The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XVI

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XVI

Jan 12, 2026

Fifteen High orbit over Tarbos The Cachalot’s Captain was not happy. “Say again, Tarbos Ground,” she barked into the wand mike on her command console. “Permission to leave orbit is denied.  You are to remain in your parking orbit until released by Tarbos Ground...

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XVI

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part XIV

Dec 29, 2025

Thirteen Caliban A really good Executive Secretary is a treasure to any executive. Ingrid Holtz was an exceedingly good Executive Secretary. Good enough, as it happened, to have been hired on by Off-World Mining & Exploration at Stefan Ebensburg’s insistence, when...

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Barrett’s Privateers – Throwing Stones X

Dec 16, 2024 |

Ten Barrett and her crew followed Gomp, who was tracking the pod of the Hive that had taken Amole and his men. The creatures had made no effort to cover their tracks, and when one group, then another, fell in alongside Barrett’s party and made no move to interfere...

Barrett’s Privateers – Throwing Stones IV

Nov 4, 2024 |

The Shade Tree Jean Barrett and Darrell Weems, Amole's "executive assistant," were overseeing the loading of the three cargo containers containing two small pre-fab shelters and various and sundry supplies for Amole’s fledgling colony when the call came down from the...

Barrett’s Privateers – Throwing Stones III

Oct 28, 2024 |

The Shade Tree “Now this is more like it,” First Watch Scanning tech Ophelia Watts announced.  “This one is about 1.4 AU out from a large blue-white star, so it’s got a long day, looks like about twenty-nine hours, and a solar year of about four hundred and...

Barrett’s Privateers – Throwing Stones II

Oct 21, 2024 |

Two The Shade Tree “Are we clear for space?” “Engineering reports O2 and water tanks are full, drive is at 100%, injectors charged, all systems online.  All decks report secure for space,” the Exec reported. “We have departure clearance and a traffic vector,”...