Project Nemesis by Leah R Cutter

Author:Leah R Cutter
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781644703069
Publisher: Knotted Road Press

CHAPTER 16

SACHIKO

Sachiko had spent good credits to create a new identity just for visiting Camelot. While she was certain that her current client could create one for her more easily, and certainly more cheaply, she needed to make sure that nothing tied her to him.

Despite all his efforts, Sachiko knew exactly who Clayton was, and what he represented.

She also knew that this job was likely to be the score of her career. She could retire after this. Or perhaps only take on a single job per year, just to keep her hand in the business.

She would be famous. Or infamous. Or rather, both.

Camelot appeared large and golden in her screens, up ahead of her private cruiser. She looked at it with her normal vision, not bothering to focus in on it with any of her enhancements. As it was just a projection, she probably couldn’t see much better using them. Plus, her enhancements were more for closeup work anyway, as well as for providing her with much better targeting acquisitions.

The small pilot’s helm was exquisitely outfitted with the best of everything: cutting-edge piloting software, the most sensitive steering yoke and paddles money could buy, a white piloting couch that supported her back better than any bed. Soft lights glowed from the ceiling, highlighting the clean, chrome-covered space. She’d set the panel and control lights to cycle through a series of blue-green colors, reminding her of serene ocean waves.

The role she’d chosen was that of a rich tourist on holiday. This meant she could afford her own spacecraft and could also be eccentric enough to fly it herself. She wore a beautiful white and gold top that set off her skin and long black wig nicely. Under that, a pair of casual black slacks that were exceedingly soft and well-tailored, as well as gold ballet slippers. In addition to several rings and silver bracelets, she wore a large pendant made out of a red, resin-like material, done in the shape of a lotus with flames all around it.

She considered it her personal emblem, though she rarely wore it.

Sachiko examined the space station exterior with a critical eye. The decks of the station, all seven of them, were protected not just with the usual forcefields and shields, but also with several neatly disguised turrets.

She’d watched the footage of an emergency drill, seen how the station closed itself up, like the petals of a flower encasing the precious stamen at night, how the cannons operated in an all-out blitz. There were no weak points in their defensive systems, no easy way to access or take out even a small section of guns so as to break through.

A direct attack on the station was suicide. As well as ineffective. The guns all ran on different systems. Even if she could access the program of one to get it to self-destruct, it would be a single gun. There were too many dampening systems between the turrets for her to have the mass effect she’d like.

Besides, that was all too straight-forward.

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