NeoGāthe Near-Earth Orbital Guard, a diverse military force that patrols and protects the solar system, inspired by the real-life mission of the Coast Guardāand the crew of Zumaās Ghost are under attack, and shocking truths are about to be exposed.
What the black takes should stay in the black.
Ensign Nell āSapphiā Zika has been working hard to get past her trauma, but the unnerving pleas for help sheās hearing in the Verge and the song she canāt get out of her head are making that increasingly difficult. As Zumaās Ghost gears up for a final run at the Boarding Games, their expert hacker is feeling anything but confident. Plus, her chiefās robot dog, Doge, is acting weirdāa computer problem she canāt find an answer toāand the increasing number of missing freighters is putting everyone living on or stationed around Trappist on edge.
It doesnāt help the NeoGās mission that Dread Treasure is sidelined from competing in the Boarding Games, and Commander DāArcy Montaglione is stuck on the front lines of the mystery of the missing ships while also stuck in his own head. Never good at trusting people to begin with, heās struggling to piece together his new crew in the aftermath of a great betrayal, knowing this may be his final chance at command. The last thing he wants to do is prove his enemies right and end up getting shoved behind a desk and forgotten. The easy answer to missing ships is pirates, but DāArcy soon realizes the easiest answer is rarely the right one out in the vacuum of space. Whatās worse is that the actual pirates are scared of something out beyond the asteroid belt. Something thatās been taking their ships tooā¦
As the unknowns multiply and one of their mysterious enemies escalates by launching an attack on the NeoG itself, the Interceptor crews must brave both cyber and outer space to hunt down their foes, but no one is prepared for the truth that is revealed or the way it will shake the foundations of everything they believe about the universe.
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