Moonskin

Behind the refuge door, bloody terror saturates the room. A whirlwind of deceit swirls through Tempest. Saturn looms over the seemingly insignificant craft--so near, yet so far away.

In the humid back room of The Rusty Russian, all eyes fall on a GTN special report. It is the first comprehensive report of the state of astral affairs since the Precept purge. What role did Eta Porter play, and where is she now?

The mood in the refuge pod is excruciatingly dire. The unthinkable has happened. Who's to blame? There's no time for inquiry--there's work to be done if there's any hope of saving the rest of the Tempest 9.

Eta has delivered Kline from danger again. But the sleepy town of Borzya has awakened a bustling quagmire. At the center of the bedlam is The Rusty Russian--the very place she hoped to find respite.

Mere weeks from Saturn, Tempest will certainly miss the mark without a successful trajectory burn. However, a safe burn requires a diagnosis of Tempest’s fuel system woes. It's now or never for Raleigh’s spacewalk—-it's up to her to fix the problem.

Eta has saved Kline from assassination in Parliament, but the Precept purge has only just begun. The longer she remains in Beijing, the less likely she is to survive. If Eta can stow away on a t-train and locate an old ally, she might be able to do just that.

After discovering a malfunction in Tempest's fuel system, the Tempest 9 plan a repair EVA. Raleigh Toon once headed up the construction of Luna 2, but today, she is the leading option to go out into space and fix the problem.

Kline clings onto consciousness, battling delirium. The events of the day escape him as he wanders his own memory, exploring the chain of events that carried him to this moment.

Titan Tempest's lifeline to Earth is severed. The Tempest 9 are wracked by uncertainty and mistrust. Has the chaos remained turfside, or is Tempest caught in the storm?

The pandemonium is cut by a single, piercing bang. Franklin Kline thuds to the floor. Eta Porter is the only Senator close enough to save Kline's life, but she conceals ambitions of her own.