Kindle Notes & Highlights
Native special service soldiers, known as the Frogmen of Gliese, have changed their tactics. They rig explosive devices in random locations within our control and have killed sentinels each day. We’ve occupied and conquered various rogue worlds over the last eighteen hundred years, but Gliese was the first to utilize such duplicitous tactics.
No one has used random terror bombing of their outposts, patrol routes, and areas of occupation in 1800 years? Bullshit.
The captain asserted, “If you try to resist us, my crew will shoot you and leave your dead body in the spaceport. Don’t test us. We’ve done it hundreds of times before.”
Then why bother to vaccinate them earlier?
Force Command
How many Force Commands do they have?
hard hats,
Why bother with safety equipment for slaves?
You can watch one hundred professional games and only see one successful toss into the top ring.
That's how they'll win
Gliese
You're on Galma
The last location placed the vessels outside our satellite observation grid that connected every free, outer, and rogue world in occupied space.
Competing governments that war on each other have a shared observation network?
They couldn’t hope to win with such odds.
They're always fighting to the death and losing so how are they still a power?
If those ships killed any Free Worlds citizens, they’d be violating the Free Worlds’ Relations Policy.
No one really seems to care about that policy
Time seemed to slow down, and the echoing shriek started as just a whisper then grew into a deafening blast of noise.
How? Sound can't travel in a vacuum
One or two of the aggressing soldiers’ heads exploded after well-placed shots by the defenders in the lobby, but more of us were dying.
Why don't they throw grenades over the moving wall?
Colonel Hanifin rubbed her ear. “Yes. General Ebben wants you before a panel inside our embassy bubble. Stavish, Belitz, and Nasby demand to hear what you have to say, though, for them, it’s more about the personas surrounding you and her.”
That's incredibly fast
I took another sip. “I’ve pondered that same question. They’ve thrived on misdirection and deception since the civil war. The Silent Lion is one of the most dangerous inside the five walls, in my opinion. He started all this by giving bad intel to the Dolrinions and Federates about Gliese, but why?”
Since their military has declined they want to get the other powers fighting each other so they're all weakened to even the playing field if not an outright advantage.
