Dark Deeds and Black Flights - Part IXHIP 19026, Planet B 1 C "About to enter orbital flight, have you got the ground coordinates?" Jellicoe asked, the planet looming large in the Resolution's canopy. "Yes." Claude Marsaud his first officer replied. "They're...
Dark Deeds and Black Flights - Part VIIIPleiades Sector GW-W C1-14 System, Planet 2 a The first moon of the second planet was a thoroughly unremarkable body in an entirely nondescript system, a small ball of ice of limited interest to anyone in a system which had been charted but lacked...
Dark Deeds and Black Flights - Part VIIHip 17725, Planet A3 The survey ship Victoria's Song hung in the void, dark and silent, he systems powered down even her habitation rings still. She was a huge ship built for long range, long duration survey missions following up on initial exploration...
Dark Deeds and Black Flights - Part VIMaia System, Orbit of Maia 2 Commander John Roberts was deep in thought as he sat in the captains cabin of his ship the Corvette Thunder Child, his Singularity movement had scored a number of notable successes in their campaign to end the Federal blockade...
Dark Deeds and Black Flights - Part VAsterope System, Deep Space The Resolution was a mess, her hull rent in several places, her plating torn, her paintwork seared by laser blasts and scored by kinetic and missile impacts. It was more than three hours since her desperate jump into this...
Dark Deeds and Black Flights - Part IVElectra System, Deep Space "So what did we get Claude?" Stannis Jellicoe asked his first officer as the senior personal of the Resolution gathered in the ships briefing room. The first half of their mission had been a success, they had carried...
Dark Deeds and Black Flights - Part IIIElectra System, Deep Space "Communications Hub Zeta." Claude Marsaud began his briefing indicating a holographic representation of a sizable space station hanging over the table in the Resolution's conference room. "Run of the mill installation,...
Dark Deeds and Black Flights - Part II"Core Dynamics Juliet Echo Lima, maintain course and speed, descend to fifty meters. You are five kilometres from our position." An electronically disguised voice broke the silence on the Resolution's bridge. "Nothing on scanners."...
Dark Deeds and Black Flights - Part IThe Pleiades Sector is on the very edge of human inhabited space, indeed so far is it from the traditional homes of humanity that it is in many ways a mini bubble in itself. At the centre of this new settlement is Obsidian Orbital, a freshly built star...
Dark Deeds and Black Flights - Prologue The great battlecruisers hung silent and almost motionless against the black of space spewing gouts of fire and smoke from various rents in their hulls as they gently spun in the void. It was not just the two Farragut's that drifted lifelessly in the...
