Star Force: Revulsion (SF70) Read Online Free

had a purpose. No
pandering, graft, or waste. The Bsidd civilization had been built from scratch
under the Star Force model and as a result, no matter how alien they physically
looked to Mike, he always felt at home with them and had no trouble living on a
ship with an entirely Bsidd crew. He was Star Force, they were Star Force, and
they worked together seamlessly.
    Mike was a member of
Clan Meteor, which was Larissa’s Clan and therefore had the most Archons
working with the Bsidd since she’d been the one to design their civilization
and escort it through those first fragile years. Ever since then they’d
maintained close ties and a good number of Bsidd were now part of the Clan
themselves, for ever since Randy had taken a bazillion Kiritas into Clan Star
Fox and claimed the title of ‘largest Clan’ by far, other Clans had been
experimenting with recruiting non-Humans in far greater numbers than before,
with most of the Bsidd going to either Clan Meteor because of Larissa or to
Clan Ninja Monkey because Morgan was offering them a chance to fight
immediately rather than doing mostly training and building like the other
Clans.
    Mike knew Clan Meteor
was engaged in some of the invasions like this along with the Bsidd, but the
vast majority of its members were working hard in either exhaustive training
sessions or in constructing new colonies and upgrading the ones they already
had. There was literally a mad rush on amongst the Clans that he’d never seen
before and he couldn’t quite explain it himself, but everyone was prepping as
if the V’kit’no’sat were coming back tomorrow…and it was theoretically possible
that they would…but that had been true since the inception of Star Force and
he’d never seen this kind of fanatical drive amongst them.
    He didn’t understand
it, but he did appreciate it. Everyone was psyched up and working harder than
they ever had before, from Archons down to techs, to increase the power and
prestige of their Clan…and when it came to prestige within Star Force, that boiled
down to just one thing.
    Responsibility.
    Those who could handle
the fights, the resource collection, industrial production, recycling efforts,
colony construction, etc were the ones that had the
power. Not so they could order someone else to go do it, but so they could do
it themselves. The Clans wanted missions and to take on the toughest opponents,
but only those who were capable within Star Force got those missions and
responsibilities.
    Back in the day before
Star Force existed the word ‘responsibility’ was seen as a negative. Something
that you had to do whether you wanted to or not. Now that was just the
opposite. It was a privilege to be the one that others depended on, and you
only got to be in that position if you were a badass, whether it be a faction,
a Clan, a planet, a city, a group, or an individual. You wanted to be the guy
in the hot seat when the time of crisis came, not the one running away from it
and shirking the duty to give to another.
    Likewise Star Force was
responsible for the security of the ADZ and all the non-Star Force races within
it. Why? Not because they’d been told to. Not because they were being paid to.
Not because it was a burden they bore and didn’t want and couldn’t transfer to
someone else. No. Star Force did it because it needed to be done and they
wanted to do it. Not for reward or compensation, but because that’s what badasses did. They saved people, took on the challenges,
and came through in the clutch.
    That’s what it meant to
be superior. You didn’t tell someone else to go fight your battles for you, you
tell them to back off and let you handle it because you’re more capable. That
was the proper place of the superior, on the front lines, not hiding behind a
wall of ‘lesser’ valued personnel and planets.
    And that’s what the
Clans wanted. They wanted to be superior despite their small size. They wanted
to matter when the times of crisis came