The Clone and the Corsair

A "Slick" Mick Triton story

De: Cole Triton

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Slick Mick Triton is a legend, and he’s starting to believe his own press. At the top of the galactic repossession game, his reputation is so polished it glows in the dark, and his bank account is overflowing. But with no worthy challenges left, he's succumbing to a boredom so profound it's starting to get dangerous. So when a mysterious, anonymous client offers an astronomical sum to hunt down the ghost of the Outer Rim—a ruthless pirate known only as Viper—it’s the one job he can’t refuse. The target is a butcher, a tactical genius who hits capital ships and vanishes into thin air. A trap? Probably. Professional suicide? Almost certainly. For Slick Mick Triton, it was just the challenge he'd been waiting for.

The hunt leads him from the neon-drenched underbelly of forgotten port cities to the treacherous, pirate-infested chaos of the Obsidian Belt. But the closer he gets, the more unsettling the chase becomes. Viper anticipates his every move, counters his every feint, and seems to know his playbook better than he does. When Mick finally corners his quarry on a crippled ship in the heart of the asteroid field, the horrifying truth is revealed. He isn't hunting a stranger; he is forced to stare into the cold, dead eyes of his own reflection. His target is Cain, a perfect physical clone created from his own DNA, but a flawed copy without a conscience.

Before Mick can even process the revelation, the trap springs shut. The shadowy client reveals itself: the clandestine Special Projects Division, the very government agency that created Cain. The contract was a lie, a "Judas goat" scenario designed to use the perfect hunter to find their rogue asset. Now, with a fleet of black-ops assassins closing in to eliminate both the original and the copy, Mick is trapped between his sociopathic twin and the architects of his own downfall. To survive, he must forge an impossible alliance with the monster wearing his face, a decision that will cost him everything: his ship, his name, and his place in the galaxy, turning the legendary repo man into a hunted ghost.