“the voice called out, “Auberon is in position over the pole.”Jessica hadn’t been day–dreaming, just sitting back and letting her staff do their jobs. Now it was time for her to do hers.“Defense Centurion Vanek,” she said, voice shifting to a formal mode. This was, after all, going to end up before a Fleet Advocate at some point. Maybe it would be a formality. Maybe not.Nina turned and looked at her with a serious face. There had been an entire class at the Academy on Stellar Law that dealt with... situations exactly like this. Every one of them had passed it to make it this far in their careers. Jessica wanted to make sure that nobody else hung with her, if that was what would happen.“Sir?” Nina said.“Vanek, you have a firing solution for the experimental weapon. You will fire it into the planet’s atmosphere.”“Commander, I refuse to carry out that order,” Nina said, speaking as much for the gallery and the history books as for her friends and crewmates. “You are bombing unarmed civilians without provocation.”Jessica nodded.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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