num_pages: 21
description: Tomi Vuorela works security in a frozen off-world outpost. The terrain is unforgiving especially when it comes to maintaining any semblance of a social life. Any guest is typically a welcome one provided they're cleared for a refueling or part of IntelServ. Tomi knows his machinery however and when a suspicious landskimmer heads toward the his remote access node Tomi must determine if the interloper is a harmless workman or a dangerous terrorist.Andile Harper introduces himself as an engineer but Tomi would rather play it safe than turn his back on a hacker in disguise. When Andile's story doesn't check with his own records Andile's in for a world of trouble. Normally keeping a man at gunpoint until backup arrives would be out of the question. But when Andile starts to play with fire Tomi finds he's more than eager to hold a gun to the intruder's head and make his own personal set of demands.(Originally published as part of the Weight of a Gun anthology.)
language: English
title: Changing the Guard
publisher: Storm Moon Press