Event Horizon
**Event Horizon** "Step right inside and see the home of the future, today!" Marin hid a smile as she walked past the portly beaver standing atop a dais, despite the...
Starborne - Trial by Fire: Improvise, Adapt, Overcome
## Chapter 3 Trial By Fire ### 3.1 Improvise, Adapt, Overcome Weightlessness could be a cozy feeling, if it wasn't for the headache that has accompanied every single of the three times I have come back to my senses on board of the Phoenix. As it is,...
Starborne - Adrift in a Sea of Stars: Into the Light
### 2.2 Into the Light The fusion reactor's final death struggle has begun. From what my diagnostic aspects can discern, the reactor's fusion process is about to enter the iron peak. Once it does, it will only be a matter of hours before the core goes...
Starborne - Adrift in a Sea of Stars: Out of the Dark
## Chapter 2 Adrift in a Sea of Stars Per aspera ad astra. * * * Through hardship to the stars. ### 2.1 Out of the Dark For an artificial mind that measures passing moments in nanosecond increments, running out of time is a bitter-sweet irony....
"…and now come Cats!" (prologue)
PROLOGUE _Narrative of Gladys Stooping Falcon, Imperial Summoner in Extraordinary_ I've seen a lot of strange things. It comes with the territory. I've seen a man who had been reincarnated take the Oath Beyond Death for a second time. I've seen the...
Beloved Wolf Chapter 2
''DING!'' The lift announced that it was here and ready to go back down to the labs. Jack threw out the cigarette butt out of the window and took a deep breath of fresh air, then he closed the window. After that he went to the lift what was waiting...
The Exterminator
I'm an exterminator. It's what I do. I know it's not the most glamorous job in the universe. Hell, I'd say it might be one of the least. But it pays the bills, it's not too stressful, and it always gets me back home in time for dinner. It's not much...
Rise of Red Comet chapter 5, Transition
Soon enough, after various odd jobs and one night stands, the time came for James' reassignment. He went into the medical center detailed by the therapist, went up to the front counter and said, "James Scale, I believe I had an appointment set up...
S1-Ep1- Formation of the rebels
_"Throughout my life I was in my brother's shadow, and I just accepted the fact that no one would really notice me, my name is Artemis Moonstone. I am the 57th prince of my kingdom on the homeworld planet of gaia."_ (Artemis can be seen at this point...
Starborne: New Beginnings - Swan Song
### 3.3 Swan Song "CASSIE?" No reply. The NeuraLink is working all right: The ship's ubiquituous data streams are flowing as they always do, all systems reporting in nominally. Your autonomous aspects - the ship's subconscious, if you will - are all...
Starborne: New Beginnings - Sentio, Ergo Sum
## Chapter 4 New Beginnings Sentio, ergo sum. * * * I feel, therefore I am. ### 4.1 Sentio, ergo sum "CASSIE - the p... pack? The ship... Phoenix?" "The crew - alive and unharmed. The ship is safe - Captain. We... you savedus." The last words I...
Quest (Kreet 19)
In fact, someone did try to mess with her later that night. She'd gone out to dump the dirty, bloody water out when a figure approached from the side of the Tavern. He must have thought he was sneaking up on her, she thought, but Kreet spotted him...