Doctor Asraf Al Aziz could hardly contain his excitement while watching the circular pressure door slowly swing open. A middle-aged man sporting a grizzled beard and a big smile appeared in the opening. "As-salamu alaykum Asraf." " Wa alaykumu s-salam Habib," Asraf replied returning the smile. "Permission to come aboard sir." "Permission granted," the cap...
It may have been a particularly long, boring and routine assignment as far as everyone else were concerned, but for Halley it was still only her third or fourth time going EVA. Just getting to be out there was exciting enough, and she couldn't yet see how it could ever be otherwise. This was exactly the kind of thing she had dreamed of herself doing, signing...
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...
Gabe knew exactly what to expect as he boarded The Hollywood, he had been there before. He didn't want to be here. The Hollywood brought back too many painful memories for him, the war, the deaths and Marla. Damn it, he thought, stop dwelling on the past and think about the job at hand. He turned slightly and smiled as he watched the graceful stride of his c...
A single vid call. Apparently, that's all it took to make a man return to the scene of his own desolation. The hulk of the Dread Harbor drifted through the Kornous Asteroid Belt like the pale-gold carcass of a gutted shipwreck. She hung there in the void, glimmering in the distant starlight of the otherwise-empty system's tiny dwarf star. Through the darke...
Previous Choice: A thrilling adventure he had during his ten years out on the frontier. * Deckard pulled her close, enshrouding Corani in his duster coat. She seemed to enjoy the gesture, cuddling into his chest as she took deep, even breaths. An old story about his childhood would do no good here. He'd already told her most of the good ones, and the res...
Author's foreword: This is a stand-alone story (submitted for the Geek Pride event) set in the same narrative world as the story series, Every Man's Fantasy. The events occur about 15 years before the start of chapter 1 of Every Man's Fantasy and feature events in the earlier life of two characters from the series. Erinaceous. 1 Murder on Capella Space St...
The loud alarm painfully tugged Thierry away from his sleep. A holographic screen popped up showcasing a pale woman face. The screen flashed warning signs as a robotic female voice started her speech. "This is not a test, officer Blank, you are summoned to the main hall immediately. Take your service weapon with you. This is not a test-" Thierry ju...
Author's Note: Everyone is eighteen! Starring Lucithana as Hana Song Kitty as Nora Nathan Ravenwood as Rakain Jason as Sam Cyrano Johnson as Xata Previously, on Starfinder: Ameiko Woodwise - in truth, Amieko Kaijitsu, a lost princess of the distant Tian Star Empire - and her friends have finally left their home in their own custom built starshi...
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...