Starship Victory: Welcome to Fabulous Earth-Vegas: Starship Victory, #3
By Joey Peters
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Engineering Chief Golem is content enough to hide in his quarters with a bottle of robot hooch, at least until he gets an invitation to a game tournament on luxurious Earth-Vegas. Earth-Vegas, is of course the fabulous planet sized casino. Even the promise of debauchery isn't enough to get Golem to cash in his vacation time, at least until he sees the tournament's prize: the processor unit from his lost younger brother.
Once on the ground on Earth-Vegas, however, he discovers that acquiring that piece of technology will be easier said than done. He must face down his fellow gamblers, masters of every game of chance, and worse, a gang of pirates from the Asimov Network. Does Golem have any hope of winning his brother's brain?
Meanwhile, the Victory is enlisted to test a fancy new engine. And they're probably better off without their Chief Engineer, because he mostly got the job out of nepotism and the fact that he's a robot.
Find out in the third episode of the Starship Victory saga!
Joey Peters
Joey Peters is a writer, cartoonist and beauty contest champion. His comics have appeared in “In a Single Bound”, “Leftovers of the Living Dead”, the Boston Phoenix, and all across the internet. He is probably most well known for his reimaginings of public domain superheroes, most particularly Stardust the Super-Wizard. His other prose works include the “Starship Victory” series and “Moonlit Massacres”. Joey lives in Boston with his wife, Donna.
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Starship Victory - Joey Peters
Welcome to Earth-Vegas
Golem ran down the clock as second shift approached. He’d been at work for nearly eight hours straight. Being an android and also the chief of the Engineering Section meant that, at least ostensibly, he didn’t take breaks. Physically he didn’t need them and as the boss he wouldn’t get a chance. Well, when it was busy, anyway.
He’d spent the last half hour running diagnostics on the forward scanner array. This was a perfect job for him today, because the screen of his tablet kept scrolling past with impressive looking graphs but it also required almost no thought. Big spike? Tap the data scrubber icon. The graph goes straight? Tap the data scrubber icon.
Someone came up behind him. But that was the beauty of running diagnostics on the forward scanner array. You’d have to be an engineer to understand that those pretty graphs signified nothing.
Sir,
Lieutenant Gomez said, Do you have anything to report for the next crew shift?
Lieutenant Gomez was a junior chief in Engineering. If it had been any of the other junior chiefs Golem would have jumped out of his transparent skin, but Lieutenant Gomez never questioned Golem. In fact, it was Golem who got him the gig.
Nothing,
Chief Golem said, We’re just cooling our heels until that diplomatic party is done on Mackenzie-Beta. Everything operating in normal parameters.
In that case, you are relieved, sir,
Lieutenant Gomez said. Have a good one, dude.
Golem nodded and walked out of Engineering. He briefly thought about a trip to the Ship’s Pub, but it hadn’t been a terribly stressful day. And he was down to thirteen percent power. He had to recharge his batteries.
So he continued to his quarters. The door slid open for him and he sat down on his recliner. A cable emerged from the ceiling and hooked itself up into the back of his neck.
He sat like this for a few minutes, waiting for his batteries to charge up but finally he grew bored. He checked his personal message archive.
He had new mail.
It had come from Galactic Union Command from one of the central systems. Only a hub or two away from Earth-1.
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Thought you might want to hear about this.
Golem, long time. Met any new girls?
Life on the Science Ship Socrates is pretty boring. I arranged some shore leave on Earth-11 and when I was there I heard about something. There’s this Zifneb tourney going on this weekend. I