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BSE Chapter 3-38

Alexander had hoped to build a bit more rapport with the woman before discussing this subject, but it seemed that Katalynn was done humoring him.

He steeled himself before responding to her q...

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BSE Chapter 3-37

If Alexander was honest with himself, he found Loki to be a bit creepy. The person’s mannerisms seemed a bit off from normal and while he wasn’t completely still, he was eerily still for a huma...

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BSE Chapter 3-36

Alexander wasn’t really sure what he was looking at. The two blobs on the scanners seemed to grow closer before one left. By now he had pretty much guessed that those blobs were fleets of ships.<...

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BSE Chapter 3-35

Alexander was surprisingly nervous as the fleet neared their destination. The month and a half in space didn’t really bother him, but he certainly could see the toll it was taking on everyone els...

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BSE Chapter 3-34

“Ungrateful little shits!” Harlow cursed as he stared at the view of the smoke-filled skies of Haven as his ship orbited the burning world.

He had been forced to pull back from his campai...

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Announcement

As I get ready to start posting again tomorrow, I decided now would be a good time to announce changes to my Patreon tiers. Don't worry, the prices will stay the same, but the $10 tier will now rec...

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BSE Chapter 3-33

Alexander stepped into his workshop. Even though everyone was extremely busy restocking supplies aboard the ships and preparing for the next mission in two weeks, most of his work was monitoring th...

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BSE Chapter 3-32

Yulia grumbled under her breath as Charlie passed her on the track yet again. The older boy had been spending all of his free time with the go-carts since what happened with his father, Sorin.

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BSE Chapter 3-31

Most of the civilians had been flown down to Eden’s End, but a few of the engineers had wanted to meet Alexander and thank him in person for their rescue as well as show him around the ships.

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BSE Chapter 3-30

A quick update before the chapter. I will still be posting my normal schedule this entire week, but after the chapter on 12/27, I will be taking off next week from the 30th through the 5th to celeb...

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BSE Chapter 3-29

Alexander inspected the tests he had running to replicate the armor the Dawn was composed of. Early results were promising, but he still had a ways to go before he could shift the tests into a prod...

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BSE Chapter 3-4.5

After feedback from readers on RR I have decided to add this foreshadowing chapter for Sorin as well as to give better reasoning for the Council to vote the way it did. There will also be changes t...

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BSE Chapter 3-28

Alexander stood next to Lucas, inspecting the hardware interface the man had put together. It was-

“Don’t give me that look,” Lucas said before Alexander could finish his thoug...

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BSE Chapter 3-27

Alexander carried the very delicate instrument down to Nova’s office. He learned his lesson about not allowing his auto carts or bots to do it for him after they jostled a few of the previous dev...

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BSE Chapter 3-26

A nomenclature change. The processor dies have been renamed to nanoform lattices. I think that sounds more futuristic while also giving a nod to the lithography masks that are used in current compu...

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BSE Chapter 3-25

LOCATION: HRAFNHEIM STATION

SYSTEM: BJORN’S REACH

DATE: 2401

The Valkyrie pounded the straggling Xin destroyer with its guns, eventually causing the ship’s reactor to breach c...

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BSE Chapter 3-24

Vitor stepped out of the airlock and was greeted by a group of mercenaries which included Marine Galloway. “Team Leader Jallen,” Vitor said as he accepted the man’s outstretched hand and shoo...

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BSE Chapter 3-23

LOCATION: BA’EED STATION

SYSTEM: ZORFON’S GAP

DATE: 2400

Sienna would be damned if she lost this station to a handful of frigates and an old assault ship. “Fire up the stati...

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BSE Chapter 3-22

“So all of them were indentured corporate slaves?” Vitor asked.

“It appears so,” Captain Bloomright replied.

“Stars above. Just when you think the corporations can’t sink an...

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BSE Chapter 3-21

“Any casualties?” Vitor asked Captain Ramirez.

“Three people injured, nothing severe though. They should be back in action in a couple of days. If it wasn’t for Mr. Kane triple-armori...

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BSE Chapter 3-20

The single surviving pirate hadn’t been able to provide much in the way of information, but they were able to tell Vitor more about the strange crate.

Turns out it wasn’t some trap. They ...

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BSE Chapter 3-19

LOCATION: OPEN SPACE

SYSTEM: ZK4-J92

DATE: 2400

Eden’s Might was the first ship to arrive in the unnamed system, but they were quickly followed by the others, with the Talon com...

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BSE Chapter 3-18

After an eventful evening involving a brain-teaser board game between Yulia and himself, Alexander put his daughter to bed and returned to his workshop down the hallway.

He didn’t run off t...

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BSE Chapter 3-17

As Alexander watched the last shuttle leave the planet and head for Eden’s Might, he couldn’t help thinking there was more he could have done.

It was an irrational thought because Alexand...

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BSE Chapter 3-16

In case you are wondering who the heck Sorin is, that's the new name I decided to replace Harper with since Harper sounded too much like Harlow.

Also, computronics is what I will be renaming ...

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BSE Chapter 3-15

Having done this once already, Alexander quickly moved through the contract process and non-disclosure document. With no surprise, all of Krieger’s people signed the forms.

“Welcome to Bl...

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BSE Chapter 3-14

Enjoy this warm slice of Sci-fi Pi!

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Alexander was surprised when he got the call from traffic control. It wasn’t th...

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BSE Chapter 3-13

After completing the deal with Paresh, Vitor knew going to the new ship alone would be a bad idea. He quickly returned to the Fox and filled Kaela and his crew in on what was going on.

“I t...

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BSE Chapter 3-12

SYSTEM: EPSILON INDI

DATE: 2400

The Fox popped out of FTL and glided into Epsilon Indi. When Vitor thought of a place where he could shake the corporate bloodhounds, he knew of only one...

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BSE Chapter 3-11

Instead of just showing Captain Krieger arriving at Eden's End, I wanted to show the actual effort he went through to get there. I hope you enjoy this small arc.

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