{"id":8094,"date":"2019-01-06T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T06:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2019-01-03T05:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T11:42:32","slug":"the-thunderbird-affair-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=8094","title":{"rendered":"The Thunderbird Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Thunderbird-Affair-200-x-259.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Thunderbird-Affair-200-x-259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8074\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hyperspace split open with another series of rainbow explosions and ten new ships came into normalspace about two lightseconds away.  They were outside effective weapons range, but Jack felt a warning alarm begin to clang in the back of his mind.<\/p>\n<p>These people were dangerous to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re certain these are not your friends, Wing Commander?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am certain, Captain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A display blinked to show him that their sensor emissions matched standard Shang systems, and their size matched standard Shang destroyers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, then,\u201d Jack said and flexed his fingers in preparation for the fight to come.  \u201cI suppose you won\u2019t mind if I shoot them up a bit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot at all.  Might I inquire if you wish help?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, please,\u201d Jack said with all the breezy confidence he could project.  \u201cThere\u2019s only ten of them.  I\u2019ve got them outnumbered all on my lonesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then hyperspace opened up a second time and ten more destroyers exited hyperspace near the first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were saying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat quality matters much more than quantity, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then ten cruisers came out of hyperspace&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbird Affair is now available at the following retailers:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07MDNJ6CT\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1546107065&#038;sr=1-1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/books\/1130046985?ean=2940155921042\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes and Noble<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-thunderbird-affair-jack-of-harts-short-story-2\/id1447910212?mt=11\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-thunderbird-affair-jack-of-harts-short-story-2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kobo<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/914204\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smashwords<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperspace split open with another series of rainbow explosions and ten new ships came into normalspace about two lightseconds away. They were outside effective weapons range, but Jack felt a warning alarm begin to clang in the back of his[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=8094\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-medron-pryde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8097,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions\/8097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}