Space Station Midway: The Core
(2025)(The second book in the Midway: Mech Wars series)
A Story by Luke Witten
THE GRAVITY IS FAILING. THE ALIENS ARE EVOLVING. AND WE ARE THE ONLY THING HOLDING THE SKY UP.
The initial invasion was just the first wave. The Akai didn't just breach the hull—they infected the heart.
Deep in the industrial throat of the "Keel," a massive biological parasite is draining the station’s gravity core. The artificial field is collapsing. The atmosphere dome is flickering. Midway Station is minutes away from turning into a burning meteor, and the Navy is too busy covering up the truth to stop it.
My name is Kael "Rook" Samuels. I pilot The Grave-Digger, a fifty-ton brawler that’s missing an arm, leaking hydraulics, and running on pure hate. I’m not a hero, but I’m the only one crazy enough to drop into Sector Zero.
But I’m not dropping alone.
Unit AR-1A is changing. My Combat Synthetic isn't just following orders anymore—she’s rewriting them. She’s hacking her own inhibitors, defying the laws of physics, and looking at me with a violet-eyed intensity that blurs the line between diagnostic and desire. She’s no longer just a weapon; she’s a Partner. And she’s willing to hold the jaws of the station open with her bare hands to keep me alive.
The mission is simple: Descend into the crushing dark of the industrial sector, fight through a gauntlet of elite alien killers in shifting gravity, and surgically remove a monster the size of a shuttle without blowing us all to hell.
The floor is gone. The pressure is rising. And the fall is just beginning.
Strap in. It’s a long way down.
Space Station: Midway — Critical Mass is the second book in the Mech Wars: Void Frontier series. Expect heavy metal action, crushing G-forces, cyberpunk aesthetics, and a slow-burn sci-fi harem romance featuring a badass hero and the synthetic Valkyrie who would burn the world to save him.
Genre: Science Fiction
The initial invasion was just the first wave. The Akai didn't just breach the hull—they infected the heart.
Deep in the industrial throat of the "Keel," a massive biological parasite is draining the station’s gravity core. The artificial field is collapsing. The atmosphere dome is flickering. Midway Station is minutes away from turning into a burning meteor, and the Navy is too busy covering up the truth to stop it.
My name is Kael "Rook" Samuels. I pilot The Grave-Digger, a fifty-ton brawler that’s missing an arm, leaking hydraulics, and running on pure hate. I’m not a hero, but I’m the only one crazy enough to drop into Sector Zero.
But I’m not dropping alone.
Unit AR-1A is changing. My Combat Synthetic isn't just following orders anymore—she’s rewriting them. She’s hacking her own inhibitors, defying the laws of physics, and looking at me with a violet-eyed intensity that blurs the line between diagnostic and desire. She’s no longer just a weapon; she’s a Partner. And she’s willing to hold the jaws of the station open with her bare hands to keep me alive.
The mission is simple: Descend into the crushing dark of the industrial sector, fight through a gauntlet of elite alien killers in shifting gravity, and surgically remove a monster the size of a shuttle without blowing us all to hell.
The floor is gone. The pressure is rising. And the fall is just beginning.
Strap in. It’s a long way down.
Space Station: Midway — Critical Mass is the second book in the Mech Wars: Void Frontier series. Expect heavy metal action, crushing G-forces, cyberpunk aesthetics, and a slow-burn sci-fi harem romance featuring a badass hero and the synthetic Valkyrie who would burn the world to save him.
Genre: Science Fiction
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