A New Hope — Eric Johnson

Some information about A New Hope: First off, it's an extrapolation of my tour in Afghanistan set in a futuristic setting, set on the planetary colony of New Hope. A criminal gang, resorted to an insurgency campaign in order to fight the government. Naturally most national militaries aren't as trained as the more numerous and capable mercenary units, what we call PMCs today. Some of the events covered are experiences that I experienced during my tour there, as well as some from other units, events in history that I felt would make a good adaptation, as well as some situations that were completely made up, but that is rare. A short abstract starts off the event, and then the story follows. So it has some personal views, experiences that I did my best to transcribe in a different way, given the universe that David Drake started with Hammer's Slammers, in which my stories are set, just in a different way. The basic gist is a set of chronicles of short stories that are done in chronilogical order, unlike a novel format. I prefer this format compared to the novel format, as it to me, "highlights" the more important events over a nine month period. Towards the end are other "independent" events that came to mind after I completed the main campaign. off of the Hammer's Slammers universe created by David Drake, this book chronicles the events of A Troop 2/4 Cavalry. Commanded by Lt. Juniper, she leads the Troop in a counter-insurgency campaign on the planet of New Hope, a Brazilian colony.