Résultats pour "Het incident" dans Space-opera

Pilote de vaisseau, Mallory Sajean est victime d’un maître chanteur. Afin de conserver son propre navire, elle est forcée d’effectuer un transport qu’elle sait illégal. Pour ne rien arranger, elle se retrouve associée avec un individu louche et à la gâchette facile: le travail de livraison tourne soudainement à la fusillade.

The Painting was dramatic, passionate, a work of genius. But Earl Dumarest was blind to its power. For there, in the background, were the features of cratered Luna, satellite of Earth, the fabled planet that Dumarest had sought through countless galaxies.

Mars is supposed to be dead. Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to roll seemingly of their own volition carving canals as they converge to form a towering structure amid the ruddy terrain, Lt. Jain and her JSC team realize that their routine geological survey of a Martian cave system is anything but. The only clues they have stem from the emissions of a mysterious blue radiation, and a 300-year-old journal that is writing itself.

Three unsuspecting individuals, marooned after a devastating sneak attack on the United Terran Federation Naval Reclamation Center - a huge, orbiting junkyard located in a remote corner of Federation space - are forced to confront their limitations and team up to fight back against unknown, heavily armed foes who threaten their continued survival.

Evicting people from their homes is a crappy job, but Elfrida Goto knows that somebody has to do it. If she can't evict the squatters from asteroid 11073 Galapagos, it'll further delay a project she cares deeply about: terraforming Venus. Unfortunately, Elfrida's remote telepresence robot isn't cooperating, and neither are the asteroid's inhabitants. When an enemy fleet attacks her home base and heads straight for Galapagos, her mission changes in a hurry.

The Modronovich, a cargo ship testing a prototype Newtonian drive, loses contact on its shakedown cruise. It was briefly seen, overdue and far off course, and then never heard from again. Two-hundred fifty years later, Penelope Middleton walks into Spaulding Recovery Services with a copy of a garbled transmission recorded by her grandfather, a communications technician serving aboard Capella Station during the Modronovich’s voyage. Haunted by childhood memories of him and the enigmatic partial transmission, she hires Spaulding’s pilot and wreck diver to unravel the mystery.

During a covert mission to the edge of Mechad space, the Vektrean Spy Cruiser Watcher uncovers more than the crew bargained for. Meanwhile, out on the fringe of Argonian and Corporate space, a new and more hostile race than even the Mechad has arrived, declaring the Far Side races surrender, or be pacified....