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Angh
The cadets swarmed the grounds below like an army of insects. I stood next to the Academy training commander and watched the activity from an observation deck. On the rocky terrain below was a mock battlefield eerily similar to the ground I’d fought for on Latiri 4, before we lost it to the Hive. Before I lost everything to the Hive.
Battlegroup Karter had been forced to retreat from the planet, and its twin, Latiri 7, when the strange new Hive weapon had been deployed. With Commander Phan, we’d managed to save the battlegroup, and I’d read reports that my old shipmates were steadily gaining ground in the sector once again. Most of that gain was due to the skills and talents of Commander Phan from Earth, and the strange Hive implant in her head.
We’d been the only two who could
