Tales from the Tribes of the Central Metropolitan Region
The
Enlightenment Protocols, Book 1- Tribes
Tales
of the tribes of the Central Metropolitan Region
As
told to the Sol-Earther Don C. Ciers
By Don Ciers (a military novel)
Published March 29th 2012 by
Xlibris Corporation
©Copyright March 2012
ISBN: 1469143135, ISBN13: 9781469143132
Paperback, 512 pages
The Enlightenment Protocols set
out the requirement for first contact by the Commonwealth of Stellar States
with inhabitants of planets within the galaxy. The inhabitants must be educated
enough to realize that there are off-planet living beings, maintain a good
standard of living and take steps to protect their environment.
“Enlightenment,” Ciers explains,
“is a global tribe’s acknowledgement of their role as stewards of their own
Home world, its moons and other uninhabited celestial bodies within their
planetary grouping.”
If a civilization wishes to join
the Commonwealth, there must be a global governing body that can speak as one
and it also helps if there is something of value to offer, such as agricultural
or industrial goods, which can be exchanged for Commonwealth protection.
This is important because the galaxy
also contains a war-faring group called the Alliance of Stellar Republics.
These republics think nothing of conquering both enlightened and unenlightened
civilizations to take what they want and make slaves of the people.
The two factions have come to
loggerheads a number of times in the past, particularly when the Alliance,
which wages war to the glory of its god, Pygani, conducts a takeover and the
Commonwealth then jumps in to stop them by using its Recondo forces.
The primary protagonist in all of
this is Commodore G. W. Morgan on the battle cruiser CBC Draaken, who has taken
the lead in such campaigns, sometimes without going through the chain of
command for approval first. Enter another lead character, journalist Maria
Hardesty of the Destrian Information Group, who is determined to bring the
Commodore down.
This book is called a military novel but should more properly be
labeled a military space novel (aka science fiction) due to the setting of the
story, which is for the most part, aboard the various war ships. There are some
more sensitive moments, such as a flirtation between Hardesty and a young
lieutenant but much space is given to describing previous conflicts, the
destroyers and frigates both inside, the military hardware and weaponry and how
they travel in inter-stellar space.
It appears that Ciers is quite knowledgeable about the actual
mechanics of warfare. At first I thought he had really done his homework until
I checked his bio on Linked In and discovered that he was an Infantry Senior
Sergeant in the U.S. Army for 22 years and a Haz Mat Contingency Planner for 17
years. He has obviously used his expertise, along with a bright imagination to
turn this work into an intensive, interesting and believable sci-fi novel.
Doing the latter can be the trickiest part since sci-fi calls for
out-of-this-world people, settings and plots but Ciers has managed to keep it
real.
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