Orcas Versus Aliens

By: Scott Rhine

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

As a rare, long-range empath, Jack was good at two things: talking to whales and telling stories to kids, neither of which did him much good in space. Lunar Intelligence agreed to overlook a murder charge in exchange for his talent for tracking thinking creatures at great distances, perfect for an assassin. He didn’t fit in the military until an interstellar conflict loomed between Humans and the Phibs, amphibious aliens who steal resources and eat children. Jack volunteered to recruit the only Earth creatures capable of defending colony-world oceans against these boogey men, the orcas. Never mind that the multi-ton killing machines didn’t share a common language, he didn’t have a way to transport them, and Lunars hated empaths—this mission was his only chance to see his girlfriend and mothers again. Jack’s main hurdle was gaining cooperation from the biggest jerk in the solar system, his estranged father, Speaker Aleki of the Whale Nation.