The Recruitment: Rise of the Free Fleet by Michael Chatfield Read Free Book Online

were immediately strong, but their manipulators allowed them to do precision work.
     
    The Kuruvians natural curiosity meant that all Kuruvians had been made engineers, any thoughts on trying to be something else was dismissed. The Planetary Defense force kept all of the Union and potential member planets protected from the Kuelo, a race that thrived on battle and destruction. The planetary defense force had been essentially a police force until the Kuelo were found. Then they reverted to their military training and began waging a desperate war. It was why the PDF were given carte blanche, they needed potential member planets to fill their ships that looked after the Far Sectors and sectors away from the front lines of the war which were being fought by the best trained and equipped Union planet PDF forces. When they made a decision, it was made for the benefit of the masses.
     
    The threat of chaos if those recruited didn’t fulfill their duty, and the technology the potential member planets gained, and their eventual admittance as fully fledged Union member planets made it so that no one disrupted the PDF.
     
    As such the PDF that kept the peace and continued looking for new life in the Far sectors was a largely caste group. Kuruvians dealt with everything Mechanical and technical. Then all of the heavy lifting jobs, and combat roles were done by the red four jawed Sarenmenti’s.
     
    The only places Sarenmenti and Kuruvians interacted were in the armory, where a Kuruvian was the armorer, or on the gunnery deck as the Sarenmenti’s shot and the Kuruvians fixed the breakage. The only mixed group wasn’t made up of Kuruvian or Sarenmenti, but other races, they were part of the ‘ship’s crew’. They controlled the main operating consoles of the ship and the shuttles. Their planets had achieved member status and so they were allowed the higher risk and more complicated jobs.
     
    The lessons were basic, going over the history of the PDF, how it was formed to keep peace between the planets of the Union, with crews made up with races from across the Union so as to not have a force that would attack a planet or people without thought. The PDF ushered in a time of peace until the Kalu was found, started a war and that was why the PDF had changed into what it was today. I found the history to be rather basic as it moved into rank structure, how to use our implants and on to more advanced things such as basic technology, weaponry, tactics and an overview of the races. The lessons were short but the hands on lasted for a while before we did some kind of physical torture that Taleel thought up.
     
    The lessons didn’t need to be that long as our sleep training implants worked to force more information inside our brains. I noticed it when we were doing a race, class and Taleel was going over the Touvlers. Before he could say anything about them I knew their weaknesses, where their planet was, what they ate, the way in which they used smell to survey the area around them and their basic technology base.
     
    Our lessons were diverse, from mechanical to history and basic sciences.
     
    We grew up in mind and body. We honed our fighting skills, we could use basic technology platforms and figure out what they were quickly. We knew how to pull apart weapons and put them back together, the younger kids were already looking five to eight years older. We were all developing a muscle mass that exceeded that of a world class athlete.
     
     
     
     
    I knew it had to do something with the food, Taleel would have us hold our bowls up. Anyone that had food drop on their head was to eat it, then he would punish them for an extended time. Everyone ate, no one left anything behind. He never seemed to run out of cruel things to do to us.
     
    Food for us looked like purple soggy cornflakes in purple goop with the smell of play dough. While it was watery with lumps in it, it tasted metallic, spicy and sour at the same time.
     
    It didn’t