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Mutiny at Vesta
About this book
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.
Adda 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. And now that they’ve arrived at Vesta, Sloane’s home base, they can finally start making a living stealing from well-off megacorporations.
Unfortunately, the political situation has deteriorated in Captain Sloane’s absence. 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. 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. first. 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. 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.
Adda 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. And now that they’ve arrived at Vesta, Sloane’s home base, they can finally start making a living stealing from well-off megacorporations.
Unfortunately, the political situation has deteriorated in Captain Sloane’s absence. 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. 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. first. 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. 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: Time integrated through digital intermediary: 1 hour 53 minutes
- Chapter 2: Full integration with individual crew comms achieved 051877 0416
- Chapter 3: Long-term docking permits created by unregistered admin, level account: 3
- Chapter 4: Satellite impact site: Latitude 10.3 Ā° Longitude 52.1 Ā° (near Drusilla Crater) Cause: Externally transmitted course correctionāSatTracker, installed and customized premium edition
- Chapter 5: Time in direct contact via workspace: 1 hour 14 minutes
- Chapter 6: Stage 1 confirmed
- Chapter 7: Second implant network vulnerability identified
- Chapter 8: AI assemblers delivered via aerosolized nannite culture
- Chapter 9: āWhat the attack means, to clarify for my colleagues across the solar system, is that Captain Sloane is back. And trust me, Sloaneās powerful friends will make sure that the captain stays back. Vesta, thank all the gods you know and love for that.āāSuhaila Al-Mudari, TAPnews correspondent
- Chapter 10: Albana and Rheasilvia systems integrated: 120
- Chapter 11: Direct system processes relay established between the NEU Free and Clear and rescue tug WS Charonās Coin
- Chapter 12: HCMS targeted confirmations sent via Patchwork relay between Mangala Station, Mars and Rheasilvia Station, 4 Vesta: 304,002
- Chapter 13: Stage 2 confirmed
- Chapter 14: Test 02 case selected
- Chapter 15: Test 02 connection established, calibration initiated
- Chapter 16: All known works, feeds, and records of Harmony Wong, āMother of modern artificial intelligence development.āā3.8 gigabytes
- Chapter 17: āIt told me to. It told me to. It told me to. She told me to.ā Text repeated 312 times in a message to Mary and Estevan Verney from their son London. 1 kilobyte
- Chapter 18: Stage 3 confirmed
- Chapter 19: Albana and Rheasilvia systems integrated: 558
- Chapter 20: Test 03 unsuccessful, will not repeat
- Chapter 21: Massive data influx, encrypted, content unknown. Probable source: Oxia Corp.
- Chapter 22: Emergency-level bandwidth consumption resulting in ten-minute interhab comm outages across Rheasilvia Station; no catastrophic source event identified
- Chapter 23: SHQ40>Torrential>45999ru>Immunisity> ITA533
- Chapter 24: Stage 4 confirmed
- Chapter 25: Test 04 unsuccessful, will not repeat
- Chapter 26: Activation event
- Chapter 27: Reversion to Stage 2 (test results pending)
- Chapter 28: Outside interference prioritizes physical safety concerns over recalibration efforts
- Chapter 29: Reversion to Stage 2 confirmed
- Chapter 30: Separation period begins
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright