic Kingdom scientists sent with the Prince/King in the new ‘Federation of Free Planets The Federation,’ a combination of a Monarchy and a Republic.

Galaxy on Fire Starship Duties

General - Each type of starship, from the smaller star frigate to the giant super star dreadnaught, mounts massive energy weapons: FhracTLs (long-distance frequency, harmonic, resonating, accentuated, continuous modulating sonic beam), PulseFhracTLs (short distance, machine gun-like with a heavy concentration of modulating sonic pulses), and a Laser Point-defense system (rapid-fire system to track and destroy incoming missiles or torpedoes). Each starship carries multiple Orb launchers and laser banks. The actual numbers on each are classified and increase by the size of the vessel.  

Dreadnaughts, Battlestarships, and Battle Cruisers: Their primary mission is waging war. Super heavy hulls are designed to take a lot of weapons fire and are generally not used for diplomatic purposes unless an impression is needed to be made.

Heavy Cruisers, Cruisers, and Light Cruisers: Their primary mission is to support exploration and the Diplomatic Corps, but they also have to keep waging war. Large hulls were designed to take lots of weapons fire, but not as much as the ‘Battle’ ready starships. Generally, they were not sent into known aggression areas unless as a support starship or part of a small fleet.

Galaxy on Fire Starship Duties

Destroyers and Frigates: Their primary mission is to support scouting and escort duties and support the Diplomatic Corps. They would also have to support waging war. Lighter starship hulls were designed to take a limited amount of weapons fire, not as much as the Cruiser class of starships.

Carriers, Light Carriers, and Fast Attack Carriers: Their primary mission is to support battles but from a safe distance with a constant guard of escort starships - star destroyers, star frigates, and star cruisers. They would also have to support waging war. The light to moderate hulls were designed to take a limited amount of weapon fire but were not intended to be in the middle of a battle. Due to the nature of their fighters and bombers and the damage they could inflict on the enemy, star carriers would often be the target of choice by enemy starships.

Justice

Justice is a prototype super dreadnaught. The unique nature of this ship is in the Artificial Intelligence that becomes complete when Prince/King Lee is augmented and bio-neurally linked to the vessel.

Capable of destroying a planet with its weapons arrays, it utilizes four flight modes:

Sub-Light  - Less than the speed of light, primarily used

in intra-solar system, travel

FTL    - Faster-Than-Light (up to 2,725 times the

speed of light)

QuantumSlipStream  - Faster-Than-Light (up to 8,400 times the

speed of light)

Spatial Folding  - Manipulates Space and Time to move instantly

from one part of the Universe to another at over 44,000 times the speed of light

Justice

Justice - Side view

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Justice

Justice - Top view

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Integrity

Integrity is a prototype, super-heavy carrier. The unusual nature of this ship (when built) will be in the Artificial Intelligence that becomes complete when Lady Michelle is augmented and bio-neurally linked to the vessel.

Capable of bringing hundreds of fighters and bombers and their weapons to a battle, it could equal the firepower of a battleship-class warship. It utilizes four flight modes:

Sub-Light  - Less than the speed of light, primarily used

in intra-solar system, travel

FTL    - Faster-Than-Light (up to 2,725 times the

speed of light)

QuantumSlipStream  - Faster-Than-Light (up to 8,400 times the

speed of light)

Spatial Folding  - Manipulates Space and Time to move instantly

from one part of the Universe to another at over 44,000 times the speed of light

Integrity

Integrity - Side view

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Integrity

Integrity - Top view

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Faster-Than-Light,

TransFTLStream and Fold Speeds

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Estimates of Faster-Than-Light speeds are provided. Velocities are based on approximated numbers.

Faster-Than-Light,

TransFTLStream and Fold Speeds

Estimates of Faster-Than-Light speeds are listed. Velocities are approximated.

