The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XXIV

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XXIV

Fifteen kilometers inland The setting was beautiful.  Fifteen kilometers from the outskirts of Mountain View was the tiny community of Rangely, a farming and ranching town of about two thousand.  And just outside of that community was the Rangely Retreat, a...

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XXIV

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XXII

Twenty-One The K-101 Kadastrattik XII was beginning to become impatient.  He’d taken time for a meal in his quarters, and now bounded back onto his Bridge, barking at his Signals officer.  “Signals, has there been any word from Lieutenant Akillistrak?” “No,...

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The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part VII 

Six The Star of Carolina, in transit “Did you ever imagine anything like it?” One of the Star of Carolina’s outstanding features was its observation bubble, a large poly-steel blister on the outer hull that offered a slowly rotating view of space – or, in this case,...

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part V 

Four High Earth Orbit An enormous disk of a ship coasted slowly towards high Earth orbit.  A slight glow of a Gellar drive under one-quarter power slowly edged the enormous disk into the parking orbit recently vacated by the passenger liner Star of Carolina, just...