Horse Latitudes

Sometimes, silence is just the quiet before the storm.

When the

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crew is assigned to transport a young Union ambassador on his first diplomatic mission, they're promised a few weeks of quiet downtime. Easy money.What they find is a diplomatic quagmire. On one side is an untrusting, desperate, and dying world willing to do anything to anyone in order to secure their own survival. On the other is their thriving neighbor: equally desperate, but for entirely different reasons.And dead in the water, the

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readies to weather the coming storm - weather it, or be swept away in its fury.