The Merathorn was awash with rumors. Everyone aboard had, quite obviously, noticed that the ship had been on general quarters for a while but there had been no battle, so only the brid...
2020-03-25 12:57:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Sticking to Manta’s wing helped me cope with the sudden switch from relaxed rock-hunting to dodging away from something. By now, my computer had resolved some of the fuzziness I had ...
2020-03-23 23:07:02 +0000 UTC View Post
For once, the popular image of an inn’s common-room filled with exotic and strange beings, all boisterously drinking and carousing came relatively close to the truth. It was still ea...
2020-03-23 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
A shudder went through my Starfighter, signaling a short moment of recalibration as the Merathron convinced reality to look away for a moment. Transferring from hyperspace to real-spac...
2020-03-23 10:15:38 +0000 UTC View Post
A soft chime went off near my head, shaking me from my sleep. Working out with Emerson had been exhausting yet, I had something nice to look at, which made it more bearable. It had hel...
2020-03-22 23:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
There was still plenty of activity in the Starfighter-area, with technicians making sure that the Fighters were in good condition. A couple were working on the Fighter I had flown earl...
2020-03-21 06:54:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I had once heard the expression, nervous like a cat in a room full of rocking-chairs. Somehow, it was a lot less funny when walking through the gate of a town mostly composed of centau...
2020-03-20 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I felt a shudder go through my Starfighter as the inertial dampening synchronized with that on the Merathorn while the retrieval-system was pulling me in. That part was, apart from act...
2020-03-20 00:20:31 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I logged back into Road to Purgatory, my mind was whirling with questions, trying to sort through what I had read and learned. The book Mrs. Wu had given me was interesting, very much so but t...
2020-03-18 23:05:36 +0000 UTC View Post
“Twitch, make sure that your weapons are in wargame-mode and your transponder is set to the correct frequency.” Manta advised me over our two-person channel. I mentally cursed, onl...
2020-03-18 02:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post
As I made my way through the ship, I tried to make sense of the situation. I was almost certain that we were in a drill, the fact that Commodore Ming had announced we would be particip...
2020-03-16 23:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It was easily an hour after midnight, according to the ship’s time, which had a five hour difference to the local time at the Academy, where I left in the morning. Starfleet-Sh...
2020-03-16 22:11:57 +0000 UTC View Post
It turned out that I shared my cabin with another cadet, who had yet to arrive. I should have expected that, cabins were generally assigned by sex and service-time, with us cadets bein...
2020-03-16 18:45:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The others were quite intrigued with my story, even if I had to get rather creative how I described the events to make sense to them. None of them were stupid but what I was talking ab...
2020-03-16 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Currently, I’m doing a quest in which I, along with a fe...
2020-03-13 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I felt a soft vibration going through the deck, pulling my mind from the text I was reading and back into the present. Around me, the other cadets were quickly getting ready to disemba...
2020-03-12 22:12:35 +0000 UTC View Post
For a moment, I revelled in the looks of the two in front of me. To them, it must have looked as if I vanished for a moment before reappearing in a burst of icy mist. small crystals of...
2020-03-11 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“They sent out the assignments for the summer cruise.” Airah told me, just after I walked into our room. For a moment, I considered instantly checking where I was going to be, if m...
2020-03-11 02:30:56 +0000 UTC View Post
It was about noon when we finally continued on our way. Cutting apart the hog had taken more time than I had thought, even if we had reduced the time needed to make the meat last by qu...
2020-03-09 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
“Twitch, can you help us with Hyperspace-Navigation?” Hootch asked me, as we were just finished with our lunch. Looking up, I realised that he was the spokesperson, maybe because h...
2020-03-07 00:18:56 +0000 UTC View Post
When I got back to Mundus, it was another late morning for our party. The others had obviously been up for a bit and Adra had convinced Ylva and Sigmir to go out hunting with her. It w...
2020-03-06 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In my mind, I was coming up with new and inventive ways to exact my revenge on the instructors and those who had the glorious idea that cadets should be trained together, to foster coh...
2020-03-06 13:15:36 +0000 UTC View Post
If I ever wanted to know what a pretzel felt like, I now had the beginning of an idea. Over the last week, while we had moved through centaur-territory in Mundus, I had exited the pod ...
2020-03-04 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It was late in the afternoon when I got back to the room I was sharing with Airah Zost, another Cadet, only that she was on the naval track, to become a bridge officer. As expected, sh...
2020-03-03 17:08:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Dinner at Stelur’s was a strange mix of tension and boredom, Adra did her best to keep the captain of the Centaurs, the only one of them in attendance, occupied, while the captain ma...
2020-03-02 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I slowly let my breath out, regaining the sense of my body after being cut off from my Starfighter. After opening my harness, I send a signal to the simulator, giving it the signal to ...
2020-03-02 10:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
We made our way back to the village without too much trouble, Adra and Lenore were very good when it came to navigating, good enough that I had once jokingly asked Lenore if she was pa...
2020-02-28 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“Launch in 3…” a voice echoed in my mind, making me run through a literally last-second check if everything around me was as it should be. The computer in my head, engaged by my ...
2020-02-28 15:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostI have been struggling with writer's block regarding Scarlet over the last few weeks, which is why there's been so little of it.
Instead, have some Black Sky, set in the same Universe (litera...
2020-02-28 15:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
“So this was the important task the two of you had to attend?” Adra’s amused voice broke into the pleasant haze my mind had been in, a haze caused by Sigmir’s closeness and her...
2020-02-26 17:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post