SADE
By T. Dalton
The mercenary ship appeared in the distance of space and I knew they’d finally come for me. I’d lived on a satellite my entire life, all eight years. Shaped like a ring, the satellite housed drone workers mining metanoid. Much sought after for its peculiar isotopic properties, supercomputers and AI systems relied on the rare mineral.
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