The Solarian Soldier – 2

2

Daniel followed M.J. through the sliding doors of the CIC and walked down the floor beside her. SFS Lalande was devised as a Flagship for task force operations, like all her sister ships of the Krüger 60-class. M.J’s “ready room” would normally have belonged to the commanding Admiral aboard. A place to host receptions and diner parties or impress foreign guests. The dimensions were luxurious for a warship, especially for a cruiser, and wasted the one thing which you never had enough of in outer space: space. But since the Lalande operated solo for their current assignment there was no need for a flag officer aboard and thus it was Min-Jeongs personal queendom to rule.

On the bulkhead across the room hung a large picture in an elaborate frame of Lalandes namesake Star. If Daniel remembered it correctly it was in fact the first picture taken of Lalande 21185 by humans on a flyby maneuver inside the red dwarf’s gravity well. That must have been somewhere around 2200, shortly after Savko Guerlaine had developed his Dark Matter Sails and had given humanity access to Hyperspace. Next to that were two smaller oil paintings of starships who also bore the Name Lalande in the past.

To the left was the RLFP ship, which had gone missing on the exploration journey to Polaris somewhere around 2260 and to the right was the light Cruiser SFS Lalande which had been commissioned and had fought during the Neyja War more than 50 years ago. She was depicted in a stylized orbit around Earth with the city lights and coastlines of continental Europe below her.

He suddenly felt a firm hand behind the back of his head and got pulled down into a long and intense kiss by his one head shorter lover.

“Why are you still dressed, Commander ?” M.J. seldom seemed to lose her authoritarian tone, although the steel in her eyes had been replaced by a lustful twinkle.

“I love you M.J, and, Chérie, I missed you.”

“That is all very romantic, Danny,” she said teasingly as she began to quickly strip out off her Captains uniform, “but you need to get that ass naked right now. I want to fuck with you for as long as we can, you never know when the next crisis hits or some Ensign feels the intense need for baby sitting.