Palace of Chrome
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Last published Thu, Mar 6, 2025
A small mercenary group down on their luck and on their last legs decides to take a new work from a very wealthy client that should open them doors to more opportunities and more money. It all seems simple at first, board an old space station that returned to the solar system after about hundred years of absence, take the black box and all the information relating to its former owner and creator and deliver them to their client. But very soon, their task will prove to be much more complicated than it seemed as their personal histories resurface and they realize there is an invisible danger that slowly bends their minds.
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