The week everything fell apart had started out like every other week. Drills, tests, physical examinations, training… and then. Something changed. B-28 moved towards the table where A-40 and A-13 were seated for dinner, settling his tray down as he made his usual rounds. He seemed… restless. “Something happened last night in our… Read More AotS – A-40, Part 3
My early childhood is a complete blank. Perhaps we were never children at all, but merely popped out of whatever they grew us in as adolescents. But in any case, I’ll begin on an average day… “Good morning, A-40.” It was a long room, sterile and clean, with walls painted a shade of blue… Read More AotS – A-40, Part 2
Songbird’s crew was restless. It was the morning after the whole… incident with Johnny Deuce. Jayna, Ash and Mari were all assembled in the dining room, trying and failing to occupy themselves while they waited for Zane to wake up. He tended to keep odd hours, even by spacer standards. “We should just… Read More Apex of the Songbird, Episode 7: A-40, Part 1
After a short pit stop, the crew of Songbird touched down at their destination. Ash elected to stay on board. “In case we need to take off quickly, I want us to be ready,” he said. “Good plan,” said Mari. “Let’s move, the sooner we have this thing out of our possession, the happier… Read More AotS – The Woman in the Wires, Part 4
“Him again?” said Mari, covering her head as she ran. “Was it too much to hope for that we’d seen the last of him after that incident on Annwyn?” “Apparently,” Ash sighed. “Jayna, can you reach Zane? We need to be off this planet yesterday. We’ll have to hold off on the drop and… Read More AotS – The Woman in the Wires, Part 2
Our apologies for the missed update! We were experiencing some technical difficulties. We hope our adoring fans will forgive us. (Both of them.) ~*~ It began, like so many other misadventures, with a call. After the rather interesting time on Kanaloa, Songbird’s crew had more or less gotten back to its routine. Cargo was… Read More Apex of the Songbird, Episode 6 – The Woman in the Wires
It hadn’t taken long to find the little spit of land that was home to most of the pirate crews when they went to ground. Pirates, as a rule, weren’t very imaginative. The name ‘Skull Island’ had stuck out like a sore thumb among all of the touristy paradise sounding islands. They made a… Read More AotS – Mari Naoki, Pirate Queen, Part 4
Ash came back above decks and rolled the map of the Teveitian Sea out on the closest flat surface he could find. “Okay–I did some work around the pirate attacks logged in the past two weeks. There are some predictable patterns, I think there’s four separate ships operating in this area right now.”… Read More AotS – Mari Naoki, Pirate Queen, Part 3
Five minutes later, they were off, steering towards the input coordinates. It was warm, as it typically was on the planet with a huge reflective surface, and for the most part the sky had been clear. But the longer they’d sailed, they’d noticed a growing squall closing in from the horizon. “That thing looks… Read More AotS – Mari Naoki, Pirate Queen, Part 2
Aaaand we’re back! Hopefully all of our fans haven’t forgotten about us by now, eheheh. Regular updates will resume every Wednesday and Saturday, so let’s not mince words. On with the show! ~*~ Terraformation was a multitrillion-dollar industry that had come a long way since its inceptionIt had taken a decade for the planet Mars,… Read More Apex of the Songbird Episode 5 – Mari Naoki, Pirate Queen, Part 1
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