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"Best Served Cold"
It's about revenge.
Revenge. Getting even. Fighting back. Whatever it’s called, it’s supposed to warrant two graves – or at least, that’s how one old saying went.
Just as Earth finally began to thrive again in the decades following a devastating global nuclear war, and to reap the rewards of growing interplanetary colonization, an even bigger threat than nuclear devastation arrived on their doorstep – an alien foe that didn’t communicate, didn’t negotiate and seemed absolutely intent on taking the entire solar system for itself.
The only way forward for the war-weary people of Earth, Mars and Luna was to beat their plough-shares back into swords and fight for their survival. In spite of the aliens technological and military superiority, four long years later, a surprisingly fragile stalemate persisted - with each side waiting for the other to make the one fatal mistake that would tip the balance in their favor. Sooner or later, the war would end… one way – or the other.
For Alex Nikolls, a combat pilot in the thick of daily fighting in the blackness of space, it couldn’t come soon enough.
To Francis Talon, Commander In Chief of a strike force intended to bring the aliens to their knees, victory represented the culmination of a journey of self-glorification and ambition leading all the way back to the L.A. mafia and the murder of Marian Mureau’s parents.
For Marian Mureau, it meant more than just the end of the war, it signified the end of a life-long quest for revenge – one that might result in her own demise - and even in the annihilation of the entire human race!
It's about revenge.
Revenge. Getting even. Fighting back. Whatever it’s called, it’s supposed to warrant two graves – or at least, that’s how one old saying went.
Just as Earth finally began to thrive again in the decades following a devastating global nuclear war, and to reap the rewards of growing interplanetary colonization, an even bigger threat than nuclear devastation arrived on their doorstep – an alien foe that didn’t communicate, didn’t negotiate and seemed absolutely intent on taking the entire solar system for itself.
The only way forward for the war-weary people of Earth, Mars and Luna was to beat their plough-shares back into swords and fight for their survival. In spite of the aliens technological and military superiority, four long years later, a surprisingly fragile stalemate persisted - with each side waiting for the other to make the one fatal mistake that would tip the balance in their favor. Sooner or later, the war would end… one way – or the other.
For Alex Nikolls, a combat pilot in the thick of daily fighting in the blackness of space, it couldn’t come soon enough.
To Francis Talon, Commander In Chief of a strike force intended to bring the aliens to their knees, victory represented the culmination of a journey of self-glorification and ambition leading all the way back to the L.A. mafia and the murder of Marian Mureau’s parents.
For Marian Mureau, it meant more than just the end of the war, it signified the end of a life-long quest for revenge – one that might result in her own demise - and even in the annihilation of the entire human race!
