Resolute

Kris Longknife, who turned her back on her privileged and moneyed upbringing for a career in the Navy, has at long last been given her first independent command—in the very remote system of Chance. For an officer with a rep for bucking the system, it's an assignment that's as much exile as promotion.

But where Kris goes, trouble seems to follow—and she isn't on the job long when she captures pirates sabotaging the buoys that mark the jump points of interstellar travel. The pirates, she soon learns, are hiding something—the location of an uncharted and unpopulated planet of miraculous technology. Technology Kris must ensure never falls into the wrong hands...