Pocket sleep was always an unpleasant experience for Jade. The human mind wasn’t designed for travel in this twisted dimension; if any crew had to be conscious for the trip, blast doors prevented any sort of exposure to the outside and the eerie radiation that was constantly emitted. Scientists speculated it might be exotic energies…

Chapter One A disturbance buckled the slender dropcraft, shaking its crew as a tall woman rattled off a mission brief to the preparing soldiers. “Atmosphere is a low oxygen environment. High levels of sulphur and CO in the air. Pockets of hydrogen are being released from recent tectonic activity, so no active-energy weapons. Subsonic coilguns…