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    Black Warrior: Genesis
    Black Warrior: Genesis
    Black Warrior: Genesis
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    Black Warrior: Genesis

    By R. Richard

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    As directed by the aliens, I report to the CI. He's visibly upset.
    The CI asks me, “Were you told about a work assignment?”
    I carefully reply, “Yes sir, I was told only that there would be a work assignment and that you would provide me with what was needed for me to do the work assigned.”
    The CI takes a deep breath, leans back and asks me, “Do you know what a live exercise is?”
    “Yes sir, two military commands are set conflicting objectives. They each attempt to carry out a mutual training exercise and have to fight each other to try to achieve the conflicting goals set for them. Deaths aren't uncommon during a live exercise.”
    The CI looks grim. He says, slowly, “You have been selected to take part in a live exercise. This was done over my objections. I don't believe that a student should start his military training with a live exercise. However, I have no choice and no real say in the matter. Neither do you. You can, in theory, reject the assignment. In my experience such a rejection will merely result in an even harder assignment. Your best bet, in my judgment, is to take the assignment.”
    I look the CI in the eye and say, “I have already accepted the assignment. I arrived at the same conclusion you did. I have no choice in the matter, I must do the best I can with what I have now.”
    The CI looks even grimmer. He says, “You not only have been selected to take part in a live exercise, you'll lead your team.”
    “Who's to be on my team?”
    The CI just shakes his head and looks even grimmer. He says, “There are two of them, ... mercenaries. I wouldn’t want either of them on my team. You got ‘em and no choice. ... It might be I can soften them up a bit for you ...?
    I again look the CI in the eye, “I need your advice and your help to get the equipment I need, plus anything you can beg, borrow or steal, which might help me make a success of my first mission. I need the best the two mercenaries have to offer. The mercenaries I can handle. What can you tell me about the exercise?”
    What the CI tells me shocks me in a way you would not believe.
    My team is to conduct a raid on a village to retrieve an artifact. My team will have a limited time to find and acquire the artifact and to return to an exit point. The artifact is an egg, made of some stone like material and it supposedly has strange (magical?) powers.
    I want to throw up.
    If you grew up in a normal sort of way, presumably you see the egg in a grim stone castle, guarded by a fierce dragon with a beautiful maiden held captive.
    Yeah, right dreamer!
    Assuming that an egg of the type described to me exists, who created it and why does it exist? How did the mysterious egg get to the village? If some hero obtained the egg, why would he then abandon the valuable prize in a little village? If the aliens know where the egg is, why not send in an army to retrieve it? If the egg is held captive, what do those who hold the egg want for it? If the holders of the egg will destroy it if the army attacks, why would they not destroy it when my team attacks? If the holders of the egg can destroy an attacking army, why will they not destroy my team, when we attack? Why do I have a time limit in my efforts to recover the egg?
    Literature has never been my strong suit. Of necessity, reality is my strong suit. The egg and the village are obviously constructs. They were created to provide a setting. A setting so that men can fight and die. Fight and die for what? An egg, even a magical egg? Not a chance. There's a reason that men have historically fought and died in such circumstances. The reason is called a circus. This isn't a modern circus with clowns and tricks. This is going to be a circus such as was used in the final days of the Fevellian Empire, to hold back the day of collapse a little while longer. The village is a stage set. We are gladiators, picked to man the circus. The game may be based upon make believe, alas the sweat, blo

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Richard
    Release dateOct 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370706044
    Black Warrior: Genesis
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    R. Richard

    I'm the co-author, with Sunset Thomas, of Anatomy of An Adult Film.I have 48 novels and over 299 short stories currently published.I spent my early years in the part of Los Angeles known as the South Central. I was known as Whi' Boy, which was sufficient to identify me in that place. I'm a skilled Kung Fu player, using a system that I learned from a Korean I knew only as 'Pak.' It would be easier to tell you the places that Pak wasn't wanted by the police, rather than the places where he was wanted by the police. Pak's Kung Fu system, augmented by some bits and pieces from some Chinese practitioners is quick and effective, or I wouldn't be alive today.My early education was mostly obtained by stealing books from the public library (I always returned them and the Librarian even began to provide me with reading lists.) I did go to high schools, but I never really learned anything there. I eventually graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, with a degree in mathematics.I work as a Systems Analyst and also make a part of my living as a professional gambler (legal in Nevada.) I write science fiction and erotica. My published novels are:Anatomy of An Adult Film (With Sunset Thomas)1. Second Chance: God Killer2. Second Chance: Sky Pirate3. Second Chance: Scroll Seeker4. Second Chance: King of The Islands5. Second Chance: King of Zaya6. Second Chance: Duke of Averon7. Second Chance: King of Golomon8. Second Chance: King Of The Sky9. Second Chance: Warlord of Ifrequeh10. Second Chance: King of Ariby11. Second Chance: King of Mesodania12. Second Chance: King of Avuls13. Second Chance: King of Kemet14. Second Chance: King of Zorran15. Second Chance: King of Two Worlds16. Second Chance: King of Averon17. Second Chance: King's Duties18. Second Chance: King of The New WorldAdventurer: Simulation ProblemAdventurer: Pannar ProblemA Programmer's GambitAmateur StripperBeach MurdersBondage HouseCorporate Sex SlavesFriday NightGo Naked In The SoftwareGrasshopper WinterInvoluntary NudeLayoffNot A HeroPirates of The KeysSummer of SexThe LakeThe Last Moon DanceThe Nude Adventures of Plain JaneThe Secret Life of Wanda WilsonTails of the Pussycat LoungeTo Keep A JobTopless RestaurantToy WhoresVix: The MarineWayward BoyShort Stories:A Christmas Visit

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      Black Warrior - R. Richard

      Black Warrior: Genesis

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      Copyright 2017 R. Richard

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      Black Warrior: Genesis

      By R. Richard © 2017

      I could see it coming, but when you’re only in third grade, what can you do?

      Unfortunately, my father had always been a dreamer. His trail of broken dreams had led my mother and him to work, as servants, for a well to do old man. As with most of their recent jobs, their pay was minimal but, from what I heard my parents talking about, the employer had promised an inheritance. The only problem was that their employer had decided to relocate to a retirement community. No children were allowed in residence at the retirement community. I overheard a conversation between my father and my mother. The problem, as my father saw it, was that there was one kid too many in the lifeboat. Since I was the kid, I had a somewhat different opinion in the matter.

      The next day, my father takes me downtown. There's just my father, a suitcase and me. I'm scared, I mean really scared. I think about telling my father I don’t want to go. I also think about cutting my own throat. I do neither, since they're each about equally useful. I just walk alongside my father trying to figure a way out for me. I wonder, what happens to kids nobody wants, anyhow?

      We get to a really crummy looking building in a run down area of downtown. However, once we're inside, the place improves a lot. There's a receptionist behind an enclosing polished wood barrier. My father fills out a form and then talks with the receptionist.

      Next comes my turn. I'm ushered through the wood enclosure and back into a sort of classroom. I take tests, lots of tests, over several hours. The tests start with the usual reading, arithmetic, fold up the panels into a box type of thing. There are also tests in which I have to guess the symbol on cards that I'm not allowed to see. The people who run the place do give me lunch and I survive the testing, although I'm really exhausted at the end. I think that I have done well with the tests. My unrealistic hopes increase. Perhaps I'm being tested for a scholarship. I can go to school somewhere and then visit my parents during the summer.

      I go back out to the front of the operation.

      My father hands me the suitcase, mutters some crap about, You'll be better off here. He then walks out the door without a backward glance.

      I realize that I'm alone. There will be no one to feed me, no

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