The Merathorn was awash with rumors. Everyone aboard had, quite obviously, noticed that the ship had been on general quarters for a while but there had been no battle, so only the bridge-crew that had been on duty and Carmine-Squadron truly knew what had been going on. The rest of th...
2020-03-25 12:57:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Sticking to Manta’s wing helped me cope with the sudden switch from relaxed rock-hunting to dodging away from something. By now, my computer had resolved some of the fuzziness I had ignored as background-static into small, hyper-velocity projectiles, most likely fired from a railgu...
2020-03-23 23:07:02 +0000 UTC View Post
For once, the popular image of an inn’s common-room filled with exotic and strange beings, all boisterously drinking and carousing came relatively close to the truth. It was still early in the evening but the room was filled with seemingly road-weary travellers while a minstrel, or...
2020-03-23 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
A shudder went through my Starfighter, signaling a short moment of recalibration as the Merathron convinced reality to look away for a moment. Transferring from hyperspace to real-space was an interesting process, effectively opening a hole into the fabric of spacetime, slipping thro...
2020-03-23 10:15:38 +0000 UTC View Post
A soft chime went off near my head, shaking me from my sleep. Working out with Emerson had been exhausting yet, I had something nice to look at, which made it more bearable. It had helped a great deal to let me sleep, giving me a nice seven hours of rest.
Knowing that the night...
2020-03-22 23:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
There was still plenty of activity in the Starfighter-area, with technicians making sure that the Fighters were in good condition. A couple were working on the Fighter I had flown earlier and when I walked over, the warrant officer that was directing the activity turned to me and sal...
2020-03-21 06:54:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I had once heard the expression, nervous like a cat in a room full of rocking-chairs. Somehow, it was a lot less funny when walking through the gate of a town mostly composed of centaurs but it would have looked extremely strange to the group that had moved onto the old, imperial roa...
2020-03-20 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I felt a shudder go through my Starfighter as the inertial dampening synchronized with that on the Merathorn while the retrieval-system was pulling me in. That part was, apart from actual combat, the most dangerous part of flying a Starfighter, matching speed with a Starship moving h...
2020-03-20 00:20:31 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I logged back into Road to Purgatory, my mind was whirling with questions, trying to sort through what I had read and learned. The book Mrs. Wu had given me was interesting, very much so but the question why she had it was lingering in the back of my mind, like an itch I couldn’t scratch. ...
2020-03-18 23:05:36 +0000 UTC View Post
“Twitch, make sure that your weapons are in wargame-mode and your transponder is set to the correct frequency.” Manta advised me over our two-person channel. I mentally cursed, only now realising that I failed to check before, quickly operating the computer to look at the setting...
2020-03-18 02:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post
As I made my way through the ship, I tried to make sense of the situation. I was almost certain that we were in a drill, the fact that Commodore Ming had announced we would be participating in a wargame was one hint. Another was that either, the ship wasn’t accelerating at all or t...
2020-03-16 23:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It was easily an hour after midnight, according to the ship’s time, which had a five hour difference to the local time at the Academy, where I left in the morning. Starfleet-Ships were always using Federation Standard, which was still calibrated after some old time-zone on Ea...
2020-03-16 22:11:57 +0000 UTC View Post
It turned out that I shared my cabin with another cadet, who had yet to arrive. I should have expected that, cabins were generally assigned by sex and service-time, with us cadets being the low people on the totem-pole. Cadet Trezt was two doors further down the corridor, not that I ...
2020-03-16 18:45:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The others were quite intrigued with my story, even if I had to get rather creative how I described the events to make sense to them. None of them were stupid but what I was talking about was so far outside the scope of their world, it simply didn’t make sense. Lenore had the best ...
2020-03-16 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Currently, I’m doing a quest in which I, along with a few other Travellers, are working with a group of NPCs to escort a merchant-caravan over a vast stretc...
