Embers After Flames, Chapter 6.1
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The PCA had been a little busy recently.
Well. The PCA had been busy ever since Grid 339. The bombardment of the Grid had been noticed by everyone on the ...
2025-01-13 14:29:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Embers After Flames, Chapter 6.0
6.0
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October 10, 30 years post Fires of IBIS.
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Flatwell and I had been working together for the better part of six years, now. Strang...
2025-01-09 09:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 5.10
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“You stole a C-Weapon.”
“I stole a C-Weapon~” I laughed. “Goodness I had a lot of fun today. I mean really, It start...
2025-01-07 05:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 5.9
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The reactivation of the Grid made the PCA legion halt in its tracks. The thousands of machines that had been so relentless in their assault, so dedicated to the...
2025-01-02 22:32:26 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 5.8
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Across the continent of Belius, and far in orbit on top of that, the PCA began to move.
Everybody noticed it. Such a wide scale of activity ...
2025-01-01 12:57:39 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 5.7
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The LCs reacted the only way one should react when a machine as large as a Heavy MT flings itself at something.
They scattered, thrusters ig...
2024-12-30 12:33:38 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 5.6
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With the surprise attack out of the way and the PCA briefly not in a position to retaliate, I had the Heavy MT pull back further into the maintenance passage. I...
2024-12-26 14:17:10 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 5.5
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By the time the next squad arrived, the first had been completely wiped out.
That was not a condemnation of their skills or anything, just a simple matter...
2024-12-24 13:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 5.4
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I saw the PCA coming well before they actually arrived. It wasn’t difficult; they certainly didn’t bother to hide.
No, they flew clear through the ski...
2024-12-20 11:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 5.3
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“I need a distraction for the PCA.”
“That is one hell of a way to start a conversation, Flatwell.” And yet, it was so very intriguing...
2024-12-18 15:05:15 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 5.2
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I did not expect to find wherever ALLMIND was hiding any time soon. Belius was a pretty damned big place, after all, and my own experience told me that there we...
2024-12-16 10:34:39 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames, Chapter 5.1
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April 19, 30 years post Fires of IBIS.
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ALLMIND, as much as I really didn’t want to say it, was turning out to be pretty damne...
2024-12-12 08:26:45 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers After Flames Chapter 5.0
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March 28, 29 years post Fires of IBIS.
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It was amazing how quickly the unusual could fade into the regular, how things that ...