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Kira, Sector 437, Battlegroup Karter, Shuttle Bay 9
“Damn it!” Commander Chloe Phan pulled her helmet off and threw it against the side of the shuttle in a fit of anger. “This isn’t working. That’s the third time we’ve gone out there and we’re no closer to taking that barrier down.”
Chloe was a fellow Earth girl, fellow I.C. asset, and my exact opposite. She was beautiful and exotic, with straight ebony hair and dark green eyes. I was pale and colorless next to her with my blonde hair and milk-white skin. But she was human, smart as hell, and right now, she was giving voice to the rage I, too, felt. We’d been out on the edge of Sector 437 three times now, looking for the central command nodes of the newest weapon the Hive were using to control space, an invisible network of mines so p
