Grantor City State Security HQ, Grantor-3
POV: Sprabr, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Eleven Whiskers)
“What exactly is the problem here, Administrator Krelnos?” Sprabr asked the shorter female figure in front of him as patiently as he could. This new station director had been giving him a headache for the past couple months. If that Director Svatken hadn’t promoted this one herself, he’d already done something about her meddling whiskers weeks ago. As it ...
2024-12-11 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Raytech — Olympus Campus, Mars
POV: Martina Wright, Terran (Executive)
“I thought you said Panoptes had more computing power than anything we’d ever had,” Amelia said, glaring at the Raytech exec sitting calmly at her desk.
“It does,” Martina answered. “Were the miracles during the Battle of Sol not enough to convince you?”
“Then what’s with the delay on the Buns’ latest code update? My people tell me we haven’t had access to ...
2024-12-09 16:47:00 +0000 UTC
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TRNS Sonora, Sirius (18,000 Ls)
POV: Catarina Ibarra, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Rear Admiral)
The newly promoted rear admiral stared intently at the Resistance-flagged ships that they were supposed to be escorting through Sirius. Her ship was now accompanied by the three Python squadrons (one of them so newly activated that the radiation-absorbent paint on their hulls was still drying) and Rear Admiral Carla Bauernschmidt’s squadron of assault carriers and a...
2024-12-06 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Hotel Hano, Titan
POV: Amelia Waters, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Fleet Admiral)
“Why doesn’t this feel like winning? Why aren’t we just holding them by the original agreement made during the Battle of Sol?” Senator Seimur Eisson complained as he loosened his tie after a long day of negotiation. “The Saturnian Resistance Navy is over. They’ve got nothing, and they’re talking about things like they single-handedly defeated the entire alien invasion ...
2024-12-04 16:47:00 +0000 UTC
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TRNS Nile, Grantor-3 (6 Ls)
This is Radio Free Grantor. The Granti speaking to the Granti, from Grantor City.
Before we begin, we have an important personal message: Quarmui, your boots are dirty. Quarmui, your boots are dirty.
You should get that cleaned up, Quarmui.
We have the news for you tonight. Uncensored by Grass Eaters. Uncensored by the Ministry of Defense. Just straight news, brought to you by the brave fighters of the Grantor Underground.
There was ...
2024-12-02 16:47:00 +0000 UTC
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Grantor City School for Gifted Hatchlings, Grantor-3
POV: Spisme, Znosian (Teacher)
“Let me get this straight, Slow Predator,” Spisme said in dismay. “You want me to teach these hatchlings wrong on purpose?”
“Not wrong,” Torsad said, shaking her head. “Right from wrong. You just have to teach them the basics. Empathy, compassion, morality.”
“Pointless predator notions,” the hatchling teacher dismissed. “I won’t teach them to b...
2024-11-29 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Grantor City Safehouse India, Grantor-3
POV: Torsad, Grantor Underground (Cell Leader)
“Ten guards for each prisoner.” Torsad pointed at the guard towers on the digital map. “According to my people in the hatchling pool camp, they have patrols all around the perimeter. And shift changes are now staggered. New policy.”
“That’s what the other cells say,” Mark said, nodding in agreement. “New procedures thanks to our recent… activities.”
2024-11-27 16:47:00 +0000 UTC
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Intercity Highway 5, Grantor-3
POV: Torsad, Grantor Underground (Cell Leader)
“Cell Leader, I can’t see anything,” Torsad heard her lieutenant complain as his shovel bounced off a hard rock in the soil. “What are we doing out here, digging at this time of night anyway?”
It was just past midnight, and the two of them were out in the middle of nowhere, scooping dirt with a pair of shovels next to an asphalt-paved road. They’d both gotten very goo...
2024-11-25 16:47:00 +0000 UTC
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Grantor City Safehouse Romeo, Grantor-3
POV: Guinspiu, Granti (Head Councilor)
“What’s that do?” Guinspiu peered at the simple glass contraption in Kara’s hands.
“It’s a Molotov cocktail,” she replied, smiling.
“A Molotov cocktail?”
Kara’s smile widened further, if that was possible. “Take any— well, I don’t need to teach you how to make one. It’s an easily made incendiary device. Which means, it burns.”
“W...
2024-11-22 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Grantor City Outskirts, Grantor-3
POV: Torsad, Granti (Former Prisoner)
“What do want me to do?” the recently liberated prisoner, Torsad, asked.
“Do you still remember how to read?” Guinspiu asked as she reached into a sack next to her, rummaging through its items.
“Grass Eater or…?” Torsad asked.
“Which do you prefer?”
