The Living and the Damned - Part XIIThe reality of the Claire Dock 'Science Park' was considerably less impressive than either McKinley or the firm led people to believe. A collection of hastily erected prefabricated laboratory's with painfully inadequate power supply that were suitable...
The Living and the Damned - Part XIClaire Dock had changed dramatically over the past year; the shabby, scruffy ill maintained edifice of the recent past was unrecognisable in the gleaming, high tech temple that now hung in orbit of Tjakiri 1. Nor was the new look confined to the exterior,...
The Living and the Damned - Part XDeep Space, Tjakiri System, The Pegasi "So the first question is, after what happened last time we were here, do we get aboard Claire Dock without Black Omega blowing us to bits?" Stannis Jellicoe asked his most rusted friends. He was tense...
The Living and the Damned - Part IXCoulomb Ring, HIP 104759 System Coulomb Ring was typical of the Pegasi, it was a shabby, ill maintained station kept running on a shoestring budget and a lot of improvised repairs, always with several landing pads out of order and ship lifts that felt...
The Living and the Damned - Part VIIIDeep Space, Somewhere in the Pegasi "So what did you get from the computer core?" Stannis Jellicoe asked wishing once again that his first officer had just a slightly greater sense of urgency. "Less than I'd hoped." Claude Marsaud...
The Living and the Damned - Part VIIAries Dark Region AM-L B8-3 The Python freighter hung in the void, dark and almost motionless. From a distance it was hard to see any sign of damage but closer in were the clear scorches of laser blasts and pock marks of multi-cannon rounds, though...
The Living and the Damned - Part VI"Hello, Viktor,” Stannis Jellicoe asked the hologram before him. “Got time for a chat?" Viktor Kuznetsov, a short, thickset man with close cropped dark hair and pronounced stubble scowled back. "Stannis Jellicoe, you are either a...
The Living and the Damned - Part VCeres Tarn, HR 1185 System Ceres Tarn was not a place anyone went without very good reason. The savage gravity of its parent planet made landing a challenge for even the most skillful pilots which combined with a strong, some would say suffocating...
The Living and the Damned - Part IVStargazer Asteroid Base, Pleione System Danny Swift grimaced as his PDA bleeped to inform him that his ship was prepped and ready. He had planned to spend that day in the company of a couple of bottles of Old Sol and a large amount of Onionhead, but...
The Living and the Damned - Part III"So what have we got?" Stannis Jellicoe was sitting with his senior personnel in the Resolution's briefing room. Claude Marsaud, first officer, computer expert and, allegedly, former hacker and net runner, looked up from his various holo-consoles...
