The Flying Bullet #1
“The Beast of T’Khari” Lieutenant Curt Masters was once a pilot of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, flying red-tailed Mustangs through a war-torn sky. Now, far from Earth, he was a Galactic Protector—a title he wore with quiet pride and reluctant burden. His uniform, once tailored in military khaki, was now reinforced synth-fiber armor, and the cockpit he commanded was no longer a P-51 but the sleek and responsive Opportunity 3 , captained by his enigmatic ally, Aliena. The world of T’Khari loomed large beneath them—its orange skies writhing with magnetic stormfronts and its jagged terrain riddled with glowing fungal growths. Curt didn’t like it. The air was heavy with static, and worse, something was wrong. They had come to retrieve a strange artifact: a pulsing shard of crystalline material buried in the lair of a creature known as the Varnok—a lumbering beast normally docile and symbiotic with the planet’s ecosystem. But today, it was rampaging. Villages evacuated. Mountains shaken. A d...
