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Manaan Carrier Caal ShtoOutskirts of the Aiowa System "Sajuuk's b--!" Lieutenant Soja Tye Manaan, Caal Shto's sensors officer, bit back the curse and grimaced. The white-coated medical attendant instantly eased his grip on Soja's left knee and looked up. "The...

Caal-Shto had been constructed by Kiith Manaan immediately after the war to reclaim Hiigara. Based on a solid, battle tested design, the fifteen-year-old carrier had since earned her crew and Kiith numerous battle-honors in the ongoing war against the Imperial...

Ordin checked his watch for the third time in five minutes. He sat at the small metal table, emersed in the endless traffic of the central area of the spaceport, as he anxiously awaited the appearance of the final member of his crew. Looking for a way to relax...

The first thing Creta realized as she re-materialized, was the oppressive darkness. Beyond the thin panes of the windows, there was nothing. No stars were visible, only the unending, impenetrable darkness. A long way off, she thought she saw a single point of ...

It took years, it felt, for the sensor cluster to conclude its imaging. As soon as it did, Ordin gave the order and the pilot skillfully maneuvered the Ir Miilas out of position, toward the ancient transport ship. Only as the derelict loomed ominously over the...

A'Kuul stood over his console. A look of perplexity pierced his stone face. "We seem to have lost contact with the other mapping ships. The link is gone." Niilan assumed control of the ship. "What does that mean?" "I don't know... It has never happened befor...

Ordin returned to the small room where his crew waited for him. Before entering, he had thought that what he had learned in the past moments had been interesting. He heard what they had to say first, thinking he would save the best for last. When he'd recover...

The cavernous chamber was not unlike a planet... It's light and heat patterns were locked into continual fluctuations caused by gaps in the power systems. There were times when the electric glow would dim into almost complete darkness, and the moisture in the ...

It could have been months later, when Creta nearly collapsed from a sudden fit of coughing. She stumbled away from the old fans, into the more pristine airs of the corridors at the front of the ship. She tried to expel the bad air from her lungs, but it seemed...

The crew had been gathered around a small plasma torch in an uninhabited part of the central chamber, one night. It was a colder area, near the center of the place, where no one else liked to be because of the diminished oxygen content of the air. Ordin had ne...

Dhir's son was the boy they had first seen in the outer corridors, and he was a talented artist. He took pieces of old, corroded metal panels and ground them into a fine dust, adding small amounts of water or even food paste, to make a remarkably effective pai...

A'Kuul came walking toward Ordin's tent a day later. Ziir and the others were there too, even the Nabaal pilot was hovering nearby. They had made it an increasingly popular tradition to have regular meetings at the commander's house. Niilan only came because h...

No one had seen Niilan for ten days, which meant he was either heavily disguised, dead, or hiding somewhere deep within the ship, far down in the lifeless corridors beneath the man chamber, where all Ordin's searching could not locate him. The crew was becomin...

"For a moment, I thought we'd never find you! We went back to the council and told them what had happened... We have another hyperspatial physicist here to help us out with the calculations. We just needed a signal to lock onto so we could find the ship... Don...

Creta Mirin, a Taiidan republican, a former freighter pilot for the old empire, found a seat on the first available transport, to the world of her birth. The flight was three hours, but seemed only a short moment, a drop of water in a sea. The transport lande...

As the Repair Corvettes ran across the hull of the lead carrier, the Khar-Toba II, General Kiirt Sjet reflected on the recent skirmish with a small Turanic Raider attack fleet. The Raiders had 5 Ion Array Frigates, and a squadron of Standard Corvettes, which w...

15 hours later we arrived in the outskirts of the Super Nova. And since the Mothership was here, the radiation has grown in intensity several times over, meaning that our sensors are completely useless at this range. So the general ordered a probe be built wit...

"We are 30 seconds from the hyperspace drop-out point, sir." "Great, now we'll see if the Kadesh have forgiven us for what we did on our return to Hiigara. But if they haven't, we'd better be able to get out of there pretty damn fast. Set a rendezvous point a...