Exploration FeverIt's been a while since I wrote one of these. Most of my missions lately have either been less than noteworthy, or top-secret, but I can, at least, talk about what I did with my most recent day pass: I went exploring, of course. I may not be a professional...
A quantum of vengeance.The last time I fought the Thargoids was painful. I'd spent almost half a billion credits in building the best weapon I could at the time, only to be used like a chew toy. The memory of barely escaping from one encounter while corroded, and landing...
Voyage to the Jellyfish NebulaFrom time to time, every pilot gets a little bit of wanderlust, and wants to escape from the daily grind of life in the bubble to see what the universe has to offer. My trip to the Jellyfish Nebula began on a lark. I headed straight for the rim, looking...
Brutal Lessons in the PleiadesFighting the Thargoids is something else. You think you're ready for it, you've got the best gear money can buy, and then the excrement gets sucked into the turbine, your friends are yelling, your ship is dissolving, and Charlie starts doing the Foxtrot. ...
Si vis pacem, para bellum.To be secure in peace is to be prepared for war. It's a statement that has resonated and been proven, throughout human history, time and again, since one of the great thinkers of Earth's ancient empires first articulated the principle. I visited Obsidian...
The Outer Rim ExpeditionOnce in a while, even military units need navigation exercises, and when those can be used to add to the Imperial Archive's astronomy charts, more the better. My part of the Outer Rim Expedition was a simple one, to navigate to a point 5000 light years...
One heck of a mission kill.On a 3-day pass I received for my contributions to the campaign, I found myself in Federal space the other day, helping a wingman with a side project of his that somehow involved shooting up a bunch of independents. It paid adequately, and helping friends...
