Red Lights

Before she became the most feared pirate in Sigma Draconis, she was simply 349: a rookie security officer walking the crowded night decks of Gandy Station. Red Lights reveals the year that shaped her-long before the raids, the mutinies, and the battles that would define her legend.

Assigned to the volatile sector known as Red Lights, 349 learns the rhythms of a deck where dancers, dock crews, augment laborers, and desperate migrants all survive under failing corporate systems. Under the steady guidance of her senior partner, Beth-Ann, she navigates street violence, dust addiction, corporate maneuvering, and the daily quiet tragedies of orbital life. Here she meets the figures who will reappear throughout her career-commanders, rivals, and allies whose paths first crossed hers in unguarded moments amid neon light and narrow corridors.

Red Lights offers an intimate look at the rook year of a future pirate captain, tracing the early instincts, loyalties, and fractures that would one day lead her away from the corporation she served. Dense with world-building, character history, and the raw atmosphere of a living orbital, this volume deepens the epic of Piracy in the 24th Century with a close portrait of the woman who would become known simply as 49

(some scenes in this book are sexually suggestive)