The last few minutes of our approach were nerve-wrecking. Part of me wanted some stealthy ships jump out of some sort of concealment, trying to ambush us, just so action would overtake the nervous waiting part of the mission. I mentally kept switching between the feed coming from my ...
2020-04-16 02:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post
“Wake up, sleepyhead.” a voice in my head shook me from the comfortable cocoon of warmth that I had lost myself in. I hadn’t been asleep, not for some time, but there simply hadn’t been a reason for me to start moving. When I had woken up, I had been snuggled up to Sigmir, wi...
2020-04-15 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next two weeks, I realised that I might have made a mistake by asking for the simulations and manuals on the larger ship-types. Commodore Ryker seemed to enjoy putting me into a frigate or even a corvette, using simulated crew to fill in the gaps. While it was possible to pilot a frigate...
2020-04-15 00:49:03 +0000 UTC View Post
As long as I remained in the Astral River, keeping the platform on the cusp of the Nexus we used to sit stable, the Grandmother was content to teach me. Holding the platform together was easy at first but the strain on my mind, the need to keep me anchored to my Avatar back in the fo...
2020-04-13 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Regrettably, the simulated Merathorn had no sense of humour but, given that it was just a simulation, that was to be expected. After the verbal identification, there was a short, moment of data-transfer as highly complex identification-schemes were exchanged by the computers, making ...
2020-04-12 00:39:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I needed a moment to even form a coherent thought in my mind, the sheer awe I felt at the being next to me stunning me. I knew the being, the voice familiar but despite that fact, I needed a moment to gather myself. Even the connection to my body shook, the urge to simply let go and ...
2020-04-10 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Walking up to the bridge at the beginning of my shift gave me a strange feeling. I had been inside once, moving through it on the way to the captain’s private briefing room, but back then, I had hardly been in the frame of mind to take a good look around. I knew some of the cadets ...
2020-04-10 00:41:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Flying a frigate was fun, plain and simple. The way the Stingray, the current frigate-class vessel in Federation-Service, was set up was relatively simple, it was an attempt to create a force-projection, albeit a relatively light one, with the smallest possible about of material and ...
2020-04-08 23:20:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I got to flight-country early and it was surprisingly quiet, compared to the madhouse it had been over the last few days. The technicians were working on our Starfighters and a quick count told me that all fifteen remaining Starfighters were accounted for. That meant nobody was out t...
2020-04-08 16:23:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Walking over to the stream, I decided to make myself comfortable. Sure, it might be more traditional to sit on the earth, with my legs crossed but I had no idea how long I was going to need. In addition, the ground was still rather wet, which would just add to the discomfort. No, I c...
2020-04-08 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Waking up from a pleasant, if slightly embarrassing dream featuring Airah, my roommate from the Academy wasn’t too bad, especially compared to the way I had felt the day before. Sitting in my Starfighter the whole shift had left me a little stiff but that was nothing I couldn’t w...
2020-04-07 18:52:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I felt like I had been put through the wringer when I woke up. The soreness of the workout Wildcat had proscribed joined with the wool that filled my head from having my sleep-schedule violently disrupted to make me miserable. But I had slept reasonably well and with my shift right a...
2020-04-07 13:21:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We spent the rest of the day moving away from the centaur-territory, slowly creeping through the forest. It would have been faster if we had taken the old imperial road but we were not quite ready to do that, the chance that a centaur-group might use it to catch us too high for us to...
2020-04-06 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
When I got back to the Merathorn, I felt strange. Part of me was still feeling as if I was dreaming, a dream within a dream, that I was still sleeping in my bunk. That I hadn’t killed a few people, necessary as it had been. I recognised the feeling, knowing that it was false but it...
2020-04-05 23:38:57 +0000 UTC View Post
“Can you show me what is going on?” I mentally asked Lenore who I felt nearby. Her response was lacking in words, merely a feeling of affirmation but she made it up with a condensed version of her memory allowing me to see what she had observed during the time I had been unconsci...
