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...
There were several space-faring alien species that had tiny empires dotted along the border between the Trankaran Republic, and the Terran Federation. Port Megara was the biggest outpost along the border with Trankaran Space, and this huge Terran Federation Space Station provided a convenient place for them all to meet and trade. Port Megara was built along...
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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?"...
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"If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker." - Mike McDermott, Rounders/ Space Station Ta'Landra, Casperian Sector: The Caitian male strode into the casino as if he owned the place, his mahogany tail swishing with anticipation, and his ears twitching as he listened to the sounds of the flashing gambling mach...
Previous Choice: Motherly Goddess There was only one answer he could truly give her. "Amfrani." He whispered, running his fingers through her silken, silver hair. Corani smiled, leaning her head into his hand. "So be it, beloved." She murmured in kind. "Let us be as Amfrani and Cairusse on the day they bonded." Her words hearkened to an old Catian...
"He can't be trusted with this gift." - Matthew C. Gray, Pastor, Holy Church of the Maker, Sunday Mass, August 2201 ***** Siren was watching everything. When the sniper aimed the infra-red laser sight at Jake, she felt it like a pinprick at the back of his head. He lurched to the left and the shot grazed his right shoulder. He reeled. It was a...
John and the girls settled into their places on the bridge and a few minutes later the Invictus dropped out of Hyper warp in the Ashana system, the centre of power in the Ashanath Collective. There were in the presence of a single star and it bathed the holographic system map in a warm yellow glow. Ashana was a small reddish orange planet out on the sixth or...
Hurry up and wait; that was the order of business for Larik'Ni, a teal skinned Birran flight controller for planet Haven's docking port. Haven's name was a bit of a misnomer, for the second planet in the Tref system was anything but a true haven. Officially known in Planetary Coalition registries as Tref 2, Haven was nothing more than a large chunk of rock t...