Frontier Worlds (Shadow Watch Book 2) by Brandon Ellis & Max Wolfe

Author:Brandon Ellis & Max Wolfe [Ellis, Brandon & Wolfe, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2023-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

Colt Town’s asleep, and although we’ve approached under the cover of darkness, Volcadia Prime’s moons reflect enough of the sun’s rays to always keep the planet lit. From my vantage point, train tracks extend off into the distance toward a mountain. Security’s heavy at the train station, dozens and dozens of guys and two-legged kill drones with autocannons for arms. They’re protecting the train, a twenty-car pulled by an old shuttle engine.

The train conductor leans against one of the cars, a cigarette hanging off his lip. Him, and the other Orion personnel pack handguns on their hip.

Crates and supplies cram the train docks. Scavs coordinate with the dockworkers and suits. When the Scavs drop off a crate, it’s opened, inspected, weighted, and a pay master hands over stacks of Scribs as payment. It only makes sense the people in Colt Town know of the arrangement between the Scavs and Orion. What’s being loaded, and why is it being transported into the mountain, not out of it? If they’re excavating in the mountain, Orion should be pulling materials out and processing them in their camp.

Dawne’s plan involved tracking Balo Staymer through various cams in Colt Town, even one in the sheriff’s station they haven’t found yet. There, she found Balo in a jail cell, and through the station’s patch network, Dawne found they were going to transfer him to a holding cell in the Orion Mining facility where he is now. Apparently, Balo killed a lot of people before they caught him.

He’s more dangerous than I thought.

Regardless, I still can’t get over how many computers and machines Dawne has, along with the underground facility she lives in. She could run an entire army from there, and even lodge them. The depth and size of Dawne’s underground base of operations is mind boggling and immense. When Dawne’s android fully charged, she guided us to an armory holding thousands of Union weapons, so we had our pick.

It’s been years since I’ve worn Union power armor. It fits better than Dominion armor, especially around the knees and elbows. Dawne set us up with blur fields, mirroring what’s behind us, thereby rendering us and anything we carry invisible. It hides our infrared and ultraviolet signature, too. The field lasts for an hour before it needs to be recharged. We can see each other normally. Both Dawne and Corr made sure of that.

“That’s a lot of Scav’s,” Stu points out. He’s slinging his favorite heavy weapon on his back; a Wand Gatling laser with two overcharged Class 2 batteries. It’s a beast. You point one of those at an armored personnel carrier or a light tank, it’s going bye-bye. Problem is, they tend to overheat, and so short bursts are the way to go. Stu’s good with it.

“Sure is,” I reply. “Got to be over a hundred people out there.”

We’re posted south of the train, behind an industrial recycler. Once in a while, I catch sight of a desert mouse chasing down a moon snake and eating it.

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