Resolute

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Lieutenant Kris Longknife's footsteps echoed off the walls of the space station. Kris had expected High Chance to be bustling with business. Instead it looked like a tin can, rinsed and ready to be dumped in the nearest recycle bin.

There was no sign of a welcoming committee from her new command… Naval District 41. No sign of anything… alive.

''They told me it was an independent command,'' Kris half whispered to herself.

''Did they mention it was solitary?'' came from behind her.

Kris turned. Lieutenant Penny Pasley-Lien had been very quiet on the trip out to Chance. Penny was recently a bride and only slightly more recently a widow. Kris measured Penny's words for joke or serious, and found them balanced on a knife edge.

''At least there's no sign of an attack,'' said First Lieutenant Jack Montoya, in full battle armor—and paranoia mode. Now of the Royal United Sentient Marines, Jack formally had been in Wardhaven's Secret Service. The exact circumstances of his change in service were something Kris did not want to think about.

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