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Privateer's Commission - ch 15-

Ralph turned and entered the room Hae had indicated.

“Ralph,” came a gruff voice from the corner.

Looking to the speaker, Ralph saw Park sitting in a recliner. His one good hand held up a tablet in front of himself. The sleeve of his left arm was pinned at the elbow. He was missing it from that point down.

“Park,” Ralph said with hesitancy.

He lingered in the doorway, unsure of what to do, or even say.

Laughing, Park flicked the tablet down onto a side-ta...

Privateer's Commission -ch 14-

Ralph had his hand to his face.

Or more accurately, covering his mouth.

Turlan’s Toll was a ship-of-the-line from another time.

It just didn’t fit in with today’s military equivalents.

A standard Corvette often had a compliment of thirty missile bays. Fifteen to each “side”, given that they had a top and a bottom given they had a gravity plate.

Gunboats would scale upward to twenty to thirty a side, and were really just a bigger Corvette.

Destroye...

Privateer's Commission -ch 12-

Hitting the enter key, Ralph laughed.

Then groaned.

His leg was throbbing where he’d been shot.

Turning to the dead soldiers he bent down. Thinking about being shot had reminded him that he was lacking firearms.

Snatching pistols from holsters and the one person’s hand he stuffed them into his pistol brace. He collected magazines and dropped them all into his fanny pack as well.

Since it was empty, there wasn’t a reason to fill it up after all.

Moving...

Privateer's Commission -ch 11-

Shifting his boots around against the hull, Ralph made sure that the magnetic soles were working. They actively clanked into place and came off with an expected amount of strength.

Nodding his head he turned on the small light that was attached to the helmet.

He wouldn’t be able to see anything of course as the vast majority of ships were painted in colors that absorbed light and reflected nothing.

What he did need to see, was his explosives he was working with.

Look...

Privateer's Commission - ch 10-

Getting food went well.

Shopping went well.

Even the embassy visit went well.

Marionette’s bounty was wiped, she was turned into cargo, truly put into his roster as crew and property, and there wasn’t a single hiccup.

Xas never showed up.

Ralph had gone ahead and spoken to station security about it, but they didn’t have anything to say, or offer, to the situation. Xas hadn’t undergone any type of status change that they knew of, he was a citizen in good s...

Privateer's Commission -ch 9-

Marionette was gleefully putting away all the new clothes that’d been bought for her. Hanging them up in the remodeled bedroom’s closet made specifically for her.

There’d been a lot of room gained through the work he wanted done and it’d all been given to Marionette and her personal needs. A much larger walk-in closet, an actual armoire, and another wardrobe.

Setting a dress that barely made it to her thighs on the bed Marionette smiled at the cloth in her hands.

“...

Privateer's Commission -CH 8-

Laughing, Ralph threw his head back.

Full, deep, belly laughs.

“Oh stop it, my dear captain,” Marionette complained and gently bumped her elbow into his side. “It’s not that funny.”

Looking back at the screen, Ralph watched as Marionette’s character, which had died in the previous scene, was devoured by the dinosaurs.

Once again Ralph started to laugh.

At the same time he pulled on Marionette’s shoulder, and curled his arm partially. He gently ran h...

Privateer's Commission -ch -7

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Privateer's Commission -ch 6-

Marionette was breathing rather hard. He could tell she was experiencing a deep rush of fight of flight chemicals.

Realistically, he couldn’t see her ever having been in a fight before which meant this would be an extreme first time for her.

The ship that’d been chasing them swung wildly to one side and began firing in their direction. Several ballistic cannons that’d slid out of interior hard points of the ship.

All the rounds went wide, however.

The thermal blo...

Privateer's Commission - Ch 5-

Ralph glanced to the output of his AI as it’s screen flashed.

He reached over and tapped the screen once.

The AI would interpret that as it had his attention.

A readout was provided by the AI then.

An anomaly had been spotted along the route they were traveling on, though behind them.

A momentary shadow of radar, a whisper of a reading from a communications relay, a twinkling of light, anything could get the AI to pay attention and monitor the situation.

...

Privateer's Commission -Ch 4-

Quickly as he could, Ralph flipped through the possible locations to pick up food for the trip. Sorting through them one by one as they appeared on his traffic logs.

