Perpetual Wars: Special Relativity Series

Michael Smith, the son of WWII Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Herald Smith, serves his country in the Vietnam War. A Marine Gunnery Sergeant, Michael’s Swiftboat is out on patrol one night when he is captured by an unexpected enemy. He is asked to join a higher cause, the salvation of the human species! Now Michael must choose to forsake his life on earth along with his family and friends in order to save their future!

Michael Smith finds himself orbiting the solar system on the Helios, the flagship of the Atlantean-Alliance, which is commanded by Zeus, the King of the Gods. Training for a special mission on earth, Michael displays an exceptional talent for Gunnery which leads him to achieve a unique status, and also find love working alongside the beautiful Goddess Athena. 

Aboard the spaceship Helios, Michael Smith is tasked with developing the Gunnery Corps to defeat the alien Korantians who are seeking to control earth. He undertakes this, even as he prepares for his mission on earth with Athena. He also seeks permission from Hera to marry the love of his life, only to discover that the requirements of Procreation Duty take precedence over individual freedom. Because of this, an agonizing love triangle develops for him. Meanwhile, a subversive enemy plots his destruction. 

  Michael Smith makes a new life for himself on the Helios while training to return to earth to undertake a critical earth mission with the Goddess Athena. As his training winds down he finds himself both newly married and facing fatherhood. Then a devastating tragedy strikes which disables him. Faced with Michael’s unavailability for his mission, and his Gunnery Master responsibilities, Commander Zeus does everything in his power to restore him to his duty.

 Michael Smith, Athena, and Zeus have left the Atlantean Mothership Helios aboard the Recovery ship Caledon for their earth mission. Decelerating to re-enter normal space at the L4 Lagrange point, Michael and Athena have been assigned to Gunnery duty to face a re-entry ambush. In the entire history of the rebellion, no ship, either Atlantean or Korantian, had ever survived an ambush! Facing his first real space battle with the lives of everyone on the ship in jeopardy, Michael knew he could not afford to fail!

  As Michael Smith and Athena are being transported to earth on the Atlantean Recovery ship Caledon they are called upon to face one more space battle. The Atlantean Scout ship Janus is in peril. Michael has been put aboard the Landing ship Cassius along with Aphrodite to undertake a rescue operation. Soon, Michael will find himself involved in a boarding operation where for the first time he will face the Korantians in a one-to-one fight and be called upon to fight with a sword in his hands!