He knew the Argonauts had been incredibly lucky in their last mission, as had Shaw and Alex. That the team had suffered no losses other than a few mech and robot frames seemed almost impossible to believe. Rade was worried that in the next mission, the universe would resort to extreme measures to balance itself out. He reminded himself that the laws of nature didn’t work that way. The gambler’s fallacy: just because you were having a string of bad runs, didn’t mean that your luck was about to take a turn for the better. And vice versa. Yes, the Argonauts would continue to surmount anything that was thrown at them. He would see to it.
Besides, he didn’t believe in luck.
Rade dismissed the video feed and stared at the distant planet on his tactical display. Seeing that small, digital sphere made his anger blaze anew.
Ceres V.
We’re coming for you, Zhidao. I swear we are. You thought you could stop me by attempting to kill my girl, and my kid? Well you miscalculated big time.
No one harms my family.
And so the bug hunt continued.
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If you’d like to read about the team’s previous encounter with the Zhidao, be sure to check out the ATLAS Trilogy. Zhidao also makes an appearance a few decades later in the A Captain’s Crucible series.
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acknowledgments
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about the author
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