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Chapter Fifteen: Remembering Alliance: Intelligence by D.X. Machina
Mpola Vidol was exhausted. Her ankle had been too shattered for a simple bone-knitter to fix it, and it was currently encased in a boot that was providing support for the composite to set; it was filled with lattice gel, which would hopefully do a good enough job at healing the area where the bone …
Chapter Fourteen: Return
Glyta had watched Hercule float in his pod for what felt like forever, though in fact it had been no more than ten minutes. She had finally shaken off her torpor, and realized to her chagrin that she had duties to attend to. “Um…I should…I need to report in,” she said, to nobody in particular. …
Chapter Thirteen: Ignition
Nasti didn’t need the ship’s gauges to tell her that the relay had come online; the kick from the engines sent a shudder through the ship, and she had to fight against the ship’s sudden lurch to port. “Frak yes!” she shouted, as she pushed thrusters to full. “Nice work!” she called back, as she …
Chapter Twelve: Altitude
The Rusely was climbing as fast as it could, which was quite fast by any rational measure, but not quite fast enough. You might think that getting off of Hive Prime, with its relatively low mass, would be easy, but it is a tiny world, less than half the size of Earth; escape velocity there …
Chapter Eleven: Substitutions Alliance: Intelligence by D.X. Machina
The Aertimus H. Bass rode a tightly-wound wave of spatial distortion at an effective speed of nearly one million times the speed of light. Lauryna Gwenn had been told to keep it under max speed during shakedown, so the Bass was currently holding at Warp 9.8, which in her defense was technically below its max …
Chapter Ten: Invariant Alliance: Intelligence by D.X. Machina
“I always hated fire team training,” Glyta muttered. She was trying to remain quiet, and frankly accomplished her goal. But quiet is relative when you have a person riding in the pocket of the left bicep of your flight suit. “You had to go through fire team training? I thought you were exploration.” “We all …
Chapter Nine: Alliance Alliance: Intelligence by D.X. Machina
Myo stared at Dr. Regda, her mind flashing to a hundred different things. It didn’t make sense, none of it did. “But…they attacked us.” “Oh, yes, they did,” Regda said. “I didn’t know why, exactly, until the humans told us that they’d lost at Tau Ceti. Lost! Gods, their force was overwhelming, they should have …
Chapter Eight: Forward Alliance: Intelligence by D.X. Machina
There is a common trope in film and fiction: A ragtag platoon walks through the shattered remains of a city, its crumbling, bombed-out buildings but a shadow of the vital place that once stood there. Perhaps the camera focuses on a charred doll, or a tattered advertisement for makeup. Perhaps, if the filmmaker is especially …
Chapter Seven: Impact Alliance: Intelligence by D.X. Machina
For the briefest of instants, Acolyte 22’s upward momentum precisely cancelled out the gravity of Hive Prime, and Hercule was weightless. Hercule remembered his first time he had undergone zero-G training. In 2172, when he’d been hoping to transfer to the JTSA, he’d gone through pre-application training in Houston. It had been summer, and he’d …