Gateway (Expeditionary Force Book 18)
Craig Alanson
Summary Gateway (Expeditionary Force Book 18)
Disaster. There was no other word to describe how Operation Olympic had changed in a flash from a triumph, to the worst failure the Merry Band of Pirates had ever experienced. A failure that
...Disaster. There was no other word to describe how Operation Olympic had changed in a flash from a triumph, to the worst failure the Merry Band of Pirates had ever experienced. A failure that meant the fight was over. Unless the Pirates could perform a miracle, without Skippy.
Episode list
CHAPTER ONE
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That he was falling too fast was evident from the sound of air
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Major Verhoef had been waiting behind a rock and under stealth
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CHAPTER FOUR
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The Noisy part began when ST-Razor launched sixteen rockets at
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I requested Reed to bring Valkyrie within a lighthour of where
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It would take twenty minutes to get the collector out of secure
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CHAPTER NINE
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I got through an entire morning without Skippy bothering me with
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It had been over six hours since Skippy resumed working on
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The second jump brought us one and a half lightminutes from the
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An ancient part of my brain interpreted his grinding mandibles as a
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
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What I should have considered was that when a major general
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What I wanted to do was bitch him out over not having an actual
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Oh sh-
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The trouble started with every seventh jump being off target more than the
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CHAPTER TWENTY
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CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
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The entrance to the vault is ninety degrees around from the old base
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Radiation and the solar wind stripping away the atmosphere left it cold and
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CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
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Hovering deep in the gravity well of a star required the engines to run
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CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
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CHAPTER THIRTY
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Another argument about some sketchy Skippy nonsense was the last
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Ten minutes after convening a meeting in the conference room with
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CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR
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CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE
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The Vortex wave functions by destabilizing the grid that underlies local
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The first indication that not everything had gone according to plan
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Valkyrie emerged thirty lightminutes beyond the vaguely defined
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