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    Alpha/Omega, Episode 1: Hostile Takeover
    Alpha/Omega, Episode 1: Hostile Takeover
    Alpha/Omega, Episode 1: Hostile Takeover
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    Alpha/Omega, Episode 1: Hostile Takeover

    By Van Allen Plexico

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    A peaceful, international scientific research base orbiting Alpha Centauri-A.

    A military coup aboard a starship headed to resupply that base.

    A terrible, dark secret concealed on the moon of Amphion.

    General Thomas Jefferson Davis and his UN commando squad have just jumped head-first into a hornets’ nest of cosmic proportions. But—are they the good guys in this story... or the bad?

    ALPHA/OMEGA: A new serialized near-future space opera adventure from Van Allen Plexico, author of the Shattering and the Sentinels series.

    EPISODE ONE: Hostile Takeover!

    “Plexico is the master of Space Opera.” –Pulp Fiction Reviews

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPro Se Press
    Release dateSep 16, 2014
    ISBN9781310116629
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      Alpha/Omega, Episode 1 - Van Allen Plexico

      ALPHA/OMEGA Episode 1

      HOSTILE TAKEOVER

      By Van Allen Plexico

      Copyright © 2014 Van Allen Plexico

      Published by Pro Se Press at Smashwords

      1

      UNS Trygve Lie

      Hyperspace corridor

      En route to Alpha Centauri A System

      Earth Date: January 11, 2068

      A wormhole is a hell of a place to die.

      As weapons discharged all around, super-dense bullets and vicious searing plasma blasts gouging away at the precious inches of steel separating them all from the airless void—and from gruesome death by decompression—General Tommy Davis reflected that, in hindsight, deepest interstellar space probably had not been the wisest choice of locales in which to start a mutiny.

      But start it he had. There had simply been no other way. And now it was win or die.

      The sounds of gunfire and shouting reverberated from every surface as his Strike Force troopers continued to press the attack, trying to push back the ship’s crew and the others who’d chosen to fight on that side. Though he’d never have admitted it to anyone, he felt equal measures of pride and pain in watching his elite forces at work; pride in their skill and efficiency, and pain from the atrocious losses they were suffering. A number of his soldiers lay dead or dying already, and precious little ground had been gained for it.

      The firefight had been raging for nearly twenty minutes when the damage being dealt to the spacecraft seemed to Davis’s senses to reach a critical mass. Pipes ruptured, steam gushing out to fill the corridors. Wiring exploded in showers of sparks and flame. One compartment decompressed, its airlock tearing loose from its hinges and hurling itself and the room’s inhabitants into the airless depths of the wormhole. The crewmembers’ screams were cut short in an instant as the last of the air was ripped from their lungs. Their bodies tumbled in the ship’s wake through a formless, nightmare void. Would they ever reenter normal space—and if so, where? Or would they simply fall through this bizarre, unnatural realm for the rest of eternity? No one knew, for no one lost in a wormhole had ever been seen again.

      Davis gritted his teeth, unsure which worried him more—the fearsome weapons blasts, the hellish void outside, or the terrifyingly fragile fusion engine housed a mere

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