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Space Force Grunts : A Science Fiction Adventure, Second, Revised Edition

Ingo Potsch

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Ingo Potsch

Date: 2015, Volume: Second, Revised Edition

Book Id: WPLBN0003972039

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Subjects: Science Fiction, Advenure, Future

Collections: Marketing, Social Psychology, Political Sociology, Business Management, Military Science, Technology, Leadership, Literature, Recreation, Fine Arts, Management, Naval Science, Military Technology, Political Science, Organic Chemistry, Astronomy, Finance, Geography, History, Economy, Medicine, Industrial Technology, Information and Communication, Electromagnetism, Ophthalmology, Environmental Economics, Biology, Chemistry, Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection, Authors Community, Science Fiction

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Space Force Grunts (Second, Revised Edition) tells the story of soldiers conscripted to defend the Human Alliance, a civilisation that has spread over thousands of worlds after the invention of hyperspace flight. They are fighting an enemy they don't understand in a war they did not choose. Space Grunts is told mainly from the perspective of the rank and file of the Human Alliance ground forces, who face an eminent foe, commanding over far superior means. Space Force Grunts tells about the feelings and thoughts of these soldiers, reports their talks and the trials and tribulations they have to go through, as well as the little pranks they play to each other and their superiors. - See more at: http://gutenberg.us/wplbn0003468521-space-force-grunts--a-science-fiction-novel-by-potsch-ingo.aspx?#sthash.GxmYw9Wd.dpuf...

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Base 18 on Planet DN-DU-144/5 was a place that could only be found on detailed military maps. This planet was circling a sun situated at the border between our Local Bubble of stars in the Milky Way and the much bigger Loop 1 Bubble, another assembly of suns and planets. DN-DU-144/5 was the fifth planet in outward direction, when counted from the local star as centre. Base 18 now consisted of a dozen bunkers, a few deep wells and a couple of cisterns appendant to them, a makeshift front-line spa, and most importantly a maintenance station for fighter robots and combat drones. Base 18 on planet DN-DU-144/5 was in principle a bleak place. Though at that moment it was officially day-time at the location of base 18, there was actually just a little twilight. The far sun, going by the less-than-poetic name of DN-DU-144, illuminated only the abundant clouds enfolding the planet decently. Little light ever made it through to the surface. ‘I just love it’ Master Sergeant Koon had sarcastically said when arriving at this place, together with all the other soldiers of the 5th company. They had taken this base over from a unit that had suffe...

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