Stories of the Orphan Corps Series (1-3) by Earl T. Roske
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Overview: Earl T. Roske is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and playwright. His stories have appeared in a variety of genre magazines and anthologies. His plays have appeared in festivals around the world.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
#1 – Rescue on Gimhae
Aid. Comfort. Defend.
There is no love lost between the Radial Marines and the Hospitaller Orphan Corps. So, when Sergeant Seavers learns a platoon of Marines will be tagging along for the drop down to the surface of Gimhae, he’s certain this will doom his chances at officer candidate training.
As if that wasn’t enough for one mission, the colonists on Gimhae are acting skittish and uncharacteristically rude. Sgt Seavers isn’t used to this kind of behavior. Not from people his team of Hospitallers has come to save from the terraflu.
Something’s amiss. Sgt Seavers can feel it. And it may have something to do with the smuggler ships hiding over the next hill.
#2 – Deceit on Panchala
“MSgt Hamdi, you’re too clever to let the galaxy have.”
Msgt Hamdi was at the end of her second enlistment. Signing the next should have been easy. What was stopping her? Hamdi needed time to think, and overseeing a ceasefire with Acre company should have given her the time she needed.
Nothing is ever easy in a war zone.
The locals are unusually suspicious. It’s not until Hamdi and a squad of Hospitallers finds a friendly face in a cafe that things begin to look up.
There is no certainty in war.
When a mortar attack destroys the cafe, killing adults and children, things look even grimmer. Now, with both sides of the conflict blaming the other, Hamdi and Acre company have their work cut out for them. They have 24 hours to discover the perpetrators or the war resumes and more people will die.
External and internal struggles tug at Hamdi from all sides. Can she find the killers? Can she find an answer to her own dilemma?
#3 – Standoff on Oulu
VetTech Pagnotto is about to find out if he has what it takes to be a Hospitaller.
Oulu is Pagnotto’s first mission off Hephaestia as a Wutenigel handler. He and the Wutenigel he’s named Thumb have come with Ascalon company to Oulu as a supernumerary. Thumb can identify and name every scent it encounters. With Pagnotto and Thumb as part of Ascalon company, the Hospitallers hope to find the source of recent terrorist-style bombings.
An attack on a Texarkanian community pulls the Hospitallers deeper into the global conflict. Uncovering secrets puts the entire company at risk of total annihilation.
Can Pagnotto and Thumb survive long enough to do their part in the mission? Can they survive a world seemingly hell-bent on their destruction?
#4 – Counter Offensive on Arda
Aid and comfort was the mission. Now, it’s all about survival.
Arda was supposed to be a vacation in terms of missions. But when Capt Morris learns the Garnier will be out of system for five days, she loses that vacation feeling.
Morris wouldn’t normally pack rapid response vehicles, shoulder rockets, and a cargo hold full of ammo to rebuild a town on a peaceful planet.
But the mission no longer feels normal.
Aid and comfort turn to defense as the Hospitallers are attacked again and again by unknown forces. When one of them is captured, Morris learns her paranoid packing wasn’t enough.
#5 – Defiance on Vargo
How many must die to keep an ancient secret buried?
Padilla thought that rescuing civilians from a derelict ship was all he and the crew of the Zlotterie would have to do. After all, providing aid and comfort were two of the most important things the Hospitallers did.
No good deed goes unpunished.
An accident in space puts Padilla at odds with an aggressive planetary government. To live, he’ll have to defy them. To survive he’ll have to outlast everything they throw at him.
The bad news just gets worse.
Now, not only does Padilla have to keep the civilians safe, he has to keep as many of his hospitallers alive as possible. Oh, and if he can keep himself from dying in the process, that would be nice, too.
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