Jonathan A Countyman

Chapter Twenty-Four A Friendly Game

Kiru ended up joining Megumi for a game of ‘Fleet Commander. While May headed out to join the others in the lounge after she cleaned up for the day. It certainly was an interesting game. The game allowed an unlimited deck size but played best with a small deck. The recommended deck size was apparently twenty cards. Running out of cards in your deck, required you to reshuffle the discard pile into your deck. It also had three types of cards. The most important of which was the flagship card,...

Chapter Twenty-Three No Regrets

Kiru stretched as she slipped out of bed to start a new day. She was pleasantly sore, after last night’s activities. One thing she knew for certain now was that she certainly had stamina, the two of them had been engaged for hours, and she certainly had a good time though. She even managed to get Megumi squealing. The experience had certainly been interesting as well. She had never known sex could be so good.

Looking back into her bed, she briefly observed the sleeping form of Megumi�...

Chapter CXXXII Conversations on Rosewood

Misaki settled into the chair, and glanced at Phyllis who was giving her a rather thoughtful look. After a moment, she said, “I can’t give you much information, honestly. I haven’t been there for years, and the Drake siblings could probably tell you more than I can. They are actually from Rosewood.”

The Drakes? She hadn’t thought about them, but now that Phyllis mentioned it, she remembered Phyllis was right about that. The Drake siblings did originate from Rosewood. They migh...

Chapter Twenty-Two Salvage

Megumi watched the alien ships depart. As she stretched her new body, and slipped out of her command chair, she considered how the last hour had gone. Her diplomatic approach had worked. Now she had a shipwreck to deal with, but thankfully she didn’t have to waste time and energy dealing with a group of unknowns. What their interest in this region was; remained unknown, but she had kept them from acquiring anything dangerous. She did not need them doing something stupid with technology they...

Chapter Twenty-One Counter-Contamination Protocols

The older captain stared at the complication that had appeared. This was supposed to be a nice easy mission. One that was worth quite a bit of political prestige, but easy nonetheless. It had seemed like a good final mission to him. The elderly captain had been quite looking forward to his retirement. Of course, none would have predicted a precursor warship appearing during a recovery operation, even if the target of that mission happened to be a precursor warship. Of course if one did show u...

Chapter Twenty ADS Inquisitor

“Alert! Solean Battleship detected on approach vector.”

The young man sighed and looked up from his work. It had been a few days since they had found this vessel. He had managed to access the ship’s computer mainframe, and configure the sensors to alert them about approaching vessels. While he was at it, he changed the language settings, and encoded some new lingual code, namely teaching the computer Basic. It didn’t know any modern languages before.

That alert however rea...

Interlude Dragon Problem

The captain stepped onto her bridge, feeling a little tired. Honestly she just wanted to be in her bunk, but she pushed those feelings aside. Duty demanded she be here, even if it was the middle of ship’s night. Composing herself, she barked, “Report!” Her mind already focusing on the mention of a contact that her night duty officer had mentioned when he called her to the bridge.

“We detected an unusual energy signature about eight minutes ago. Sensors picked up this image just ...

Chapter Nineteen The Lessons Continue

Kiru groggily stirred as someone shook her slightly. It took her sleepy mind several moments to wake up, and she foggily took in the room. For a brief moment she was startled by the unfamiliar room, but then memories of the day before returned.

This was her new room, it was a cozy enough bunkroom that she shared with one of her classmates. The room was a bit bigger than her cell had been, and had a bunkbed on the one side of the room. On the other was a double wardrobe. There was also a...

Chapter CXXXI The Princess, The Dragon, and the Cult

She shifted out of bed and stretched as the cool air caressed her bare skin. Today was another lovely day judging by the calm morning light streaming through the window. Already her mind was considering her itinerary. She had a meeting with Aceri, several disgruntled noblemen to deal with, and an execution to attend. The execution being the main cause of the disgruntled noblemen. They never take kindly to one of their own being handed the death penalty, but her hands were tied. The man killed...

Chapter Eighteen A Mission Gone Well

Armak watched the precursor ship go to warp. He was glad to see it depart. The drones made him uncomfortable. As for Erisa, she was okay, but she certainly had a mouth. He had the impression she didn’t like Megumi all that much, but the ship AI seemed stable enough to him. He did however check records on past encounters with precursor AIs and for her age she seemed quite stable. The girl did mention her vivisecting members of the Erali science team, but he spoke to the victims. They actuall...

