Adventures of a Greenie: Off Planet (Vol 2)
Copyright© 2020 by Vanessa Ravencroft
Forward
Foreword to my readers
The first Volume of Roy Masters tells us about him growing up on Green Hell. It is the story of a Teenager growing up on the most dangerous jungle planet in the known universe; a plot of the Kermac to recover a Saresii shipwreck of the first age of knowledge which includes the secret of the Translocator cannons, the backbone of Union military superiority. In the chain of events, Roy’s parents are apparently killed by pirates while they are on board a Union science cruiser and on their way to a planet in the otherwise mostly unexplored Spinward sector.
Roy meets a mysterious non sentient lifeform of incredible abilities, that bonds with him and becomes known as Partner.
The young man has little in common with his emotionally detached and all science focused parents, has been more or less raised by a former Marine who owns the only farm on Green Hell, growing a plant native to Green Hell that is the basis of a very potent psionic enhancing drug, sold to a pharmaceutical company as a basis of a number of medical treatments of psionic maladies.
Roy, after graduating Union basic school, is sent to an off planet college by his parents.
He prevents an assassination attempt, apparently aimed at a Klack delegation, meets the President of the United Stars of the Galaxies, learns of the apparent fate of his parents and meets mysterious Cara, officially a PSI Corps agent assigned to the security detail of the president.
In the further development of the story, Roy meets the Wurgus Patriach and the Immortal admiral Richard Stahl.
The story concludes with the Kermac scheme revealed, the president unmasked as a Kermac spy and operative and a declaration of war.
The original second volume of Roy’s story takes place years later when he had become a Union Marine, with flashbacks to the time he left Green Hell.