num_pages: 448
description: Adda and Iridian are newly-minted engineers but in a solar system wracked by economic collapse after an interplanetary war an engineering degree isnt worth the paper its printed on. Desperate for gainful employment they hijack a colony ship planning to join a pirate crew at Barbary Station an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space. But when they arrive at Barbary Station nothing is as they expected. The pirates arent living in luxury  theyre hiding in a makeshift base welded onto the stations exterior hull. The artificial intelligence controlling the stations security system has gone mad trying to kill all station residents. And it shoots down any ship that tries to leave so theres no way out. Adda and Iridian have one chance to earn a place on the pirate crew: destroy the artificial intelligence. The last engineer who went up against the security system suffered explosive decapitation and the pirates are taking bets on how the newcomers will die. But Adda and Iridian plan to beat the odds. Theres a glorious future in piracyif they can survive long enough.
language: English
title: Barbary Station
publisher: Saga Press