Ergebnis für "Orphan X" in Abenteuer

They murdered her family. Then they sold her to the highest bidder. Bought through the underground slave trade and whisked aboard a fortress-like container ship where wealthy loners wager on death matches, Sook Joo learns the rules fast: survive in the cold, crowded cells, obey the crew, and always volunteer —or face a long swim home. She quickly realizes this ship doesn’t just carry orphans. It manufactures them. But Sook Joo was raised differently. Her grandfather-sensei taught her discipline and composure over fear and subservience. While mercy is a virtue, vengeance salves the soul.

For nearly one thousand years, the Core Empire has held together thousands of star systems and billions of citizens. But a coup attempt has broken the empire into pieces. Some planets and systems have survived and still have law and order. Others have fallen to barbarism and piracy. For young Hugh Cascade, this is but a history lesson, even if the nightmares of kinetic weapons exploding have followed him through most of his childhood. Ten years later, the war finds Hugh, now a military cadet. 

One man in the Universe holds the key to the mystery of Flinx's past - and that man is trying to kill him! It is a strange childhood for a kid, to be adopted by the restless Mother Mastiff and raised in the bustling marketplace of Drallar. Flinx never knew the mom and dad who abandoned him years ago. In fact, his birth has always been shrouded in mystery. But Flinx eventually discovers that his unknown parents have left him a curious legacy - extraordinary mental powers that are both a marvelous gift and a dreaded curse.