Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 5
"So," Jenny thought out loud as she and Horizon left the canteen. "In order to figure out what all is going on in your head, you need to kill an asshole oligarch?" "No," Horizon replied. "If he's still alive I won't be able to kill him because my...
Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 9
Snow was a regular occurrence on Surtr, once a month the frigid moon would slip behind the gas giant Surt and the whole moon would be hidden from the sun for a full day before its orbit would take it back towards the light. When the long night came...
Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 10
Horizon followed Mr. Qali into the strange building, she kept her eyes peeled for any signs of treachery ahead of her friends. The fox led them into a warehouse filled with assorted crates on shelves seven stories high. The augmented raccoon listened...
Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 11
Horizon stood up straight and concentrated on her enhanced senses, her augmented brain took in sounds, smells, vibrations, and magnetic signatures and compiled them into a three-dimensional map updated continually in real time. She couldn't perceive...
Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 12
While Shawn worked on the quantum core and the orb's reader, Horizon cleaned biomass out of the exo-suit they'd claimed. After rinsing with a non-conductive solution she more-or-less hung it upside-down from a set of cables suspended from the ceiling....
Anthrophagy
There are many predators who are content to subsist on ferals, and even a few misguided folks who even try to derive nutrition from plants. But there are some rare individuals who can only be satisfied by that most taboo of meats: anthropomorphic...
Horizon: Salvaged Heroes, Ch.9
Princeps was showing a document on an e-paper sheet to the Stouton representatives, they looked somewhat uneasy about whatever was written on it. Elected Colonel Meline scrolled down to a particular clause in the document and tapped at it with...
Horizon: Salvaged Heroes, Ch.8
Horizon regained consciousness back in the medical bay of the_Resolution_, a quick glance around confirmed that she was in a perfluorocarbon tube again based on the curved visuals. She brought up her BCI communications. Horizon: I'm awake, you guys...
Horizon: Salvaged Heroes, Ch.7
Tanya's oxygen-starved brain was dimly aware of a sharp pain in her wrist, followed by her mask getting ripped off violently. She reflexively gasped the moment she tasted fresh oxygen, her lungs trying to flush out the rotten egg-smell of hibernation...
Ethane Horizons
Jerald shivered as he climbed into the cabin of his rig. He regretted, once again, that he'd chosen lynx biomods instead of snow leopard with its heavier fur when the Company had offered them upon his emigrating to Surtur. He'd had the impression that...
Horizon: Salvaged Heroes, End Book 1
Aboard the _Resolution_ a wide variety of constructs skittered and rolled about the ship, delivering parts from the vessel's printers and installing them with their arrays of integrated drills and welders. One construct in particular, though, which had...
Horizon: Salvaged Heroes, Ch.14
**Skeletal integrity 80%** **Internal organs 63%** **Cyberbrain activity Muted** **Magnetic Resonance field detected** **Searching for Federation IFF signals** **IFF NOT FOUND** **Initializing wake sequence.** Horizon's eyes shot open, she...