Starborne - Trial by Fire: Contact
### 0.1 Contact I can feel you fading away - your body can not carry on like this any more. You wereso determined to see this through ... noticing, but not commenting on thesupplement of stimulants I applied as soon as your stamina would start to...
Starborne - Trial by Fire: A Small Step for a Canine
### 0.1 A Small Step for a Canine Sleep came with astonishing ease, and so did the memories. A childhood of austerityand hardship in the European Federation - successor to the European Union, after theharsh realities of a deteriorating ecosphere...
Starborne - Trial by Fire: Iridescent
### 2.4 Iridescent "... an Iridiscent." With another sudden ˜ jolt, what was nothing but an endless stream of indecipherable ... images, impressions, experiences conveyed by a way of sensing ... perception, understanding ... becomes comprehensible....
Starborne - Trial by Fire: Final Countdown
### 2.5 Final Countdown A deep gasp, eyes flying open - I'm back in the real world! It quickly turns out circumstances are no better than in the Iridescent's dream-like reality: The first breath I take back in my real body falls short to provide more...
The Christmas Particle - A Quantum of Entanglements: Lightning Rod
### 1.2 Lightning Rod Softly humming a Christmas carol to herself, the coyotess got to work. Examining the microcontroller Thomashad brought with him to control his personalized Christmas light show, she found to her surprise that the small computer...
Starborne: New Beginnings - Swan Song
### 3.3 Swan Song "CASSIE?" No reply. The NeuraLink is working all right: The ship's ubiquituous data streams are flowing as they always do, all systems reporting in nominally. Your autonomous aspects - the ship's subconscious, if you will - are all...
Starborne: New Beginnings - Rising Star
### 3.2 Rising Star The trip to our proper first contact begins without further ado: I hang on to one of the waiting drone platforms, instructing its guidance systems to plot the shortest path to the location I was invited to. "Where exactly are you...
Starborne: New Beginnings - Sentio, Ergo Sum
## Chapter 4 New Beginnings Sentio, ergo sum. * * * I feel, therefore I am. ### 4.1 Sentio, ergo sum "CASSIE - the p... pack? The ship... Phoenix?" "The crew - alive and unharmed. The ship is safe - Captain. We... you savedus." The last words I...