by Blaze Ward
“And if I refuse?” Zakhar asked, his back coming up.
Die by the sword…
“I could have already annihilated you from here if I wanted to, Storm Gauntlet,” she replied with the faintest twinkle in her eyes. “I just wanted to see if you still had what it took to be a Concord officer, Zakhar Sokolov, after everything that happened at Svalbard and Shangdu. I’m not boarding you. You and your crew will be coming aboard Hammerfield to begin repairs.”
Zakhar felt his jaw drop open.
“Who the hell are you?” he finally managed to get out.
“Once upon a time, a Yeoman in the Concord fleet, about the time your great-grandfather was born,” she smiled suddenly. It lit up her whole face, her whole being. “Then an explorer. And finally a princess, hidden in a tower.”
“I don’t understand,” Zakhar said.
Looking around, nobody else did, either. Piet and Mary-Elizabeth had made it onto the deck, but just stood there, mouths agape. Dominguez never once looked up from his board. Smart, given the environment.
“My name is Suvi. I was the Probe-Cutter Mielikki when you captured her, Captain Sokolov,” she said, that smile suddenly turning cold and hard again. “I control Hammerfield. I would have happily splattered all of you into a cooling plasma cloud, but Javier tells me that we’re partners now. I wanted to make sure you were still a warrior, Sokolov. I have a war to win.”
There were no words.
No. There was one.
Sentience.
He had done it. Javier had managed the absolutely impossible. And conned Zakhar into helping.
Javier had rescued his ship’s Sentience, after all. Hidden her away for all these years. Installed her on a ship powerful enough to engage a Concord cruiser head on.
Those bastards at Walvisbaai didn’t have a clue what was coming.
Zakhar rapped his left fist, his Concord Academy class ring, down onto the arm of his command chair. That warm, reassuring thump. The universal greeting between officers of the Concord Navy.
He looked up at her, proud and suddenly confident.
This strange woman, this Sentience shared his smile.
“All hands,” Zakhar opened a ship-wide channel. “Prepare for docking. All damage control teams prepare for soft-suit EVA. Wardroom, please brew the coffee extra thick. We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us.”
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Be sure to pick up the other books in The Science Officer series!
The Science Officer
The Mind Field
The Gilded Cage
The Pleasure Dome
The Doomsday Vault
You can also get volumes 1-4 collected together in
The Science Officer Omnibus 1
The final two volumes of Season One will be available in December, 2017:
The Hammerfield Gambit
The Hammerfield Payoff
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Blaze Ward writes science fiction in the Alexandria Station universe: The Jessica Keller Chronicles, The Science Officer series, The Doyle Iwakuma Stories, and others. He also writes about The Collective as well as The Fairchild Stories and Modern Gods superhero myths. You can find out more at his website www.blazeward.com, as well as Facebook, Goodreads, and other places.
Blaze’s works are available as ebooks, paper, and audio, and can be found at a variety of online vendors (Kobo, Amazon, iBooks, and others). His newsletter comes out quarterly, and you can also follow his blog on his website. He really enjoys interacting with fans, and looks forward to any and all questions-even ones about his books!
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ALSO BY BLAZE WARD
The Jessica Keller Chronicles:
Auberon
Queen of the Pirates
Last of the Immortals
Goddess of War
Flight of the Blackbird
Additional Alexandria Station Stories
The Story Road
Siren
The Science Officer Series:
The Science Officer
The Mind Field
The Gilded Cage
The Pleasure Dome
The Doomsday Vault
The Last Flagship
Doyle Iwakuma Stories
The Librarian
Demigod
Greater Than The Gods Intended
Other Science Fiction Stories
Myrmirdons
Moonshot
Menelaus
Earthquake Gun
Moscow Gold
Fairchild
White Crane
The Collective Universe
The Shipwrecked Mermaid
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The Last Flagship
Volume 6
Blaze Ward
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Book Seventeen: Avalon
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Book Eighteen: Derelict
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Book Nineteen: Hammerfield
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Book Twenty: Excalibur
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
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