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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...

"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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

MARK*Beep … beep … beep … beep…*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...

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...

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...

ISABELLA“We made it,” 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...

MARKThe jump would not take long, but long enough for them to get something to eat. They ran into Jasiid on the way, who was more than willing to join them. Most of the crew had places to be, leaving the halls on their deck at least almost entirely empty. Almo...

ERICHe hadn’t been able to think straight throughout the past hour; he assumed many felt the same. It was hard to believe in coincidence when his entire childhood he knew the tales. “Those who leave before the penance paid be punished by he whose hand shapes w...

MARKIt had been less than an hour since they left for Kharak. When returning to the floor’s lounge, his friends were talking among themselves. But before he could join the conversation, Mothership dropped from hyperspace. He approached the window looking at a ...

TRISTENShe sat alone in a dark steel-walled cell block. Bars covered the other three sides of her, cold metal to her back, steel floors. Outside this room, more steel. She’d grown tired of steel long ago, but it was all there was on the Gladiator. No others we...

MARKIt had been two days since the Kharak Genocide. Most of the fleet couldn’t sleep well. Medication was only now being distributed to help, and the effects still didn’t show themselves in the faces of everyone in the mess hall that morning.Jasiid thought it ...

ERICThe night revealed to him many things. The first being he was the last Gaalsien in the fleet, having seen no group of them at the ceremony and knowing none became Sleepers. He instead stood with the Naabal, the largest group. It was a somber thought despit...

ISABELLASix-thirty in the morning, not many were awake. She left his room in a hurry to get into her own before being noticed. She didn’t know if anyone would pay attention, and it wasn’t against any rule officially, but the thought made her uncomfortable anyw...

TRISTEN“I hope it’s enough. There’s not much to go around and getting even this was hard,” she said. She decided that morning in the mess hall to smuggle out some food for the old man. She also brought him a couple changes of clothes from the market. At least ...

ERICThe third day’s gathering had changed from the previous ones. There were significantly less people there, and there was no need to meet up in the hangar bay. Instead, a room was booked for the couple hours it would take. He took a seat in the second row; i...

ISABELLAHer alarm rang for the third time before she decided to join the land of the conscious. She decided the snooze button wasn’t much help to her morning routine. Showers helped more, and decided to go for an extra long one to set her thoughts in order. “O...