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WE DARE is a science fiction anthology series focused on humanity surviving against all odds. In this third anthology NO MAN’S LAND brings together a great cohort of contributing writers, each telling a story with a female lead.
In my story, “On Space Tigers” I bring you to the Rings of Saturn where the worst adversaries in a dangerous space environment are the other humans.
Rhea Sadou leads a team of prospectors working out of a string of Ring space stations to scoop out and process the gases of Saturn’s outer atmosphere into lucrative helium three (he-three) fuel. They sell often to repeat customers in and near Earth orbit and more rarely to space ships headed out of Sol System spreading humanity into the stars.
The outbounder ship Poyekhali paid for half their he-three in advance. The outbounder ship’s communications have been smooth, and one of the pricy he-three scoopers has been acting up, so Rhea put young Shulie in charge of coordinating with Poyekhali. The young spacer should be able to handle a routine buyer’s inspection of the fuel payload, and Rhea’s engineers have done the checks on the launcher for sending it on an intercept course along the Poyekhali’s outward route.
But the Poyekhali’s shuttle isn’t coming to buy. They don’t have the second half payment, and they have to have their he-three for Poyekhali to make her rendezvouses for resource extraction with deep space objects along her plotted route. The shuttle naive Shulie is expecting will arrive not with buyers but with thieves. And they are first time thieves who’ve never hijacked a station before or known anyone else who has.
If Rhea can protect her station from desperate fools, can she also find a way to find and fight the true villains?
WE DARE is a science fiction anthology series focused on humanity surviving against all odds. In this third anthology NO MAN’S LAND brings together a great cohort of contributing writers, each telling a story with a female lead.
In my story, “On Space Tigers” I bring you to the Rings of Saturn where the worst adversaries in a dangerous space environment are the other humans.
Rhea Sadou leads a team of prospectors working out of a string of Ring space stations to scoop out and process the gases of Saturn’s outer atmosphere into lucrative helium three (he-three) fuel. They sell often to repeat customers in and near Earth orbit and more rarely to space ships headed out of Sol System spreading humanity into the stars.
The outbounder ship Poyekhali paid for half their he-three in advance. The outbounder ship’s communications have been smooth, and one of the pricy he-three scoopers has been acting up, so Rhea put young Shulie in charge of coordinating with Poyekhali. The young spacer should be able to handle a routine buyer’s inspection of the fuel payload, and Rhea’s engineers have done the checks on the launcher for sending it on an intercept course along the Poyekhali’s outward route.
But the Poyekhali’s shuttle isn’t coming to buy. They don’t have the second half payment, and they have to have their he-three for Poyekhali to make her rendezvouses for resource extraction with deep space objects along her plotted route. The shuttle naive Shulie is expecting will arrive not with buyers but with thieves. And they are first time thieves who’ve never hijacked a station before or known anyone else who has.
If Rhea can protect her station from desperate fools, can she also find a way to find and fight the true villains?
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