This book has shifted to Amazon. Thanks to all the great feedback and readers for their kind words. Aliens ripped a hole above Earth, arriving with a massive space station. I sorta figured we'd be enslaved to fight in their wars or exterminated for our resources. Nope. The hip-high Iglax were merchants with ugly squished faces and thick blue fur. While they weren't much to look at, they sure did have some of the most wonderous technology.

Humanity bent over backwards to appease our new merchant overlords who wanted cheap labor for precious metals. And honestly, I didn't blame anyone for their hunger to be among the stars.

For certain rare metals or special gems, they'd trade tech we could only fathom as magic. Me, I pawned a few things, made some money, then hunkered down to study to prove my worth. The aliens tested humans on an individual basis for miner rentals. Do well on your pilot test, get a spaceship, sign up with corp, mine the belt. For a puddle jumper pilot like me, yeah, I was so interested I became obsessed. When I finally tested, I kicked enough ass to be offered a contract for some better than a miner - Earth's First Starfighter.

Warning: Morally gray MC. There's no graphic sex or harem. No stats, straight Sci-Fi first person space-shooter progression.

Preface: I flew an attack helicopter. I may not be a space fighter, but I wrote this story from the experience of a combat fighter pilot. Some of the terms are simplified, while some of them are in the text, but honestly, I can't slow the down the pacing to overexplain everything. War is not for the meek; you lace up your boots, don your armor, and you keep those around you alive.

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