Upon a Wake of Flame

Upon a Wake of Flame
Listen to the Saints

And watch these hard Lunen souls

The storm is coming

And they are happy here.

~Provost-Marshall (retired) Tussrish Shedrio, from

My Battles Aside the 10th Lunen Regiment: A Memoir.


 * Centuries ago, they fled the doomed Earth.

 The twelve remaining ships of their damaged flotilla stumbled  into the star system  HD 70642 and colonized the worlds they found there. Humanity’s last vestiges fought the elements and each other to survive. Out of terror and darkness, the Nar Exus Triumvirate was created, enforcing a fragile peace between the three largest planets.




 * Lunen, Cixca, and Werjegna. The remnants of mankind.


 * On the remote dwarf planet called Shastre, the people’s simple life along the rivers and in the mountains, unconcerned with the politics of the Triumvirate, has backslid into superstition and savagery.


 * The Triumvirate has responded to reports of genocide there by sending the 10th Lunen Regiment to restore order.

 Petty Officer Fiodek Berr is assigned to lead his squad across the last island of the Derry Atrus Atoll.

 Orksen Isle  is the final desperate holdout of the enemy forces to be  defeated before he and the rest of the 10th Lunen  Regiment  can land on the  beachhead of the Alseiry  P eninsula and complete the  Tri um virate’s  stabilization of Shastre.


 *   But the Lunen are only just becoming aware of the dark  force  that controls the Sh astreans, and the madness that drives  them  to kill every last Triumvirate soldier. And Berr and his  squad are abou t to find how deadly Shastre can be.


 * The short story was released in  August 2013 on  Amazon and Kobo in E-book format, and  is a prequel to the novel To Drown in Sand, coming out in November 2013.



Cast:
Third Squad:

Petty Officer Second Class Fiodek Berr: ‘Bear’.

Master Seaman Owiqued – (Pipes): ‘Howler’.

Master Seaman Edroit – (Rifleman).

Able Seaman Clurrid – (Rifleman).

Able Seaman Thuigrae – (Manta Operator/Heavy Gunner).

Able Seaman Yuekijae – (Medic): ‘Gauzer’.

Able Seaman Bavdemix – (Rifleman): ‘Badmix’.

Ordinary Seaman Bonfodighen - (Flamer).

Ordinary Seaman Kepeht - (Rifleman).

Ordinary Seaman Rokemigveuse – (Rifleman): ‘R-12’.

Ordinary Seaman Parls – (Rifleman).

Ordinary Seaman Tonmenny – (Rifleman).

Lieutenant Bob Griare.