The Final Survey of Andrei Kreutzmann

By Stefon Mears

On a deep space prospecting trip, Andrei Kreutzmann finds a planet valuable enough to set him up for life. Buy a new ship. Maybe even win back his lost love.

Unfortunately, the imperial military recalls him to active duty. His old captain, now a marshal, orders him to scout a key strategic sector. Andrei can't refuse.

He flies straight into a trap.

The Final Survey of Andrei Kreutzmann, a military space adventure short story about a battle between empires and a single human scout caught in the middle. From Stefon Mears, author of Stealing from Pirates and Fade to Gold.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thousand Faces Publishing
• Release date: Mar 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386976783

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The Final Survey of Andrei Kreutzmann

The Final Survey of Andrei Kreutzmann

Stefon Mears

Thousand Faces Publishing

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Pilot's seats shouldn't be as comfortable as the second-hand, broken-in couch I had in flight school. But the whole cabin of my little pyramid of a ship is no more than twelve meters square. There's no room for a bunk. So I'm drowsing for the third time today when the sensor alert starts its incessant beeping, like a yappy dog who wakes you up at three hundred hours to go for a walk, and you know you have to get up or he'll piss all over your shoes again.

Yeah, sometimes I'm glad Sheila and her dog are gone.

At least with the survey ship I get to do what I never got to with the little yapper: I slap the big red button on the console hard enough to feel a satisfying sting reverberate through my fingers and wrist that lasts for seconds.

I'm awake, I'm awake, I grumble through a yawn. What have we got?

Viable asteroid, says the Drever in the pleasant tones of holovid