Commerce Raider
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Hughy Terson, midshipman aboard the commerce raider Aquila, has charge of the prize crew aboard the captured passenger liner Princess. He’s an outlaw in the eyes of the Oligarchy, but the Confederation was merely the first to revolt in an inevitable process of trade liberalization. Getting Aquila to a safe haven is challenge enough. The beautiful and enigmatic Griffa Kathria Marte is another problem. Only a fool would trust her, or fall under her spell. A short and gripping space opera of the not-too-distant future.
Louis Shalako
Louis Shalako is the founder of Long Cool One Books and the author of twenty-two novels, numerous novellas and other short stories. Louis studied Radio, Television and Journalism Arts at Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology, later going on to study fine art. He began writing for community newspapers and industrial magazines over thirty years ago. His stories appear in publications including Perihelion Science Fiction, Bewildering Stories, Aurora Wolf, Ennea, Wonderwaan, Algernon, Nova Fantasia, and Danse Macabre. He lives in southern Ontario and writes full time. Louis enjoys cycling, swimming and good books.
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Commerce Raider - Louis Shalako
Commerce Raider
Louis Shalako
Copyright 2016 Louis Shalako and Long Cool One Books
Design: J. Thornton
ISBN 978-1-927957-93-6
The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person living or deceased, or to any places or events, is purely coincidental. Names, places, settings, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination.
Table of Contents
Act One
Act Two
Act Three
About Louis Shalako
Commerce Raider
Louis Shalako
Act One
The passenger liner Princess was three days out from the fueling station at Iota Horologii, 56.2 light years from Sol and ultimately headed for Canopus.
The Aquila, commerce raider for the Confederation, had the legs on her with the latest generation Emerson Drive.
They were coming up fast from behind when Princess was hailed.
Stand and deliver, or surrender. The choice was theirs. Their third option was to be destroyed.
Captain Luigi Bocanfusca was incensed, but with four thousand passengers and completely defenceless, he had little choice but to heave-to and accept a boarding party. Under the circumstances, that meant ceasing acceleration and holding to a steady course and velocity.
They’d run a few drills on the trip, passengers and crew. It took a few minutes, half an hour at most. Passengers and crew had to be secured, strapping in to their berths unless in hospital or at duty stations. A whisper in his ear by the Third Officer, a look of sheer consternation and his hurried departure from the head table was the first clue anyone had of anything out of the ordinary.
In two and a half years, Aquila had taken nineteen prizes, and destroyed shipping totalling two-point-two million tonnes, with an estimated value of three and a half trillion credits. Captain Bocanfusca was also aware from briefings and prior news coverage that Aquila would shoot if provoked, which by