"First Command"

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Five years before the world learned it wasn't alone, this is where it started. Lieutenant John Reed has just been given his first command — a Special Forces team, a mission that's supposed to be simple, and a new second-in-command he hasn't learned to trust yet. Chief Warrant Officer Patrick O'Shea has run missions like this before. Reed hasn't. The job is straightforward: get a handler and his source through a face-to-face meeting in Budapest and back out again, quiet and clean. No aliens. No wreckage. No reason yet to believe the world is about to change. But the meeting is a trap, the source has been turned, and within seconds Reed's team is fighting for their lives against an enemy who planned this operation long before Reed's team ever landed in Hungary. What follows will cost lives, test loyalties, and forge the partnership between Reed and O'Shea into something neither of them expected. First Command is a free standalone prequel to the Tor'Ka Canon, a military science fiction series where Cold War-era rivalries collide with first contact and a secret that will reshape the world. No prior knowledge of the series required — just a taste of the war that's still five years from starting.