“Half of our forward locations were trashed?” Eris said with a sigh. “How utterly irritating. It took over a year to get those bases set up. Too many cash infusions and man hours, down the drain.” Eris scowled slightly as she reviewed one of the large screen’s reports. On that same screen was a c
Eris shook her head and waved her hand slightly. “Don’t worry about them,” she said. “You keep doing what you’re doing. I’ll get someone else to recruit the chemist to the fleet.” “What if the chemist refuses?” he asked. “Stop asking dumbass questions and get back to work.” The scout immediately
The mercenary fleet known as the Sword of Perseus found themselves in an unwinnable situation. Behind them was the station they were hired to protect, and in front of them were the marauders who wanted all the precious treasure inside - medical grade narcotics. And the marauders known as the Black
Lucifer sighed deeply as the battle raged on, and watched with trepidation as battle lines fired mercilessly at each other. Ze felt as though Perseus’ battle tacticians were playing by rules written by someone else. Someone who had likely fought a different kind of a war, in a different kind of er
“Hey mercs,” he said. “I know ExoCene Pharm pays you all a great deal to stick around and guard their vaults. But we’ve got a great need for their meds, so pretty please, get the hell out of our way.” Perseus’ captain was immediately incensed with his opponent, and retorted angrily. It was clear th
The Gorgon captain stood on the bridge, his mouth agape. He was utterly incredulous at being cut off, and anger slowly rose out of the surprise and confusion that he felt. It wasn’t just that he had been slighted, but that he had been so utterly dismissed. Whatever offense he had endured seemed to
The combined force caused their armor to collapse, and the second shot penetrated into the structure. “That was just two shells!” cried the Perseus captain. “And that was with our reinforcement module on maximum! We’ve gotta end this quickly before they tear us apart!” “Calm down,” chided Lucifer.
“Perforate their main thrusters as they pull away,” said Lucifer. “It’s like they want us to slice them apart. They’re practically begging for it.” Lucifer sighed deeply as ze pinpointed multiple strike zones on the destroyers’ main thrusters. The Perseus frigates were only too kind to follow hir o