Jack of Harts

Grandma Carter was mostly retired from politics and the military while I was growing up. Yeah, she would make the calls that needed called, but she wasn’t really on active duty back then. She did come back for The War though. The Space Force needed qualified people to man the defenses around Earth and the other Core Worlds, so Grandma volunteered to help out. She saw more than one Chinese or Russian invasion force show up at a world she defended. Grandma called them up, said what she was prepared to defend the world with, and asked what they wanted to attack with. An old friend from Singapore would invariably answer and they would have a nice conversation about the stellar weather. It’s amazing how many people didn’t fight over the worlds she defended.