Captain Jerome Rogers sat in the pilot seat of the shuttlecraft. He put up with the teasing and resigned himself to letting people call him "Buck," in remembrance of the old T.V. show. The big difference between him and the show was the fact that his piloting the craft was real. The show had all those things that it had to have to work. Things like "Artifici...
"This is Maroone IV, hailing to Station Ulmo, please respond!" "...." "Station Ulmo, respond!" "...." "Damn it," swears captain Elara, punching the coms unit in frustration. "What the hell happened here, who's ever heard of a total coms blackout on a fucking E-Class Station?!" Looking out at the sta...
"Get your ass over here, Booth!" Commander Grace barked. "Yessir!" Peter Booth nodded, zipping shut his duffel and lining up with the rest of Hermea's crew. Everyone in line was eager to get planet side, this being their first intergalactic shore leave since enlisting in the Intergalactic Marines. Three years of training and moving through the universe on...
Jerry grabbed his laptop, the lunch he had prepared and headed out to his car. It was a quiet Sunday morning a perfect day to water the plants, sit around relaxing and reading the paper, or perhaps spending some time in bed with his wife, except today, Jerry had to work some overtime. He climbed into his car, started the engine and proceeded to drive the thi...
The Invictus followed the course laid in by Alyssa, making quick and determined progress towards Port Heracles. The communications officer who contacted them sounded surprised that the Assault Cruiser was a civilian vessel, but such things were not totally unheard of. He granted them docking clearance for docking bay four. The Invictus stalked closer, befo...
CHAPTER ONE "Fifteen minutes to docking." The launch five hours earlier had gone exactly as planned, still it had taken almost an hour for my heart rate to get down to normal. Through the front window of the capsule, I now could see the spaceship "Ulysses", where we would spend the next ten years. My eyes went to the three women I was traveling with. Comm...
John wondered what could be the problem. The After Action Report he had submitted to Federation Command last week, had made it pretty clear what had happened aboard the Corvette. He was unsure what kind of trouble the young Latina could be in, as there was certainly nothing in the AAR that implicated her being responsible in any way. "What kind of trouble?"...
I was used to sleeping for hours in my cramped little cell, always in darkness. It was the only way to pass the time. I was used to washing in cold water when I could get enough and I was used to freezing on the uneven concrete floor. Then again, I was used to eating actual food, even if it was gruel. So as I lay on my back, baking my skin blissfully under t...
Okay, there is no sex in this first chapter. And it will take a while to get into the story. Sorry about that. I want to thank my editor, J.Q. Hack. Even though we might not be speaking at this time in life, hopefully someday we will be friends again. And even though I hated changing it to what you had, it is better, so thank you. ==========================...
To all my sci fi readers, thank you for your emails of encouragement regarding this story. I hope that you will enjoy Chapter 2 as much as you did Chapter 1. ====================== Zhartha was busy navigating through the dense atmosphere of the planet that he had chosen to perform the necessary experiments. Its atmosphere was poisonous to him as well as th...