A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers, #1)
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Penn Hackney
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within a couple of hours, the Taitutians had all our data and cleared our names.
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Who’s suing whom, and why? Question
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Kin?
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he’s been connected to at least two of the most classified systems in the galaxy—the bunker on Carré and the Harrow itself.
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“Kin was able to modify the Harrow’s broadcast equipment to overpower all radio comms on the planet.
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The data packets hit the Link, and they’ve been snatched up by the Galactic Transparency Initiative.
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“The gods can probably hide for a while, but just like the prime minister, they can’t stay in power.
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Uziah Lesinski
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Is it too much to ask that I get to do the same crap as you scribblers?”
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Haha reflected glory.
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we got salvage rights to the Harrow. You’ve got one hundred sixty million argents in a Taitutian bank account right now. Each one of us does.”
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that a hundred sixty million today is worth a lot more than a billion in a decade.
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That plot of land on Hopper’s Hope was going to have a distillery sooner, rather than later.
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It was fun to be back with the old gang for a bit, but I’m not a soldier anymore.
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Morrison Station.
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I know it was only a few bad eggs, but those bad eggs were running the damned government.”
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If Nilah hadn’t fought by her side, Boots’s view would’ve been even dimmer.
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“We were so naive when the war broke out, and then… we fought for nothing.”
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with your bragging and posturing. Thought you were full of it, but…”
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“You’re everything you said you were and more.”
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The press
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Boots had been happy for them to disseminate the records from the Harrow, but now they were just a bunch of hyenas.
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The next three weeks were total mayhem for Nilah.
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Everyone wanted to make her a perfect hero because she came from the right planet and had the right name,
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Boots
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Orna
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Nilah spent her wild nights...
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They wanted her in dramas, clothes, and fighting competitions.
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Claire Asby
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her salvage share alone was worth three years of her contract with Lang—
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Haha a true capitalist
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Haha ouch Be sure to tell him you appreciated his comments when you were on the run for murder. .
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2860 Drapeau Rouge
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“I wanted to say thank you for defending me… you know… in the interviews. After Claire rolled over on me, everyone was so sure I was guilty.”
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“You see, this is what I hate about you! On the track, you’re perfect, but in your life, you’re impetuous, arrogant, reactionary!”
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I was ready to throttle you, but you know… that made me fight harder, drive better.”
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“Goddamn it. This is because some of those bastards got away, isn’t it?”
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She’d let the surgeons and healers take all the springfly scars away from her, even replacing the missing bit of her ear, but she wondered if she’d regret it. She’d earned those marks facing down some of the deadliest bots out there, and she’d miss them.
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Any amount of risk to the body was deemed unacceptable. How could someone from that world comprehend the choice to face danger?
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you drive with your head and not your heart.” “The heart takes pole position. The head wins races.”
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when I was out in the wild, facing down threats we’d never seen, I couldn’t rehearse.
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I just had to do what was inside. If I flinched, I died. If I made a mistake, I died.
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I never got to feel what I felt with the Capricious ever again. I’m just… old.”
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“How can I care about racing when I just helped determine the fate of worlds?
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She had no love of the journey, only longing for the arrival.
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