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MARKEnding off the first week of their trip, it was the day they would exit hyperspace. He noticed how slow time passed for him now as opposed to before any of the chaos. A week on the outskirts of Tiir went by like a breeze. With all that’s been flashing thro...

ERICThe comms were dead for ten minutes other than Karan and the Bentusi; the ambassador hauled a resource container behind it back to the alien ship and returned. Eric didn’t know what they had obtained from them, but imagined whatever it was to have great po...

MARKHe made the call, sent his coordinates and powered down. He could see the others speeding away from the battle to the resource controller. From his standpoint the fight looked to be in their favour. More waves kept coming but were held off successfully for...

ISABELLAShe was surprised Mark’s idea worked. Even after their squad poked dozens of holes shattering the reflective coating on the panels, the ships kept firing. The drop in the enemy’s firepower bought enough time for the allied ion frigates to catch up. New...

TRISTENShe woke up in her bed like usual. She took a shower, got dressed, and headed to the mess hall. The other pilots gave her looks of uncertainty as she sat with them. “Morning,” she said. None answered her, instead they stayed silent, judging her. “Oh com...

MARKHe and Isabella slept together again the last night. Neither wanted to be alone. “We’re gonna need to figure out what we’re doing,” he said.“Don’t worry Mark, I think we’re on the same page here.”“You just like my company,” he said.“Exactly, now let’s get ...

ERICTwo days had passed. In that time, he got to writing. The word Taiidan was familiar to him but until that day he could not place it. It came from an old text, the origin myths of their people. The text was called The Unimaginable Sin, and was quite relevan...

MARKOnly minutes remained until they returned to normal space. He would be sitting in his fighter waiting for the light to turn green were it not for his current predicament. The wound still hurt, but he knew better to try and sneak onto his fighter. He would ...

TRISTENShe had lost countless friends in the recent fight with the Kushan, but the captain refused surrender. Now, their fleet was reduced to the carrier, two destroyer escorts, and a handful of fighters.Defenders were more useful against the enemy fighters th...

MARKIt had been two months since the fleet was in normal space, the longest jump they had ever done. The Mothership was on course, and they have stopped inside a turbulent asteroid field to avoid Taiidan detection. The resource veins were large enough to hide ...

ARAZIS“We are here today to honour our wonderful protector, our saviour, our salvation—Kadesh, the mother goddess and her bountiful Garden keeping us hidden from the evils of the Emissaries of Sajuuk.” The priest opened the Ceremony of Harvest dressed down in ...

MARK“Alert! We are being pulled out of hyperspace. Hold on tight,” Fleet Intelligence said over comms. Mark, Isabella and a few others were sitting in the mess hall for dinner when the announcement went off. The abrupt forced halt threw all of them from their ...

TRISTENShe stood eyes glued to the happenings outside the small storage room’s viewport. She watched as the giant dagger of a ship smacked its pommel into a frigate destroying it in seconds. She worried for her sole friend, one Eric Gaalsien. He helped her esc...

ARAZISShe and Saiin sat in her crew quarters in silence. There was nothing to say between the two to alleviate their hearts and minds. They knew many who made it out with the Amun, but many more of who they knew were left behind in their escape. Saiin only got...

ERICThe dogfight was near impossible to keep track of, all he could do was pick a target and then another, on and on until this chaos was over. He took a few hits, nothing that he thought was serious. He lost count of how many of these small craft he’d gotten,...

ARAZIS“Hello there outsider,” she said to herself when the enemy fighter revealed its cockpit interior. The pilot inside had long brown hair, brown eyes, and skin that was much darker than her own. Some of the other fighters were still on approach, so she adju...

MARKThe final enemy flagship pushed on past their location directly into the main battle group. It opened fire on the captured Taiidan destroyer which was too slow to get out of the way of its massive front end ramming into it. However, taking out the destroye...

ARAZISHis home was destroyed. She didn’t know, and it changed things for her. She knew now how desperate they were. There was no chance they would have ever joined Kadesh. The deep seeded need to avenge their fallen Kushan was not something anyone would be abl...

MARKThe rest of that day was fairly uneventful compared to the first half. The crowd of followers on the observation deck eventually dispersed. He asked Isabella to go make additional preparations among the rest of the pilots. Now it was only him, the Kadeshi ...

ARAZISThey decided to make this tea thing anyway, as the recounting took quite some time. Mostly it was Lise doing the talking, Janet simply sat across from her and glared.“What about you, what’s your story?” Lise asked.Arazis replied: “It doesn’t matter a who...