A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers, #1)

by Alex White

“You seemed like you were in a spot of trouble, swee… Nilah. We couldn’t just leave you unconscious on Gantry Station,”

It had to be another mechanist intervening,

Nilah weaved across pathways and pipelines, throwing interference and shields into her path as she fled.

Nilah wove a sever circuit into the infrastructure, and the other mechanist slammed into it,

Some kind of William Gibson nightmare scenario with no explanation.

the jet-black presence began pouring in from a conduit in the midship, flooding across the systems and obscuring them from view.

This wasn’t a race car; if she made a mistake, or broke contact for even a second, the whole thing would go critical.

Orna shook her head. “You’re not going to kill us all.” Nilah’s heart thudded. “I am. I defy death every time I race.”

“Put the containment fields back,” Orna growled into her ear, “or I’ll snap this skinny neck and end us all.”

Nilah didn’t have a choice; she set the fields back the way they were,

And for the second time that day, color drained away from the world around Nilah,

Mother’s spell.

her eyes strained to follow commands.

Question what does anything in this paragraph mean?

Patches of color ran across the Capricious’s plating where Mother’s spell was either unstable or ineffective.

He’d been in color as well, and able to move normally, which meant…

The recent arrivals were planning to drive a spike through their hearts—no running, no evasion, no shields.

She thought back to her car, the way it had teleported when she mixed energy from the Arclight Booster into Mother’s spell.

There had to be a dimensional element to Mother’s power, the way space bent when it was broken,

Simile

the ship teleported without the aid of a jump gate or drive.

warnings about gravitational anomalies.

She renewed her glyph,

old Goodall Colony.”

Boots

Didier.

the Midnight Runner

“Malik

savory beet pancake.

Ewww

Cordell

All parties are human? Question

“They’re rich, Boots, and retired.

Mee too - well, not ‘rich’ but comfortable.

“I tried to steal your ship. That’s not the best start to a job interview.”

“And you still think it’s the same woman trying to kill Nilah… and now us,”

Goulding Station?”

chitinous hull

the gargantuan brass rune disc

What? Question

actuators.

Why are those a warning? Question

a twenty-two-year-old picture.”

Carré custom.

Goulding

“I literally just blew someone up in a space battle. I’m an ace now.”

Haha

we can trace where it went, provided we have a real-deal datamancer—

Armin

Orna’s tools are hovering somewhere outside of Gantry Station.”

Nilah

Aisha.

“We don’t eat animals on Taitu.”

“When you’re from Clarkesfall, you eat anything slow enough to catch.”

that image is the reason Cyril Clowe was killed.”

“I sold that image, along with a set of bogus coordinates, to an investment group, and from what I can gather, Cyril was the money man.”