Destiny Rising - A Hard Military Space Opera Epic: The Intrepid Saga - Books 1 & 2 by M. D. Cooper

Author:M. D. Cooper
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Wooden Pen Press
Published: 2017-05-07T06:00:00+00:00

CHASING MYRRDAN

STELLAR DATE: 3227239 / 10.26.4123 (Adjusted Gregorian)

LOCATION: Mars Outer Shipyards (MOS)

REGION: Mars Protectorate, Sol Space Federation

Jessica was developing a strong distaste for space travel. Before this assignment, the furthest she had been for work was Luna with a couple of vacations on Venus.

Those trips had been on commercial liners with all the comforts of home. Her precipitous exit from Cruithne had put her on a scow without any passenger amenities and a distinctly limited supply of sexual partners.

Customs was a brief affair. Mars, though it had a semi-autonomous military and security forces from Terra, was more than willing to cooperate with the TBI and its agents. Jessica was on a maglev within half an hour of arriving on the Mars 1 Ring.

She couldn’t help but admit that there was a certain charm to the Mars 1 Ring that wasn’t immediately apparent on the vids. The passage outside her train was a large, vaulted corridor featuring art-deco accents. She had never seen anything like it on High Terra with its function over form styling.

The rivalry between High Terra and Mars 1 had been going on for centuries. Mars 1 was the original planetary ring, but High Terra claimed superiority in all areas. The two rings competed in every way from design to political clout to sporting events.

The maglev rose up to the top level of the ring and she was amazed at how much open space the ring had. High Terra was more urban than not, while Mars 1 was almost entirely parkland. From what she could see, there were raw wildernesses on the ring.

The maglev continued to rise above the surface of the ring and the train accelerated to over a thousand kilometers an hour before giving a slight jolt as it flew out into open space. The local web indicated that the train would accelerate toward Mars and skirt the exosphere before using its own velocity to escape and arch toward the far side of the ring. It was a bit disconcerting to essentially be in a train floating through space, but it did shave over twenty-thousand kilometers off the trip.

Jessica spent the trip alternating between dozing and reviewing her leads on Myrrdan.

During the trip to Mars she had learned that Myrrdan had been spotted on the Mars 1 ring and later on the Mars Central Elevator Exchange. A contact in Mars Intelligence had placed Myrrdan there via a tap on communications in and out of a front that sold false identities.

Mars Intelligence had managed to work out a common signature the identities used and had tried to track their use but were stymied when the IDs started popping up in use all over the MCEE and Mars 1.

If Myrrdan had secured one or more of the IDs, he was covered by a seemingly random pattern of use. At least random to Mars Intel.

Jessica had been after him for over a year and was beginning to get a feel for his games. He could only feint so many times before his moves showed the true action rather than hiding it.

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