The Lion Score By Jacob Malewitz What does man do when war is all around him, but the tragedy is he can do nothing? As Captain Eliot looked, he saw the expanse of the galaxy within reach. It wasn’t so. It couldn’t be so. Mankind acted, he acted. Mankind made war, he made war. But all this destruction! It destroyed a man before he died, made him live a nightmare. For the true nightmares are those tales which, when begun, don’t allow you to close your eyes. What was destroyed? Only places … lives. Working on the mad ways of the beasts, Captain Eliot looked down at the wasteland that once was the Terran League. How? In all this destruction, all this end game, all that mattered to him, for those few fleeting moments sitting at the bridge, was pushing the right button. Want has no place on a bridge. Captain Eliot looked back to the destruction. They had been warned, humanity, to stop, that the beasts would come. There were signs. You heard the screams over the messaging net...