I'm going to rework the prologue of Enmity. I think it's a little wordy. I don't want a repeat of Resurgent where the readers said it was slow and wordy at the beginning.
I want to capture my readers attention but not suddenly lose it by too much info and such.
I'm working my way through the first chapter. I want the humans to be arrogant but not too much so or it may seem too heavy-handed.
Humans hadn't really run into true aliens or resistance. Just the naive Mer-people who were somewhat humanoid and easily absorbed. The Con-fed or Confederate Planets populated by humans is the only other rival government.
Until a ship chased some pirates into Alliance space.
Humans ain't the top of the food chain anymore. And that doesn't sit well with the Federation