Science-Fiction

Scrapyard of the Long War

After six thousand years of war between Mars colonists and the colonists of Jupiter's moons, Earth has stayed neutral, refusing to fight because its technology gives it an unfair advantage. A young Mars colonist working as a salvager among the battle wreckage finds a heavily reinforced, Earth-labeled box. Forbidden as it is, he opens it and finds a small tablet-like device that boots up with the words 'loading Lupa' — the name of the ASI that nearly wiped out humanity before the wars began.

Category

Fiction

Subcategory

Science fiction

GENBN filing

FIC/SCFI

Length

20,847 words

Mood

Tense, wary, wondering

Setting

A sprawling debris field between Mars and the asteroid belt, six thousand years into an ongoing interplanetary war, aboard a salvage rig called the Hollow Reach and several large ships that house hundreds of thousands of people.

Format

Browser reader & EPUB

Visibility

Public — anyone with the link can read it