Table of Contents

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Starship Descriptions

Faster-Than-Light Speeds

Prologue   - SOL Fights back

Chapter 1   - Earth, the End of Silence

Chapter 2   - The Ebb and Tide of War

Chapter 3   - Make Things Right

Chapter 4   - The Backdoor is Closed

Chapter 5   - Along Comes Death for Earth

Chapter 6   - Engaging the Main Force

Chapter 7   - Treachery Lingers in Family

Chapter 8   - A Lady Comes a Calling

Chapter 9   - Queen to Knight One

Justice-Integrity Shield Technology

General (six types):

Bow / Aft,  Port / Starboard,  Dorsal / Ventral

Normal Flight:

Cloak  - Invisibility of a starship, including all energy

levels

Deflector  - Particle protection against small debris in

space, asteroids, meteors, missiles, and slower torpedoes

Justice-Integrity Shield Technology

Combat Ready:

Phased Cloak - Allows a starship to pass through solid objects.

MetaPhasic   - Allows a starship to pass through a sun

corona

Combat:

Rotating Harmonics - Allows a starship to rotate the

frequencies of its shields

Justice-Integrity Defense Technology

Lasers, Missles, and Flax:

AI Controlled batteries on the hull.

FireBolts (Twin Laser batteries)

Comets (Heat /Energy Seeker Counter Missile) quads

PARTs (Plutonium Armor Piercing Explosive Tip)

quads

Hammers (Explosive Tip Armor Piercing Flax)

HellFires (Nova Heat Seeking Counter Missiles)

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Drones and Probes:

Probes   - Are intelligence gathering within ten light-

years of a starship or as instructed.

Combat Drone - These are weapons of both DEPs and smaller

Nuclear ORBS.

Jammer Drone - Are capable of generating disrupting

communication signals within ten light-years of a starship or planet.

Justice-Integrity Offensive Energy Technology

FhracTLs (long-distance frequency, harmonic, resonating,

accentuated, continuous modulating sonic beam).

PulseFhracTLs (short distance, machine gun-like with a heavy

the concentration of modulating sonic pulses.

Justice-Integrity Offensive ORBs Technology

Anti-Matter Orbs (AMatOrbs) - Anti-Matter blast. Far more energy

released than a one-thousand-megaton nuke.

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Planet Killer Drills (PKDs) - Drill that bores to the center of an object

and detonates a five-hundred-megaton Matter-Antimatter

device.

Justice-Integrity Aircraft

Justice and Integrity carry three types of aircraft: Falcons, Hawkes,  and Eagles. Integrity alone had Eagles.

Falcons

Four Anti-Matter Missiles  (forty megatons)

Two PulseFhracTLs -type four

Hawkes

Ten Anti-Matter Missiles  (sixty megatons)

Two PulseFhracTLs -type six

Eagles

Ten Anti-Matter Missiles  (sixty megatons)

Two PulseFhracTLs -type eight

Ten Anti-Matter Missiles  (one hundred and twenty megatons)

Consider

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Life has many doorways to pass through. Without a good and solid education, many of these doors could remain closed. Not focusing on education by parents and kids could prepare a child for a life of handouts. What are you planning for your kids and their future? What are your kids planning for their futures?

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All Lives Matter may not become a reality until Education is held in high esteem by parents and their kids of all colors.

Prologue - SOL Fights Back

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Forces from the Galactic Kingdom have attempted an assassination on Lady Michelle, betrothed to Prince or King Lee of SOL. Caspra, a once peaceful planet, has leaped into its future by a simple act of three brothers' / uncles’ greed that no one on Caspra had known about. Caspra would be slated to discover other species in their neighborhood.

SOL would become center stage for two star systems that they knew nothing of - Caspra is home to Lady Michelle and the thousands of star systems making up the Galactic Kingdom. SOL had become home to the future legal King of the Galactic Kingdom if he lived through the war.

Forces from Caspra and the Galactic Kingdom, a pit of Civil Unrest, have converged in SOL. Lady Michelle leads a small task force who had sworn loyalty to her and arrives in SOL to find a Prince or a King.

