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Chapter 12
There was no word from the recon frigate. Patrols with the Vagabond class scouts turned out nothing. His senses were telling Seejuk that something had gone terribly wrong, but there was no confirmation. His heart felt like it was in a grip of an iron vice. Zha...
Chapter 13
"Now is the time of decision," X'on said. "No matter how small, allies are precious. Join me, with the Nemesis and the White Beast as we purged the Unbound and rebuild the glory of the Imperium. Or be like the Harkk'hah, joining the unconscionable Tiamat and t...
Chapter 14
Even though she was his rival, Giirsa had known Kuo'ran for a long time in the Academy, an intelligent and spunky student who wasn't afraid to voice her opinion. Then to watch her body slump mindlessly across the seat of that fighter, eyes wallowing, her mouth...
Chapter 15
Zha was asleep, when the door suddenly opened, linkages delivering a series of strong metallic clinks. She pranced up, eager and alert to any threat, despite being sleeping moments eariler. The robed caretakers came in, holding a silvery one piece suit. "You...
Chapter 16
Zural watched over the three dimensional battlemap on the conference room of his Qwaar Jet class heavy cruiser, the Irkan. The ship used to belong to Taiidan Imperials but Zural had it sequestered when the Imperials could not afford to pay the "bill" for his s...
Chapter 17
The star was dim, old, a lonely red dwarf in a region of space where there was only a few stars. Around it orbit clouds of gas held together by electronic magnetic forces. Once in a while, a flare would erupt from the surface of the red dwarf, its flames ignit...
Chapter 18
From the large screen in the laboratory, Seejuk stared at the maw of the Annihilator, and through it, the Eye of Death watched him. The hungry embers in its mouth glowed, the fires rippled along the rim of the mouth. The eight arms of the monster bent forward ...
Chapter 19
Tbe child stood outside the ship's windows, her arm holding a stuffed animal, staring at the titanic battle outside. Outside was a giant monster, like an immense ship, burning and consuming everything it sees. Her father's ship, a carrier, had been hit and bur...
Chapter 20
Zha pulled her father's body to a more comfortable resting place among the crystal shards. Small spiders and scorpions began to crawl out of the ground and ran over his body. The sight of it wanted to make her freak out, but another sense inside her told her t...
Chapter 21
The Corsair frigate moved slowly past the open port. Soon the frigate was free into open space. Seejuk watched the windows behind, as the Corsair left the Turan planetoid. The Corsair was chosen because of its cloaking and mimic abilities, a hunting vessel tha...
Chapter 22
The Annihilators were slow, slow machines. Even in cloaked mode, the Corsair quickly left the Unbound fleet behind, undetected. "The slowness of the huge ships will buy us time, but only for a short while. We still do not have time to waste," said the Fly sel...
Chapter 23
"The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and the sky wer...
Chapter 24
Seejuk tapped slightly Zha's cheek. Slowly her eyes opened. "What happened?" She cried out. "The nodes got to your Beast form. You're back in your real body now," Seejuk explained. "The whole process is truly incredible." "Wow," Zha exclaimed. "Being in the ...
Chapter 25/Epilogue
Her father had a dream one time. Like all things, the one constant was change. Like all things, he said the Raiders had to change. For thousands of years, the Raiders were nomads. They were pirates. They were mercenaries. They started from a core of liberated...
Appendix
Taiidan Intelligence Agency Report To: Taiidan Republican Senate CLASSIFIED Status: Declassified under Senate Bill 1047-OBC Freedom of Information Act Strategic Assessment of the Turanic Raiders Military Forces and Tactical Resources III A. Fighters The...
Chapter 1
KHARAKEven the sound of its name foretells the harsh environment. This desert world has been our home for over four thousand years. The hot sands of the great deserts are all our people know or have ever known for generations upon generations. The polar region...
Chapter 2
MARK*Beep β¦ beep β¦ beep β¦ beepβ¦*He woke to the sound of his alarm clock. He stirred and saw it was well into the morning. One more day, he thought. He got up and into the shower to avoid falling back asleep. He had a long day ahead of him; the sendoff party. B...
Chapter 3
ERICThe young Gaalsien was lying down, anxious and sweating having woken himself from a dream. He had been aboard Scaffold for two weeks now, having come up on the fifth transport. The station had been alive and busy around the clock in this time to prepare th...
Chapter 4
MARKThe window overlooked the city with the walls taking up the horizon. The sun appeared trapped in a long setting that would continue for fifty days, only rising for half of regular daylight hours. The great walls kept the sandstorms out and the climate with...
Chapter 5
ISABELLAβWe made it,β Johan said. The station was a monstrous structure kilometres long and tall. The Manaani found it much to take in having lived most her life in small convoys with a salvaged Corvaal-class carrier as its main hideaway from the elements. Sil...