Narrator: Jason Keller
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'Citizens of the Federation. Greetings from the Core.'
Lieutenant Kalina Sokolova is aid to Counter-Admiral Kasparov the major strategist for the Russian navy. Kalina is also an agent of the Jinyiwei, an elite spy working for the UN. She is tasked with watching the Counter-Admiral, and assassination is not out of the question.
For decades the UN and the Russian military have navigated a tense interstellar Cold War. Peace is on the knife's edge, and events are coming ever closer to open conflict.
Solitaire Yeung is a corsair, a scavenger, a pirate, In the heart of a destroyed Russian battleship, his salvage crew discovers a mysterious device they shouldn't have: the brain of the ship's top secret artificial intelligence. And against all better sense, they take it and run.