Additionally he was trying to find somewhere they could do some limited shopping since he didn’t think for even a moment that Marionette had everything she needed in her single piece of luggage. It was far more likely that she’d stuffed the bare essentials and quite possibly forgot more than she remembered.

Though...

Privateer's Commission -Ch 3-

There was a beep from the console in front of Ralph that caught his attention.

Looking at it he saw it was an active request on his ship for information. Which had likely come from orbit rather than the port since he was still utilizing the program provided to take him out of their space.

His brows furrowed as he mentally set Marionette aside and then reached out and nudge the speakers into the on position as well as the microphone that was part of his panel.

Then he moved h...

Privateers Commission -CH 2-

Ralph noted that the clerk had abandoned the cafe at some point as he surveyed the surroundings. Noting the security points and what was going on it really seemed as something had been tripped.

As if the power station that supplied the port had been struck.

Things looked to be going really bad, really quickly.

Not far off, partially hiding behind the planter nearby, was the incredibly beautiful woman. She was looking back at the security check-point only to glance at her pho...

Privateer's Commission (PC) -CH 1-

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“You know what? You’re a thief. A damn thief!” cursed the merchant behind the counter. He lifted a finger and waggled it at Ralph. The older man’s countenance was that of a full faced gr...

Next Books

Morning everyone.

Wild Wastes is off and gone into the sunset.

Next up, we've got:

Privateer's Commission and Save State Hero 2.

You all know what SSH2 is so it needs no introduction, though this book will include Edmund's rescue of Andrea.

Privateer's Commission is a Space Pirate novel, set in the exact same area as Cavalier's Gambit.

Chapters are to begin dropping today.

I might drop a few extra chapters of other things as we go as well.

Cultivating Chaos 5 - A request

Please be sure to read Cultivating Chaos 5 from start to finish, if you don't mind.

Amazon keeps track of people and what they've read.

If you skip right to chapter 35, they will legit penalize me.

I wish I was kidding.

Also, spoilers below in the comments for those who want to chat about it.

New Book release! Cultivating Chaos 5

Heyo everyone,

Our current release, as of today, is Cultivating Chaos 5.

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Ash is moving far past where he once was, and is determined to finally escape.

As ever, please spread the word.

Share it in groups, discords, X, anywhere you feel you could help make people aware.

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Cultivating Chaos 5 - Ch 27-

The door rolled open completed and stopped, coming to a halt with a thd that shook the ground.

Beyond the entry was an impenatrable darkness. One that reminded Ash of the veil that’d blocked the way into the crypt, as well as the portal that’d hung over the battlefield.

As if realizing the same thing, Chunhua through her hands forward and a beam of golden light shot out of her palms.

Uh… hadouken.

The unwelcome and somewhat unhinged thought was a strange...

Cultivating Chaos 5 -ch 26-

Ash stared down into the crypt entrance.

“I don’t know who the Lord of Graves is. Or was,” Ash murmured. “Nor do I know if whatever is happening here has anything to do with me and my people.

“What I do know, is I want good relations with both sides of your conflict, except for the Shadows. I’m fairly certain that they’re part of a group that has aligned themselves against me.

“So while I would like to have positive relations with the Lions and Pigs, I would ...

Cultivating Chaos 5 -ch 25-

Ash and company had distantly followed a group of Chimpanzees as they loped across the plains in the same direction everyone else had gone.

Given how fast the horses were they’d been forced to slow down a bit to keep their distance. Even if they were riding horses from the Horse clan, there was no real way of professing their allegiance to anyone if they got too close.

Now, he was certain they’d found the location they were going for.

A mass group of animals of all types...

Cultivating Chaos 5 -ch 24-

Ash was once more confused.

The road they’d taken into the territory of the Horse tribe had been empty.

Empty of everyone and everything.

He wasn’t exactly expecting cities, given that they were magical beasts and generally preferred to live in whatever habitat they came from, but this was a bit much.

Ashiok had made it sound like the Horse Tribe preferred the open plains but had contracted the Apes to build enclosures for them. To escape the weather and elements r...

Cultivating Chaos 5 -ch 23-

They were standing on what felt like a floating island.

It only had a space of what felt like half a football field and there were only a few trees on it. There were no bushes, no water, and nothing else.

Additionally, there was a handful of individuals standing about the island.

All of them staring at Ash and company.

“Ah?” said a woman who was near to Ash.

Or what might have been a woman if one only regarded her head.

She had the head of a woman on th...