Nine Imperial Days Later “Crewmate Gwenn, you have a second?” Lauryna sighed internally. It wasn’t that she didn’t have a second. She just didn’t want to spend it with him. It wasn’t that he was bad. In her brief time on the Sandava, he’d been very pleasant. Hospitable. Federation hospitality, she thought, ruefully. No, Commander …
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Chapter Ten: Inextricably Bound Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina
“Questions are never indiscreet; answers sometimes are.” –Oscar Wilde “And there has been no sign of them?” “No, sir.” “Lovely.” Ziah Solis sighed. “You’re sure they didn’t die on the ship?” “Kir was very clear on that, sir. They haven’t moved it, but they’ve scanned it thoroughly. I can tell you how many bacteria are …
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, …