Demilitarized Zone by Walter Knight | Border Wars, Bug Empires, and Absolute Chaos

Описание: This story drops you straight into a galactic mess where treaties exist mostly on paper and common sense is optional. On the planet New Colorado, the United States Galactic Federation Foreign Legion is stuck babysitting a so-called Demilitarized Zone while tensions simmer with the Arthropodan Empire. What should be a calm buffer zone turns into a nonstop headache of border skirmishes, illegal land grabs, and negotiations that fall apart five minutes after they start.

Lieutenant Colonel Czerinski and his squad try to keep the peace while juggling absurd realities that feel way too human for deep space. Captain Lopez brings experience and sarcasm, while Private Wayne, a spider-like Arthropodan legionnaire, proves that cross-species teamwork is possible, just deeply awkward. Around them, chaos blooms in every direction, from moonshine operations and rigged baseball games to a rogue vigilante cycling through aliases like he’s collecting achievements.

The tone walks a fine line between action and satire, using humor to expose how politics, bureaucracy, and greed don’t magically disappear once you leave Earth. Corporate references, bad decisions, and clashing cultures pile up until the MDL feels less like a peace line and more like a punchline waiting to explode.

At its core, this is a military sci-fi story that refuses to take itself too seriously while still delivering sharp action and commentary. It’s loud, weird, and unapologetically fun, proving that even in space, humans are still going to human.

📚 Demilitarized Zone, Walter Knight, military science fiction, space opera, galactic war, satire sci-fi, space marines, alien empires, action sci-fi, humorous sci-fi