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    Magnet: Lacuna
    Magnet: Lacuna
    Magnet: Lacuna
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    Magnet: Lacuna

    By David Adams

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    It's 2037. I'm Mike Williams, but you can call me 'Magnet'. Everyone else does. It's short for 'Chick Magnet'. Good old-fashioned military humour at its finest. At age fifteen, my face picked a fight with the propeller of my family's boat, on a shoal near Broome, off Western Australia. It was an accident, but, needless to say, the propeller won.

    Twelve years later, I was a not-so-ruggedly-handsome fighter pilot assigned to the TFR Sydney. Not the Captain, or flight leader, or anything similarly exciting. Nobody special, just one mostly-unmemorable pilot among the many nameless, faceless masses.

    I'm Magnet. This is the beginning of my story.

    A 5500 word story in the Lacuna universe, set during the events of Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi but suitable to read as a stand-alone story.
                  
    Parts of the Lacuna universe:


    - Magnet
    - Magnet: Special Mission
    - Imperfect
    - Faith


    The Lacuna series:


    - Lacuna
    - Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi
    - Lacuna: The Spectre of Oblivion (New Release!)
    - Lacuna: The Ashes of Humanity (coming 2013!)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Adams
    Release dateApr 25, 2012
    ISBN9781497721784
    Magnet: Lacuna
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    David Adams

    David Adams served as an Officer in the Australian Army Reserve, trained alongside United States Marines Corps and Special Air Services SAS personnel, and served in the A.D.F as a Platoon Commander of Military Police. He has worked alongside Queensland Police Officers and held investigative roles with The Commission for Children and Child Safety.

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      Magnet - David Adams

      Magnet by David Adams

      Copyright David Adams

      2012

      Magnet

      20% of aircraft ejections result in the pilot sustaining career-ending injuries, such as death.

      - Anonymous

      Toralii Mining Colony

      Near the TFR Sydney

      During the events of Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi

      The splintering of glass reverberated around the cockpit. The Toralii energy pulse I had somewhat unsuccessfully tried to dodge blew right through my ship’s armour like it was paper. The inside of the canopy turned crimson, blood splattering against my Heads-Up Display as the decompression alarm wailed. Air hissed out the breach in my canopy, sucking the blood splatter towards it and out into the void, a bloody flower blooming right before my eyes.

      The wound didn’t hurt, but I knew it was bad. I hadn’t seen this much blood since the accident.

      It’s the year 2037. My name’s Mike Williams, callsign Magnet. I’m a pilot in the Australian Air/Space Force. Right at this very moment I’m strapped into the pilot’s seat of a SSF-01 Wasp with a hole in it.

      Magnet’s hit, Magnet’s hit.

      The voice of my wingman, Viper, came through on my radio. I turned my head to orientate myself with my mothership, the Sydney, and with a faint squeal of static Viper’s voice inexplicably cut out. I was alone, floating in the darkness, my spaceship venting atmosphere and my blood pouring out all over space. My radar, one of the few functional systems I had left, showed three red dots break off from the main furball and swing towards my ship. The Toralii were coming to finish me off.

      Dying was going to really mess up my day.

      *****

      My fellow pilots call me Magnet, short for Chick Magnet, good old-fashioned military humour at its finest. I’m a pilot in the Australian Air/Space Force, working with Task Force Resolution.

      We’d been given the task of assaulting a mining colony. It

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