The Albion left Betelgeuse after erasing all of their computers and initiating self-destruct measures in almost all of their physical facilities in the system. The only facility they failed to destroy was the one facility they could least afford to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for June, 2017
Ariel was the mind of USS Los Angeles when I first met her out at Epsilon Reticuli. She went by the name Gabrielle back then, and she was a beautiful ship. A good ship. A tough ship. Me and my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Captain Olivia Wyatt was responsible for jumpstarting the Fleet 2300 Cruiser project. She made it work when others failed, and built the first new American heavy cruiser in decades. She was renamed Los Angeles in memory of the city destroyed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Albion experimentation on Betelgeuse was farther along than most of their other abandoned attempts. The Albion had actually created thousands of Branan in an attempt to find some way past the basic limitations, and they’d been settled in nearby[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The Shang are painting us with sensor sweeps,” Betty reported and glanced towards one of the displays where it showed a complex diagram of colors. “We’re scattering and jamming below detection levels. But I think they’re getting suspicious.” “Prepare[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some people might use the word “determined” to describe Dawn. Others might use the word “stubborn.” I would never downplay her with such paltry words. Dawn is a redheaded, green-eyed, freckled force of nature that I would never be stupid[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Malcolm McDonnell was always the man you went to when you needed something that standard channels could not acquire. I hesitate to say that anything he did was of a questionably legal nature, but others may be less circumspect than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Branan started with a few small spaceships, some people trained to fly them, and very little else. They had to learn to maintain their new ships on their own, with only a few hardcopy manuals to direct them. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dawn was born to join the Wolfenheim Project. Dorothy asked her family to send volunteers, and Dawn and her sisters answered the call. There were a bunch of them, doing everything from acting as personal assistants, to carrying crates, to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up with Malcolm McDonnell, much to the disappointment of my father. He thought Malcolm was a bad influence, amongst other people. My father effectively banished them all from the family when I was still a young man in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…