Chapter Seventeen Rescue Mission

With a simple thought, the ISS Constellation broke orbit at the same time that Kiru had started her lessons. Megumi felt that now that her repairs and reconfiguration was completed it was time to rescue the crew of the crippled Ludole vessel. She had hoped to have Melia interact with them, but the young lady had decided to undergo her psychic awakening procedure already. As such Melia was currently in a bio-pod, undergoing a process not expected to complete for another five days. When done, s...

Chapter Sixteen Kiru’s Choice

In case you were wondering there will be no WDYMADAG today. I'm still working on the next chapter, but since I still have a large backlog of Adventures of a Space Battleship I can post this series as scheduled. At least until the backlog expires. This week I have three chapters for you to enjoy.


Kiru considered her options. She could stay here and do who knows what or she could accept the hologram’s option and help her. Now that she could think clearly in a way she had n...

Heads up

My dog gave birth to a large litter, yesterday. I'm afraid this will negatively impact my writing time. Its already impacting my sleep.

Chapter Fifteen Kiru 2.0

Kiru woke up feeling wonderful. She had never felt so good in her life before. None of the little aches she always had were with her. She felt quite refreshed as well as if she had the best sleep of her life.

Kiru’s mood quickly shifted as the past events came back to her mind. She had just gone through a surreal and horrible procedure. She opened her eyes and looked around. Her pod was open, the fluid gone, and dozens of young naked girls were stepping out of pods around her. It had ...

Chapter Fourteen Procedure

Kiru stepped into the lab with trepidation. By now it was very hard for her to distract herself. Her instincts were screaming at her, that she was walking right into the heart of a beast’s den. Kiru just didn’t see any way to avoid her fate. No way to escape whatever the AI wanted of her.

Glancing around she noticed tube after tube in which the form of a small infant could be seen floating in a swirling gold and blue mix of thick fluids. The fluid made it hard to make out details be...

Chapter CXXX A Delayed Meeting

Mira stared at the doors. She knew the goddess had told her to be here earlier, but it had been hard making a decision. The young dragon girl didn’t know if this was the right choice. Seeking help from a dungeon did not seem to make much sense to her, and going to the guild to find the dungeon made even less sense. Yet here she was about to take the risk. Wrestling with her doubts she made for the door. Mira just did not see how this would help her keep her clothes. She stepped through the ...

Chapter Thirteen Projects

It was about time she got started on a few of her projects, but in the meantime, she focused several long-range sensors on the recently discovered Altean ship. The ship in question was the ADS Inquisitor, a Vindicator class Heavy Dreadnought. A very respectable ship class that served as the mainstay capital ship of the Altean fleet. Roughly triple her size, the ship was powered by twelve primary Zero Point Energy Reactors(ZPERs) and roughly thirty auxiliary Zero Point Energy Modules(ZPEMs). T...

Chapter Twelve Greeting the Locals

She stared at the newest object to catch her notice. A ship she had failed to detect arriving. A fact made all the more embarrassing by the fact that the wounded vessel was clearly not trying to hide. Its cloaking shields were down, and it was actively carving away at the planet her nest was orbiting.

She could already see that its hull was rapidly regenerating. The old wounds closing off and reforming into a pristine hull. It was truly a sight to see. Entire sections of hull merely liq...

Chapter CXXIX April’s Divine Meeting

April parted with her friends and started her walk home. Enjoying the cool breeze on her skin. Her mind once again drifting over the last few months. The expedition, the shocking arrival. The whole having plants sprouting out of people thing. At least she was immune, or highly resistant to the point she might as well be.

A part of her was deeply thankful for Thessa. The Bloodleaf woman was an excellent caretaker, and let her wear what she wanted. Given her age, and succubus heritage tha...

Chapter Eleven Orbital Strip Mining, and Reconfigurations

Melia was relaxing in one of the ship’s recently restored recreational lounges. The past few days had been mostly uneventful. The other scientists on board had been... very excited when the ship let them into a new section a couple of days ago. A section of old labs that had recently been repaired. Well to be more accurate, the hull damage responsible for them being sealed off had been repaired. The labs were still in disarray, but the scientists had been ecstatic to go in there. There wasn...

