Harlock Space Pirates 소설 & 이야기

Morning came like a hangover—gray, heavy, too bright for the night before. Varian stood at the window, bare-chested, phone pressed to his ear, jaw set. The skyline flickered with news drones; the city hadn’t slept either. Liora stirred in the bed behind him, the sheets still tangled with last night’s chaos. “Ines,” he said into the call. “Start over.” Her voice crackled through static. “The Marcelli scraps just allied with two Arbiter cells. Someone’s paying mercs by the hour. And there’s chatter about a new contractor—calls himself The Harrow.”

Stefan came to the office on a Tuesday with three reports instead of one. He put them on the desk in order—oldest first, most recent last—and sat down without being invited, which meant the content warranted it. Jasmina read them in sequence. The first was two weeks old: Gareth had made contact with an independent pack in the deep western territories called Harrow. Small pack, forty warriors, historically isolationist. They'd never affiliated with anyone. Gareth's contact was through an intermediary and the initial communication was about *mutual defense arrangements.*

Ransomed king The hallway was bathed in a strobing red light. Guards ran past and mumblings about the king being captured drifted through the noise. I searched for Jason and found him standing near a huge recently sealed off hole. "What is going on," I yelled out and he turned to me looking ill. "They took our king," he mumbled softly and my heart literally fell in my chest. "Who took him?" He explained that it was Netorians, they were notorious space pirates of the galaxy. I shrugged and told him let's go rescue him.

—a high-frequency burst of data that made Jade’s Phoenix wings flare instinctively. "Breach! Breach!" Aris’s voice crackled over the comms. "We’ve hit a Siren-Net! The pirates... they aren't just here for the cargo. They’ve got a Dividend Reaper-Class pulse! They’re trying to hack the Bridge!" Jade scrambled to her feet, her hands already glowing with silver-white fire. "Caspian, stay here. You aren't stable enough for a digital fight yet."

There are six of them, and they're all fighting against one man. The man I called Papa put up a good fight, taking down the nightcrawlers one by one. Just as I thought he was going to win, one of the nightcrawlers stabbed him in his back as he was tackling another to the ground. Blood spilled from the corner of his mouth before he dropped on his knees and fell to the ground and the night sky split open with thunder. The explosive crack ringing in my ears as I witnesses the nightcrawlers gather around him, then set papa's body on fire.