Chapter 6
I made the train with no issues this morning. My back is stiff from the bench outside the train station that I called home for the night. My ticket was more expensive than I would have assumed for a trip to the base, but it was a necessary evil. It was only a forty-five-minute ride to the army compound outside of the city. It still had an old-fashioned look from when all of our battles were on Earth. It had high brick walls, turrets, and barbed wire fence but, it had been retrofitted for space fighting with lazar cannons and enough solar panels to power the entire city and thus had enough capacity to power the jump platforms. And a series of tunnels that branch out several miles around the base. Or so I had read from the articles I could find on the way over.
The sun was near t
