![]() ![]() However, it’s placement is in the vastest ocean of all, the emptiness between worlds across the universe. Forester or any number of sea faring tales of the Navy versus pirates, merchants and enemies on the sea. The technology in these stories imposes constraints on space naval officers similar to those of wet naval officers two hundred years ago. ![]() ‘On Basilisk Station’ is something very different from anything I’ve ever previously read, for a number of reasons. ![]() Parliament is at odds whether it wants to keep the place the major local industry is rife with smuggling the merchant cartels want her head the star-conquering “Republic” of Haven is definitely up to something and her naval force is a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn’t work when required to police an entire star system.īut the people out to get her have made on mistake. The aborigines of the system’s only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship’s humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. “Having made her superior look like a fool, she’s been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace, there she meets her past and is set up for ruin. ![]()
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