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ANSS Mythos
Oslun III system
4144.6.10 Galactic
Deserters? This explained a lot of the subterfuge. “Okay, so you’re deserters. Why don’t you go into the badlands with your two ships anyway?”
They had been about to fire on the Hunter. Or had they? I think we have a Trojan horse situation here. Nick had no idea where the Trojan horse expression originated—or in reality its true meaning— but he certainly knew when he’d been tricked.
Obri explained. “We’re almost out of fuel and have no power left for the weapons. If we crossed into the badlands, a blind pirate with a peashooter could take us out with the first shot. And we’d run out of the last of our fuel and be adrift within two weeks of crossing the border.” His eyes became hard points. “Either way, we’d surely be dead before we lo
