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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

He needs a payday. He’ll settle for payback.Betrayed and left to rot on the edges of the galaxy, Caspian Robeaux is deep in debt and stuck flying courier missions in an old rustbucket he can barely keep afloat. His only friends are an annoying robot named Box and a bottle of booze.It’s a far cry from his once-promising military career, but Cas stopped caring a long time ago.Things start to look up, though, when a stranger arrives and offers a lucrat...

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 ...

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....

The war began six hundred years after she died…and five years before she came back.In the far-flung future, an unknown alien species appears, determined to wipe out humanity. The Solar Union, in making a last-ditch effort to save billions of lives on dozens of different planets, retrieves the soldiers they need from those who’ve died over the past six hundred years.Lilah is no soldier. In fact, she hates the concept of war. But it’s either fight, or go back...

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,...

Time is Precious.Upon returning from the alien planet, the remaining crew of the USCS Tempest never could have anticipated this: their ship is in impeccable condition, almost like it never left spacedock. All signs of their former trials are gone.Due to a unique distortion in the planet’s atmosphere, Cas, Evie and the rest of the crew who visited the planet missed the last eighteen years of history. But just because those who stayed aboard had ti...