Without the threats, the barge crew would’ve summoned the Interplanetary Transit Authority to arrest Sloane’s crew on a variety of piracy-related charges. The delay had given Captain Sloane time to straighten out crew finances and pay for the fuel, but Iridian and Tritheist had taken shifts intimidating the barge crew into allowing them to stay. It’d picked its own time to leave for Vesta, too, despite all of Adda’s arguments to depart sooner. "The Casey’s letting us off here, yeah." Iridian cast a suspicious look at a cam in a corner of the main cabin, which served as one of the Casey’s many eyes.Īdda and the Casey had discussed their destination after the Casey had docked with a fuel barge on the Mars-Ceres reliable route and decided to stay there for two days after it’d finished refueling. The ship does intend to dock here, I assume? The captain’s smile looked more forced now. The captain smiled, a flash of white teeth against dark skin. The ITA won’t, or if they are, the local bureaucrats will keep them from stopping us. Vestan dock security will be expecting us. The newsfeeds still run daily Barbary Station updates. Sloane’s lieutenant, who shaped his beard like a stylized leaf and went by Tritheist as a name, stepped around Adda’s mesh bag of drone parts to stand beside the captain. We got here as fast as any ship could, without attracting the ITA’s attention, anyway. Iridian glanced around, brows furrowed, like audibly insulting the ship was a bad idea. We’ll be in range of Vesta’s southern docking guides in five minutes. Captain Sloane crossed the main cabin to the bridge console in two low-gravity strides, long coat and neatly braided black hair following after. The Casey’s bedroom door slid up and open. Goggles with dark blue lenses hid his scarred eyes, reflecting the ceiling-wall seam lights from where he sat on the floor near Adda. Wish I could see it, the younger one, Pel, said. The other people in the Casey Mire Mire’s main cabin, a man just out of his teens with the same pale complexion as Adda’s, and a darker man with a beard like a stylized leaf, laughed and swore, respectively. A tapered line of recently regrown flesh marred a tattoo of a flap of skin pulled up to reveal a skull and crossed rib bones drawn over realistic viscera beneath it. Iridian raised one side of her shirt to her armpit. So I thought, ‘Pel’s dying around here somewhere, and what do I need two kidneys for anyway?’ and grabbed the bastard. Iridian wrapped her golden-brown arm around Adda’s waist without interrupting her story. The ghostly intermediary figure connecting Adda and the ship’s AI vanished. Read moreĬHAPTER 1 Time integrated through digital intermediary: 1 hour 53 minutesĪdda Karpe disconnected her mind from the ship around her and sat beside Iridian Nassir on the surface currently serving as a floor. It will take not one but five heists, and every bit of ingenuity Adda and Iridian have to escape from Oxia and find the life they’ve always dreamed of…if they can survive. Meanwhile, the inhuman allies who followed Adda and Iridian from Barbary Station have plans of their own, which may be more dangerous than the humans involved could imagine. If they're ever going to have the independent life together that they've always wanted, they'll have to free themselves from Oxia Corp. Adda and Iridian find themselves trapped in a contract with Oxia Corp., one of the very megacorporations they'd hoped to prey on, forced to rob and intimidate targets they'd never have chosen on their own. Unfortunately, the political situation has deteriorated in Captain Sloane’s absence. And now that they’ve arrived at Vesta, Sloane’s home base, they can finally start making a living stealing from well-off megacorporations. Adda and Iridian have survived the murderous AI that tried to kill them in Barbary Station.but now they'll need all of their ingenuity to escape the evil megacorporation that wants to own them, in this second space adventure in the Shieldrunner Pirates trilogy.Īdda Karpe and Iridian Nassir have escaped the murderous AI that was trapping them on Barbary Station, and earned themselves a place on Captain Sloane’s fabled pirate crew.
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