A/N: So this is the first of a set of vignettes and short scenes that take place between the end of Arena and he beginning of Contact, and are meant to fill in a few of the details of the intervening years. Other than that they won’t really have anything to do with each other, …
Chapter Four: Lead Me Home Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina
“Oh, nothing’s impossible. It’s just a question of when it gets too hard to imagine doing.” –Jeff Fecke, The Valkyrie’s Tale “ETA, Colonel?” “One hour, forty minutes. Twenty minutes since I told you we were two hours out, sir.” Tatenda Marechera paced, which took some doing in the cramped cockpit of the Sally Ride. “Can …
Chapter Three: The Dark and Desolate Valley Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina
“Ill news is wing’d with fate, and flies apace.” –John Dryden, “Threnodia Augustalis” Aertimus Bass simply stared at the viewscreen. There was nothing else he could do. The report from Titan Station was not itself a disaster. Disasters were far less destructive. No, the report Centurium Oden gave was a gorram black hole of awful, …
Chapter 73: All Good things
(Authors Note: Special thanks to D.X for his edit. This is it for the numbered chapters, there is wrap up epilogue to come, I’m not sure if it will be one big epilogue, or a few smaller ones. I began this story late 2013, and now it has come to a close. Thank you everyone …
Chapter Two: Lost But Now Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina
“It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy….Let’s go exploring!” –Bill Watterson, “Calvin and Hobbes” “Ten unis that we find microbial life there, sir?” “I’m not betting with you, Ted,” Cmdr. Tatenda Marechera chuckled. “Even if I win, what will I spend it on?” “Hala? Viktor?” “No chance, Ted,” Maj. Hala Nejem said. “One, my dad …
Chapter One: This Little Light Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina
“In the starry realms above/God will mete as we may measure.” –Friedrich Schiller, “An die Freude” Shang Xiao Xú Mùlán sat up, icy gel sliding off her body with a sickening thwuck, which was soon replaced by the even more sickening retching of Xú. “Easy, Ma’am,” the quiet Australian doctor said. “Just lie back. You’re …
Chapter 72: Combat Titan:Exile by Dann
Authors Note: Special thanks to D.X for the edit. Sorry for the wait on this one, it took me a while to get it right, and I wanted to deliver something that was worth the 71 chapter wait that came before it. I hope you enjoy! Eyrn was practically fuming. Iron Maiden had forced a …
Chapter 12: Shaar’s out of the bag Titan: Sovereign by JohnnyScribe
“Fara have you seen the case file for the klipkaer that Dyl brought in? The one with the broken foreleg?” The sound of the voice woke Fara from the light doze she had fallen into, face down in her textbook. She peeled her face away from the diagram on jexer anatomy, and looked up into …
Biographies Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina
Crew of the Stanisław Lem Shang Xiao Xú Mùlán, Commanding, TSS Stanisław Lem Age: 39 Height: 5’8” Birthplace: Shanghai, People’s Republic of China Home: Shanghai, United Chinese Republic Xú Mùlán served as a pilot during the Short War, and that convinced her that she didn’t want to fight for a living. Instead, she turned to exploration, …
Chapter 71: Cataclysm Titan:Exile By Dann
(Author’s Note: Special thanks to OHH for writing a good chunk, or nearly all of this chapter. Though I have about 1500 words in there, OHH is the creative mind behind this showdown. Also thanks DX for the edit.) The crowd in Vorsha Grand Arena was crackling with life, as the two combatants took their …