War Machine (The Combat-K Series) - Plot & Excerpts
It was the perfect place for a high security prison, and allowed for a purely nominal staff. The place was almost self-governing. Each moon housed a colony for criminals slotted neatly into categories rated by severity of crime and judged on a points basis. One moon contained low-risk criminals, such as thieves and traffic offenders on repeat charges. Another was designated for certain species of criminal life-form or AI, yet another for hardcore criminal elements: tax evaders, murderers, sexual terrorists. The fifth moon had been unofficially named Hardcore by its inhabitants. This moon housed the worst of the worst: multiple murderers, the criminally insane, soft-target terrorists, combat AIs guilty of slaughtering large groups of humans, burned-out tek-soldiers caught AWOL and drunk with stolen nukes; that sort of thing. Each moon was considered a self-contained unit protected by air and anti-spacecraft (ASPAC) defences. Each moon was divided into compounds ruled over by small squads of Merc Police and Justice SIMs working four-weekly shift patterns—just in case of mass breakout attempts or riot—but, on the whole, prisoners were basically dumped with a few possessions and allowed to get on with it.
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