Battlehymn — Jack McKinney

A HIGHER LOYALTY

For three long months the Super Dimensional Fortress remained at its landing site in the Pacific, like an infant in a wading pool. And indeed her captain often felt as though he had been treated like a child.

For two years, Captain Gloval and his crew had been chased through the solar system by a race of giant alien warriors, only to be made to feel like unwanted relatives when they returned to planet Earth.

But Gloval was not a man who took things lying down.
In direct violation of Council dictates, he ordered the SDF-1 airborne.

THE FATE OF THE EARTH WAS AT STAKE....