2020-03-13 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I felt a soft vibration going through the deck, pulling my mind from the text I was reading and back into the present. Around me, the other cadets were quickly getting ready to disembark the shuttle we had taken to the Merathorn, all twelve of us. But even just twelve of us were almo...
2020-03-12 22:12:35 +0000 UTC View Post
For a moment, I revelled in the looks of the two in front of me. To them, it must have looked as if I vanished for a moment before reappearing in a burst of icy mist. small crystals of diamond dust glittering in the sun. I simply waited for them to regain their senses, so I could fig...
2020-03-11 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“They sent out the assignments for the summer cruise.” Airah told me, just after I walked into our room. For a moment, I considered instantly checking where I was going to be, if my certainty was justified and I was going to be posted in an actual ship but just as quick as the id...
2020-03-11 02:30:56 +0000 UTC View Post
It was about noon when we finally continued on our way. Cutting apart the hog had taken more time than I had thought, even if we had reduced the time needed to make the meat last by quite a bit using the simple expedient of me, freezing the meat using magic. Who needed electric refri...
2020-03-09 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
“Twitch, can you help us with Hyperspace-Navigation?” Hootch asked me, as we were just finished with our lunch. Looking up, I realised that he was the spokesperson, maybe because he was my wingman most of the time, for three others, all looking hopeful. I felt a bit of a sudden h...
2020-03-07 00:18:56 +0000 UTC View Post
When I got back to Mundus, it was another late morning for our party. The others had obviously been up for a bit and Adra had convinced Ylva and Sigmir to go out hunting with her. It was a good idea, while we had enough supplies to last us a while, the dried jerky and hard tack were ...
2020-03-06 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In my mind, I was coming up with new and inventive ways to exact my revenge on the instructors and those who had the glorious idea that cadets should be trained together, to foster cohesion between Navy, Starfighter-Command and the Marines. I was supposed to do violence from the cock...
2020-03-06 13:15:36 +0000 UTC View Post
If I ever wanted to know what a pretzel felt like, I now had the beginning of an idea. Over the last week, while we had moved through centaur-territory in Mundus, I had exited the pod every day, to perform my exercise, knowing that Mrs Wu would expect me to do my homework. When I set...
2020-03-04 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It was late in the afternoon when I got back to the room I was sharing with Airah Zost, another Cadet, only that she was on the naval track, to become a bridge officer. As expected, she wasn’t in, most likely still in class, as it often happened. The schedules at Starfleet Academy ...
2020-03-03 17:08:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Dinner at Stelur’s was a strange mix of tension and boredom, Adra did her best to keep the captain of the Centaurs, the only one of them in attendance, occupied, while the captain made thinly veiled attempts to get more information on us. Mostly she wanted to know where we came fro...
2020-03-02 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I slowly let my breath out, regaining the sense of my body after being cut off from my Starfighter. After opening my harness, I send a signal to the simulator, giving it the signal to open the hatch. Light flooded in, causing me to blink a few times before I pushed myself up, steppin...
2020-03-02 10:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
We made our way back to the village without too much trouble, Adra and Lenore were very good when it came to navigating, good enough that I had once jokingly asked Lenore if she was part pidgeon, causing her to go off a rant to my great amusement. It took both of us a moment to reali...
2020-02-28 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“Launch in 3…” a voice echoed in my mind, making me run through a literally last-second check if everything around me was as it should be. The computer in my head, engaged by my thoughts, queried the machine I was in and, before the countdown had reached one, I had received con...
2020-02-28 15:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostI have been struggling with writer's block regarding Scarlet over the last few weeks, which is why there's been so little of it.
Instead, have some Black Sky, set in the same Universe (literally) as Scarlet, it follows the journey of Leonora "Twitch" Horn, a forth-year trainee for the Feder...
2020-02-28 15:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
“So this was the important task the two of you had to attend?” Adra’s amused voice broke into the pleasant haze my mind had been in, a haze caused by Sigmir’s closeness and her kisses. It took me a second to realise just what she meant, how we had to look. Sigmir had taken of...
2020-02-26 17:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post