Stellar Navy
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Last published Wed, Feb 3, 2021
A fresh Stellar Navy Academy graduate is made captain of a patrol ship in a backwater system. However, "thanks" to an old conservative Admiral, it's not the normal crew that is supposed to gradually ease him into the burden of command. Maybe he shouldn't have slept with his wife.
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