Drummed out of the Territorial Forces, former mecha pilot Jack X-Ray returns home to Arcadia, the oldest city on Luna. One night at a punk rock show, Jack reconnects with his buddy Hiro, a club owner and thief, who’s been holding onto Jack’s mecha, the Waltzing Matilda. As Jack and Hiro hustle their way back into an illegal mecha fighting match, they find themselves caught between Arcadia’s black market underworld and the encroaching takeover by EarthGov. Forced to take a stand after a heist goes sideways, Jack becomes a reluctant leader of the growing resistance movement. Two-Tone Mecha, part one of the Mondo Chrome series, is a quirky space adventure for fans of Andor, Mobile Suit Gundam, The Expanse, and Terry Pratchett.
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The man on the moon, Jack X-Ray, recovers at his mother’s dome on the Lunar surface after a heist went sideways. When EarthGov and Arcadia PD investigators arrive, Jack cuts his recovery short and sneaks back home—the capital city Arcadia, sealed inside an O’Neill Cylinder on Luna. An attack in downtown Arcadia by an anti-EarthGov terrorist cell gives EarthGov what it needs to begin its occupation of Luna in earnest. With his armored dryad, the mecha Waltzing Matilda, Jack dives headfirst into a world of conspiracies and secrets to keep his city free. Waltzing Matilda is Book 2 in the Mondo Chrome Saga that begin with Book 1: Two-Tone Mecha. Fans of Star Wars: Andor, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Terry Pratchett will dig
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Mondo Chrome 