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  “I need carriers, cruisers, battleships, Marine divisions—everything I was promised.”

  “You told us you could take the Alliance with the resources you had,” Burns reminded him. “I’m afraid you may have to prove that.”

  “I can,” the Fleet Admiral said flatly, yanking gently on his long black braid. “But it will take time. Years, not months.”

  “You will have it,” the Senator told him. “And more ships as I can scrape them up. We both know how this ends, James. Unification is inevitable.”

  “It is,” Walkingstick agreed with a sigh. “Let me know final numbers on what I’ll be getting as soon as you can. We’ll work with it.”

  A few more pleasantries and the channel closed. Walkingstick stalked across his office, studying his strategic plot.

  He was certain the Tau Ceti Raid had been an Alliance operation—and he knew Burns agreed with him. They’d been too clean, too precise. Too self-sacrificing, not something he would expect of mercenaries like the condottieri.

  In one move, they’d cut the force he’d planned to crush their systems with in half. He would adapt. That was what he did.

  The answers often lay in what one’s enemies had already done, and his gaze settled on the rimward side of the Alliance, the scattered systems where Castle and Coral still politely struggled for economic and political dominance among systems that hadn’t been worth recruiting for the Alliance.

  “Jessica,” he raised his senior aide on his implant. “Get me…Commodore Tecumseh. And see if you can dig up which ships here in Niagara are fully fueled and supplied for long-term operations before he gets here.

  “I have a job more suited for the good Commodore’s talents than logistics.”

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  Other books by Glynn Stewart

  Castle Federation

  Space Carrier Avalon

  Stellar Fox

  Battle Group Avalon

  Q-Ship Chameleon

  Rimward Stars(upcoming, see www.faolanspen.com for latest estimated launch date)

  Starship’s Mage

  Starship’s Mage: Omnibus

  Hand of Mars

  Voice of Mars

  Alien Arcana

  Judgment of Mars (upcoming, see www.faolanspen.com for latest estimated launch date)

  Duchy of Terra

  The Terran Privateer

  Duchess of Terra (upcoming, see www.faolanspen.com for latest estimated launch date)

  ONSET

  ONSET: To Serve and Protect (upcoming, see www.faolanspen.com for latest estimated launch date)

  Stand Alone Novels

  Children of Prophecy

  City in the Sky

  Table of Contents

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Chapter 40

  Chapter 41

  Chapter 42

  Chapter 43

  Chapter 44

  Chapter 45