She thought she was alone. When it's all over, she'll wish she was.Arista and Frees, having beaten the AI known as Charlie, now face new troubles. The Peacekeepers are still hunting the teenager and her autonomous friend as they try to release other machines from the Cadre's grasp. And the worst part is, they're still no closer to finding the secret to Arista's heritage.But when a mysterious call interrupts their fleeting attempts at liberating the machines—from someone cla...

Arista once dreamed of a planet full of humans. Now it scares her to death.After the disastrous events at the human colony, Arista's reality has been turned upside down and she finds herself in a world in which the machines never came to power, and, in fact, are outlawed.Now she and Frees must try and navigate this strange, new universe without getting killed by some anti-artificial nutjob. The only question is: without a Quantum Gate, how do they get back?After she...

It has all come down to this.Stuck in an alternate universe while a resurrected Charlie wreaks havoc in their own, Arista and Frees are desperate to return home to stop him. Their only problem: they don't have a Quantum Gate.But their new allies are clever, and if they play their cards just right, they might find a way home after all. What they'll discover after being away for months is anyone's guess.It turns out things are worse than they ever could have imagined....

After a lifetime of searching for answers, Arista finds herself facing what could be her greatest fear: that humanity might be her enemy.Together with her machine companion Frees, Arista locates a group of humans who are hunting down the remaining Peacemakers, only to learn the humans are part of a much larger, hidden colony, deep underground.Desperate to find out if this is where she came from, Arista will go to any length to gain access to the colony, even fighting her ow...

Welcome to Crooked, the first volume of a new anthology series from Bad Intentions Press.You'll find Teppo's retrieval job gone very, very wrong (or has it?). You'll find Eric Warren's gunrunner getting a second chance and Greg Dragon's smuggler surviving on the edge. Jessie Kwak's bodyguard dealing with a simple job that got quite complicated, Kate Sheeran Swed's unlikely bounty hunter getting her feet underneath her, and Wade Peterson's fighting bot showing its fiercely loyal hea...

Arista is not who she seems.Every day she blends in with everyone else, going about her mundane life, all in a desperate attempt to obscure the truth: she's the last human on the planet.Until an accident burns her arm off.Scarred and on the run, she's hunted by Peacemakers, autonomous machines designed to eliminate all human life.But the Cadre, a cabal of machines who keep the world order, need to understand where she came from if they're to maintain the sta...

This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made and technological threats. This software tool is intended for use by various decision makers and analysts to obtain estimates rapidly. It is programmed in Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to facilitate its use. This tool is called E-CAT (Economic Consequence Analysis Tool) and accounts for the cumulative direct and indirect impacts (includi...

Trying Times Ahead.The crew of the USCS Tempest may have escaped near death near the Excel Nebula, but their journey is just beginning.As Caspian tries to find his place among the crew on their journey to unknown space, Evie is haunted by ghosts of her past. Both of them will have to work together if they want to find out what's going on with the threat known only as Andromeda.Meanwhile, light years beyond where any Coalition ship has ever ventured,...

The Past doesn’t easily Forgive. Or Forget.Distraught over the loss of his crewmates, Caspian Robeaux no longer believes he can pretend to be part of the crew of the USCS Tempest. He has to face the fact he’s become an outsider and that’s who he’ll always be. He has no place on a Coalition starship anymore. But the mission must continue and until it’s complete, he’s stuck on board. Will he find a way to cope, or will the ghosts of his mistakes drive him ...

Seven years ago he was betrayed and left for dead. Now he’s looking for payback.On the edge of known space, something disturbing is amassing. Reports from the Sovereign Coalition’s largest telescopes that show a swarm of ships thousands of light-years away. The threat is real, and it looks like it’s headed for the inner Coalition planets. The people of the Coalition have little more than a year if they’re lucky.While the Admiralty scrambles to come up with ...

Stranded.The crew of the USCS Tempest has faced many hardships, but none so dire as crashing on a planet with no way to contact their ship. Now with no power, no resources and no idea how to get back, they’ll have to find a way to survive on this strange, untamed world.But not all is as it seems. This planet hides some dark secrets, such as why does the sun never seem to set? Or why, despite a lush environment, are there no other species here? Ca...

The Beginning of The End.After their harrowing trials on the mysterious planet out of time, the crew of the USCS Tempest have been reunited. Though they have taken heavy losses. And yet, in some ways things are better than when they left. Despite all their sacrifices, they must return to Coalition space in pursuit of the Athru fleet. Only, what could be left after all this time…Evelyn Diazal, once a respected commander and former captain of the s...