“I can still read Granti,” she said after a moment of hesitation.
Guinspiu took a clear plas...
2024-11-20 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Content Warning
Chapter includes depiction of self-harm that could be disturbing to some people.
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Grantor City Outskirts, Grantor-3
POV: Guinspiu, Granti (Head Councilor)
Guinspiu admired the camouflage netting the trio of Terran operators had thrown over their landing shuttle as they began to unload their equipment with a fancy-looking cart. The netting itself was made of some kind of digital fabric that transmitted i...
2024-11-18 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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TRNS Nile, Grantor-3 (10 Ls)
POV: Guinspiu, Granti (Head Councilor)
“High Councilor, I need to prepare you for what we will see down there. We know from their own history and communication that there are five general phases of a Znosian xenocide project,” Kara said, glancing at the external cameras showing the shuttle ready for orbital entry. “Invasion—”
Guinspiu nodded reluctantly. “I’ve read the report, Kara. Your Director showed it to me a...
2024-11-15 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Top Secret // ORCON: Terran Reconnaissance Office // Restricted Data // Special Access Required: Gray Windmill // %Redacted%
Do not remove this document outside of authorized facilities. Unauthorized disclosure or distribution of this document will result in legal penalties, including imprisonment up to life. If you believe you have inadvertently come into possession of this document, immediately notify your nearest Republic information security authority on a secured line. Do...
2024-11-13 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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TRNS Nile, Clauns (1.4 LY)
POV: Skhork, Znosian Dominion Marines (Rank: Six Whiskers)
“Infantry, front, dugout!”
“I see them. Firing coax.”
Rat-at-at-at-at-at-at.
The machine gun roared, wiping out the squad of predator infantry emerging from the trench in front of them.
“Oh shit! Resistance tank, three o’clock high! They’re in the hills, two-four-zero high, next to the red rocks… C’mon, c’mon, where are you l...
2024-11-11 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Pruint Sector, Datsot-3
POV: Skhork, Znosian Dominion Marines (Rank: Six Whiskers)
“You’re doing better,” the Lesser Predator medic declared. “More lung volume… lungs volume in your breathing. I think some of your cells are responding to the experimental regeneration therapy.”
Skhork grunted. “What do you want with me?”
The medic stuck an instrument near his eyes, flashing a light into them, before recording his reaction on his datapa...
2024-11-08 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Granti Embassy, Malgeirgam, Malgeiru-3
POV: Guinspiu, Granti (Head Councilor)
“Get the declawing tools. We’ll extract the information out of her the more reliable way.”
“Got it. Hold her still. I don’t want her to bleed out before we’re done here, or we’ll have to go get another—”
Crinkle. Crinkle. Thud.
His order was interrupted by a sudden rattling noise nearby, like something heavy dropping to the ground.
Gui...
2024-11-06 17:47:00 +0000 UTC
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Grand Chancellery, Schpriss Prime
POV: Sonfio, Schpriss (Chancellor of the Confederacy)
“Your history, Minister?” he asked carefully.
“Yes. Our history. Short as it is compared to your civilization…”
“Of course, Minister,” he answered politely. His inner academic was curious. And… “The complexity and richness of history is not determined by its length. Even in our own, there are times when history is deep, and times when it is shall...
2024-11-04 17:47:01 +0000 UTC
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TRS Perry, Schpriss Prime (3,500 km)
POV: Niblui, Malgeir (Ambassador)
“These guys really took the whole ‘put all your eggs in one basket’ thing as advice instead of precaution, huh?”
“Eggs in one basket?” Ambassador Niblui asked curiously of the human. Republic Minister of Alien Affairs Tsai was looking down at the planet in wonder.
As an ecumenopolis, Schpriss Prime was a planet city. Some urban planners in the Terran Republic would qui...
2024-11-01 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Quist City — 115th Combined Arms Division HQ, Quistqueu-3
POV: Vzglars, Znosian Dominion Marines (Rank: Seven Whiskers)
Bang.
As Vzglars scrambled to find cover in her tiny command bunker, her world went white. A painfully loud sound assaulted her eardrums and she lost her balance, toppling over where she stood.
It took ten seconds for her to recover her senses. When she did, she realized that not only was she alive, there were several new...
2024-10-30 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Quist City — Defense Line 6, Quistqueu-3
POV: Vdrastostr, Znosian Dominion Marines (Rank: Five Whiskers)
The Znosians were not all gullible. A good trick only worked so many times against them. In this case, exactly four times.
The 6th defensive line figured it out, about six kilometers in.
“Five Whiskers Vdrastostr, they didn’t use our prearranged secret phrase in the message! And we don’t have a Five Whiskers Brunkt in the previous line!”...
