The War of the Three Systems

Imagine waging war in the immeasurable vastness of the space between planets --- When Dillon looked up into the fading sky and saw the lights there, he knew what it meant. He wasn’t scared; after all, when he grew up, he was going to join the Royal Guard and fight the Shoal’s enemies in great heroic feats of courage and shouting. But he was confused. Why? he wondered. Why up there and not down here? So the boy asked his grampa. The old man looked up at the raging sky and told the boy a tale – of a war fought long ago and far away, between the three systems of Sol. A war that became infamous through the accounts of three brothers, each on opposing sides. A war of such singularly incalculable horror that a declaration was made to ensure that nothing like it be allowed to ever happen again. The lights above were a new war, and what Dillon did not know was over what, or whom, they fought. --- About Mark J. Suddaby – Born in England and living in the West Country, Mark is a former War College educated soldier who now writes full time. He is fascinated by the speculative, and loves exploring what the world, and beyond, may be become; sometimes because of the choices we might make, sometimes because of those we won’t.