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Epilogue V: Lothar

Lothar stared sightlessly at the white dwarf that slowly revolved on the forward viewscreen. His hands were still clenched tight on the controls for the ship's weapons, and his breath came light and quick - almost panting, though the bridge was not warm.

The bright flare of ...

Epilogue IV: Gruul

Gruul looked around the bridge as the broken remnants of the shipyards disappeared from the forward viewscreen in favor of a small, white dwarf star. Mya appeared to be listing in her chair, though the human's hands were already pulling some kind of nutrient bar from her pocket ...

Epilogue III: Victor

Victor's hands danced over the console in front of him, even while his mind was curiously blank.

The blinding flash in the forward viewscreen still dotted his vision. Sixty thousand lives, snuffed out in an instant. Yet another in a string of terrible failures, of massive ...

Epilogue II: Mya

Mya sagged over the arm of the pilot's chair, exhaustion sapping all the energy from her limbs. She felt oddly hollow, like someone had taken a vacuum and sucked out everything between her back and her front, leaving an empty space in their wake. Each exhalation felt like it ...

Epilogue I: Draven

Transition to the rendezvous point hit him like a punch in the chest, and Draven coughed as he felt his heart stutter. He was a good translocationist, had done all the math and calculations to get the ship to the rendezvous point, but… He coughed again, louder this time. Even ...

Chapter 26

Mya POV

Gruul, at the front of their loose formation, was the first to spot them.

The past few minutes had been tense, but there were remarkably few security teams roaming the halls. According to Victor's tablet, most of them were either trapped where they'd been when the alarms ...

Chapter 25

WORKERS PROCEED TO THE NEAREST SHIP. WORKERS PROCEED TO THE NEAREST SHIP. THIS IS THE RESISTANCE; EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY. I REPEAT, BEGIN EVACUATION IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. WORKERS PROCEED-

Victor tuned out the stationwide emergency broadcast that had been one of the first ...

Chapter 24

Victor POV

Victor kept his head down as their team proceeded along the wide corridors of the shipyard. Blue Seven had taken care of the security at the checkpoint between the cargo hangar and the manufacturing portion of the station; with a hard-point access to the station's systems ...

Chapter 23

Mya POV

Mya let out a breath she hadn't consciously been holding as Victor stood up from his station and nodded.

The Blue team that had been designated to secure the unloading hangar had been hand-picked to be the best of the best at what they did, but Mya's brain hadn't been able to ...

Chapter 22


Victor breathed out slowly through his nose as his eyes stayed glued to the mirrored camera feed he'd managed to get up in one corner of his workstation.

Behind him he could hear Lothar pacing, and he knew if he turned around he'd see the man stalking up and down the far side of the ...

Chapter 21

Victor POV

As soon as their allocated translocationist dropped them into CP 1919, Victor's screen lit up like a fireworks display with hundreds upon hundreds of network calls, layers of antivirus programs and firewalls, and a heavily encrypted trunk connection to the ISCS. If Victor ...

Chapter 20

Mya POV

Mya consciously kept her hands still as the shipyard loomed larger and larger in the front viewport.

They'd been hailed on entry to the system, and, thanks to some diligent hacking on Victor's part, had managed to give the appropriate passcodes without being shot to pieces ...

Chapter 19

Gruul POV

Gruul leaned against the wall, her eyes shut, listening to the words around her. She had switched off her translator (thankfully, Victor had given her an upgraded version of her outmoded technology) and was now swimming in a sea of voices.

Victor had mentioned increasing ...

Chapter 18

Draven POV

Thea leaned back in her seat, “So tell me again. What’s the mission brief?”

Draven sighed, his brown eyes reflecting her own, “Come on. You know I can’t. That’s why I keep telling them to put you in charge.”

She shook her head, “You can do it. You just need to slow down ...

Chapter 17

Mya POV

After leaving the audience chamber of Comptroller Mudkheson, Mya headed straight for her office to begin the laborious process of readying the base for abandonment while simultaneously prepping for the assault.

It was no easy task; she sent the start of the bug-out orders ...

Chapter 16

Victor POV

Victor froze as the door shut behind Gruul, replaying the conversation in his mind. She had asked for help, and so he’d started working on a lesson plan, something to help ensure that when he taught her, it was complete and accurate. She’d seen him working on it, amidst ...