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Prisoners of Sol 55
Progress back in Caelum was lightning fast, with the first efforts to open a 5D portal beginning within a few weeks of our arrival back in that dimension. The Earth Space Union floated the idea of ...
2025-07-12 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 54
Our trip to Earth flew by in the blink of an eye. Mikri visited a variety of landmarks, not impressed at all by “falling water” at the Niagara Falls, a “slanted building with no practical pur...
2025-07-08 11:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 53
It was my turn to choose where to take Mikri on Earth, and the real question was how much I could get away with. There were three sets of criteria I judged my ideas on: that the cultural event I’...
2025-07-05 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 52
There were many excellent tourist destinations to choose from on Earth, once we landed in Toronto. The Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, Times Square, or the Great Pyramid: all wonderful displays of hum...
2025-07-01 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 51
Moonfarers, as they were called on Earth, had a bit of a reputation for preferring a more rustic lifestyle. As I would know from being an astronaut, it took a special kind of person to be able to c...
2025-06-28 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 50
The teleportation experiments continued full steam ahead after the first manned test, with similar demonstrations conducted back in Sol and Caelum’s initial results verified by multiple launches....
2025-06-24 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 49
Capal’s breakthrough on the teleportation tech was the final piece of the puzzle—sending nanobots up our ship’s ass did have a point. What was it about the Elusians and liking that e...
2025-06-21 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 48
Earth Space Union’s Alien Asset Files: #1 - Private Capal
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After the teleportation probe hadn’t reappeared, I had gone off ...
2025-06-17 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 47
Despite our finest calculations, the teleported probe seemed to have been blinked out of existence. The onboard instruments never sent a signal back, unlike our instantaneous reappearance courtesy ...
2025-06-14 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 46
Earth Space Union’s Alien Asset Files: #1 - Private Capal
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We were gathered today in a detached research laborat...
2025-06-10 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 45
It was unclear whether our mission to the Girret homeworld was a success, but I was shocked to learn that Capal and Ficrae had come away with an agreement to cooperate on teleportation technology. ...
2025-06-07 11:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 44
Mikri acted like a small child, and I only had myself to blame; where else could he have learned to be so petulant? The android scooted his chair away from mine, then rotated his seat to turn his b...
2025-06-03 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol - Girret Storm Riders (Prologue)
The Storm Riders recruitment office smelled of windswept air, yet its shadowed interior was a safe haven in the middle of the sweltering desert. Simply reaching its doors on the land of a military ...
2025-06-02 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 43
Dr. Sofia Aguado was an actual saint; it was the only explanation for her unflinching response to the sight of the waiting Girret posse. How much help could we really need to copy the tech...
2025-05-31 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 42
Space. I was out in space, though it was impossible to look out the window beyond a peripheral glimpse. I couldn’t remember how I’d gotten here, since it was like I was thinking at the tail end...
2025-05-27 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 41
Earth Space Union’s Alien Asset Files: #1 - Private Capal
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I was grateful that my friend, Dawson, and several other humans w...
2025-05-24 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 40
Ficrae needed to be unplugged, like a toaster that was burning a perfectly good bagel. It was all I could do not to throw hands with her, since a single backhanded slap would smack her open like a ...
2025-05-20 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostPrisoners of Sol 39
Earth Space Union’s Alien Asset Files: #1 - Private Capal
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The humans were taking the news that they were an artificial contr...
2025-05-17 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post