USD: 55 days after the battle of Dedia IV
Location: 92 Pegasi, Ackman Orbit, A3123Y Orbital
Amy watched as the destroyer, SRS Cold Echo, detached from its mooring and carefully exited the station’s perimeter. The ship was fully under control of Abbey’s new… ‘additions’ to the team. The ship was scheduled to patrol between the station and Ackman.
Thinking a...
2022-12-18 11:36:05 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: 53 days after the battle of Dedia IV
Location: Gamma Virginis, IND Iron Horse, en route to 63 Hydrae
Alex followed Commander Talbot, feeling a mix of confusion and anxiety as to why the XO had come to fetch her. He led her to the officer’s berthing section and to the boardroom where a small meeting was being held. She spotted Lieutenant Ferguson first, and then the marine tha...
2022-12-17 13:59:20 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: 52 days after the battle of Dedia IV
Location: Gamma Virginis, IND Iron Horse, en route to 63 Hydrae
Alex was off duty, standing in one of the small sections connected to the ship’s outer hull. Much like the Shrike’s observation deck, it had a port to look out into space. It wasn’t the same large half wall-length window, but it was large enough to watch the shi...
2022-12-16 07:29:04 +0000 UTC View Post
USD: 43 days after the battle of Dedia IV
Location: Nu Crateris, Eastern Continent, SRS Heaven’s Fire
Heeler growled in triumph as he watched the large fiery rock rocket through the air high overhead. The asteroid tumbled through the atmosphere, leaving a great tail of flame behind it as it sped toward his ultimate target.
He pushed himself as high as his clitters c...
2022-12-15 06:29:30 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: 40 days after the battle of Dedia IV
Location: 92 Pegasi, Ackman Orbit, Asteroid Belt, A3123Y Orbital
Amy and Abbey sat side by side in A3123Y’s command center. Both had half a dozen wide format displays in front of them, but the contents that each girl focused on were entirely different.
Abbey’s screens scrolled blazingly fast as she streamed multiple data feeds of i...
2022-12-14 00:08:57 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: 35 days after the battle of Dedia IV
Location: 90 Pegasi, IND Iron Horse, collecting life pods
Alex spent her time waiting on the bridge observing the interaction between the crewmen and the officers, doing her best to follow along on what they were doing. It hadn’t taken that long before Thraker seemed satisfied with the action he had set in motion and waved for her to follo...
2022-12-12 07:34:54 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: 35 days after the battle of Dedia IV
Location: 90 Pegasi, IND Iron Horse
Alex’s heart pounded as she rushed through the narrow corridors of the ship. Sailors were up and about running to their stations and she found herself having to weave between bodies of men who were in a hurry. A slow red flashing of the alert lights was punctuated by the loud klaxon repeatedly...
2022-12-11 08:28:10 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: 21 days after the battle of Dedia IV
Location: 92 Pegasi, Ackman Orbit, Asteroid Belt, A3123Y Orbital
Amy threw her shirt angrily at the wall as she undressed to prepare for a shower. The stupid council had wasted two hours of her time arguing over which one of them should be the new future Captain of the refurbished Destroyer sitting moored to the station.
Nevermind that...
2022-12-10 02:46:51 +0000 UTC View PostNote: A new scene has been added. POV: Thraker. Second scene in chapter.
USD: Nine days after the battle of Dedia IV
Location: Nu Crateris, Eastern Continent, CSS Tremissis
The hum of stressed power systems vibrated through Heeler’s carapace as the defensive emplacements swept across the incoming horde of enemy nestlings. Long lines of fire left massive smoke clouds...
2022-12-09 04:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Nine days after the battle of Dedia IV
Location: 92 Pegasi, IND Iron Horse
Alex sat in the corner of the medbay, her arms wrapped around her knees as she stared at her sister Elis as she lay in a coma. Another day had passed with no sign of improvement.
Locked away in an escape pod for over a day before being rescued, Alex had been forced to tend to Elis’s nearly fatal ...
2022-12-07 09:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Some time after the Battle of Dedia IV
Location: 92 Pegasi, Ackman Orbit, A3123-Y Station
Amy raised her welding helmet so she could wipe the sweat on her forehead as she completed the repair to the floor panel. A miner from one of the independent ships that had made the station its home waved to her from across the corridor.
She smiled and waved back. 2022-12-06 07:52:43 +0000 UTC View Post
USD: During Battle over Dedia Prime
Location: Nu Crateris, Decaying Dedia IV Orbit, SRS Tears of Fire
The Tears suffered another strike to the bow from the cruiser’s railgun, punching through it at an angle. Ship integrity was becoming a concern as huge chunks of debris floated around the inner hull, smashing into things as the ship shifted. The main linear drive...
2022-12-05 00:59:54 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: During Battle over Dedia Prime
Location: Nu Crateris, Dedia IV Orbit, SRS Tears of Fire
Elis had remained quiet and clamped in her seat during the entire engagement. Eyes closed, she hummed to herself as lines of fire were punched through the ship and parts of it were turned into debris.
A railgun round had punched through from the floor and through the ...
2022-12-04 22:44:30 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: During Battle over Dedia Prime
Location: Nu Crateris, Dedia IV Orbit, PF-131, SMS Grazhdanin
Once weapons had filtered through the massed Solarians across the ship, the horrendous casualty rate dropped to something less horrific. They were still getting a raw deal.
The Corpos had trained marines in power armor and the sailors only had their uniforms, but...
2022-12-03 05:13:44 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Shortly before entering orbit above Dedia Prime
Location: Nu Crateris, PF-131, CBC CSS Tremissis
Commodore Brigit’s grip tightened on his seat until his knuckles turned white. Glaring at the tactical screen, the plucky FedTech corvette had changed course and was moving back to the space elevator’s asteroid anchor. Debris and molten metal and carbon floated...
