The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part IX

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part IX

EightSeptember 2251 The Shade Tree Captain Barrett had almost gotten used to the gut-wrenching feeling of dropping out of subspace.  Suddenly the weird shifting lightshow of subspace gave way to a normal starfield, and immediately… “Captain, multiple radar...

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part IX

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part VII

SixSeptember 2251 Tarbos – Fleet Spacedock Four ships, the last remnants of a beat-up Task Force, sat smoking and battered in the Tarbos Fleet spacedock.  The Orleans was the last to arrive, and the first man off the battered ship was Rear Admiral Isaac Gauss, on...

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Life Skills I – Trapping

There are some skill sets that were valuable back in the pre-industrial world and could be very useful indeed in a post-industrial world, or just if you like having fun and collecting useful stuff and honestly free-range edibles in the great outdoors.