Shadows in the Rift - Out of Character NoteThis story was an attempt to tell the tale of the Exploration Community Goal last December where the Children of Raxxla took on the Federation in a race to obtain data from the three regions known as the Formidine Rift, Hawkins Gap and Conflux. I've tried...
Shadows in the Rift Part IXWe found two more bases, both telling now familiar stories of equipment failure, unknown signals deep in the void and eventual disaster. The question that preoccupied me was why? Too many Why's, why had the missions been sent here? Why the beacons? Why...
Shadows in the Rift Par VIII"Terraformed?" I asked so surprised by Claude's assertion that i doubted the evidence of my own ears. "You're telling me that a planet more than ten thousand light years from the bubble has been Terraformed?" "Yes. Not in...
Shadows in the Rift Part VIIThe Anaconda does not handle well in atmosphere. It is a big ship with a lot of mass that takes careful handling close to any planet, throw in weather systems and turbulence and the Warspite was wallowing like a heavily pregnant Hippo, it also needs...
Shadows in the Rift Part VIWe made five very rapid jumps before Mira, satisfied we had shaken off any pursuit, dropped us back into normal space in the ice rings of a planet in distant orbit of a planet incomprehensibly distant from home. We then spent a full six hours with either...
Shadows in the Rift Part V"What the hell happened?" I arrived at Airlock 3 to find Harry Soames and Cottrell the cargo deck chief ashen faced with shock. "It was Palmer the SRV mechanic." Harry said in a hollow voice. "Threw himself out of the airlock...
Shadows in the Rift Part IV"So, the coms logs?" I asked. We were sitting once more in the Warspite's briefing room in a high orbit above the planet on which we had found the long abandoned base. There was no rational reason to have left the planet's surface, indeed further...
Shadows in the Rift Part IIII dropped out of Frame Shift and opened the throttle, obsessively checking my scanner until I was certain our exit cloud had collapsed and I had put an appreciable distance between us and it. The chances of there even being anyone to follow us out here,...
Shadows in the Rift Part II"I'm picking up a comms beacon close to the star. It looks like it's of human origin." Claude announced in this unknown system, half the galaxy from home. "Yes I see it." I replied checking my own scanner display. "What makes...
Shadows in the Rift Part I"The Formidine Rift, Conflux and Hawkins Gap." Erimus summed up his briefing. "We know of one system in each as a starting point so begin your searches at the points given and spread out up to a hundred light years from each. We don't know...
