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The Cadet’s Officer
Copyright © 2009 Mark Alders
Cover art by Martine Jardin
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The Cadet’s Officer
By
Mark Alders
Dedication
I dedicate this book to my family.
U.N.N. Science Vessel
Aristotle 2100 hours
A
dam Wilkinson reached out and touched the
only engineered rose he’d ever seen out here
amongst the countless stars and the cold
eternal depths of space. At the moment, it glowed
a brilliant blue, reflecting his current mood. The
bush it bloomed from only ever produced one
flower at a time. He knew how it felt.
He sighed. The arboretum was the one place,
the only place where he sought sanctuary amongst
the hustle and bustle of life as a cadet. Trying to
work and live amongst nearly one-hundred
thousand people of all colours and creeds
crammed into a steel city that explored the galaxy
in the name of human advancement proved more
difficult than he first thought.
Adam missed looking up and seeing familiar
stars at night. He would often sit on the roof of his
home and gaze at those stars for hours, hoping
that one day he would be amongst them.
A year ago and a month after his nineteenth
birthday, his wish came true. He became a science
cadet, specialising in astrophysics and stellar
cartography, thanks to a grant made available to
him by a kind and wonderful mentor at the
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