Void Drifter by J.N. Chaney & Jason Anspach

Author:J.N. Chaney & Jason Anspach [Chaney, J.N. & Anspach, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0D2382W95
Goodreads: 211768373
Publisher: Variant Publications
Published: 2024-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

25

The space traffic control tower was marked with a green waypoint in the side display of my HUD. I did my best to refamiliarize myself with the layout while the hold’s cargo doors lowered under Quin’s command. As far as maps went, the HUD was helpful. An arrow showed the direction I needed to travel relative to wherever I faced, and my current position appeared as a green dot amid a scaled down mini-map that pinpointed me in the part of the Imperium docking bay that the Phaelon now stood. A distance counter at the bottom showed that I was three hundred meters shy of the objective.

I took a couple of steps backward and watched the distance increase. “Cool.”

Fera shot me a look, and I quickly cleared my throat and readied the DK-5. Almost a third of a kilometer with virtually no cover. Running into the QRF in one of the many open corridors would go bad for us in a hurry. I needed to take this seriously.

Only, the more I did that, the more frightened and worried I got. I tightened my grip on the SMG. A trickle of sweat ran down the nape of my neck.

Quin gave us an update. “QRF will be on the deck in less than two minutes.”

No one acknowledged him.

“We’re going on offense,” Fera said, although it seemed like she was looking only at me. “Anyone who tries to stop us is a valid target, whether they’re armed or not, and whether they have their backs to us or not.”

I looked away, working my jaw because I wasn’t sure what to say. I didn’t like the sound of that. I didn’t sign up for any of this; I was here by happy accident, but the happy was quickly being replaced with deadly. I never imagined I’d be in combat before all this, and despite having lived through each encounter so far, I wasn’t sure I was cut out for it. The difference between myself and Sert or Fera was… well, I was a lot more like Lockett than either of them.

The door dropped down, and Fera ordered us out. Quietly.

I guessed there was no need to draw any extra attention, although I was sure the ship would have some kind of camera that was being monitored. The Phaelon certainly was full of them. I wondered how an Imperium AI would stack up to Quin.

We hit the deck of the Seventy moving at a speed just shy of run. It was a purposeful, very fast walk. I did my best to mimic the wide strides Fera now exhibited, moving from the ball of my heel forward onto the balls of my feet. It was remarkably quiet for how quickly we moved.

I was shocked at how familiar the inside of the ship appeared. Not that I’d ever seen anything like it in real life, but it looked like any ship I’d seen in movies and video games. The deck was a polished black, almost like marble,

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