Mercy Mission E-Book

Cora Buhlert

• Herausgeber: Cora Buhlert
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Holly di Marco used to think that joining the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire was a good career move. However, she is beginning to doubt her judgment, for her rebel comrades treat her as nothing but a lowly mercenary, never to be entrusted with anything important.During a rescue mission to the planet of Caswallon, Holly is given the boring duty to guard some service tunnels, while her fellow rebels get to have all the fun once again. However, this dull job turns out to be a lot more exciting than expected when Holly runs into a traumatised young man and saves him from an Imperial death squad.The man Holly rescued turns out to be Ethan, Lord Summerton, only survivor of an aristocratic family with rebel sympathies. Saving his life brings Holly to the attention of the elected leaders of the rebellion. It also changes her own life irrevocably, for as they used to say on Old Earth, saving someone's life means being responsible for him for the rest of your own.This is a novella of 27000 words or approximately 80 print pages in the Shattered Empire series.

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Mercy Mission

by Cora Buhlert

Bremen, Germany

Copyright © 2013 by Cora Buhlert

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In the far future, humanity has spread out across the universe, colonised every corner of the galaxy and formed the Fifth Human Empire. It should have been an age of greatness and glory, the pinnacle of human achievement. But instead it was an age of misery and injustice, an age where the wealth of humanity was concentrated in the hands of a small clique of aristocrats and corporations, an age where freedom only meant the freedom to starve, an age where the Empire stood not for peace and justice but only for fear. Until one day, a scattered band of rebels came together to overthrow the Fifth Human Empire. These are their stories.

Mercy Mission

Holly di Marco sneezed, for the umpteenth time since landing. Her hand tightened on her blaster, as she pressed close to the corridor wall, listening intently, until her concentration was shattered by a follow-up sneeze that forced its way out of her nose.

Holly flattened even tighter against the wall and forced herself to breathe deep and steadily, while listening for signs of company. There were none. Nothing except for the steady humming of heavy machinery somewhere in the distance.

Snot dripped from her nose, sending Holly hunting for a tissue in a pocket of her utility belt. She found one, blew her nose and dabbed at her teary eyes. The sneezing and the dripping eyes and nose were a problem. There was something in the atmosphere of this planet that her lungs didn’t like. And if she wasn’t careful, her constant sneezing would give her location away to the enemy. Never mind that it was hard to fight and aim with swollen eyes.