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A2 - Chapter 52 – Collider Surf

USD: A few Days later

Location: 92 Pegasi, A3123Y Central Module

The Tears had been rendered uninhabitable for the duration of its refit, so Alex and Elis, with the help of a lot of drones, had to move all their belongings to the station.

If the Tears had been comfortable with just the two of them, the station felt enormous. Even with the addition of Amy and Logan, there were hundreds of empty rooms in the habitation section. Just finding each other had bee...

A2 - Chapter 51 – Operation Rug Pull

USD: One week later

Location: 90 Pegasi System, SMS Grazhdanin, Bridge

Lieutenant Lavigne sat at his engineering console, monitoring the summaries that the computer was showing him about the massive ship’s waveform drive. Everything was operating normally, which left him little to focus on.

“Emerging from the jump corridor!” The Grazhdanin’s astrogation officer called out. There was little tactile sensation in the event for the crew on the bridge. A...

A2 - Chapter 50 – Operational Success and Goal Planning

USD: Around the same time that SMS Grazhdanin left for 90 Pegasi

Location: 92 Pegasi, Tears of Fire, rendezvous with A3123Y wharf

Alex stared out the observation deck’s window as Nameless slowly guided the Tears into position for the automated mooring system to dock the ship to A3123Y’s orbital. That orbital had grown from a simple shell to a multi-ringed orbital that would be the same size as Ackman Station in another month.

Thousands of drone units pa...

A2 - Chapter 49 – Return

USD: A few days later

Location: Theta Corvi System, 90 Pegasi jump point, SMS Grazhdanin, Officer Berths Section

Lieutenant Lavigne frowned as Commander Terrance pulled him into a cubby hole out of sight and sound from the hallway.

“Sir?”

Commander Terrance was the XO, the second in command of the ship, so wasn’t sure why he was dragging him into a dark corner. Lavigne obeyed, though.

Before answering the question, the XO went and checked ...

A2 – Chapter 48 – Outbound

USD: A week later

Location: Nu Crateris, Fifth Planet High Orbit, Nucrateri Station, Concourse

Information was for sale in droves on ‘Nucrateri’ Station. The problem was, Alex didn’t need any of it. Nameless had already developed and built multiple probes on their flight from Dedia IV to the fifth planet’s orbital.

She had already launched them to the other system bodies, and the telemetry they provided was of better quality and reliability than any...

A2 - Chapter 47 – Grime and Progress

USD: A few hours later

Location: Dedia IV, Szizsielia’s Hive, Starlight Revolution Annex

Alex watched as the drones installed the final servers to the computronics module to the underground bunker. She wasn’t sure how the drones had chiseled and smoothed the stone to such a clean polish, but the look was certainly at odds with the high-tech nature of the new contents.

A climate control system had been set up as well, in preparation for keeping the chamb...

A2 - Chapter 46 - Settlement

USD: A few days later

Location: Nu Crateris, Dedia IV Orbit, Tears of Fire, CIC

The situation remained tense, to say the least.

The Brigadier had called back his bombers in response to her ultimatum quickly, but he was quite angry at the threats she had made.

She was quite angry at his failure to clear the action with her.

There had been some voices raised. She was afraid she had cursed at him a bit too vividly.

The Governor had intervened...

A2 - Chapter 45 – Aftermath (Part 2)

USD: Thirty minutes after entering Szizsielia’s Hive

Location: Nu Crateris System, Dedia IV, Near Tifara, Szizsielia’s Hive

Elis paused at yet another intersection. Her acoustic imager had been feeding her back miles and miles of tunnels that seemed to snake out like long worms of angel hair pasta. They all seemed to converge toward one central point, but it hadn’t shown up on the map yet.

What had caused her to stop was the fact that they had already...

A2 - Chapter 44 – Aftermath (Part 1)

USD: A few days after AMCN-AADN5 detonation

Location: Nu Crateris System, Dedia IV, Near Tifara

Elis raised her hand in a fist, and the small column came to a halt. Her HUD had picked up some type of movement on the next hill and signaled a warning to her. The combat bots reacted immediately to spread out in a line abreast beside her, taking care to stay behind whatever rocky cover was available.

Their support unit was almost a kilometer back and picking it...

Chapter 43 – Firestorm One

USD: Sometime in the morning

Location: Nu Crateris, Tifara

Elis disentangled herself from an arm before sliding out from under the bedsheet, escaping into the bathroom to pee. As she came out, she bent down to snag her panties and slide them back on. A quick check of the time told her what she already knew: she had overslept and missed her morning sitrep with Alex.

That was sloppy.

It was not the first time she’d had went to bed with a soldier. It w...

Chapter 42 – Meetings and Understandings

USD: A bit earlier

Location: 92 Pegasi, Ackman Asteroid Belt, A-3123Y Orbital

“Logan, this is the most stupid thing I’ve ever seen you pull, and that’s incredible.”

