Genesis Holy War – Rick Partlow

Words like “most” and “theoretically” worried the hell out of Ryan. Kusama double-checked his rig and he did the same for her, showing there were no hard feelings about her questioning his order or him dressing her down for it. Her gear was squared away as usual, which was something he appreciated about her as a Marine.

Too many of them figured they were so much better armed and better supported than the insurgents and pirates and raiders they fought that they could get away with being sloppy. It offended Ryan’s sensibilities and was one of the few things that could bring out the nascent drill sergeant in him.

Packard kept trying to get him to transfer to a boot camp job, telling him he’d be a good DI, but Ryan hadn’t joined the Corps to scream at teenagers. Once he and Corporal Kusama had checked their load-out, Ryan yanked his M67 around on its retractable sling and yanked the magazine out from its home behind the pistol grip. He examined the feed lips with a critical eye, then tapped the bottom with the heel of his hand and smacked the back against his helmet to seat the 10mm caseless cartridges in the polymer mag.

Well, that was what he told himself, anyway. If he was being honest, it was a ritual, a superstition. Every man and woman who’d gone into battle for the last twenty thousand years had their own superstition, or so Captain Whistler, his company commander, had told him. The mag smacked home in the well and he chambered a round, then double-checked to make sure his safety was on before racking back the action of the under-barrel grenade launcher. It was empty because you didn’t load the Thumper up until you were ready to get out of the bird.

All it took was one thumb-fingered numbskull to clock off a frag round inside the lander and they’d take out half a dozen people. He didn’t load frag, and he fought off an urge to load up a high-explosive, dual-purpose round as well. He trusted himself not to misuse it, but when he gave the squad an order, he had to follow it himself. That was one of those leadership development things they’d taught him in NCO school.

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Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead is coincidental. All rights reserved. OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Also in the Series Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Interlude: Tahn-Skyyiah Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Epilogue Thank you for reading Genesis More In Sci-Fi ABOUT Rick Partlow OceanofPDF.com ALSO IN THE SERIES GENESIS JUDGMENT DAY REVELATION OceanofPDF.com “I PROLOGUE hate this part,” Crews murmured, staring at the screen.

If there’d been anything approaching Earth-normal gravity, he would have been leaning against the console, chin resting on his fist to peer as close as he could at the remote view of the bomb implantation. Free fall removed even that comfortable familiarity, reducing him to floating helplessly against his loosened seat restraints, a bug trapped in a web, watching the spider’s approach. “Which part, Jeremy?” the pudgy, balding man beside him wondered, his smile churlish.

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