First Impressions
There stands a man, under a sky filled with alien stars, beneath his feet a meadow of grasses. The foliage of flower and weed is not the familiar green of earth, but...
Sci-Fi Game Demo
[Introduction cutscene: Insert character creation screen here, should that be a feature.] In pitch darkness, the flushing of liquid down a large drain can be heard. It bubbles audibly as the chamber is gradually emptied. Blackness fades from...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 12
It was different traveling with so many Mrr'tani. The thought that just a short time ago, being surrounded by all the others who were constantly in motion, diligently working at their tasks to keep the Ferret on course and on time, would have been one...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 19
Strong Soul pulled back from the link with Melissa enough that she could feel the rest of her Mrr'tani, leaving Melissa sitting in the Captain's chair, the whites of her eyes still coal black with the Frr'a'tan'lass'iah's power. She fumbled with the...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 10
Docking was a routine maneuver that hardly required any attention from the human occupants of either ship, and Strong Soul left Micah and Jules to take care of the details between themselves. With a tiny feeling of emptiness, she drew back from the...
The tourist guide Chapter 2
But this happened totally unnoticed by the crew of the nearly five hundred meter long space ship that just emerged from subspace. "status report. quick!" crew-commandant urloss ordered. "reactors one to twenty - stable."
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 25
The waves of hyper flowed around the ship, seen as brilliant colors the likes of which Strong Soul could never have imagined, lighted by the sensors on the Rose, and seen through the viewscreen at the most forward point on the bridge. While she never...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 13
"No," Firebreather said across the table, his voice firm and unyielding, "you can't hit the ship there. It's too far along in its route, we need to hit it earlier." "If it's done with most of its route, then it'll be ripe for the picking," Night Star...
Changing Fates, Chapter Three
After moving a few hundred meters, Chi ducked into a restroom. Amazingly, there was still some water left in the pipes, and she used the rest of that to clean off herself and some of the possessions that she brought with her. On the wall was a very...
Changing Fates, Chapter Two
6 hours before. Alarms screeched and sirens wailed as smoke and sparks filled the corridor. Another hit shook the ship, sending tremors through the hull and almost throwing Chi to the deck plating, barely recovering and maintaining her sprint. Her...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 21
"Docking complete," Micah intoned in his usual pleasant voice, accompanying the gentle thump that announced the connection between the Pride and the Hayes. Strong Soul stood silently from her usual place on the bridge, the right hand seat feeling more...
Chapter 1
Nothing makes you feel smaller than watching the sunrise on Earth from the moon. "Hey, Nrylia, take a look at the view," Lance motioned to her with a black glove. "Gods..." Nrylia stared at the big blue planet until nearly she became blind. ...