Chainsaw: Khorsky

By David Adams

Nation states often engage in espionage and black-ops, even in times of peace. Especially in those times.

 

Russian Confederation pilot Lieutenant Borislava "Chainsaw" Lukina's task is simple. Find the United Earth frigate Vigilance, and distract them while a spetsnaz agent attaches a tracking beacon to the ship's hull. All they have to do is cripple their own ship and wait to be found, then engage in a risky space-walk with no backup where they'll both be shot as spies if they're caught.

 

What could possibly go wrong?

A novella set in the Legacy Fleet universe, sixteen years before the events of Legacy Fleet. A prequel to the novel Hammerfall.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Adams
• Release date: Jul 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393725961

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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Chainsaw by David Adams

Copyright David Adams

2016

Nation states often engage in espionage and black-ops, even in times of peace. Especially in those times.

Russian Confederation pilot Lieutenant Borislava Chainsaw Lukina’s task is simple. Find the United Earth frigate Vigilance, and distract them while a spetsnaz agent attaches a tracking beacon to the ship’s hull. All they have to do is cripple their own ship and wait to be found, then engage in a risky space-walk with no backup where they’ll both be shot as spies if they’re caught.

What could possibly go wrong?

A novella set in the Legacy Fleet universe, sixteen years before the events of Legacy Fleet. A prequel to the novel Hammerfall.

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Book one of the Lacuna series

Symphony of War

Book one of the Symphony of War series

Ren of Atikala (FREE)

Book one of the Kobolds series

Other Legacy Fleet fan works

Hammerfall

by David Adams

Meridian

by Moira Katson

Ascendance

by Saul Tanpepper

Chronicle Worlds: Legacy Fleet

presented by Samuel Peralta & Nick Webb

A collection of short stories by many authors, including Pavlov’s Dogs by me!

Chainsaw

A novella set in the universe of Legacy Fleet

"Follow these instructions in order to maintain good operating condition

and a long service life.

Misuse of the chainsaw can cause serious bodily injury."

— Bushranger CS4020 Chainsaw Manual

A quick guide to gratuitous Russian

Cука блядь (Cuka bljad’) - a rude exclamation, lit. Fucking bitch

Заткнись (Zatknis’) - Shut up

За ваше здоровье (Za vase zdorovje) - A toast, to your health!

Здорово (Zdorovo) - Awesome!

The Great Patriotic War - World War II

DEEP SPACE

Aldrin System

Deep space

Year 2638

Two months before the events of Hammerfall and Vigilance

Sixteen years before the events of Constitution

Hey Anne, asked Lieutenant Borislava Chainsaw Lukina as her dropship slowly spun end over end, the stars drifting from the bottom of her cockpit to the top, do artificial intelligences feel fear?

The shipboard computer said nothing for a split second. An eternity in robot time. A United Earth frigate floated up in front of her ship’s cockpit, blocking out the stars with a wall of metal. The Vigilance. Their enemy. Sort of.

What do you mean?

Fear, for me, is not as you understand it. Anne’s synthetic voice was free of emotion, but her words carried a strength with them that went beyond tone and articulation. I understand caution. I understand risk and probabilities. I understand when a plan is bad.

Okay, said Chainsaw. What do you think of this plan, then?

This time Anne’s response was swift. "This plan? Break our own engines in deep space, so that the spetsnaz agent in our passenger compartment can attach a homing beacon to whatever ship comes to rescue us, all the while hoping nobody looks out the window and sees her working?" The yellow q-drive malfunction light flashed on the console, as though punctuating her point. This isn’t a good plan.

Cука блядь. Why did she volunteer for this black-ops shit? Fleet Command had asked her to. Typical. No large organisation was lacking idiots making important decisions.

The UE ship