Shadowrise
Chapter One
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LIFTING HIS DUFFLE bag onto his shoulder, Carl Lingiari took a final look at his cabin before preparing to disembark the Galathea. He wasn’t usually so sentimental, but the prospecting mission he’d just finished had been eventful. Hostile aliens called Shadows had killed the ship’s officers and appeared as perfect copies of their victims, and Carl had fought alongside Harrington, the chief security officer, to save the ship. The menace of the Shadows had followed them to the colony planet, Dawn, which was supposed to have been free of the hostile aliens. It had turned out to be anything but.
The original pilot of the Galathea had been among the fatal casualties of the alien attack. For Carl, this meant that he’d gained precious flight hours pilo
