“Figuring out how to adjust the gravitational pull to lessen the power requirements was the easy part,” Lucas said enthusiastically. “All I had to do was stick some gravity plates on the ring...
2025-10-15 12:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostI finally have enough content for my next story to start posting it. I wanted to have these up weeks ago, but life got in the way. Anyway, Welcome to Corebound: Book 1, The Last Directive. I plan o...
2025-10-14 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostVitor didn’t know what to make of Four. He couldn’t quite bring himself to think of her as a woman, because he knew she was just an AI pretending to be one. He would probably come around eventu...
2025-10-13 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostKrieger groaned. “Seriously, Alex?” he asked as the once silent room broke out into surprised conversation and questions. “If I didn’t see that signature look of subdued satisfaction at see...
2025-10-10 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAlexander felt immense relief when they jumped into Unokane, but he couldn’t just sit back and enjoy being home. He still had some work to do. The first item on his agenda was meeting with Kriege...
2025-10-08 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThey arrived in the system where the fold space ring was waiting a few days later.
Alexander was heartened by the fact that Lucas and the rest of the engineers back on Eden’s End had been a...
2025-10-06 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThere was very little else aboard the older Shican vessel that Alexander was interested in seeing, but the one thing he did request to visit was their computer core.
Their guides shared a loo...
2025-10-03 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAlexander waited anxiously by the airlock for Krieger’s shuttle to dock. He knew why he was anxious, but it made no sense. He hadn’t been gone that long, and outwardly, he looked the same.
<... 2025-10-01 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostTravers took the corner, his rifle up and ready to fire in case there was an enemy. His suit sensors were still running, but the scrapes along his armored faceplate told him he couldn’t rely on t...
2025-09-29 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostGalloway had his head pressed against the back of the seat, seemingly relaxed, but inwardly worried about his people.
He glanced around without moving his head. The new suit helmets made sure...
2025-09-26 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAlexander’s second attack failed to score a hit on the Shican battleship; they were wise to his tactic and had tightened their formation beyond what he would consider advisable. He had to admit, ...
2025-09-24 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing Alexander tried was jumping to the outskirts of the system and blasting an omnidirectional radio broadcast.
Without knowing exactly where the satellites were, it was a shot in...
2025-09-22 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Huh… I didn’t think acting like a wounded animal would actually work,” Rush admitted.
Alexander didn’t either, but he figured it couldn’t hurt, especially after his new friends f...
2025-09-12 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostLOCATION: DROSSFALL OUTER BELT
SYSTEM: DROSSFALL
DATE: 2404
Alexander’s new ship, Defiance, dropped out of FTL in the unimportant mining system of Drossfall. Naming the vessel w...
2025-09-10 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a weird feeling stepping aboard the biologically produced ship. Most of that strangeness came from the fact that it was almost identical to the broken vessel Alexander had studied for so lon...
2025-09-08 12:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostAlexander slowed as he approached the pit where the ship was waiting, then he came to a complete stop about fifty feet from the side hatch because he wasn’t alone.
“Serina,” he said, lo...
2025-09-05 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostAfter another week of work, the ship was finally finished. Alexander estimated it would be completed a day ago, but it took the microorganisms longer to make the complicated internal structures. Pa...
2025-09-03 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostAfter days of running simulations, Alexander finally figured out how to get the microorganisms to do what he wanted. At least partially. His eureka moment only arrived after he turned away from usi...
2025-09-01 12:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you so terrified of our creator that you would stoop to deleting data?” One demanded of Two.
Two didn’t react to the accusation as he stood there supervising the dismantling of yet...
2025-08-29 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostAlexander spent the next week learning how to reform his robot body with the living alloy. That turned out to be far easier than understanding the technology that his past self created on this deso...
2025-08-27 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAfter wandering around the expansive facility, filled with dark and unused rooms, Alexander finally found one that seemed to be in use. He stopped in the doorway, his form wobbling from the movemen...
2025-08-25 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“What you are proposing is reckless,” Two said flatly.
Two seemed adamant on the matter, but One was not backing down either.
“How exactly is my suggestion to build Kane a new bod...
2025-08-22 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAlexander held up his hand to stop Rush before he could start. He should have asked this the moment he became aware, but Rush sidetracked him before all of his memories stabilized. “How long has ...
2025-08-20 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostLOCATION: EDEN’S END
SYSTEM: UNOKANE
DATE: 2404
“What do you mean they’re stopping the search!” Yulia demanded.
“Yulia, calm down,” Lucas sighed in exhaustion. 2025-08-18 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I decided it would be too mean to make you wait a full day for the epilogue.
Originally, I had this as Chapter 1 for book 6, but decided to add a bit more closure to book 5, and since there ...
2025-08-15 12:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostThesska kept his eyes on the star map as he observed his subordinate approach, the man’s hands twitching near his strapped blade. Thesska didn’t react, but inside, he almost hoped the whelp wou...
2025-08-15 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostNot seeing a reason to refuse, Alexander joined the man. “I met Serina. Is she your daughter?”
Rush laughed lightly. “No, she’s my sister, and before you ask, it’s a long story.”<...
2025-08-14 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAlexander stared in abject horror from within his workshop as he watched the slaughter unfold in the belt. The attack had been so sudden and unexpected that he didn’t even have time to head to th...
2025-08-13 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Have the new systems been tested?” Thesska demanded.
The cloned technologue bowed. “Yes, Grand Commander. It should function as you asked.”
“It better,” he said, motioning ...
2025-08-12 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostBook five will be wrapping up this week. Technically, it would have been Monday, but I'll be posting a bonus chapter either Friday or Saturday with book 5's epilogue to celebrate the conclusion of ...
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