Renegade Ravager: Ultimate Omnibus: A Men's LitRPG Sci-Fi Adventure by M.E. Thorne

Author:M.E. Thorne [Thorne, M.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2025-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3 – 01738.083 AA

My schedule was packed. We were set to scuttle the Esprit de Liberté before the end of the day, sinking it in the Albrecht System’s star. I had several tasks I wanted to complete in the meantime.

Primary Quests

Discover the Fate of the Tigre Calme Deux 39th Exploratory Force

Return to Earth

Secondary Quests

Scuttle the Esprit de Liberté

Continue to Restore the Liens Lumineux’s Combat Strength

Find and Kill the Betrayers of the Star Ravagers: Colonel Grant and Admiral Johanna

Aggy imagined the crew would feel relief when the cursed ship was gone. The other two vessels we’d confiscated, the black ops ships, had already been fed to the Prométhée.

Balan had managed to save the computer of Target One from being purged, but there wasn’t much data to go on. The spook ships had been ordered to search the Chorinth System for signs of any activity, particularly large naval vessels. They had been sweeping Chorinth-F2 after noticing the disturbance in the planet’s atmosphere caused by the departure of the Prométhée.

Did the Saints know Aggy was back? Were they searching for the Liens Lumineux, or were they trying to track down the mobile shipyard?

The crew didn’t know anything. They had all been drawn from other ships and duties. The senior officers had been secretive to the extreme, and the black-clad soldiers had enforced discipline with lethal force.

The dead bodies provided no clues, outside of what we already knew. The soldiers had been highly cyberized, little more than thralls. The human officers had worn uniforms shorn of ornamentation, with no indication of where they had come from.

We had disposed of both ships, tearing them apart and feeding them to the furnaces of the Prométhée. They would be used as the raw materials for the fleet we’d need to take our fight to Principe Divin and the corrupt Saints.

The Esprit de Liberté had been left intact. Xarl and Elspeth had tried to strip it for salvage, but accidents and unexplained incidents had marred their efforts. Even stranger, the drones and automatons they had sent had failed as well, suffering malfunctions that even Aggy could not explain.

Even the memory modules we had recovered from the ship, the fragmented pieces of Aggy’s memory, were corrupt and unreadable. The AI had tried to access the data on the crystalline sheets, but all she had recovered from them was garbled, damaged data. She had ended up quarantining them as she tried to recover the memories they contained.

Republic-trained sailors were not the superstitious sort, but rumors about Saint Charlotte’s vessel soon began to circulate amongst the crew.

Declaring that I would destroy the ship, I personally led the crew responsible for documenting the departed Saint’s depravity. We’d need records in order to turn more people to the truth.

I wasn’t one to believe in the supernatural. Even when I had been on board the Outrider station and plagued by the voices of my dead battle brothers and sisters, I had known they weren’t real.

But I swore that ship was haunted. Things moved in the shadows, and my HUD kept fritzing out, detecting things that weren’t there.

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