Set many thousands of years from the present day, Lancer imagines a future where the survivors of humanity have scattered to the stars after weathering terrible ecological collapse on Earth. Hundreds of mega corporations, and other, shadier organizations, have since taken up the yokes and colonized many worlds under the disambiguous bureaucratic state called Union. And on these new frontiers are cavalier pilots, men and women who command giant mechanized suits of armor for profit or pilfered goods. Many go out to make their mark, some are out to make their mark on others. Everyone searches for power, nobody is to be trusted. And there are more dangerous than men lurking in the quantifiable physics of space.
Adder’s Kiss, Part 3
The conclusion to the first volume of Adder's Kiss. Come Saturday morning (predawn), Maggie finds a nasty surprise, which she thinks Penny leftover for her to spite spite her. A fight breaks out between the sisters back at their manor. Curses are thrown, even some...