Tag: Space travel
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Icarus V
Eighty years was a long time to be asleep. Even with all of the modern advances in medicine, allowing people to slow down their metabolisms without losing too much bone or muscle mass, that long of a trip would take its toll. When Pate shut his eyes back on earth, he’d been a healthy eighty-three…
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Belief Part 2
The Cyph wasn’t a terribly large ship, certainly not the largest that Fas had been on, but nonetheless was large enough to transport her battalion while not crowding out the Cyph’s crew. Of course, the vast majority of Fas’s soldiers were in a magically induced stasis. All one thousand of her Sparks were kept in…
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Belief Part 1
(Photo by David Kopacz) For the past several hours, Conflagrator Fas had sat alone in her chambers staring at the cold steel wall before her. The room was unadorned, holding only the essentials. Her bed was currently tucked into the wall beside which was her desk and computer terminal. The only chair in the room…
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Beyond: The Stars Part 6
Wide eyed stares gazed upward, mesmerized as the sky above burned with the invaders thrusters. Word had been spreading throughout the sector of some unknown force conquering world after world but no one could have imagined it would ever come this far, this quickly. Rumors spread how as the enemy advanced, the defenders would eventually…
Bridge of Broken Glass 