Amy held onto a handhold welded to the ceiling of the old badger MKII’s cockpit, her other hand on the back of the pilot’s seat that was occupied by her stupid younger brother.

“Trust me! System net’s hot with it. They’re offering higher rates than Ackman.”

“We ...

Chapter 41 – Interim Movements

USD: Five hours later

Location: Dedia IV Orbit, Space Elevator Rendezvous, Tears of Fire, Mess Berth

Alex confirmed a third and final bombardment, this time drawing a line of horrific fire in front of the main front. It was more spread out, but the Rexxor nest had spat out an increasingly large number of units after the first bombardment, that had taken the beleaguered militia by surprise.

If the Tears had more ammo ready, they would have likely called for ...

Chapter 40 – Rods from God

USD: During skirmish at Tifara

Location: Dedia IV Orbit, Space Elevator Rendezvous, Tears of Fire, Mess Berth

Alex frowned as an alarm beeped at her. Rubbing her eyes, she sat up in her bunk and waved the intrusive sound away. Nameless’s voice prompted her to wakefulness a little faster.

[Notice: A call from ground, Dedia Prime Forward Position Alpha is awaiting your response.]

Her HUD had a lone flashing icon in the bott...

A2 - Chapter 39 – Skirmish

USD: Four days later

Location: Planet Dedia, Tifara Militia HQ

Elis leaned against the railing of the Militia HQ’s second floor balcony. She had removed her MK4B helmet earlier to relax. The humid, earthy smell of the planet had contrasted heavily with the filtered and sterile air that the combat suit fed her.  The night sky shimmered with a multitude of stars and every so often she could spot a shooting star.

The sound of the shuttles revving up the...

A2 - Chapter 38 – Tifara Landing

Chapter 38 – Tifara Landing

USD: The next day

Location: Planet Dedia, Hard entry, Tears of Fire Shuttle #1, ALT: 40,000m

Elis looked at the readout on the pilot’s monitor and tightened her grip on the seat’s arm rest. The shuttle’s nose was pointed up at a thirty-degree angle and flames were licking up around casting the cockpit in various shades of orange and yellow. The whole craft shook like it was sitting on top of a moderately sized earthquak...

A2 - Chapter 37 – Dedia IV

USD: One day later

Location: Dedia IV Orbit, Space Elevator Rendezvous, Tears of Fire, CIC

A necklace of ships floated in geosynchronous orbit behind the space elevator, following it in the constant dance that saw them circle the planet. The massive tether was tens of thousands of kilometers long, a massively thick tether that reached the surface and stretched out well past where the ships had gathered at the equilibrium point.

A massive counterweight could...

Table of Contents - All Stories

What this is:

The table of Contents grew and got long enough that I decided to split each story into its own post.

Now the main TOC--this post--will have a link to each story's individual TOC.

This one will also stay pinned at the top, and have information on my schedule, link to announcements, etc.

Plans:

Writing has gone well in November. I'm having a great output with the new stories. Focusing on RaaWC2 for now while siding TGPDC.

ShipCore 5 i...

Chapter 36 – Antagonistic Capital Ships

USD: One day after arriving to Nu Crateris, a few minutes later

Location: Midpoint to Dedia IV orbit, Tears of Fire, CIC

“While I've attempted to discuss the mission with Captain Walker, unfortunately he has ignored the colony's authority. I’m not sure how the Solarian Admiralty found such a pompous jacksnipe to put in charge of a merchant marine ship. I suppose the fact that he’s all the way out here shows their opinion of him, anyway.”

Alex sighed...

Lore Interlude – Grazhdanin Super Freighter

** James Fighting Starships – GSD 64 **

| Grazhdanin|

|Class: Super Freighter-Troop Transport|

|First Production Year: GSD 63|

|Categorization: Military|

|Sub-Cat: Mass Transport / Troop Transport|

|Outer Hull Length (Bow to Stern): 2860m|

|Outer Hull Beam: 590m|

|EST Effective Operation Duration 36 months (4 months loaded)|

||Armament||

|128x Single 22mm Point Defense Cannons, AP rounds |

||...

A2 - Chapter 35 – Enroute to Dedia IV

USD: One day after arriving to Nu Crateris

Location: Midpoint to Dedia IV orbit, Tears of Fire, Cargo Area

Alex reached up to wipe the sweat off her forehead, but that only ended up being the signal Elis needed to strike. Power armored fist rocketed forward at a blinding speed and Alex barely had time to raise her other fist to intercept it.

The polarized metal of Elis’s fist screeched loudly as Alex’s nanite-armored knuckles slammed into the wrist of t...

A2 - Chapter 34 – Standing Orders and Transit

Note from author: Hey all of you lovely patrons! You might have noticed that there are a bit of spelling and grammar errors in the latest patreon posts. This is because I've been releasing them fresh off the page essentially with just a quick glance over for mistakes. 

I've been doing this so I can get as much content out to you as fast as possible. It's entirely probable that some errors sneak into every chapter. My goal is to get you up to 15 Early A...