The Jupiter Paradox

Hylton Smith

Copyright 2013 by Hylton Smith

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Promethean

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Chapter 1

Cameron Rodriguez was deep in thought as to how he might outwit his Borg friend, known as Harley David. The immediate challenge was to extricate himself from the discovered check by the black queen, which the Borg had nonchalantly played while simultaneously running through the vessel’s maintenance programme aberrations.