The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part VIII

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part VIII

SevenSeptember 2251 Tarbos – the Senate Main Chamber President Cochet had only once addressed the Senate directly in full session, and that was three days after her inauguration.  That had been a hopeful occasion, marked with good will and good cheer. Not so this...

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part VIII

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part VI

August 2251 The Orleans Combat Information Center “Oh, that’s very clever,” Admiral Gauss pointed at two new images that suddenly appeared in the holographic ‘tank’ displaying the exercise.  “Captain Wallace brought his task group out of subspace sixteen hundred...

Semi-notorious local political gadfly and general pain in the ass. I’m firmly convinced that the Earth and all its inhabitants were placed here for my personal amusement and entertainment, and I comport myself accordingly. Vote Animal/STEVE SMITH 2028!

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...

The Crider Chronicles: Forest – Part XXII

Twenty-One Outskirts, at sunset Mary Lenell was just walking back from Outskirt’s tiny mercantile towards the cabin on the north end of town that she shared with her security officer husband when she heard the buzzing sound. She looked up from the red dust of the road...