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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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,”...
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