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Merilee Macrae must defend her team’s actions while security and military commanders push for blame and faster control. Testimony of the violent fadohl and their enslaved Neanderthal allies Wiyert shapes the mission’s strategy: limited but highly effective assets, intelligence gathering, and preparation for no peaceful outcome.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>One Blood  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Book 2 of the Argonauts of Space trilogy  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>\"We be of one blood, ye and I.” —Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form, with the exception of brief excerpts for the purpose of review.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Copyright ©2016 by Sabrina Chase  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[http://www.chaseadventures.com](http://www.chaseadventures.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Cover art by Les Petersen  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[http://www.lespetersen.com.au/](http://www.lespetersen.com.au/)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Acknowledgments  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>As always, thanks are due to to the genial writing group STEW, fearless editor Deb Taber who cleaned out the Augean Commas, and many others who helped make this book what it is. (All the bad parts are my fault. They tried to warn me and I didn't listen.) Special thanks, though, are due to my loyal readers who make it possible for me to have this much fun without getting arrested.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Sabrina Chase  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter 1  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>They were in a room that looked like most of the secure meeting rooms Merilee Macrae had been in—no windows, stale recirculated air, guards atthe door, a significant percentage of the attendees in uniform—but there were telling differences. All of the beverages, even coffee, were in sealed bulbs, the furnishings bare of the usual wood and leather, and next to the door was a narrow, orange cabinet labeled “Emergency Oxygen Equipment.” With her injuries, long meetings were easier to endure in reduced lunar gravity, but the location hadn’t been picked with her convenience in mind.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>On the moon, security was much easier. Not even data could escape without detection. And at the rate they were going, they would run out of pregenerated classification code words for everything her mission had discovered.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>With mordant humor, she wondered how the various governments and their agencies were dealing with all the frantic astronomers who had noticed Pluto was not there anymore. Not her problem. The reason it was missing, however, was. As the man at the head of the table, the director of Space Security, was doing his best to make clear.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“I want to know why you weren’t keeping a closer eye on those scientists of yours,” Buckner said, stabbing a thick finger her way.“You were there only to study that ship, not get it running again! Now you’retelling me the whole planet’s in danger because of this.”  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Macrae heard Colonel Gonafrio shift in his seat. She didn’t need to look at him to know he was probably grinding his teeth and about to utter a cutting response.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“Given that Pluto had been behaving in all respects like a rock for thousands of years, it was not unreasonable to assume it would continue todo so. Even when we discovered there was an alien ship inside,” she said, keeping her tone calm and even. Gonafrio wasn’t dumb; he’d pick up her intent. They had a dangerous path to walk, and they didn’t need to stir up any unnecessary bad feelings.“Activating Argo was an accident, but convincing it to help was not.” My scientists did that, and don’t you forget it.“Furthermore, it put us in no more danger than we were in already—we just know about it now. I find it hard to believe anyone would prefer to remain in ignorance of what we found. At least now we have a chance to defend ourselves.” You blithering idiot.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“Are you certain there is no possibility of peaceful interaction with these aliens?” The speaker was a man she hadn’t met before, an army general. He seemed uncomfortable, and now she knew why Buckner was being more of a pill than usual. The military was starting to take over the planning, as it should, and Buckner wasn’t going to be in charge much longer. Good.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Gonafrio leaned forward.“We have testimony from a group of people that have much more recent interaction with these aliens, the fadohl, than we do—and these interactions were in all respects violent and deadly. Our own personal experiences were likewise violent.” Gonafrio turned his head towards Macrae, reminding everyone why she was still w\u003C/p>","cbCaimY8swfoHzOY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimY8swfoHzOY","pdf",3055857,301,"English","en",105,"# Chapter 1\n## Secure meeting and mission briefing\n## Accusations, risk assessment, and Argo’s role\n## Fadohl and Wiyert evidence\n## Asset counts and the plan for intelligence","[{\"question\":\"What problem are the authorities discussing in Chapter 1?\",\"answer\":\"They are assessing why Pluto is missing, how Argo was activated, and whether an alien danger has escalated into a planet-wide threat.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Merilee Macrae argue that Argo’s activation was an accident but its help was deliberate?\",\"answer\":\"She explains that the initial activation happened unintentionally, while convincing the ship to assist required choices and effort by her scientists.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the group’s plan rely on, and why are there so few assets?\",\"answer\":\"The mission depends on four remaining assets plus a rescued Wiyert, chosen because the people involved have unique abilities; larger numbers would not improve success and could reduce effectiveness.\"}]","One Blood - Book 2 of the Argonauts of Space trilogy  | PDF","A tense leadership meeting on the moon turns into a high-stakes debate about an alien threat tied to Pluto’s disappearance and the accidental activation of Argo. 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