Trevor ran through one last pre-flight checklist. Engines, fuel, life support, shields, everything was green. His dark brown eyes went out of focus as he thought of the month ahead of him. Trevor's step-sister, Vera, had just turned 18 and completed her final high school exams. To celebrate Trevor was going to take give her and some of her friends a tour o...
Sybil hurried to the space cruiser Pacifica's control room as instructed. The need for a pilot was urgent. She passed all her quick physical exams and received several shots of different neural active chemicals in preparation for her merging with the space cruiser's biocomputer. The young and attractive red headed woman wore a black nano-link pilot's suit th...
Note: Originally written in 2001. *** A Jinn-class Destroyer is captured by the crew of a Kriegsmarine transport. Aiden Hunt and Knight Squadron go on a mission using the captured Destroyer to infiltrate and eliminate an Jaheem compound of almost unparalleled importance. *** The Kriegsmarine transport drifted in space, devoid of power. The Destroyer Inti...
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...
Alyssa looked down over her lovers and saw that she had their undivided attention. They listened to her eagerly, intrigued to learn more about the beautiful blonde girl they cared so much about. "As you know, I grew up on Karron. It's a bleak inhospitable place, a massive asteroid that's been gradually hollowed out as the mines have dug deeper. Slums have b...
"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...
Within the Sha Mi Zen there are those people who dedicate their lives to saving the weak from the strong. The very best among them are the Special Tactics Units. They are highly trained officers in groups of ten to make a unit. Among the STU no group stood out more than the 26 group lead by Brian Parish, twenty years after the Velrusian War. These are the...
"You have the duty?" McCorkle asked? "I'm afraid so," Brian answered. "The official greeter." "So what'd you do last night?" McCorkle baited him. "Worked out." Brian recalled his two hours in the gym. "I had a workout of my own," McCorkle gloated. "Lieutenant Traffensteadt from communications. Damn, she was hot." Brian tried to recall the week he had l...
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...