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    Kaon Rising: Star Traveler, #1
    Kaon Rising: Star Traveler, #1
    Kaon Rising: Star Traveler, #1
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    Kaon Rising: Star Traveler, #1

    By Jonathan J Snyder

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    Humans have never shirked away from a challenge and as such, the Earth Alliance had colonized a lot of space. Though not quite welcomed by other races, humanity carved it's empire out of the stars and were ready to keep it until they came.It started with an outer colony but the threat of annihilation was only a few jumps away. In response, Captain Sinclair Barrett has been instructed to take a ship into unexplored space to find the thought to be extinct threat and discover its true intentions.

    With a ragtag team, Captain Barrett has everything stacked against him and a clock ticking down.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEpic Worlds
    Release dateApr 20, 2023
    ISBN9781370797936
    Kaon Rising: Star Traveler, #1
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    Jonathan J Snyder

    From the heights of the caffeine high to the lows of floors and under furniture comes the tales of Jonathan Snyder. These good stories are forged with love and obsession, destined to keep the author from going insane. Supported on his quest by a beautiful princess who became his wife and two fierce warrior children who remind daddy that there is the world to take on.

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      Kaon Rising - Jonathan J Snyder

      Chapter 1

      Odyssey station loomed ahead in the blackness of space. It hung amid the stars and void as an achievement of human expansion. The station was a massive construction of interlinking rings posed at different angles around its spherical core though, to many observers, it appeared as if three spheres attempted to merge but failed spectacularly. The design was distinctly non-human but that made sense since they did not build it.

      Several hundred thousand kilometers away, glowing like an octagon missing segments in the center bars was the entire reason the fledgling race had even bothered re-purposing it. Odyssey station was perfectly positioned at one of the four major nodes of the Star Traveler Network.

      Captain Barrett stood on the bridge of the fast courier vessel Deluge as it approached at an angle to the behemoth of alien metal. It had been a few hours since coming out of faster-than-light travel. The fusion sub-light drives were pushing the small, ungainly vessel along its approved approach vector. The gravity well created by the massive station was enough to pull on the hapless vessel so they had to fall gracefully toward it. 

      Already Sinclair could see the giant hull of the Agamemnon floating in a defensive position above the station. The massive dreadnought was long and made of obtuse angles, its armor-plated skin displaying the four spine-mounted energy cannons, racks of shadow hawk missile launchers, and x-ray lasers as a reminder that humans controlled this port. A few other vessels were floating about waiting for clearance dwarfed under the shadow of the behemoth.

      "Deluge, this is station control. Please transmit your authorization code before beginning the secondary approach." the voice buzzed over the ship’s comm array. They had gotten close enough that the delay between the station and the ship was almost negligible.

      "Station control, this is Deluge, beginning transmission now." The courier’s master responded after pressing a crystal switch on his wrist. The two men stood on the bridge of the vessel, their holographic displays hovering around them, his command seat a few steps behind the two.

      As the navigation officer took over talking to the station the courier Captain glanced at his passenger with unbidden curiosity. His own ill-kept uniform looked odd next to Barnett's precision green. The courier captain scratched at his beard idly trying to think of something to say to the silent officer.

      Been to Odyssey before? he asked chewing on a chunk of what Sinclair hoped was tobacco.

      A long time ago.

      Captain Barrett kept his eyes on the Agamemnon as they glided near her to then angle down towards one of the ports.

      New assignment?

      You could say that.

      Gonna be here long?

      Quite possibly.

      It was obvious to anyone watching that the conversation was going nowhere so the civilian captain gave up and went back to lazily watching his crew. Sooner, they docked, the sooner Sinclair could get on with his task.

      THE BRIG WAS NOT THE typical first tourist top on the Odyssey, but Captain Barrett was not visiting. Most of the station's crew ignored him as he descended into the bowels of the station's structure. There was a moment when the heavily armed security was not about to let Sinclair pass but one look at his ID fixed that problem fast.  

      Having a seat in Brig CO's office, Barrett had a distinct impression it used to be a walk-in closet. There was barely enough room for the desk that was pushed up to the wall let alone the chair he was presently sitting in. Sinclair began to crack a knuckle, the sound ricocheting off the wall like a gunshot. By the fourth finger, the door to the closet hissed open. A Lieutenant Colonel of the Terran Exo-Marine Corps rushed in adjusting his

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