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“There is no ‘A’ anywhere in your school grades either, Joe, yet here you are in command of a starship. Thus proving that life is not only not fair, it also makes no sense at all.”
Join UN ExForce, I thought. See the galaxy, meet new people, and nuke them!
That drew alarmed looks from the crew, proving once again that I am an
That is how pathetic my life had become; I looked forward to telling my story to a computer. It made me feel like a little boy running home to tell Mommy about his day at school.
“One way for you to feel better, Joe, is to avoid asking questions where the answers might upset you,” he suggested helpfully. “A captain is supposed to know what is going on aboard his ship,” I clenched my teeth. Sometimes I wanted to strangle him.
was only much later we realized that giving the Jeraptha a warning about the attack was a terrible, awful, no good idea.
A strong commander would have been quietly calm, and focused on resolving the problem rather than assigning blame.
Because I had learned that bad news does not improve with age,
understanding the theory behind how something works is only the first step.
“Don’t bother him with facts, he’s on a roll,” I whispered back.
If you know where the enemy is, his first tactical training instructor had told him, you can hit them.
“Joe, I am confident that in the entire history of the universe, no one has ever thought about that before.”
“The beer can has a point,” Lt. Williams muttered. “Jesus. I never thought those words would come out of my mouth. Where did my life go wrong?”
“You’re the commander,” Poole reminded me. “Command, Sir, command.” I knew what she meant; trust my people and stay out of their way. It sucked.
In Merry Band of Pirates slang, to ‘Bishop’ something meant to use the most horribly complicated
“We parachuted into an alien city, dropped missiles off a roof, fell down an elevator shaft, played cop, stole a lorry, got flushed down a sewer and then chased up a tree by a monster.
Kristang being Kristang and Skippy being Skippy. And me being stupid.
