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    Blaster Squad #2 Sea of Death: Blaster Squad, #2
    Blaster Squad #2 Sea of Death: Blaster Squad, #2
    Blaster Squad #2 Sea of Death: Blaster Squad, #2
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    Blaster Squad #2 Sea of Death: Blaster Squad, #2

    By Russ Crossley

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    In this second mission in the 42nd century after an encounter with pirates Nick Justice leads Blaster Squad on a hazardous mission in uncharted space to rescue kidnapped aliens.

    They soon become trapped in a mysterious void filled with a sea of lifeless alien vessels orbiting an artificial star powered by the powerful energy field they’ve been trying to recover.

    Join mercenaries Nick, Siren, Gears, Bones, and the Kid as they discover a monstrous plot to dominate the galaxy. In a race against time they fight to escape this sea of death and must make a shocking decision before it’s too late.

    Blast off to far future with Star Trek author, Russ Crossley in this tale of high adventure and pulse pounding action to save the galaxy for all human and alien kind.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher53rd Street Publishing
    Release dateApr 18, 2016
    ISBN9781533746573
    Blaster Squad #2 Sea of Death: Blaster Squad, #2
    Author

    Russ Crossley

    International selling author, Russ Crossley writes science fiction and fantasy, and mystery/suspense under the name R.G. Crossley. His latest science fiction satire set in the far future, Revenge of the Lushites, is a sequel to Attack of the Lushites released in 2011. The latest title in the series was released in the fall of 2013. Both titles are available in e-book and trade paperback. He has sold several short stories that have appeared in anthologies from various publishers including; WMG Publishing, Pocket Books, and St. Martins Press. He is a member of SF Canada and is past president of the Greater Vancouver Chapter of Romance Writers of America. He is also an alumni of the Oregon Coast Professional Fiction Writers Master Class taught by award winning author/editors, Kristine Katherine Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Feel free to contact him on Facebook, Twitter, or his website http:www.russcrossley.com.  He loves to hear from readers  

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      Blaster Squad #2 Sea of Death - Russ Crossley

      Blaster Squad #2

      Sea of Death

      By

      Russ Crossley

      Published by 53rd Street Publishing

      Offices in Gibsons, B.C. Canada and Lincoln City Oregon, U.S.A

      Blaster Squad #2

      Sea of Death

      Published by 53rd Street Publishing

      Copyright © 2016 Russ Crossley

      All rights reserved

      Cover art © Can Stock Photo Inc. / / MIRO3D

      Cover designed by R. Edgewood

      Cover design and layout © 2016 by 53rd Street Publishing

      Print ISBN 978-1-927621-50-9 

      53rd Street Publishing

      Head office: Gibsons B.C. Canada

      www.53rdstreetpublishing.com

      This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

      Blaster Squad Series

      #1 Terror on the Moon

      #2 Sea of Death

      #3 Planet of Doom (coming soon)

      #4 Raiders of Cloud City (coming soon)

      Acknowledgements

      Thank you, Colleen and Rita. These stories are impossible without you both.

      Dedication

      This one is for my dad who taught me the love of science fiction.

      Introduction

      The inspiration for this series is rather simple. I love science fiction both the new stories and older ones. I love the genre on film and in print. I have loved it all of my life. The imagination it sparked in me as a young child still resides in me today. This project is designed to share my love of the adventure and wonder that is science fiction.

      This series is pure high adventure with action aplenty taking the reader on a thrill ride with a daring team of exceptional space faring mercenaries facing danger and adventure at every turn. I assure you this is fun.

      So strap on those jet packs and let me take you on a ride with Blaster Squad to the 43rd century.

      Russ Crossley

      Gibsons, B.C.

      April 2016

      1

      Uncharted world

      Somewhere in the badlands

      4141.3.15 Galactic

      Oval-shaped eyes, irises the color of eggplant, narrowed as the starship he’d been expecting entered normal space, bristling with weapons pods, near the orbit of the farthest moon in the system. On the image provided by the camera on the surveillance drone, he watched the uninhabited moon wobble visibly due to the time/space displacement wave created by the starship’s FTL drive.

