{"id":10119,"date":"2015-11-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2015-10-29T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:57:16","slug":"heart-of-the-nebula-excerpt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/heart-of-the-nebula-excerpt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart of the Nebula \u2014 excerpt 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLieutenant McCoy,\u201d said Fleet Commander Maxwell, his jowled cheeks red with anger. \u201cWhat possessed you to disregard my orders?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cSir,\u201d said James, trying very hard to keep his temper. \u201cThe conditions in the field\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo hell with the conditions!\u201d shouted the commander. \u201cI can\u2019t have trigger-happy gunboat captains ignoring direct orders. Thanks to your antics, we\u2019ve already exceeded our requisitioned fuel allotment. And what if those ships were civilian transports instead of pirates?\u201d<\/p>\n

Then they wouldn\u2019t have attacked us, you empty-headed fool.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI did what I felt I had to, sir,\u201d said James, struggling to keep his voice low. \u201cIf we hadn\u2019t moved to intercept them when we did, they would have easily breached our formation and attacked the convoy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commander Maxwell pursed his lips and narrowed his eyes. His uniform fit him poorly, the buttons nearly bursting around his oversized stomach. Like most of the superior officers, he had been a prominent business-man before joining the corps. His training had come from books and seminars, not from real-life military experience. <\/p>\n

Not like James.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect my subordinate officers to be team players, Lieutenant,\u201d Commander Maxwell continued. \u201cYou are not a team player. If you were an employee in my company, I\u2019d fire you at once.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all due respect, sir, the Civil Defense Corps is not a for-profit corporation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maxwell snorted in anger and drew himself up to his full height, which still came just below James\u2019s eye level. \u201cYou have a problem with authority, Lieutenant, and I can\u2019t allow it. Because of your insubordination, I have no choice but to send you to the brig until we put into port.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The lone wolf must now lead his people across the stars.<\/h2>\t\t\t
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To save his people from the Hameji, James must lead them on a desperate exodus across the stars. But with each decision, the line between protector and tyrant grows thinner. And in a galaxy full of predators, freedom is the first dream to die.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n

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They called him a lone wolf. Now, he must lead them across the stars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Five years have passed since the Hameji conquered James McCoy’s homeworld. The yoke of occupation has grown unbearable, and unless he can help his people throw it off, everything that he fought for will be destroyed.<\/p>\n

Light-years away, in the heart of the Good Hope Nebula, there is a place where they can start over. But the dangers are many, and the way is unclear. Only a strong leader can take them there.<\/p>\n

James once gave all that he had to save the ones he loved. To do so again, he must become the leader that his people need. But he’s never been more than a maverick, and even his friends fear he will trade their freedom for security and lose both.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLieutenant McCoy,\u201d said Fleet Commander Maxwell, his jowled cheeks red with anger. \u201cWhat possessed you to disregard my orders?\u201d \u201cSir,\u201d said James, trying very hard to keep his temper. \u201cThe conditions in the field\u2014\u201d \u201cTo hell with the conditions!\u201d shouted the commander. \u201cI can\u2019t have trigger-happy gunboat captains ignoring direct orders. Thanks to your antics,… Continue reading Heart of the Nebula \u2014 excerpt 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2Dd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10150,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions\/10150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}