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The colony owns the only door in the galaxy. Everyone has started to notice.
Earth is a memory. The Pact tolerates them. And somewhere in the Kragathi empire, a fleet commander is asking who hit his ships at Veranthos.
At first it looks like exactly what they signed up for: fix the one ship they stole, build a second out of two dead ones, and keep three hundred people fed.
Then the Pact's highest-ranking soldier makes Marcus Franks an offer that ends the colony's neutrality the hour he accepts it. Nothing in writing. Payment in machines nobody will admit to shipping.
The machines arrive. Then they start stopping mid-task and staring at an empty point in the sky.
Otis Hale wants eleven uninterrupted days to build a starship. He gets a puzzle instead. Someone has been counting traffic through the gates for years, patient and invisible. Their reports have never once been read.
Until now.
A colony of three hundred has no business in a war between empires. But the door makes them worth asking. It also makes them worth watching.
Genre: Science Fiction
Earth is a memory. The Pact tolerates them. And somewhere in the Kragathi empire, a fleet commander is asking who hit his ships at Veranthos.
At first it looks like exactly what they signed up for: fix the one ship they stole, build a second out of two dead ones, and keep three hundred people fed.
Then the Pact's highest-ranking soldier makes Marcus Franks an offer that ends the colony's neutrality the hour he accepts it. Nothing in writing. Payment in machines nobody will admit to shipping.
The machines arrive. Then they start stopping mid-task and staring at an empty point in the sky.
Otis Hale wants eleven uninterrupted days to build a starship. He gets a puzzle instead. Someone has been counting traffic through the gates for years, patient and invisible. Their reports have never once been read.
Until now.
A colony of three hundred has no business in a war between empires. But the door makes them worth asking. It also makes them worth watching.
Genre: Science Fiction
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