Crown Princes’ Francis, Reginald, and Rothchild have fleets whose sole purpose is to kill the Galactic Kingdom's true Prince and destroy a star system.

Queen Suzanne had lost her husband, King Randolph, but was determined not to lose her son, Prince Lee. Therefore, all forces would arrive in SOL at staggered times, and SOL would live or die based on the outcome of each battle.

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Chapter 1 - Earth, the End of Silence

May those who want to take my life find shame and confusion.

Prince Francis’s fleet moved on Earth, the only planet in the system that was scanned with signs of life. Francis had a fleet of faster starships than Rothchild and had the good fortune of beating both brothers to Prince/King Lee and potentially the royal seals. Admiral Hastleman had scans reflecting a massive war in progress on the surface of the planet. That made fewer people for him to deal with. Scans indicated limited nuclear capability in the world, and the missiles used were liquid fuel and cumbersomely slow. They would pose no threat to his fleet, which would take up an orbit around Earth within an hour. His force had sufficient power to obliterate this planet, but the world would offer a minimal defense level. Earth posed no offensive threat to his fleet, but the Admiral’s starships would have to drain the planet of its defensive ability. 

Prince/King Lee would have to be on this planet, but there was no sign of his Guardian forces. The only serious threat would be the task force assigned to guard the Prince. The size of the fleet was unknown, and that worried the Admiral. He had to expect damage to his fleet; how much was the main worry he had? Eighty starships were poised to demolish Earth, and due to cautious thinking, he had to shift twenty starships as a rear guard. Those twenty starships' firepower could allow a much faster cleansing of life on Earth, but prudence dictated this strategic placement of his force.

Admiral, we have a signal from the planet, Captain Jennilight said. Earth’s communication abilities were primitive, but he had his ‘com station’ monitoring many potential communications variations. Simple radio frequencies with all forms of language on them had been discovered. It’s from someone called the President of the United States.

Put him through, Admiral Hastleman said. He would make this simple for the Earth people: give up the Prince or perish. He would neglect to tell them that they would die no matter what. 

I would like to welcome you to Earth. I am President Barrymore of the United States of America, President Barrymore said. The president was excited about the opportunity of the first contact. Finally, an age-old question of ‘did life exist out in space’ had been answered. Humankind might not be able to travel among the stars yet, but one day, they will. The president’s staff had advised caution and the subtle altering of all missile targets toward space. This mass of starships could be here in peace, but a peace envoy wouldn’t need such a strong force. The president’s advisors already had key staff sequestered for safety, and all world forces were poised to defend the planet. We would like to extend our hands in peace and invite you to a state dinner in your honor.

Sir, we are not here for your friendship! We demand that you turn Prince Lee over to us! Hastleman barked out a forceful command. Failure to do so within one hour will cause your planet to be obliterated.

Sir, we don’t have a Prince Lee or know who he is, President Barrymore replied. The confusion was gaining a foothold on the president’s staff. Earth had never had a relationship with off-world species, so how could a Prince from their planet be here? Can you give us some idea of his location or what he looks like?

The Prince has been living on your planet since he was four. How he looks or where he is are not known to us, Hastleman replied to the president. He knew the Prince would have concealed his location; the president's message was being broadcast over all airwaves. If the Prince were here, he would hear the news. Perhaps the Prince would turn himself in. Our sensors have located your country in America. Below you are a country you call Cuba. Watch.

Captain, launch four torpedoes at the landmass we’ve seen called Cuba, Hastleman ordered. Four torpedoes were launched that would wipe out millions of people without a sign of remorse from the attackers. Silently, the weapons fired bore through the atmosphere and found their target. 

Mr. President, four missiles are inbound to Cuba. Should we stop them? Captain Mansfield asked. He had quickly come before the president and Admiral with the news. Unfortunately, time to go through proper channels would not allow for any response to the weapons.

No, Cuba can defend Cuba, President Barrymore replied. Cuba had been a thorn in America’s side for decades. All efforts to seek peaceful ways