Battle Cry — Jack McKinney

EVEN MIRACLES HAVE THEIR DOWN SIDE...

Some called it miraculous when the Super Dimensional Fortress crash-landed on Earth: the alien spacecraft's arrival had put a sudden end to almost a decade of global war

Yet Henry J. Gloval, captain of the SDF-1, was a practical man. When it came to asking himself how he had ended up in command of an alien space fortress carrying more than 50, 000 civilians in its belly, he refused to let the question surface more than twice a day.

And yet there was the planet Saturn filling the viewport of the SDF-1 bridge, and there he was in the command chair.

BUT NOW THE ZENTRAEDI HAD COME TO CLAIM THE SHIP....