Animal

July 2251 Tarbos, six weeks later “Gawd almighty, would you look at that?”  Horace Hamilton gaped at the sight. The Mountain View’s Pilot Lounge offered a good view of space to the starboard side of the ship, and it was there that the newest ship in the Fleet was...

June 2251 The Confederate Star Ship Mountain View, Tarbos high orbit The Mountain View’s hangar bay was truly cavernous, but it wasn’t hard for Lieutenant Commander Andrea Crider to find her personal A-66 attack fighter.  Her squadron, VS-66, Hunter Squadron, was...

March 2251 On the Frontier Light years away, on the Grugell frontier, one of the less publicly known bits of Senator Crider’s funding agenda was at work. The Star Ship Shade Tree was a privately owned vessel, but in spite of its small complement – three officers and...

January 2251 "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world are so formidable as the will and moral and courage of free men and women. It is a weapon adversaries in today's world do not have".  - Ronald Reagan, President of...

The First Galactic War Rear Admiral Isaac Gauss, Commander, Task Group One, Confederate Navy, is overseeing a Fleet exercise near the Confederate world New Albion.  The Confederate battle cruiser CSS Orleans, Gauss’ flagship, is under way at sublight speed when...

Part 28.

Part 27.

Part 26

Part 25

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...

Part 23

Part 20

Part 19

Part 18

Part 18.

Part 17.

Part 16

Part 15

Part 14.

Part 13.