Galactic Gambit
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  • Reads 113
  • Votes 31
  • Parts 31
  • Time 6h 35m
Ongoing, First published Jun 30, 2024
Mature
Captain Neoma Erasmus. Exploring worlds, making money and kicking ass, and maybe even falling in love. Who the hell knows. Every day is something new now, not the same old ratchet and clank, work orders, blah blah blah-but it didn't start that way. Neo was fired from her job on The Starlight Fury and marooned on a refueling station. With a little help from a friend, she was thrown into a whole new adventure. One that will lead her into the midst of a dubious plot by the totalitarian entity that is the UICA. The United Intergalactic Compliance Agency.
Tasked to retrieve a mysterious cargo, Neo and her rag-tag crew explore the universe and the planets. But things do not go as smoothly as she hoped, and they soon find themselves on the run, and out of time, with the life of one of her crewmembers hanging in the balance. Will they survive what is to come?

***This is a work in progress and a series. I have been working on it for two years. This is a revamped version of the original. Warning-Book one ends in a cliff hanger.
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