Independent Flight (Aquarius Ascendant)

It only seems simple until your plan meets the real world. Veronica Gray is a promising young officer of the Stellar Alliance’s Interstellar Navy. With an Academy education and a mandate to learn the trade of flying and fighting in space, the Navy officer’s natural habitat, she is assigned to the star carrier Avenger. Her copilot, Alyssa Yeboah, is a natural electronic warrior, and one of her closest friends from the Academy. Together with their three crew members, they are the corvette Dog 207.

Jonah Ress is a down on his luck spacer. Short on spare parts, time, and the patience of his crew. His ship, the Arrant Knave, is carrying a hot cargo and a loan with a lot of strings attached. His first mate, Benjamin “Matt” Mattingly, sees danger at every turn. Determined to get through and settle the bill, they fly the unfriendly skies, even if it means running straight through Dog 207.