Restricted Species

Earth Wars veteran Jim Turhan loves his quiet life on supply planet Mossera 4 teaching young cadets the art and science of xeno-farming.Pollinator drones never sting or bite. They simply do their jobs.Then crops all over Mossera 4 begin to fail.Will Jim discover the cause before starvation or worse turns his dream life into a nightmare?An excerpt from Restricted Species: Maerlis leaned forward holding the comm in her lap. I know were a fresh food outpost so I hate to ask. What happens to our supplies in that time?Considering that the freighters wont bring a damn thing with them? Jim said. Besides what little we cant grow here. Even if we warn them they wont likely be able to detour to another supply planet.There arent any other ones close by. Robs face was as pale as it had been flushed.Not that they could re-route to. Jim scrubbed his face. His brain didnt want to see the answer much less say it out loud. We wont actually starve to death. At least I dont think so. Youll know the nutritional deficiencies well run into better than I do Maerlis with a year or more before we get a good harvest. But well have a planet full of miserable cadets and furious miners on our hands.Jim kept his true worries and his memories to himself. Hed seen people as rough and hardened as the miners on a desolate planet. At the end of the last wars on Earth. He knew how more shortages and hardships they werent prepared for could turn a difficult situation into a nasty one.