Board Games for Space Rangers
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Last published Wed, Dec 9, 2020
The Venturer is the world to those who are born and die aboard. Earth is distant history, the revolutionary engineers of the great long-travelling starship venerated like gods. The sparse resources of the interstellar reach are shared among the people. Everyone has a place - found through the all-important board games that rule life in a recycled universe.
Cassie is a prodigy of the most revered games of all, those that train the Rangers who harvest stray asteroids from near space to feed the Venturer and its people. Against her better judgement, Cassie finds herself on a heroic mission through deadly vacuum, hundreds of kilometres from the life-giving modules of her home. However, nothing in space is as it seems. A shock discovery from beyond the black will thrust Cassie into the heart of a controversy that marks a new age of humanity, and reawakens the long-forgotten stirring of war.
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