      Eventually the inner stresses would cause the moon to tear itself apart, scattering rubble composed of varying sizes of rock and shards of ice on uncontrolled trajectories throughout the system. The rubble would become death-dealing asteroids and eventually set off cascading waves of destruction throughout the planets and moons in the system, some ending in violent collisions, ultimately destroying life on inhabited worlds.

      But none of this concerned him. All he cared about was the deadly cargo onboard this newly arrived starship.

      The vessel would be in orbit within two weeks; only then would the real work begin. And the future of the galaxy would become possible.

      The flesh of his purplish-colored fists tightened, becoming a shade darker as an intense feeling of power coursed through his six-foot-tall, heavily muscled frame. His chest muscles bulged inside the blast armor covering his wide chest.

      He ran a large hand over his slicked-back, chestnut-brown hair that gleamed under the control center’s lights. The room smelled of mold and decay, making his narrow nostrils twitch in disgust. The decrepit building was going to crumble around them unless they left this planet soon. Dying planets were no place to plan the rise of a glittering new empire built on the blackened bones of the Alliance.

      I’ll be in my office, he said in his deep-throated voice to the technician sitting in front of the master control panel for the command complex. The tech nodded that she understood.

      From this room they monitored the entire system against incoming intruders using a series of shielded surveillance satellites and drones. He’d ordered the lowering of the energy screen at the outer border of the system to allow the incoming vessel through. Now that the ship had arrived, the shield would be reactivated to keep out prying eyes or repel anyone following the starship into the system.

      He entered the lift and instructed the lift car’s voice-activated interface to take him to the sixteenth floor, where his expansive offices were located. The doors cycled closed, cutting off his view of the immense master control room with over one hundred stations where technicians monitored the vast reaches between the sixteen worlds within the system.

      On the eight populated worlds of this system, they also monitored his tens of millions of assault troopers, training for the day when they’d launch the final war with the Alliance to crush those who opposed them once and for all.

      His stomach muscles tightened as he recalled the horrified faces of the council members when they rejected his master’s proposal to increase their power over member worlds with the deployment of the new energy field as a weapon.

      His master knew these weaklings could never conceive of a brilliant plan like his, to become the absolute ruler of the worlds presently controlled by the Alliance. One day every Alliance world would bow to his master’s will. And one day the new empire would expand across the galaxy until his master, the new emperor, ruled the entire galaxy with an iron fist of terror and fear.

      The only obstacle to total domination was a group of mercenaries called Blaster Squad. Their leader, Nick Justice, and his team of skilled mercenaries had interfered in the emperor’s plans too many times already.

      They must all die.

      2

      GSS Hunter

      Orbiting Oslun III

      4144.6.10 Galactic

      Nick focused his intense, azure-blue eyes on the scanning results of the Alliance Navy frigate as it went by the Hunter in a higher orbit above them. His stomach muscles tightened. It wasn’t hunger, it was dread that soured his guts. He hated an unnecessary fight. Shoot first, talk later had never been in his playbook. This time, though, he was forced to make an exception.

      Gears said the new sensors on the refitted ship were supposedly capable of piercing through any shields or dispersal fields used by any naval ships or cargo vessels in the Alliance. The stealth mode capability of the refitted Hunter was also useful in these circumstances. They would remain undetected until they used their weapons.

      Siren, his second in command, was a first-class engineer and deadly with any weapon you could think of. She had activated the stealth mode just before they crossed the border into the Oslun system.

      The outposts along the border didn’t notice them when they crossed into Oslun territory. No hails or sensor scans targeted their vessel as they passed an automated sensor outpost at three-quarters light speed. Not that he doubted Gears, but Nick was still mildly surprised, and relieved, when the stealth shields actually worked. At the time it seemed this was going to be easier than he first thought until they discovered a navy warship in orbit.

      Nick watched as the sensor readings showed the warship powering up its weapons. The large navy frigate was fast approaching an unarmed civilian cargo vessel from behind, and as Nick suspected, they were going to open fire on the unarmed ship. He particularly detested unfair fights so had decided to intervene.

      There was something odd about this navy ship but he couldn’t quite put his finger on what bothered him. Something about the contours of the hull and the bridge configuration seemed off somehow. I must be imagining things.

      The important fact was this particular cargo ship contained trace amounts of energy they’d been tasked to locate. If the cargo ship were destroyed, it would also destroy the only real lead they’d had in the past two months. So far, all they’d been able to find were

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