2020-04-03 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“Damage-Report.” Manta’s calm voice ordered over our group-channel and I quickly checked that my Starfigther hadn’t been hit. My instruments showed all green, so I reported that back, while listening to Wildcat and Wolverine do the same. It was mostly formality, giving the gr...
2020-04-02 22:31:12 +0000 UTC View Post
If I would have to describe the situation I was launched in with a single word, it would be trouble. The pirates had instantly recognised that the Merathron had more than enough firepower to introduce them to the wonderful experience of explosive decompression and their only chance w...
2020-04-02 17:22:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I was ripped from a wonderful dream by a penetrating sound, waking up to feel disoriented and confused. My mind took a few seconds to switch from a deep sleep into something akin to wakefulness but the sounds I was hearing sped up the process, my body conditioned to respond to them w...
2020-04-02 13:11:35 +0000 UTC View Post
"Poyekhali!", “Off we go!” as a notation said, translating the words of the first human in space, those were the first words of the actual legacy. But before I could even read further than the speech that man had given after returning to the Earth, I realised that I wouldn’t be...
2020-04-01 22:27:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I logged back into Road to Purgatory just as my unconscious-debuff was about to run out, allowing me to regain consciousness. Waiting, surrounded by darkness, I was able to consider the things I had done during the forced time-out. It hadn’t been a long time in the real world, just...
2020-04-01 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the next few days, the anti-piracy scenarios continued and I was slowly managing to climb in rank in the Squadron. It was my biggest focus, even if there were a few questions lingering in the back of my mind, prompted by the interview on the Fleet Station. One was why the interv...
2020-03-31 16:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post
“You look tired.” Kaylen stated as he placed his tray on the table across from me before sitting down. I looked up, only now noticing that he and Emerson had approached and were looking at me with a bit of concern in their eyes.
“Why, thank you, how nice of you to n...
2020-03-30 18:07:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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A question to all those who are adventuring in the far north of Aretia, I know there are a few of us up here. Do you know what the everloving hell is ...
2020-03-30 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The weirdness didn’t stop after our visit at Fleet Station-Calmaru. I managed to get some sleep before I was required to be back on shift and when I had breakfast, for me, in the mess, I learned some interesting information. Apparently, the constant drills of the last week wouldn...
2020-03-29 14:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post
When I got back to the shuttle, Commander Siloh and Lieutenant Wirum were already there, waiting, while the rest was nowhere to be seen. I took a seat after a short greeting but after that, a short gesture from Commander Siloh made me remain quiet. I was still trying to figure out ju...
2020-03-29 11:08:02 +0000 UTC View Post
By sheer strength of will and stubbornness, I refused to stumble, setting one foot in front of the other, not wanting to have Sigmir carry me out of yet another town. While my body was stressed and weakened, my magic was thrumming with power, the excess Astral Power forced into me by...
2020-03-27 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Sitting in that white room, with nothing to do but look at the perfectly uniform white walls was, quite frankly, about as close as I had ever come to experiencing the mythological concept of hell. Trying to keep track of time was difficult, my heartbeat and breath the only sound that...
2020-03-27 12:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post
As it turned out, the training could be very hard. I had underestimated the length the two Commodores were willing to go, instead of just running us through the grinder in the simulator, they also put our noses to the grindstone in other ways. After that first shift of simulator-trai...
2020-03-27 09:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I was shaking my head, trying to get my bearings after that last run through one of the scenarios. The whole shift had been filled with one brutal exercise after the other, wiping out the squadron time after time. During the evaluations, none of the pilots got away without leaving fe...
2020-03-25 21:43:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Somehow, the Universe had managed to surprise me. It had done so in a sneaky and wholly unexpected fashion, doing the one thing I hadn’t thought possible. Nothing happened during the rest of the evening and night.
Adra had continued to talk with the guard, a beastman named Mo...
2020-03-25 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post