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The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part XVI

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part XVI

Aug 3, 2026

FifteenMarch 2253 Tarbos – the Confederate Senate Three times the funding bill for the One Thousand Project had been brought up before the Senate.  Three times it had been filibustered by the Senators from Corinthia and Zed, with the votes of most of the...

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part XVI

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part XV

Jul 27, 2026

FourteenJanuary 2253 New Albion Glengarry was now reduced to a smoking ruin; the Grugell had briefly withdrawn from the surface, and three days later bombarded the city with five fission bombs.  The guerillas continued to operate in the Crow Ridge mountains,...

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part XVI

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part XIV

Jul 20, 2026

ThirteenJuly 2252 Earth Earth’s high orbital graving dock had once belonged to Off-World Mining & Exploration, but the Confederate government had appropriated it for the duration of the war.  OWME executives spent much of their time calculating the profits...

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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,”...

Barrett’s Privateers – Unrepentant Sinner XIII

Jun 10, 2024 |

Thirteen Earth Hector Gomp surprised his Captain and the Exec by showing up at the shuttle in impeccable Marine blues.  A white service cap gleamed on his close-cropped head. He looked at the small view screen on the bulkhead next to the shuttle port, to see Earth...