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The Forgotten Engineer: The Athena Lee Chronicles, #1
The Forgotten Engineer: The Athena Lee Chronicles, #1
The Forgotten Engineer: The Athena Lee Chronicles, #1
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Ensign Athena Lee was one month into her new assignment as the most Junior engineer on board ship. Her assignment was to help build a secret spy station in a small out of the way galaxy. How was she to know it would become her last official assignment? An enemy fleet dropped out of jump right into their midst. In the aftermath of the battle she was left behind forgotten. What does an engineer do when faced with insurmountable odds and all hope of rescue? She changes the equation!

Read the first book in the star spanning Epic Space Opera series.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherTS Paul
Release dateDec 24, 2017
ISBN9781386275091
The Forgotten Engineer: The Athena Lee Chronicles, #1
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TS Paul

Three full years of writing, seventy- two titles, and a ton of fun! All three of those things describe my writing career to date. I have both a Culinary and Retail background that helps me write better books! So much to do this year and so little time.  Follow me on my website www.tspaulbooks.com or track me down on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ForgottenEngineer/

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    The Forgotten Engineer - TS Paul

    Forgotten Engineer

    T S Paul

    Table of Contents

    Title Page

    Legal Stuff

    Dedications

    Chapter 1

    Chapter 2

    Chapter 3

    Chapter 4

    Chapter 5

    Chapter 6

    Chapter 7

    Chapter 8

    Chapter 9

    Chapter 10

    Chapter 11

    Chapter 12

    Chapter 13

    Author Notes

    Wilson's War

    Up Next: Engineering Murder

    Author Introduction – TS Paul

    Legal Stuff

    Copyright © 2016 T.S. Paul, All Rights Reserved.

    Reproduction of any kind is strictly prohibited unless written permission granted by the editor of the anthology and the individual author.

    Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

    Cover designed by Heather Hamilton-Senter

    Re-Editing by Diane Velasquez, Dorene Johnson, and Kat Lind

    Formatted by Nina Morse

    Dedications

    Special thanks to my wife Heather who keeps me grounded and to Merlin the Cat, we are his minions.

    Chapter 1

    Fifteen years ago...

    All hands to Battle Stations! This is not a drill!

    All hands to Battle Stations! Seal all compartments!

    I’d started today’s rotation in the engine room only moments before and could not suppress a sharp spike of adrenaline at the announcement. Especially as a newly minted ensign who’d only left the Academy a month ago, and who’d not conducted many of the aforementioned drills.

    Damn it, this was supposed to be an easy mission!

    The Tesla was a support and engineering frigate. Our mission in the Diablo sector was to build a fleet listening and resupply post for Navy intelligence.

    The base was a hollowed out asteroid. It blended in perfectly with the others floating around in the nebula. This sector was seldom visited by most fleets, due to the dangers of explosive gasses and big random floating rocks.

    Every day was a learning experience. To help senior engineers build a space station was a bonus. My dream job was to be one of those full-fledged chief engineers someday.

    My ship’s squadron was a part of the PPL or the Pan-Pacific League. When humanity left Earth, it colonized the galaxy in successive waves. Like with everything else we as humans do, we brought a little of home with us. We brought our history, our culture, our politics, and our hatreds. Colonies formed around ethnic or cultural lines like on Earth.

    It wasn’t long before the search for natural resources brought nations into conflict. War and famine. Right versus might, us versus them, or something like that. Like Old Earth’s last big war two hundred years ago, this new war was all-encompassing. Sides were chosen, and alliances formed. Two forces came into being: the Pan-Pacific League and Anglican Alliance.

    The enemy was not supposed to even be in this part of space.

    Ensign Lee what in five hells are you doing in Engineering! Chief Engineer Henry was screaming at me.

    Chief, you told me to meet you here this morning. Chief Henry was red-faced and frantically working his control board.

    Why didn’t you go to CIC with the other ensigns? It’s too dangerous here for you. Get to safety! The ship shuddered and shook. It sounded like a full-blown attack now.

    The Chief looked around and pointed at me. Get in the fusion controller room! Try not to touch any of the controls.

    The fusion controller room, located between the two engines, is the safest location on the ship. Its armored walls had been engineered three times thicker in anticipation of possible shipboard damage. Protecting the engine controls in battle was paramount to winning the fight. Without the armor, radiation from the engines would degrade the circuits causing irreparable harm.

    Just what I need. My first real battle and I’m stuck in a closet!

    I locked myself in and looked

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