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    Revolutionary
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    Revolutionary

    By T S Paul

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    Athena Lee had returned home to her planet of birth. She is home to visit the family she has not seen for over 16 years. Her ship the James Cook is there to repair damage caused by the O'Malley pirates.
    She finds that her once peaceful agrarian world is overrun with corruption and graft.
    Her own family is wrapped up in a daily power play for control of the planet and its resources. 
    What was a nice family visit has become a trial of wills.
    What about the marriage they arranged for her? Oh Hell No! 
    This engineer now has to fight her own family to survive.
    A reckoning is approaching will she be ready for it?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreat God Pan Publishing, Inc
    Release dateOct 23, 2018
    Revolutionary
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    T S Paul

    I'm now into my second year as a published author. With over 25 works under my belt already my pace is relentless. Writing was never a goal of mine growing up. I really did fall into this accidentally. My wife and family knew of my love of books and urged me to try writing. It wasn't until an author i befriended gave me a short push off a long pier that i really gave it a go. And what a go that was! Athena Lee and Agatha Blackmore have given way to over 50 short stories. I write a lot. The future is in books and I'm in it for the long haul. Keep your eyes peeled for New and exciting things coming from me this year. I'm Excited, are you? This year i have expanded into the wonderful world of Cookbooks. I changed careers in the early 2000s switching from Retail management at Waldenbooks and going to Culinary School at L'Ecole Culinaire-Saint Louis in Missouri. Graduating near the very top of my class i moved on to work at the Renaissance Grand Hotel for my internship and later Masterpiece BBQ in Chesterfield, Mo as kitchen Manager. My co-writer and partner in crime for the current Tie-in cookbooks is Taki Drake. She is both an fiction writer and recipe hoarder like myself. Expect to see much more from her in the near future as she will be writing inside my Federal Witch Universe. Recently I allied myself with Phoenix Prime. Late in 2016 a group of authors entered into the Phoenix Prime writers course sponsored initially by the 20books to 50k Facebook group, of which i am a original member. I was involved with the group from it's inception and its sole admin moderator for half a year. Writer, Psychologist, and Computer security specialist extraordinaire Kat Lind chose to teach the class. Several other Authors were asked to mentor and teach special classes. I was honored to be asked to do some of that. The Group is made up of over 30 authors across all Genres. Many are just starting their publishing careers and i expect greatness from them. Keep your eyes peeled for New and exciting things coming from me this year. I'm Excited, are you? Check in at my Website for more information and Free stuff https://tspaul.blogspot.com/ For Coffee Mugs, T-Shirts, Tote Bags, and a whole lot More http://phoenixprimerising.com Born a Witch Drafted by the FBI! Conjuring Quantico Magical Probi Special Agent in Charge Witness Enchantment Night of the Unicorn Invisible Elder - TBD Blood on the Moon - TBD Child of Darkness -TBD A Draft of Dragons -TBD Cat’s Night Out, Tails from the Federal Witch Audio Coming Soon Darkness Revealed Standard of Honor Series Shade of Honor Coven Codex -TBD A confluence of Covens -TBD Conflict of Commitments -TBD Standard of Honor -TBD Cookbooks From the Federal Witch Universe Marcella’s Garden Cookbook Fergus Favorites Cookbook Marcella's Summer Bounty Cookbook - Coming Soon Marcella's Autumn Harvest Cookbook Athena Lee Chronicles The Forgotten Engineer Engineering Murder Ghost ships of Terra Revolutionary Insurrection Imperial Subversion The Martian Inheritance Infiltration Prelude to War War to the Knife Ghosts of Noodlemass Past Athena Lee Universe Shades of Learning Space Cadets - Coming Soon Short Story Collections Wilson’s War A Colony of CATTs Box Sets Chronicles of Athena Lee - Books 1-3 Chronicles of Athena Lee - Books 4-6 Chronicles of Athena Lee - Books 7-9 plus the prequel The Federal Witch: The Collected Works, Book 1 The Federal Witch: The Collected Works, Book 2 Standalone or tie-ins The Tide: The Multiverse Wave The Lost Pilot Uncommon Life Kutherian Gambit Alpha Class. The Etheric Academy book 1 Alpha Class The Etheric Academy Book 2 Anthology's Phoenix Galactic The Expanding Universe Book 2 Cupid’s Bow Mysterious Hearts Haunted Hearts Non-Fiction Get that Sh@t off your Cover!

