A Fever DreamIt was just like any other trip out of the bubble. After scooping fuel from the star, I turned the Anaconda toward my next waypoint and activated the frame-shift drive. Movements timed so precisely, repeated over and over, muscle memory taking over...
A Life Once Lived Finale: The Last Ride of the Crimson Lance, Part 1 You are going home to see him tonight. Despite Sarah’s insistence on going back Out There immediately after being rescued from Ross 128, we had decided that a break was what we all needed. It wasn’t until some time in mid-November, after I...
A Lonesome Galaxy08 September 3304 Col 173 sector OD-J b25-2 B 1 1300 It takes a special kind of person to make it out here in the black. You can't show fear. You can't grow attached. You can't be inflexible in any plan you put together. All it takes is one...
A Life Once Lived Pt.4: The Prison Break << First< PrevHomeNext >Latest >> 04 September 3303 Outside Warren Prison Mines Ross 128 System 19:37 “Lakon Foxtrot-Five-Kilo, you are clear for entry interface. Start your course from the outer marker and descent...
A Life Once Lived Pt.3: Maxamed Daahir & Hadassah van Leeuwenhoek << First< PrevHomeNext >Latest >> 03 Sep 3303 O’Donnell Ring Chujohimba System 20:43 The landing skids of my Lakon Type-7 gave a metallic bang as they mated with the magnetic clamps of Pad 39 in O’Donnell Ring. Her...
Our Galaxy, Day 2-3: Tripping The Light Fantastic16 April 3304 Aucopp JR-D d12-1 System 22:10 The witchspace tunnel evaporated around the Constitution, and with a tremendous bang, our Anaconda returned to its supercruise bubble. I set the throttle to zero, and the bridge filled with an otherworldly...
A Life Once Lived Pt.2: Ashitaka Tenchi << First< PrevHomeNext >Latest >> 04 February 3303 Shipping Lane ICZ FB-X c1-19 System en route to Amphisatsu 17:49 “I’ve come a long way for what’s in your hold, don’t try to run!” I saw the pip on my scopes as...
Our Galaxy, Day 1: The Light at the End of the Universe15 April 3304 Uncharted Space Near HIP 3188 System 23:07 “Where are we?” asked Brenna, curled up in the navigator’s chair on the Constitution’s bridge. Her face was tucked between her knees, feet hanging off the edge of the seat. She had perched...
The Flight of Broken Wings14 April 3304 Wolff House Asellus Primus System 1040 John? It’s Daddy. He’s dead. When I first met Berthold Wolff last July, with Brenna wrapped around my arm, he was the largest man I had ever met. That’s not an insult; Mr. Wolff stood...
Growth and Loss10 April 3304 LHS 20 System 22:06 The headaches are finally gone. For the first time in a long time, I had my first restful night of sleep, in a real bed with real cotton sheets, and hadn’t been awoken by intense, stabbing pain behind my eye or...