2022-12-02 06:56:21 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Minutes after entering missile range
Location: Nu Crateris, PF-131, CBC CSS Tremissis, breaking maneuver
PF-131 burned hard in a breaking maneuver in order to ensure orbital capture above the colony. Once they had reduced the few defenses, they would be free to take a geostationary orbit and enact a thorough surface bombardment.
Those small defenses had ...
2022-12-01 01:32:33 +0000 UTC View PostHello dear patrons, you might have noticed no chapter yesterday. I needed extra time to prepare a new outline for the ending of A2. It proved to be a bit longer than I had first envisioned.
One other thing, we might be going back to a chapter every other day a little early. I have been feeling a bit stretched as we neared the end of the month, and it just felt a lot better to have the ext...
2022-11-30 00:36:48 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: A Day later
Location: Nu Crateris, 92 Pegasi jump point, Tears of Fire
Alex tapped the arm of her seat and bit her lip.
“We will have the support of the ground-based point defenses. The lasers can reach orbit. The platforms the colonists have built also have close range defenses and should be capable of avoiding long range kinetic strikes.”
Thr...
2022-11-28 04:55:38 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: During the battle at jump point
Location: CBC CSS Tremissis
TF-141’s tenders were still picking over the debris and recovering what they could from the destroyed station. The few inhabitants that had managed to survive in escape pods had been rounded up and deposited on the Grazhdanin. All had been summarily found guilty of crimes and locked up pending reset...
2022-11-27 04:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: A few hours later
Location: Nu Crateris, IND Iron Horse, maneuvering to engage PF 141 Picket Group
The bridge of the Iron Horse was quiet as the clock slowly ticked down. A muted order or adjustment by an officer monitoring his console was the only break in the ship’s thrum as Thraker watched the tactical plot.
The Tears had settled in a close formatio...
2022-11-26 01:31:09 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: The Next Day
Location: Nu Crateris, SMS Grazhdanin, Bridge
Lavigne sat quietly on the bridge, doing exactly what he was supposed to be doing. He had no desire to speak or interact with the Corpo personnel on Captain Walker’s bridge. The only time he spoke was to coordinate the multiple repair gangs that had been organized and worked on the ship’s critical ...
2022-11-25 01:48:42 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Short time later
Location: 92 Pegasi, Ackman Orbit, Asteroid Belt, SRS A3123-Y
Amy watched as Abbey brought the Frigates and Destroyer into laser range. The ships had desperately tried to burn back to their heavier siblings. Then they had dived sunward a short time later, even more madly, but it had been far too late. The haphazard movements only doomed the sh...
2022-11-24 00:48:27 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Around the same time
Location: Nu Crateris, Dedia IV, Geostationary Orbit, Tears of Fire
Alex had set up the life support systems on the freighters, despite not knowing whether or not she was going to use them. The resource cost wasn’t that heavy, and she had enough to do so with what they had on hand. More concerningly, H32 did not want to leave the planet....
2022-11-23 02:29:01 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: A short time later
Location: Nu Crateris, Dedia Geostationary Orbit, Tears of Fire, CIC
The information of the Corporate Fleet’s arrival spread through the system, which reacted much like a kicked anthill. System traffic was much more diverse and denser than in 92 Pegasi. Independent operators scuttled for cover as system relays blared the number and size of...
2022-11-22 00:01:15 +0000 UTC View PostLore Interlude – Starlight Revolution Freighter MK1
| Starlight Revolution Freighter MK1|
|Class: Armed Merchantman|
|First Production Year: GSD 76|
|Categorization: Civilian|
|Sub-Cat: Interstellar Cargo|
|Hull Length (Bow to Stern): 241m|
|Hull Beam: 84m|
|EST Effective Operation Duration 24 months|
||Ar...
2022-11-21 00:11:38 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: The next day
Location: Nu Crateris, Tears of Fire, en route to Hades
Alex felt strange about having a new person on the ship.
She had thought about isolating Daniel in a box while they carried him along with the supplies needed to build the new orbital to Hades.
For about point five seconds.
She still remembered her conversation with Nameless...
2022-11-20 01:39:15 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: The next day
Location: Nu Crateris, Tears of Fire, en route to Nucrateri Station
Elis pressed pause on the recording that Alex had made after listening to it for a second time. “It’s good enough, I think.”
“But will it even get to people?”
[Informative: Although our military access keys have been revoked, civilian communication ne...
2022-11-19 02:48:42 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: The next day, after coming into Real-time Comm range
Location: Nu Crateris, Tears of Fire, En route Dedia IV
Alex had directed Nameless to burn harder than needed to slow their trajectory to Dedia IV. They’d arrive a bit slower, but due to the tense situation, that seemed prudent. It gave time for H32 and Nameless to share telemetry and analysis data more th...
2022-11-18 01:51:09 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: One week later
Location: Nu Crateris, Starlight Revolution Convoy, Tears of Fire, en route Dedia IV
Alex glared at the skillet that was slightly smoking, before turning the heat on the electric stove from maximum to high. “Elisss, can’t you do it?”
“No. Your turn to cook. If it’s inedible, we’ll go hungry.”
Biting her lip, Alex moved the pan off the he...
2022-11-17 00:49:41 +0000 UTC View PostFeeling a bit tired today after taking my dad to see his doctors. Hopefully I didn't butcher the chapter too badly today. Please let me know if there are any glaring issues!
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USD: A few days later
Location: 92 Pegasi, Ackman Station, Portmaster Office
Portmaster Whitely frowned as he read another traffic report. The station’s ...
2022-11-16 02:58:29 +0000 UTC View Post