Аннотация
Andy Hoare
Rogue Star
For Sarah
CHAPTER ONE
'Helm, seven degrees pitch to starboard! Number three's misbehaving again. Deal with it.
Lucian Gerrit, rogue trader, turned his back on Raldi, his helmsman and resumed his vigil at the bridge viewing port. His vessel, the heavy cruiser Oceanid, felt cold to him. The after-effect, he knew, of so long a voyage through the empyrean to reach this far-flung system at the very border of the Emperor's domains.
A jarring shudder ran through the deck plate, felt in the bones more than heard.
'If you can't compensate for a grizzling plasma drive, Mister Raldi, I can always disconnect one of the waste ingestion servitors and see if it's capable of making a better show of it than you appear to be. Do I make myself clear?
If the helmsman answered, Lucian wasn't in the mood to hear. Though a ship to be proud of, the Oceanid was long past her prime. Even in a space-faring culture in which ves...

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