Blindside
To say Jack carried a colored past was to border on facetious at best and disingenuous at worst. The man had fought a war on his own home front, seen the very planet he'd spent his youth upon turned into a machine of war, ran from his people's...
Embittering Expertise
Mo'Ona was a Hux of many problems. Never would he deny such. In fact, many of his issues were quite self-inflicted. Badges of honor, he'd call them, carrying the metaphorical awards with pride as a sign of a life lived in a perpetual battle against...
The Vents
Lix wasn't a stranger to violence per say, however her experience in the realm of death and injury was indirect. A flaming explosion after a collision or slamming her vessel into an asteroid, something born by accident or failure of skill at the flight...
Rest, Recuperation, Repair
Love Like Oil, Act Two Koorka Station greeted Jack and Lix with in the same spirit as when they had left; with bodies, the stale smog of a dozen different species crowded together in too small a space, and the promise of riches for those who had the...
Adult Conversations
Lix was not one for distrust, not for her close friends at least. The Kux'lar was simply an individual with an innate faith in her entrenched confidants, willing to bank on her convictions and stand by her decisions. Yet one could only ignore so many...
Broken Chains
Elias was the first to rise, fishing rod in hand to greet the rising sun, and eventually Sade's splashing forelimbs. Fish slapped beside the man's boots, flopping upon the rough dock wood as he shifted a cigarette to the other side of his mouth. Late...
Powdered Money
Greg knew well the fragility of society; that rules, that safety, that law, were falsities only a few scant days away from dissolution. Supermarkets were but three days stock from depletion if the trucks ceased delivery. Hunger pangs and fear of court...
Blood and Fuel
"Docking bay twelve, sidle up 'tween those shuttles!" Jack huffed in the hot confines of his EVA helmet as he dogged shut the hatch to the No Safety Measure's cockpit, sealing inside his captain and mate. "Power from engines to shields an'...
Kobold Krafts (at the store)
If exhaustion had a manifestation, its avatar would be poor Yelz. The kobold's subspecies wasn't ever meant for nocturnal life, yet here she was hitting the hay at two in the morning and finding half the sunlight gone by the time she awoke. The past...
Shark Skin Crowd
Unaki would follow her Thomas anywhere. Right by his side, hovering over him like a scaly guardian angel through pouring rain, freezing sleet, or scorching sun... Though the latter felt really good on her scales. It didn't matter to the powerful...
Kobold Krafts (in the rain)
Rain pelted the scratched and dingy windshield of the barely functioning 1997 Acura Integra, its cabin silent and musty from the lack of a working air conditioner or radio. Mercifully, the hazard lights still dimly blinked to warn any who passed that...
The Yulpa Circuit
"A great cycle to you all! I'm so enamored to have what feels like _half the galaxy_ join us for the first race of the Seventy-Fourth Galactic Asteroid Racing League!" Across the stars, trillions upon trillions of souls tuned in to forget their woes...