Our exploration of the Shifting City concluded with the Cloud Pier’s fine dining, before enjoying an evening view alongside Corai. When she leaned forward against the shimmering railing overlooki...
2025-09-23 11:00:13 +0000 UTC
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The Vascar Manual, Vol. 2
Written by Preston for t...
2025-09-22 11:00:12 +0000 UTC
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The memorywalking chamber was an entirely holographic room, which was intuitive to link into and access the recollection Corai had me flag. It was a strange feeling to have my thoughts stripped awa...
2025-09-20 11:00:07 +0000 UTC
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The slow ascension up to the top of the Shifting City drove a wedge of anticipation into my Elusian heart, eager for the view at the top of the rise. The shimmering blue doorways that were scattere...
2025-09-16 11:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The Vascar Manual, Vol. 1
Written by Preston for the Worthless Clanker to see
[Section Excerpt from “Rust”]
Your useless machine has inferior joints,...
2025-09-15 11:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Earth Space Union’s Alien Asset Files: #1 - Private Capal
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The only way to restore our ability to teleport would be to fi...
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I’d wondered how the Elusians avoided teleporting into walls or occupied spaces, but the answer shouldn’t have surprised me: they sent nanobots ahead to scout. Was there anything those tiny squ...
2025-09-09 11:00:11 +0000 UTC
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I woke up on the levitation bed, an Elusian favorite for relaxation and stress relief—and to be honest, it did ease the tension and aches from my infant muscles. The nanobots covered my body like...
2025-09-06 18:58:50 +0000 UTC
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Corai wanted us to have time to get used to our new bodies before heading to Suam, which meant the process was set to begin with a blindingly fast turnaround. The sole delay had been a few hours to...
2025-09-02 11:00:13 +0000 UTC
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While heading back to the Elusian settlement to reconvene with our godlike allies, I was starting to feel more positive about our situation. General Takahashi had brought an entire military conting...
2025-08-30 11:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Upon our arrival at Earth, Sofia, Mikri, and I had been pulled aside separately to detail our experiences since going through The Tunnel. Lirik, the Fakra diplomat, had taken charge of lengthy meet...
2025-08-26 12:15:27 +0000 UTC
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As the bandit rushed my friend, his only instinct was to return the...
2025-08-23 11:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Velke hadn’t seemed pleased with the stipulations on the nanobot vials, even with Sofia’s diplomatic attempt to tell him it was a trial run. The Fakra liaison suggested the Marshal—who we had...
2025-08-19 14:24:32 +0000 UTC
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The Human Manual, Vol. 2
Written by Mikri for the ...
2025-08-18 11:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Commander Velke-tremai (as I learned was his full name, since Fakra had a hyphenated extended name rather than last names) had gotten the Marshal’s blessing to send us on our merry way back to Co...
2025-08-16 11:00:12 +0000 UTC
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The Human Manual, Vol. 1
Written by Mikri for the Network
[Section Excerpt from “Bodily Disfigurement: DO NOT TRY TO REPAIR THEM!”]
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2025-08-12 11:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Earth Space Union’s Alien Asset Files: #1 - Private Capal
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Much to Jetti’s dismay, Ficrae piloted the ship through a brief wa...
2025-08-11 11:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The plan for how to search for Larimak began by nosing around in ...
2025-08-09 11:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Velke’s blocky face had a rigid expression, though that was the Fakra’s natural state with a mouth shape reminiscent of a snapping turtle. He pressed bony fingers to his chin, a gesture I figur...
2025-08-05 11:00:13 +0000 UTC
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The Fakra had an unguarded Gap at the wall of their dimension, which Corai believed they’d never located for the simple reason that they generated their own portals to Caelum. Our Elusian helper ...
2025-08-02 11:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The Elusians were weird, and…coming from me of all people, that meant something.
They were technologically weird though, not just getting their jollies by making unhinged com...
2025-07-29 11:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The three of us retraced our steps while following Corai back toward the seating area. The anticipation of what she might say was eating me up, with thousands of potential explanations rolling arou...
2025-07-26 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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There was some kind of space station facility straight ahead of us, though I could hardly see out the window from where I laid stuck on the floor. Sofia wasn’t far behind the captain’s chair, s...
2025-07-22 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Overall, this project had given us some solid steps in the right di...
2025-07-19 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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At this point, I’d lost my sense of machismo toward the Elusians, because I knew in my soul that they weren’t bluffing. It wasn’t fair, that they wanted to just cut us off f...
2025-07-15 11:00:13 +0000 UTC
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