Starship Defender: Beyond Human Space

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by Michael Keats


  Perhaps they were right.

  I scratched my three-day beard with one hand and felt my bony knuckles. Wait – since when did I have bony knuckles?

  Never mind. I knew what to do. I had the alien core, I had the Defender, and I had one last chance to impress a bunch of racist aliens.

  I ran into the great cabin and looked for the alien core that I’d stolen. I connected it to the Defender. The device prompted me to place my finger in its reader. Surprisingly, it worked. My genes had become Frateran enough to activate their technology.

  The Defender began downloading the entire library of Frateran knowledge.

  I was just like the refugees: neither human nor Frateran. I stood back up and noticed the surgeon by the door. He bowed and brought the tips of his fingers to his forehead, then to his navel, a gesture that I’d seen him do to many of his comrades in the past. For some reason, I returned it. I was turning into an icky alien anyway, so I could start acting like them.

  I now had a crew and the Earth’s top scientists working for me. We were ready to conquer the stars and to fight whomever decided to attack Earth.

  “I knew it!” Harry walked through everyone by the door and pointed an accusatory finger at me. “I knew you were one of them. You can even use their tech!”

  I had a crew, I had a ship, I had scientists, and I had a drinking AI with empathy issues working for me. I was unstoppable.

  When was our next battle?

  Contents

  Starship Defender

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Chapter 40

  Chapter 41

  Chapter 42

  Chapter 43

  Chapter 44

  Chapter 45

  Chapter 46

  Chapter 47

  Chapter 48

  Chapter 49

  Chapter 50

  Chapter 51

  Chapter 52

  Chapter 53

  Chapter 54

  Contents

  Copyright and Disclaimers

  Copyright© 2016 Michael Keats. All rights reserved.

  This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. You are not allowed to distribute, store, transmit, copy, modify, or create derivative works of this book, in any form or by any means, without the prior explicit written permission from the author. You may only quote short excerpts with the purpose of writing a review.

  This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and events are either a product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real persons, events, or places is purely coincidental.

 

 

 


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