The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part II

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part II

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 Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part II

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part I

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...

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XXVIII

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XXVIII

Settlement, fourteen months later As Bob Pritchard had predicted, ratification was swift.  On a specified Standard Date, the new blue banners of the Confederacy were being raised on all thirteen worlds, not excluding Earth; the old United Nations building in New...

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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...