{"id":10530,"date":"2016-05-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2016-05-03T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T19:30:20","slug":"captives-in-obscurity-excerpt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/captives-in-obscurity-excerpt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Captives in Obscurity \u2014 excerpt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWho is this?\u201d Gulchina asked in a loud voice as she surveyed her men.<\/p>\n

No one answered. The silence made Reva shiver.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is this man?\u201d Gulchina repeated, her voice booming.<\/p>\n

The second-in-command stepped forward, a stocky man with a thick black beard and a cybernetic eye implant. His only name, so far as Reva could tell, was Wolf. No one on the Temujin had ever referred to him by any other name.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis name is Corporal Sarnai, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t his birth name, of course. Gulchina gave a new name to everyone on her crew\u2014it was one of the many ways she controlled them. Which made it all the more disconcerting that she still called Reva by her own name.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is he here?\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though it was obvious that Gulchina had ordered the man\u2019s execution, she put on a damn convincing act. It was as if she had nothing to do with the brutality of the man\u2019s torture, and was only now learning of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe corporal was planning to betray us, sir. He had prepared an outrider shuttle and hidden a month\u2019s worth of provisions aboard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe planned to betray us?\u201d<\/p>\n

Gulchina\u2019s disbelief sounded absolutely genuine. Cognitively, Reva knew she was lying, but her act was so convincing that Reva felt as if she\u2019d stepped into a parallel universe.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, Captain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gulchina turned to the crowd. \u201cDo any of you know this man?\u201d<\/p>\n

A low rumble spread through the crew, but no one gave her an answer. Once again, Commander Wolf spoke up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all knew him, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWas he not your friend?\u201d Gulchina asked the room. \u201cDid you not share the same food? Breathe the same air? In battle, did you not fight alongside him?\u201d<\/p>\n

The crowd fell as silent as death. Reva\u2019s heart began to hammer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are, all of us, outcasts,\u201d Gulchina continued. \u201cHated by those who once loved us, hunted by those who now fear us. There is no civilized world that would welcome us, no far-flung outpost that would offer us refuge. Those who are not with us are against us, and those who will not join us are our enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n

She surveyed the room with a gaze stronger than steel. Reva hardly dared to breathe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a hard life we lead, here on the fringes of human space. But we are strong. We will prevail. It is the destiny of mankind to conquer the stars, to subdue the galaxy and all that may be found therein.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf all alive today who belong to the human race, we alone claim that destiny. We alone reach for it. The corrupt and decadent empires of the settled stars, the spineless obeisance of their planetborn subjects, and the weak-willed resistance of the so-called starfarers\u2014none of them claim their birthright. And what is that birthright? Our birthright?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stars!\u201d someone in the back of the room shouted.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d said Gulchina. \u201cAnd not just any stars: The unknown and unexplored, the billions upon billions that have yet to be visited by man. That is our birthright. That is our inheritance. For while we, as Columbus, venture into the vast unknown, like the legendary Cortes we, too, shall conquer!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Captives in Obscurity,<\/strong> book 5 in the\u00a0Sons of the Starfarers<\/strong> series,\u00a0will be available in ebook form on May 15th. Pre-order or find out more below:<\/p>\n

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Isaac and Reva are running out of time. Gulchina's cruelty knows no bounds, and on the edge of known space, no one can stop her. But an unexplored planet holds an ancient alien secret that may prove to be a game changer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n

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There is no escape beyond Star’s End.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The deadliest pirates in the galaxy have stolen the technology that will transform it. Now, on the edge of known space, they are poised to start an empire of their own.<\/p>\n

Isaac and Reva are running out of time. Neither of them knows the extent of Gulchina’s plans, or whether the madwoman will keep them both alive after she achieves them.<\/p>\n

But an unexplored planet beyond the Far Outworlds holds an ancient alien secret that not even Gulchina has uncovered. That secret will tip the balance in<\/p>\n

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Other Books in the \"Sons of the Starfarers\"<\/div>
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Friends in Command<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Patriots in Retreat<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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A Queen in Hiding<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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An Empire in Disarray<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Victors in Liberty<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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The Complete Sons of the Starfarers<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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\u201cWho is this?\u201d Gulchina asked in a loud voice as she surveyed her men. No one answered. The silence made Reva shiver. \u201cWho is this man?\u201d Gulchina repeated, her voice booming. The second-in-command stepped forward, a stocky man with a thick black beard and a cybernetic eye implant. His only name, so far as Reva… Continue reading Captives in Obscurity \u2014 excerpt 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[964,855],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-10530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssf-v","category-ssf","tag-excerpts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2JQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530","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=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10549,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions\/10549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}