"Commodore Oriakova has already voiced her disappointment in you not being promoted to Commander." He smiled. "That will happen soon enough. As soon as there are more than just one Combat-Bricks, your quick raise in ranks will be unavoidable. But right now, you don't need a higher rank than the one you have. Do you understand that?"
It was always like he was pampering me or something. "Sir, let me be clear on this: My rank does not really mean much to me, now that I have my own command. Commander or Lieutenant, the Commodore will still order me around and that's as it should be."
He nodded. "Very good. As soon as a Commander-position become needed in the Defense Navy, ..."
I was nodding myself now. "I know. Being Prime Lieutenant I will be first in line for the promotion."
The Supreme Admiral got up. "Now get back to Quarry, contact Commodore Oriakova and get your orders. We all have a lot of work to do." I got up and we shook hands. There was a lot to do indeed! But we would be missing all of it, flying around the system looking for anything out of the ordinary. I was actually looking forward to a couple of calm moments to allow myself and the crew to grief properly. The cost of that first attack had indeed, as had been prophesied, been terrible.
End of book 4.
More adventures of Xandrian will come in the next short-book, Xandrian Stone Book 5: The Battle at Eden 3-1.
Thank you for reading this short-book, dear reader. Especially as the story just got a lot darker and less naive. I hope that you had as much fun reading it as I had writing it. More are coming!
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Yours humbly,
Christian A. Breitenstein
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