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Prisoners of Sol 76

Our exploration of the Shifting City concluded with the Cloud Pier’s fine dining, before enjoying an evening view alongside Corai. When she leaned forward against the shimmering railing overlooking the abyss below, I’d thought it might be the only thing holding her upright. She had the weight of the world on her shoulders, and I imagined the fear that humanity might be the culprit, after al...

Prisoners of Sol - The Vascar Manual 2

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The Vascar Manual, Vol. 2

Written by Preston for the Worthless Clanker to see

[Section Excerpt from “Hacking”]

Machines have no concept of privacy and will hack into sensitive information, accessing databases without any respect ...

Prisoners of Sol 75

The memorywalking chamber was an entirely holographic room, which was intuitive to link into and access the recollection Corai had me flag. It was a strange feeling to have my thoughts stripped away, cast back to memories of another place and time. I could sense the thoughts ping-ponging around in her mind, distinctly different from my own, and the knowledge she’d had in that moment at the ed...

Prisoners of Sol 74

The slow ascension up to the top of the Shifting City drove a wedge of anticipation into my Elusian heart, eager for the view at the top of the rise. The shimmering blue doorways that were scattered about by the millions had varying decors and written guideposts around them, with further extensions in augmented reality. Much like the Elusians themselves, the settlement was a hybrid of man and m...

Prisoners of Sol - The Vascar Manual

The Vascar Manual, Vol. 1

Written by Preston for the Worthless Clanker to see

[Section Excerpt from “Rust”]

Your useless machine has inferior joints, vulnerable to existing around oxygen. Despite this element being common on many planets, they haven’t evolved away from their pathetic alloys. It’s advised to refurbish their chassis before the u...

Prisoners of Sol 73

Earth Space Union’s Alien Asset Files: #1 - Private Capal 

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The only way to restore our ability to teleport would be to figure out how the Elusians generated negative energy. Jakov checked on my progress every day, as the Brigands geared up to invade Jorlen and take it for themselves; he wanted teleportation in his back ...

Prisoners of Sol 72

I’d wondered how the Elusians avoided teleporting into walls or occupied spaces, but the answer shouldn’t have surprised me: they sent nanobots ahead to scout. Was there anything those tiny squiggles didn’t solve?! In the case of Suam, nanobots would register a space and it would appear marked off in augmented reality for others to steer clear of. Teleportation was blocked withou...

Prisoners of Sol - The Human Manual [EXPOSED]

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Prisoners of Sol 71

I woke up on the levitation bed, an Elusian favorite for relaxation and stress relief—and to be honest, it did ease the tension and aches from my infant muscles. The nanobots covered my body like fucking mummy gauze, which kept me in the exact temperature range that I was most comfortable. They could congeal in clothing patterns at a mere mental image, and levitated a few millimeters off my s...

Prisoners of Sol 70

Corai wanted us to have time to get used to our new bodies before heading to Suam, which meant the process was set to begin with a blindingly fast turnaround. The sole delay had been a few hours to send word back to Earth and get approval, as well as Velke sending his report to the Fakra. Takahashi had given us the code word, if we ever needed to prove we were Preston Carter and Sofia Aguado. 2025-09-02 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Prisoners of Sol - The Human Manual 4

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The Human Manual, Vol. 4

Prisoners of Sol 69

While heading back to the Elusian settlement to reconvene with our godlike allies, I was starting to feel more positive about our situation. General Takahashi had brought an entire military contingent along with her, as the ESU sought to establish a direct link to Corai’s people. Velke split ways from Ambassador Lirik, going with us by unanimous agreement to confront an Elusian for the first ...

Prisoners of Sol 68

Upon our arrival at Earth, Sofia, Mikri, and I had been pulled aside separately to detail our experiences since going through The Tunnel. Lirik, the Fakra diplomat, had taken charge of lengthy meetings with ESU liaisons, before today’s planned excursion to show them something they never had on Ahnar: a paleontology museum. Working with Corai would be a massive risk, but the overarching sentim...

Prisoners of Sol - The Human Manual 3

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The Human Manual, Vol. 3

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[Section Excerpt from “Fantasy”]

Humans have a word for...

Prisoners of Sol 67

Earth Space Union’s Alien Asset Files: #1 - Private Capal 

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As the bandit rushed my friend, his only instinct was to return the favor. The humans were charging each other like opposing vehicles seeing who would swerve away first; a collision was inevitable, when neither would blink. Dawson raced full speed ahead toward our my...