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      Revolutionary - T S Paul

      Revolutionary

      T S Paul

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Legal Stuff

      Dedications

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Athena and Wilson will return in Insurrection!

      Author - T.S. Paul

      Legal Stuff

      This book is a work of fiction, All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Sometimes both.

      Copyright © 2017 T S Paul

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

      The phrases ©Badger Hole Bar and Badger Hole Bar Universe are creations and property of Author Taki Drake and are used here with her permission.

      Cover designed by Heather Hamilton Senter

      Great Big Thanks to :

      Developmental Editing by Diane Velasquez and Dorene Johnson AKA the (real) D’s.

      Final Editing by Kat Lind, The Dragon Lady

      Dedications

      Special thanks to my wife Heather who keeps me grounded and to Merlin the Cat, we are his minions and to all the members of Phoenix prime.

      Chapter 1

      What a crazy year this has been!

      First, I get rescued from my long exile on a distant hunk of rock. Then I get arrested and tortured for accidentally killing an idiot who can’t follow orders. Assassins and bounty hunters chase me across half the known galaxy only to miss and not kill me. Then to top all of it off, we find one of the original lost colonies and are attacked by pirates. Killing the pirates was easy compared to what I had to do to save myself from boredom.

      For the first time in over fifteen years, I will see the green and blue features of the planet Hong Kong. I’ve dreamed about running through the lush green grasses and hiding in its dark forests such as when I was a child. I have very fond childhood memories of exploring our world and its many wonders. Growing up in a planetary militia family could be very hard on a child. My family was all about tradition, and regimented structure.

      Children are required to join the military. Our whole lives we’d heard about our family and our traditions. My grandparents were among the first to set foot on this world. They became planetary leaders and set forth the framework that Hong Kong citizens live by today. That fact was daunting to hear from a child’s point of view. So much to live up to.

      Hong Kong was first settled by Chinese refugees fleeing from religious persecution by the reigning government of the time. It is where our plant’s name originated. A historical free state once separate but still culturally the same. Or at least that was the initial idea. Additional settlers from a place called Canada brought more people.

      The Canadians were a strange people who brought with them foods and sports that made little sense. These people were also fleeing persecution. They were the last holdouts of an area of free thinkers. People who stood their ground and took their own responsibilities seriously.

      Back on Earth, the government was becoming all encompassing. Free thinkers and loners all, they were being chased out of their own country or imprisoned. The colony began to take shape and prosper.

      A third group, quite by accident, settled the island regions of our planet. It was almost funny how that happened. As my friend Wilson likes to say they missed the turn at Albuquerque, wherever that is. Their colony ship had a navigational error. They had gotten lost and thought that THIS planet was the one they were looking for. Imagine my grandparents surprise to discover a brand-new colony that appeared overnight. The Greeks, being stubborn, refused to leave. When they grounded their ship, became a moot point. So now we had a Greek, Canadian, and Chinese settlement. Talk about a melting pot of culture. It might be a little strange, but it worked.

      Three peoples came together to make a new world culture that values personal achievement and industry. Make yourself more than you are. This concept was drummed into me as a child. Be self-sufficient, learn as much as you can. Be the best person that you are able. These were all the lessons I took away with me. Now I have come home.

      <<<>>>

      The EOH James Cook was one of the Navy’s newest heavy cruisers. The Nelson class cruiser was heavily armored and armed with multiple torpedoes and powerful laser batteries. The cruiser had formidable point defense and carried a small squadron of elite fighters. We were a fighting ship and proud of it. Our battle record was just beginning. The victory over the O’Malley Clan pirates had put the name of this ship on the lips of everyone in three sectors. That was only overshadowed by our discovery of one of the Ghost ships and the colony it had founded.

