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A Mutiny of Pirates: Being an account of the Damn Shames and the search for the treasure of Chalcedon

The Damn Shames, a group of bikers-turned-pirates, find themselves at the center of a search for a legendary pirate captain’s treasure–a quest made deadly by politicians, privateers, and the uncaring vacuum of space.

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Rahab

You
don’t really get to claim much for yourself in space, when you’ve lived on the
edge of the law your whole life. So, normally, Rahab guards her dignity
jealously. She doesn’t give the others any opportunity to make her look the
fool. She saves face with vicious comebacks and cruel digs, enough now that the
core Shames are gun-shy about mocking her.

In
other words, today can go fuck itself up the ass with a branding iron. Everything
is the WORST.

Rahab’s
spinning at low speed in her turret on top of the Starfarer—around and around
and around. She does this whenever Fray has Falcor drifting through space, so
she can keep an eye and a gun trained on everything within her view, every four
minutes or so. Unfortunately, at the moment, 50-odd seconds of her repetitive
journey involve staring Dog’s Gladius in the face.

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