Prisoners of Sol 66

Velke hadn’t seemed pleased with the stipulations on the nanobot vials, even with Sofia’s diplomatic attempt to tell him it was a trial run. The Fakra liaison suggested the Marshal—who we hadn’t met in person for “safety” reasons due to our abilities—wanted to pay Corai a visit in person; he had half a mind to travel through their Gap and confront the Elusians. I assured him that ...

Prisoners of Sol - The Human Manual 2

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The Human Manual, Vol. 2

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[Section Excerpt from “Listening”]

Despite having audio sensors that are in the correct range of functionality, organics may fail to process the stimuli that you speak at ...

Prisoners of Sol 65

Commander Velke-tremai (as I learned was his full name, since Fakra had a hyphenated extended name rather than last names) had gotten the Marshal’s blessing to send us on our merry way back to Corai. The Fakra were willing to help convene with Sol, on one condition: that the Elusian scientists provided them with the nanotechnology to facilitate their own travel through the portal. 

Prisoners of Sol - The Human Manual

The Human Manual, Vol. 1

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[Section Excerpt from “Bodily Disfigurement: DO NOT TRY TO REPAIR THEM!”]

Unit Preston has a “birthmark” on his upper thigh, observed during the medical examination. It took [1 year] to acquire new data that this was not an external serial number. Humans can have random...

Prisoners of Sol 64

Earth Space Union’s Alien Asset Files: #1 - Private Capal 

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Much to Jetti’s dismay, Ficrae piloted the ship through a brief warp gap; we needed a surrounding negative energy barrier to hold it open, so the insertion team directly hopping through wasn’t an option. Those of us participating in the attack waited by the exit, ...

Prisoners of Sol 63

Earth Space Union’s Alien Asset Files: #1 - Private Capal 

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The plan for how to search for Larimak began by nosing around in The Brigands’ business.

Dawson once expressed that he was surprised that humanity hadn’t come across any space pirates, but that was because he didn’t know where to look. The Brigands were...

Prisoners of Sol 62

Velke’s blocky face had a rigid expression, though that was the Fakra’s natural state with a mouth shape reminiscent of a snapping turtle. He pressed bony fingers to his chin, a gesture I figured his species might’ve learned from the Elusians. I’d given him a bit of a slowburn, telling him the full story of our escapade from the beginning; everything that had happened since Mikri encoun...

Prisoners of Sol 61

The Fakra had an unguarded Gap at the wall of their dimension, which Corai believed they’d never located for the simple reason that they generated their own portals to Caelum. Our Elusian helper wouldn’t be tagging along on this mission, so we were all by our lonesome with our super angry older brothers. Wicked. I didn’t feel too ready if anything went wrong: I’d only gotten the hang of...

Prisoners of Sol 60

The Elusians were weird, and…coming from me of all people, that meant something. 

They were technologically weird though, not just getting their jollies by making unhinged comments to robots. We’d gone to the “mirror side” of their station by opening up a floor panel and stepping through the shimmering blue fog, which looked like ghostly water. Corai had assured us t...

Prisoners of Sol - Girret Storm Riders (11/11)

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As it turned out, Narol was a wonderful speechwriter and a better publicist, who played up my more earnest qualities. The press releases, following the chan...

Prisoners of Sol 59

The three of us retraced our steps while following Corai back toward the seating area. The anticipation of what she might say was eating me up, with thousands of potential explanations rolling around inside my skull. I knew that Mikri “Overactive Calculation Matrix” Tin Can the First was in the same boat. Not knowing was the worst part of all of this, because I couldn’t understand the Elu...

Prisoners of Sol 58

There was some kind of space station facility straight ahead of us, though I could hardly see out the window from where I laid stuck on the floor. Sofia wasn’t far behind the captain’s chair, since she’d slumped against a wall on her way up here. Mikri’s destroyed body was strewn on the floor, making me tear up every time I looked at it. What if he was…gone forever, all because I hadn...

Prisoners of Sol - Girret Storm Riders (10/11)

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Creating changes within the Storm Ride...

Prisoners of Sol 57

Earth Space Union’s Alien Asset Files: #1 - Private Capal 

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Overall, this project had given us some solid steps in the right direction. Preston Carter had given us the all-clear signal, with the appropriate tugs in the cable, which meant we’d officially done it. Humanity and its allies had created a working gateway to anoth...

Prisoners of Sol 56

At this point, I’d lost my sense of machismo toward the Elusians, because I knew in my soul that they weren’t bluffing. It wasn’t fair, that they wanted to just cut us off from the real universes that we’d worked so fucking hard to get to! I didn’t understand why they were like this, or what we’d done to deserve being rejected and caged.

In that moment, I und...