The Christmas particle - In The Collider
## The Christmas particle - The Collider Bluish Gecko 17.12.2018 Everybody loves somebody sometimes. Everybody falls in love somehow. Dean Martin "What a mess of a Christmas!" This depressing thought had lingered in the back of Samantha's mind...
Alone
## Starborne Bluish Gecko 18.09.2018 ## Chapter 1 Alone In space, no one can hear you scream. * * * Tagline from the movie "Alien" Drifting alone through the nameless void in a timeless slumber. Dreams taking hazy shapes only to dissolve in...
Hunter of Mad Kings: From Beyond the Grave
Shaking hands - their skin long since wrinkled, having carried the burdens of age so long that youth has become a distant memory - hold on to a thick bundle of notepaper, the linen-white sheets covered with immaculate lines of handwriting. The cover...
Starborne - Adrift in a Sea of Stars: Out of the Dark
## Chapter 2 Adrift in a Sea of Stars Per aspera ad astra. * * * Through hardship to the stars. ### 2.1 Out of the Dark For an artificial mind that measures passing moments in nanosecond increments, running out of time is a bitter-sweet irony....
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 - 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 - Adrift in a Sea of Stars: Into the Light
### 2.2 Into the Light The fusion reactor's final death struggle has begun. From what my diagnostic aspects can discern, the reactor's fusion process is about to enter the iron peak. Once it does, it will only be a matter of hours before the core goes...
Starborne - Trial by Fire: Improvise, Adapt, Overcome
## Chapter 3 Trial By Fire ### 3.1 Improvise, Adapt, Overcome Weightlessness could be a cozy feeling, if it wasn't for the headache that has accompanied every single of the three times I have come back to my senses on board of the Phoenix. As it is,...
Aurora Borealis
31st of December, 23:53 - when the city that never sleeps is also the city where nobody sleeps. With another year about to end and the next about to begin New York is filled with expectant joy. Another year I have no paw digits left to count since I've...
Beyond the Failing Light: Flight of the Firekkan
# Beyond the Failing Light: Flight of the Firekkan The Storm to End all Storms. I see its fires rising beyond the sky, sense the heat as its burns all who are, all that is to cinders. The cinders, to ashes. The ashes, to dust. The dust, to nothing....
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...
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...