      As the temporary Chief Engineer, I was in charge of the repairs on our ship. The recent battle had damaged several areas that our repair teams were unable to complete themselves. Internally, we were incorporating new bulkhead designs into the repairs that we were doing. Since I had been on the design team for the bulkheads, I knew the ins and outs of how they would work. Visually there was little change. Our new orders had directed us to Hong Kong station Alpha and the nearby Fleet Logistics, Equipment, Acquisitions, and the Science group. Or FLEAS as we called them in the navy. It was here that the Navy would evaluate both my hydroponics advancement and the autonomous drones that I created.

      Only I called them drones. Everyone else called them droids. Human culture is one in which some concepts just refuse to die. Especially certain vids or movies as the ancestors called them. Wilson simply loved the droids. It gave him a way to move about the ship without anyone becoming the wiser. He still gets into trouble. In some ways, it is nice because I can blame the droid and not look like a complete idiot to the crew. A good example of this would be last night.

      As I was about to open the door to my quarters, my neighbor, Lt. Morgan stopped me. Athena, I think you may have left an entertainment cube or something on in your quarters. I have been hearing music coming from in there all evening.

      You have? Hmm. I don’t remember leaving anything on. I’ll check. Sorry if it disturbed you. This puzzled me since I don’t have an entertainment console in there. I sort of used it for a ‘project.’

      No, no worries Athena. I could just hear the faint music. Have a good rest, he smiled and continued down the passageway.

      Morgan was always flirting and hinting at things between Dar and myself. He and the other officers knew about Dar and I. While we were not a ‘couple,’ we were still dating but keeping things very light. They respected that fact enough not to push. Speaking of Dar, she was the reason I was getting home so late. The Marine lieutenant had taken over my training in hand-to-hand combat, weapons, and tactics. As my Training Officer, she had a free license to beat me up on a regular basis. We were using the training that my family had given me as a foundation, Dar was improving my skills. I was an engineer, not a Marine, so our skill sets were different. I focused on defense and evasion. My recent experiences with assassins and bounty hunters had shown me that Tai Chi was not going to be enough.

      In my childhood, I had learned Krav Maga and Muay Thai. The Navy teaches a basic course at the academy that is a combination of boxing, karate, and Krav Maga. I had excelled at that. Fifteen years alone had boosted my Tai Chi, but not my defensive forms. That was my major problem. Dar was trained in Krav Maga, Muay Thai kickboxing, T’ai chi ch’uan, and some others that I could not even begin to pronounce much less understand. It was the T’ai chi ch’uan that we were concentrating on. This was a martial arts form of my more familiar Tai Chi. Dar had been trained in the Yang style which was the easiest of the five major styles. This while complicated was easier for me to understand, it gave me a good workout. I was used to Tai Chi being slow and meditative, this was fast and aggressive. At least the ship has good doctors, we may need them.

      As I keyed in my room code, I could hear the music. There was a rhythmic thumping emanating from my quarters. As the door opened, I was greeted by flashing red lights and waves of color and sound. Wilson! Wilson! What in the hell are you doing in here! I yelled at him. Wilson was in my head as he was a computer AI. Me just yelling made me feel more effective. Moving across the floor doing a bump and grind, were my two prototype droids. Wilson had set up disco lights using parts and equipment he found here and there.

      Hey, is that my new control panel for Engineering? We have been looking all over for that thing! The panel in question had become a strobe light and was painting the room with red and white flashes. Now the droids were spinning in circles to the music and waving their repair arms in the air. I reached over the panel of lights and threw the main power switch. Everything died. Even the emergency lights, they had been subverted and were now spotlights. Using the flashlight that I keep by the door I lit up the room. The droids had stopped moving and were now ‘watching’ me. Wilson, get out of those droids and talk to me, right now!

      "You know that

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