Escape from Chara Prime

The Galactic Regents have sent a fleet of the Imperial Navy to blockade the planet Giddeon in the Chara system (Beta Canum Venaticorum). Giddeon is the local name for the planet Chara Prime. The inhabitants of the planet have no idea why their planet has been targeted by the Imperial Regents-the first Colony of what used to be earth that founded after the development of the singularity drive.

Now the people wait, expecting an invasion of Royal Marines once the fleet degrades the planetary defenses sufficiently.

This is a micro story, approximately 3700 words

Written by Michael Selden, Woodland Park Press; Edited by John Hudspith

Cover Image By: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Hughes; Optical: NASA/STScI - http://astropix.ipac.caltech.edu/image/chandra/587b (direct link); see also http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/iyl/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38010583