Escape from Xevog, Part 1
# James awoke to a blinding light filling the pod. He sat up and waited for his eyes to adjust. Once they did, he saw, before him and Ceres, the Red Comet. "Ceres, wake up! They're here!" She sat up and shook her head to wake up. "Huh?" "They're...
The Second Chance
Slowly I walked away from our small house my feet dragging. My eyes down watching my step in the drifting gray dust till I was away from everyone in what amounted to twilight.I fell to my knees, raising my eyes I looked up into the "sky" a strange...
Consortium 1-2: Chekov's Gun Chapter 2
Cerise usually wakes up about as early as most of the command staff, but she's usually later to her station than any of the others, which is fine. As the one in charge of the politicians it isn't necessary for her to be out and about until they're also...
Wayward Scale; The Wasteland chapter 4, Liftoff
As soon as the sun peeked over the horizon, James stretched his arms and cleared his throat. Then, he rubbed his eyes and stood up, thereby waking Sasha, Josh and Astar, as well as their dragon hatchling, and especially Snow. He took a step back and...
Scales and Scavs chapter 1, Introductions
A sudden jolt and boom awoke James. He brushed some of his red hair away from his blue eyes and looked through the window to see another starship firing at them. He looked at one of the black and red jumpsuit clad Dracosith soldiers as he barked, "Hey...
Conclusions (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The Synth could only hear what was felt amongst the frame of the ship and up through their seat. It was difficult to see much of the controls or what was left of the cockpit over the flames and glow of metal being abraded from portions of the ship. A...
Maiya Station Disaster: Part 8 – The Search
Of being in a cramped space ship during long voyages.
SENTIENCE - Prologue
As we tamed earth's gravity well with giant slings and elevators in the coming decades, surely we could also tame extrasolar space? we were naive. cryonics had long since been a dead-end.
I put one of my stories in google translate, this is what I got
"commander, this is the world's leading scientific officer doorbell reference boat crew ready and prepared, ready and very excited about the unknown space to work!"
Starborne - Trial by Fire: Iridescent
The harmonics of space-time, as you call it -the flow of gravity, the indomitable roar of space-time singularities, quasars,supergiants.
Starborne - Trial by Fire: Final Countdown
Lack of atmosphere inside the space suit is not the problem - it is a crushing pressure holding my chest in a vice-like grip.
Denver XII
The denver xii station itself was known as a metropolis-type space station, one of the hundreds of thousands produced by the s.c.r.c -literally space colony realization corporation.