Taiko 7 was a desert planet. I love desert planets, the hotter and drier, the better. I made a point of exiting Theseus with the morning sun in my face, as the last little critters disappeared with the night's cold. I spat a mouthful of toothpaste on the landing platform and gazed into the wind, like a blow dryer in my face. Nothing made me feel more like a...
Thank you for all the on-going feedback from the previous story in this series. Hope you enjoy this next chapter. 5s and positive feedback are always appreciated. I also like the feedback that helps me improve my writing. Thank you those that have helped in that regard. ***** I came to in a world of pain, face down on the carpet of my new bedroom. At least...
Chapter Nine Intrepid - 3756 C.E. Despite her being imprisoned within an impenetrable force field, Beatrice was still able to monitor the Intrepid's steady progress towards the Anomaly. Because she had an entire Proxima Centauri space fleet at her disposal, she could do this rather more comprehensively than anyone else on the space ship with the obvious exc...
There was an unfortunate (or maybe that was a fortunate) truth about nuclear weapons and their use in space warfare. Without an atmosphere to transmit the concussive force, or the intense heat, nukes had to depend entirely on radiation and the light burst of their detonation to cause actual damage. The fifty fifty megaton warheads that slammed into the Tal...
Chapter Six Zhou - 3756 C.E. Peripheral Operations Co-ordinator Zhou and the space craft in which it travelled were in actual fact a single individual. The whole entity might be relatively small and mostly consisted of engine, but the central processing unit made no distinction between its independently autonomous components and that part of the machine de...
Chapter One Intrepid - 3754 C.E. A space ship. One of the largest in the solar system. Twelve kilometres long. Two kilometres in diameter. A wonder of 32nd Century Technology. Perhaps two thirds of the ship's volume was dedicated to the engine and fully ninety percent, whether in the passengers' segments or in the engine rooms, was composed of water. This...
Unnamed Planet, Sector 98-A, Neutral Space The Milky Way Galaxy 2398 "So, what are we gonna call this ugly POS?" Chen asked, reaching up to adjust her helmet with her hands. "It's got a name already, don't it?" Tiff asked. Her gesture took in the entire bulk of the refurbished starship, which still sat in a vast field of cracked, blackened glass. Fro...
Dorian and Callie had spent the last two weeks at the Mystic's lair, waiting. While they were successful in placing a tracking device onto one of the ships of the gang that stole the artifact, they now had to be patient until the ship went out on it's own. They certainty couldn't take on the entire gang, but they were sure that they could take down at least...
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Solara's Story Note: (All information is translated to English and to Earth standards.) Chapter 1: "No, Father, I will not stay here and marry Morni; he is not loved by me and does not love me. He is only after the status of being married to an assembly leader and cares nothing for my wellbeing. I am going on the ship with my brother Torkut and when I re...