The Real Fighters

At the beginning of the 22nd century, mankind escaped the bonds of Earth, colonizing the closest habitable planet: Proxima Centauri B. In a century-an-a-half, human feet trod on almost a dozen planets, spanning 100 light years. One of those planets, Aquarii-1c, orbits within the habitable zone of a yellow dwarf in the Aquarius Constellation. The 21 million inhabitants of Aquarii-1c were comfortable in the belief that they were alone in the universe. That changed in the middle if the 23rd Century. On a nondescript Sunday a fleet of alien craft entered the Aquarii-1 system. Within hours the few military craft in the system had been destroyed. The remaining civilian craft hurriedly boarded what few civilians they could carry out of the system; alien ships nipping at their heels. Aboard one of those ships was a newly widowed young mother, Amanda, her son, Tad, and her teen aged brother, Nathan. This is their story