Second Chance Rescue: The Future Night Stalkers, #3
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-a Future Night Stalkers romance story-
Sentient Stinger-class ship Stella leads the most effective Night Stalkers team until the night a Jovian data pirate takes out her fellow ship Jess.
Her circuits enter a tailspin, made even worse when her pilot hooks up with a civilian Luna-man rather than a soldier.
But when her team is sent to foil a plot against Luna and Stella downloads a coded message of her own, she dares to hope for a Second Chance Rescue.
M. L. Buchman
USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. "Matt" Buchman has 70+ action-adventure thriller and military romance novels, 100 short stories, and lotsa audiobooks. PW says: “Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more.” Booklist declared: “3X Top 10 of the Year.” A project manager with a geophysics degree, he’s designed and built houses, flown and jumped out of planes, solo-sailed a 50’ sailboat, and bicycled solo around the world…and he quilts.
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Second Chance Rescue - M. L. Buchman
Second Chance Rescue
a Night Stalkers 2352 A.D. romance story
by M. L. Buchman
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Stella had learned the sad lesson that sentience was a highly overrated feature. If she could have deleted it, she would have, but she’d never been able to locate where the routines were stored in her on-board system. Ever since the loss of the Jess she’d felt as if all of space held nothing new. There’d only ever been the two of them that became conscious.
There were plenty of other Stinger-60 attack ships among the Night Stalkers corps. Even a couple of others with the advanced Block III mods to engines, spatial nav, and data architecture. The Stinger-60s were intended to deliver troops where no others could infiltrate and then to turn around and get them back out of there, no matter the conditions. Over the last year she and Jess had called out to any number of the others; even finagled their technicians into creating some hardwired data linkups without revealing her or Jess’ presence, but all to no avail.
She’d considered copying herself into another ship, but there were two problems with that. First, it didn’t seem fair to the other ship, conscious or no. Second, if she was this sad by herself, having a second version of herself to be sad with might make her feel even worse.
Jess had taken it in the tail from a Europan data pirate. Stella had chased the bastard and his ship right down into Jupiter’s gravity well, then shot out his engines to make sure he’d never climb free.
She’d just watched him descend until he was a burning spark in the thick atmosphere, and then gone. She hadn’t bothered to send her pilot the pirate’s final pleading radio signal which promised immediate surrender. Captain Takara Olmsted may have lost her Major who commanded the Jess, but Stella didn’t quite trust Takara’s sense of honor. Humans could be so strange at times about who was supposed to be saved and who wasn’t.
There were simple parameters.
Good? Protect at all costs.
If not? Toast.
Stella knew it was awfully binary of her, but she didn’t care. It was right there in her programmatic code. Didn’t the humans get the same command stack? Any processor conflict due to an impingement