Chapter Ten Council of Shadows

A shadowy figure settled into her seat. There were several more shadows around the table, and in the dim light, the only thing an observer would be able to notice was that they were all female, and all generally humanoid. Beyond that, the light and the cloaks they were wearing, little more could be discerned. This was the Council of Shadows, on their 273rd meeting this year, although this one had originally been scheduled to discuss a different topic, but something had gone wrong. They had lo...

Chapter CXXVIII The Forbidden Continent

A day late, and a bit short. Do forgive me, but things have been hectic here. The weather has been bad lately. The stairs needed fixing, and we are rushing to fix up a room before my brother gets back from his deployment.

Arlie leaned back, and glanced at the sky. Then she looked back towards Ovi’ta. With a gentle smile, she asked, “Do you have any questions, or can we get going?”

Ovi’ta did not reply immediately. She was still processing what she had b...

Chapter Nine Resupply, and...

Melia stared at the captured Neku warships. The entire fleet was currently anchored off the ISS Constellation’s port bow. What was left of it anyway. A few ships had been destroyed. It was certainly odd, and the newly arrived reinforcements likely felt the same way. Twenty battleships, a flagship, and their escorts had arrived just an hour ago. Erisa had returned from her errand and decided to explore this part of the ship. As such, Melia had no doubt the crystal chip that Megumi had given ...

Chapter Eight The Expected Result

Erisa walked down the corridor. She was trying not to think about her last conversation with Megumi the ship’s AI. Not that it was easy. She felt so violated, and so tiny. It was also a bit irritating to think that she had an alien device embedded in her spine. One that was actively transmitting a whole slew of data and worse could render her docile in a moment. Something she had experienced not all that long ago. Just before the ship gave her a task. Something so simple a child could do it...

Chapter Seven Overwhelmed Part Two

I figured it would be cruel to leave you with just part one, so I am posting part two as well. Chapter eight will post on Saturday. I hope you enjoy the chapter!

Megumi watched Erisa as she paced nervously. At this very moment, she was also managing a boarding operation, keeping track of ongoing repairs, compiling ancient technologies, decoding Erali computer code, keeping a sensor lock on the supposedly surrendered Neku cruiser, and plotting her next few ...

Chapter Seven Overwhelmed Part One

POV Science Drone SD-SSB-02311:

2311 floated a meter off the deck, as it surveyed the site. It, along with a number of other drones, had entered the hull of a Neku battleship through a breach in the hull. Behind it, several drones were using their manipulation tendrils to install an emergency air shield over the breach. Ahead of it, a flickering emergency shield was blocking entry into the vessel.

2311 studied the energy barrier with its scanners and quickly determined that the ba...

Chapter CXXVII She bit a Bone in two!?

Ovi’ta pulled her panties up, and stood up. She felt better now, and briefly glanced up at the sky. It was so peaceful right now, and for the moment she wasn’t with that crazy goddess. She briefly considered not returning to camp, but knew that was pointless. There was no point trying to run away from that crazy goddess. With a sigh, she figured she better get back to camp. All the while hoping something would change.

Nearing the camp, she heard some strange crunching, and cracking ...

Chapter Six Terror

She stared at her screens. The ancient wreck was bearing down on the fleet, and if the report was accurate she was already moving faster than the fleet. Worse, she had displayed the ability to disable them at will as well.

The young Neku captain refused to believe that a ship that could destroy two ships in a single shot each would fail to kill a battleship just because it had changed weapons. That new one was one they could identify too. Unlike the first one, they had seen it before, b...

Chapter Five No Retreat

Erisa was now in a small control room staring at screens. She could see how the ship’s entry into the battle had turned it into a rout. The Neku were desperately trying to clear the range of the weapon, and the gravity well of the star the ancient ship was orbiting. The Constellation was close enough to a star that its gravity prevented hyperspace jumps in the vicinity of the ship. Thankfully the ship wasn’t so close that radiation became a problem, but the Erali had been lucky to find it...

Interlude 01 FTL Technologies

The many civilized races of the universe use a variety of methods to achieve faster than light travel. Some methods are more common than others. Here we will cover a few of the more common methods of travel but by no means all of them. Along with a couple of rare methods.

Warp Drive:

By far one of the most common methods of interstellar travel. Warp drives function by folding space. The process creates a bubble of intense spatial flux around the ship that will tear matter apart. N...