Category: The Solar King
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The Solar King Part 18
(Photo by Burak the Weekender) The last of His Golden Eminence’s advisors finally left the room, leaving him alone. Hours had been spent debating over the situation with the fringe. There were still a few more minutes before the representatives of the fringe worlds were supposed to contact him. These sorts of long distant communications…
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The Solar King Part 17
(Photo by Lisa Fotios) Morning came with some good news, finally. There were no errant signals being sent out by the device in Smythe’s brain and the surgery to extract both it and the cranial mine were a success. The other saboteurs would be similarly scanned over the course of the day and then taken…
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The Solar King Part 16
(Photo by cottonbro studio) …Freedom… …Resist… …Break free… Chester lay in his bed, eyes open and wishing he could fall asleep, wishing he could silence the voice in his head. Tamara was handling the Solar King right now, and all but one of the saboteurs was asleep. Smythe Hark, though miles from where Chester lay,…
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The Solar King Part 15
(Photo by Chokniti Khongchum) Smythe lay on the floor of the lab, blood pooling rather quickly around his head. Everyone was frozen in place, shocked by the abrupt and unexpected outburst. Chester was only slightly less surprised than the others. Resistance against the neural gel wasn’t supposed to be possible anymore, but mister Hark was…
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The Solar King Part 14
(Photo by Ekaterina Bolovstova) Smythe Hark stood near the back of the lab, watching with the other necrologists as Chester laid out his new idea for aiding in the task of managing multiple subjects. It was a problem none of them had anticipated since the previous uses for reanimation had only ever focused on making…
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The Solar King Part 13
(Photo by Pixabay) “The saboteurs have been found,” the Solar King’s voice proclaimed to his advisors as the morning dawned. “Their plans did not end with last night’s attack, however. They intended to carry out several more such attacks.” Most morning meetings only held a selection of his advisors but today’s meeting was not one…
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The Solar King Part 12
(Photo by cottonbro studio) The lab was, once again, empty. Tamara had left over an hour ago. She was handling the Solar King now and Chester was monitoring both their actions. He felt sick over what he’d nearly done to Tamara. What sort of person was he? Even knowing what the Solar King was planning…
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The Solar King Part 11
(Photo by Branimir Balogovic) There were a lot of things Chester disliked that he nevertheless still engaged in. Violence was one such thing Chester hated. It had been decades since he’d last needed to take a life, but now he was adding to his body count once again. First the Solar King, although that was…
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The Solar King Part 10
(Photo by Pixabay) “It’s perfect.” The hushed whisper, sounding almost reverent, was the only thing that broke the silence in the lab that afternoon. The sample sat on the table, running through every test with ease. All Chester had to do was send the ape the basic instructions. No need for fine details or mental…
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The Solar King Part 9
(Photo by Pixabay) Change was in the air. There were mutterings in the halls of power but no one dared raise their voices too loudly lest they be accused of disloyalty. In the Solar King’s court, his counselors labored to understand the reason behind the new directives they had been given. Well, no, that wasn’t…
Bridge of Broken Glass 