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TNS Chapter 16 Preview

Added 2022-12-02 15:06:29 +0000 UTC

Chapter 16 will release on on 12/06/22 at 0800 MST. Sorry it took so long to post the preview, it's been a hell of a week and I thought I'd already posted it for some reason. Enjoy!

Subject: Captain Neil

Species: Human

My first command and I'm already behind enemy lines in what has to be the worst detail a Captain can get. Scouting. I had no experience in scouting. Before I made captain I had served aboard the USSS Nidhogg, which hardly ever does anything. And before that I had station duty. I hadn't seen any sort of action, let alone action behind enemy lines.

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We have several types of sensors that allow us to get a fairly detailed view on a system without having to be anywhere near it. Our orders are to exit warp in dark space, scan a system, and move on unless we see something that requires further investigation. We've effectively censused eighteen systems in the two days we've been at it.

The stress of the assignment had begun to get to me. Four out of the eighteen had the Omni-Union ships we'd heard about, and two of those had weird warp fluctuations that would have ripped us to shreds if we had jumped into the system. Thankfully we were far enough away that they didn't detect us, or if they did they decided not to do anything about it.