2024-10-28 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Schpriss Confederacy: 13 star systems.
Malgeir Federation: 51 star systems.
Znosian Dominion: 582 star systems.
Where our people go…
(Fade to dark.)
Your star system…
(Mark IV exosuit powering on sequence.)
It belongs to us.
(Title text: NOTHING BEYOND YOUR REACH)
(Subtitle text: Your Republic Needs You.)
“We Only Need One”, Terran Recon...
2024-10-25 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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High Council Palace, Malgeiru-3
POV: Cerbos, Malgeir (High Councilor of the Federation)
“High Councilors, we’ve just received a message from our embassy in Sol!”
“FTL radio traffic is finally going through now?”
“Yes, High Councilor, a channel has been opened just for us. Ambassador Niblui reported in from our embassy on Atlas.”
“What did she say?”
“The Terrans— they’ve managed to defend their home system! They’r...
2024-10-23 16:48:01 +0000 UTC
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ZNS 9520, Sirius (25,000 Ls)
POV: Zvojshur, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Nine Whiskers)
Nine Whiskers Zvojshur was getting nervous. Half of the ships of the Grand Fleet were waiting on the wrong side of the Great Predator Nest here with her in charge in the system of Sirius.
For the first couple days, the relay ships came back from the other side with consistent frequency as the attacking fleet began their travel to the enemy home and colony planets. But a...
2024-10-23 16:47:00 +0000 UTC
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Atlas Naval Command, Luna
POV: Amelia Waters, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Fleet Admiral)
“The districts’ air forces are requesting that we help them deconflict their targeting,” Samantha reported as tens of thousands of atmospheric jets took off to continue their sorties against the enemy landers, the last of which were still in the process of entering the atmosphere.
Amelia nodded. “Give the districts full access to tactical computing. Squadrons 9...
2024-10-21 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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TRNS Bali, Terra (0.2 Ls)
POV: Jakub Fiedor, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Captain)
“Captain! CIC reports that the Corsica took a hit, midsection to rear! They’ve got at least two modules open to vacuum.”
“How bad?”
“They’ve lost primary comms! But sensors show they’re still cruising at 85% of maximum acceleration. We’re the second closest ship. Should we cancel our attack run and burn to assist? We can reach their position in twelve ...
2024-10-18 16:47:00 +0000 UTC
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ZNS 1006, Terra (5 Ls)
POV: Stsinkt, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Ten Whiskers)
The seventy remaining destroyer squadrons of the Grand Fleet — over eight hundred space combat ships, with the thousands of troop carrier and fire support ships they were escorting — they dived down at the enemy home planet near the system plane. Stsinkt saw the sensor signals showing the rough volume estimates of the four enemy squadrons of their Peacekeeper destroyers, and she ...
2024-10-16 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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ZNS 3844, Mars (0.2 Ls)
POV: Vdrojert, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Nine Whiskers)
Nine Whiskers Vdrojert, commander of Battlegroup Dwarf, looked curiously at the city lights on the night side of the red planet on her battlemap. “Unbelievable,” she exclaimed. “A completely inhospitable planet, and they colonized it anyway. To live here! It’s not even a prison camp! Wasteful predators!” She shook her head in disgust, thinking about the immense squanderi...
2024-10-14 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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ZNS 2239, Saturn (6 Ls)
POV: Tvadnek, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Nine Whiskers)
Negotiations? Now?
Servants of the Prophecy were not above using trickery and playing predators’ disunity and greed against each other. Intrigued at the opportunity and recalling his briefings about the internal political strife of the Great Predators, Tvadnek ordered, “Put them on the screen.”
The revolting image of one of the Great Predators showed up o...
2024-10-11 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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ZNS 2239, Saturn (12 Ls)
POV: Tvadnek, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Nine Whiskers)
“Only six ships?” Tvadnek questioned.
“Yes, and they are not hiding at all. We can see them all on our sensors without issue.”
“Surely they don’t think these are sufficient to stop our six squadrons with half a squadron and a smattering of immobile batteries?”
“Perhaps they are crazy,” she replied. “Or just desperate. This is exactly what we w...
2024-10-09 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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TRNS Minelayer Ardent, Charon (20 Ls)
POV: Kaja Kowalczyk, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Lieutenant)
“Abandon ship! This is not a drill. Abandon ship! This is not a drill.”
The automated announcement was accompanied by the repetition of the ship’s general alarm: seven short trumpet blasts and one long.
As she worked intently to input the last few commands she could onto her console, Lieutenant Kaja Kowalczyk heard loud banging noises in the hull ...
2024-10-07 16:47:01 +0000 UTC
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