1. Another God-damned War
As soon as mankind stopped fighting itself, we met aliens who didn't like us.
Lt. Jake Buck had finally graduated from the United Earth Marine flight school. He would soon be a first lieutenant and be issued his Scorpion 2 fighter. The Scorpion 2 was the latest marvel of Earth technology. It had two methods of propulsion, a fusion engine and the new gravimetric drive. The gravimetric drive was for taking off and landing on planets and asteroids. This engine needed a large mass to push or pull against. The fusion engine was used in outer space. The Scorpion 2 was not interstellar. It required a carrier to get it from sun to sun.
Scorpion 2 armament was four high power lasers (two pointed forward and two backwards) and a dozen small nuclear tipped missiles. The lasers could be aimed through 180 degrees and the missiles had intelligent aiming systems that were highly adaptable and couldn't not sync on another Scorpion model one or two. The navigation system was capable of guiding the fighter anywhere within a billion miles of the local sun. Scorpions also had an advance detection system which easily detected any enemy ship made from any known metal or composite.
Jake would soon be assigned to a interstellar carrier and taken into one of the four war zones. The Earth was at war with an alien culture called the Bortaq. Earth and the Bortaq have claimed the same areas of space. The Earth colony on Tau Ceti 4 has been recently attacked so Lt Buck was expecting to be assigned in that sector.
Jake Buck was a typical human from the North American continent. He was of Caucasian descent, six foot one inch and 185 lbs. His hair was black and cut in a crew cut. He was well muscled because he was an athlete in high school. He played halfback on the football team and was a sprinter on the track team.
Two days after he received his Scorpion 2, Lt Buck received his orders. He'd only logged ten flight hours on his Scorpion 2. He was now ordered to take one week of leave and then report to the ESS Guadalcanal which would be arriving in orbit in three days. Buck's entire graduating class of forty pilots would be reporting on board on the eight day. The ESS Guadalcanal was reprovisioning and then would be headed toward Tau Ceti. The ESS Guadalcanal could jump between stars. Each jump was nearly instantaneous but the trip between the jump coordinates was Einsteinian so took several months. Jump points were usually in the outer part of the planetary system. Earth's jump points were between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. The trip to Tau Ceti Four would take approximately four months with the 12 light year jump taking seconds.
Jake flew to New York state to visit his parents and some of his high school friends. He had a lot of fun with his two best friends. In high school the trio always did lots of partying and chasing of girls. Jake's friend Billy had just received his draft notice and had to report to the induction center in two weeks. Jake's other friend John had just signed up to become a pilot also. All three would be off planet before long fighting against the Bortaq. So they partied their asses off and chased the girls just like the old days of two years ago.
The day before Jake had to go back, the trio had a triple date with three girls they had all partied with in high school and they all ended up at one of the girl's apartments. Before they knew what was happening they were all naked and everyone was licking each others genitals. Jake was paired up with Michelle, Billy wasn't going down on Beth and Alexandra had John's cock in her mouth. They ended up swapping the girls back and forth. Michelle and Beth even asked to be fucked in the pussy and mouth at the same time. It was an enjoyable time for all and the girls all knew that the odds were at least one of the three was not coming back from the war. Jake thought he would remember this night for the rest of his life. Vaginal sex with three young women and a blowjob from each of them was something he would never forget. Jake smiled at himself as he and his friends headed over to his house after the orgy. It was approaching 4am.
Before he left, John asked Jake what he knew about the Bortaq. Jake told John and Billy that Earth intelligence didn't know all that much about the Bortaq. They were humanoid and roughly the same size as humans. There was one report that they were green but there was no corroborating evidence of that. Their technology was roughly the same as Earth technology. They required similar environment to live and that's why they were claiming the same planets that Earth wanted.
Jake was onboard the ESS Guadalcanal when it launched for Tau Ceti. Two months until the carrier reached the interstellar jump point. It would be long and boring time since the carrier would be in a hurry, accelerating at 1.75 gravities. Jake would have liked some more time training in his Scorpion 2 but that couldn't happen with the current acceleration. The training Scorpions used in flight school were older models which didn't have the gravimetric drive. Jake hadn't had much time using the gravimetric drive which was the main difference between the two models besides the speed of the mark 2. Although he had clocked 100 hours on the Scorpion 2 simulator, he still felt like he was going to be thrown off the bridge to learn how to swim.
The flight crew was 40% female but fraternization was against regulations. Jake was assigned to a squadron which had ten pilots assigned with Major White as squadron leader. There were only three women assigned to their squadron. Jake noticed that they were all very hot. Too bad about the regulations. It would be even worse because the latrine / showers were unisex. He just knew if he had to take a shower with one of these ladies, he would have a boner for sure.
Jake made friends with a couple of the ladies. He would have liked to get into either of their flight suits. The regs did allow masturbation in the latrine stalls though. One of the ladies Jake befriended admitted that the women masturbated in the stalls too. Jake wondered why sex between pilots was forbidden. Sandy O'Dell, a 5' 7" tall, 120 lbs redhead who was really hot told him "The top brass don't want pilots in relationships. They didn't want one pilot going off to rescue another that he or she was in love with. Pilots had to remain objective and stay with the battle plan". Jake could see how that might cause problems with battle plans. However, Jake could also see how he might want to rescue his friends in this squadron, personal relationship or not.
Time was passed reading or playing cards or drinking....a lot of drinking. Of course, the drinking sometimes led to unplanned fraternization. Within the first month, eight couples had been disciplined. All eight were on punishment detail which required cleaning the latrines, life support ducts and various other nasty areas. It also put a mark on your records which would cause you to miss your next promotion for at least two years. Jake decided that the punishment wasn't worth the benefits of sex with one of his female friends. Even so the first month was hell. Jake was as horny as he had ever been.
One night he was sorely tempted to fraternize though. He and several other pilots were drinking together and Madeline "Maddie" McCoy came over and sat on his lap and started to kiss him. Maddie was a 5' 8" tall, 130 lb blonde with a lot of muscles and a gorgeous face. She had a nice set of tits too. Jake thought she was pretty damn hot. Things got pretty hot and heavy between them. They were both French kissing and groping each other. Jake finally had a moment of clarity though and told Maddie that he'd love to fuck her but he didn't want to be on punishment duty or get his next promotion delayed.