“I disagree,” said Miko. “They will be able to activate autopilot faster.” Everyone chuckled. She was normally too straight-laced to even make a joke, and Eva found her momentary goofiness adorable. “In all seriousness though, the job is hard,” said Commander Chase. “Prometheus would make maneuver
Mack sat in front of his PC and stared at the monitor before him. Its cold blue glow etched hard lines on his face. It was late at night, and his eyes were bloodshot. His pupils looked flat and dead, even more so after he took a swig of his now-warm beer. On the monitor was raw footage that Eva a
Redstar huffed at that statement. “I didn’t come all the way out here to become a mechanic,” she said. “I’m a fuckin’ pilot.” “It does mention in our contracts,” Merlin retorted, “that we-” “That we get to test a prototype, not learn to fix it.” “I consider maintenance a part of flying. If you’r
Eva sat in her core with her eyes closed as she flew across the surface of a pristine forested planet. She was deep into a Promethean Merge, and perceived the world through her fighter’s sensor suite. Trees whizzed by on her flanks as she flew at top speed above a brisk river. Readouts of the terr
And the same sort of concept held true in a simulation. If the brain knew it was being fooled into giving the answer of “2” - was there any point to doing the calculation? And this fact threw the Admiral’s sim data into doubt. How much of it was the brain presenting a shortcut, and how much was gen
The four pilots split up the moment they arrived on Helios. It wasn’t as though they didn’t enjoy each other’s company (well, for the most part anyway). Simply, they had spent a couple hundred hours with each other, in that lab. They were sick of the project, of brother and sister Chase, and of each
“Ready?” she asked. He looked up to nod at her, but she had already launched her attack. She came at him with a grin and a fist, so he had no choice but to get the hell out of her way and dodge. She missed him by a hair, and he shoved her away to increase the distance between them. “Well, aren’t
Pelli was deep in thought about Eva, her form, her determination. He had admired her tenacity and love of the hunt. But even more so, he loved that she wasn’t aggressive for the sake of it. In fact, she had retained much of her femininity in spite of it. Like any bird of prey. His heart thumped h