Fate of the Kinunir

The battle cruiser Kinunir leaves port on what should be a routine patrol mission on the edge of the Spinward Marches. But even the long-settled Regina subsector can test any Imperial Navy captain's definition of "routine." When the Kinunir jumps into the frontier system of Keng it runs smack into the middle of a pirate attack and what starts as a rescue mission becomes a battle for survival against forces that will test even veteran officers. And young commander Laurel Franks is hardly a veteran spacer. She's aboard the Kinunir to babysit the top-of-the-line artificial intelligence recently installed on the ship-installed against Captain Telson's better judgment. Human pirates are one thing, a computer with its electronic tendrils in every control system of a 1200-ton battle cruiser is something else entirely. And it may very well be this experimental-and temperamental-AI that decides the FATE OF THE KINUNIR Legendary science fiction author Robert E. Vardeman joins Traveller RPG creator Marc Miller and veteran shared-world editor Philip Athans on a new journey into one of the greatest science fiction settings of all time, the Traveller Universe, which is relaunching now with the release of the latest incarnation of one of the hobby's seminal games. Traveller is back, and the stories of the Third Imperium, and beyond, start here.