The Greatest Mistake
Note: This is incomplete! I will add more to it as I go.
The world before the coming of the Crysties was a mystery to me. I'd heard the stories--my grandfather had the best ones--but it's a time and place alien to me, so far removed from my reality that it might as well have taken place in another universe.
The world before the coming of the Crysties was a mystery to me. I'd heard the stories--my grandfather had the best ones--but it's a time and place alien to me, so far removed from my reality that it might as well have taken place in another universe.
Chapter 1
Chapter 1: The Encounter
Space travel doesn't quite work the way it used to. In the early days--the latter half of the twentieth century--you had simple rockets. That was pretty much it. You applied enough thrust to escape gravity. Going anywhere near a fraction of lightspeed was unthinkable except in the annals of science fiction. Warp drive, hyperdrive, sleeper ships, relativistic vessels, wormholes... yeah, people had a million ideas for how humans might one day travel distances that would normally take several lifetimes to cover.
Space travel doesn't quite work the way it used to. In the early days--the latter half of the twentieth century--you had simple rockets. That was pretty much it. You applied enough thrust to escape gravity. Going anywhere near a fraction of lightspeed was unthinkable except in the annals of science fiction. Warp drive, hyperdrive, sleeper ships, relativistic vessels, wormholes... yeah, people had a million ideas for how humans might one day travel distances that would normally take several lifetimes to cover.
Chapter 2
Chapter 2: Having Escaped
Yes, we got away. Outmatched, outgunned, and I had little doubt we would have also been outmaneuvered, had we tried to stick around and put up some kind of pointless resistance.
The FV we used took us to Vega, not far from the Star Station Docking Platform, affectionately abbreviated as "Dock Plat," or "DP" if you don't mind sounding the slightest bit perverse.
Yes, we got away. Outmatched, outgunned, and I had little doubt we would have also been outmaneuvered, had we tried to stick around and put up some kind of pointless resistance.
The FV we used took us to Vega, not far from the Star Station Docking Platform, affectionately abbreviated as "Dock Plat," or "DP" if you don't mind sounding the slightest bit perverse.
Shatternity
In the late twenty-first century, humanity is searching for its place in a universe full of alien cultures, some friendly, others hostile. This is the story of Robert Maxwell, survivor of the Third World War, hero of the Cranion War, and the greatest man to ever command a starship (or so he thinks.) Fate will take him from the depths of the past to the mysterious, distant future. The future (and past) of the universe rests in the hands of this self-absorbed, wise-cracking, Scottish cyborg.
God help us all.
Chapter 16
Chapter 16: Whatever Happened to Mark Titus?
Date: July 24, 2093
Location: Crakat System, Dor'Tel/Cranion border
Mission: Respond to distress call.
The Protector came into orbit around a rocky, unfamiliar world. Distress signals bounced through Stelnet until they reached us, a couple systems away, doing recon on the Cranions to ensure they complied with treaty stipulations. Under normal circumstances, no Alliance ship would have heard it in time to respond quickly, so whoever was in trouble, they got lucky.
Date: July 24, 2093
Location: Crakat System, Dor'Tel/Cranion border
Mission: Respond to distress call.
The Protector came into orbit around a rocky, unfamiliar world. Distress signals bounced through Stelnet until they reached us, a couple systems away, doing recon on the Cranions to ensure they complied with treaty stipulations. Under normal circumstances, no Alliance ship would have heard it in time to respond quickly, so whoever was in trouble, they got lucky.
Chapter 8
Chapter 8: The waiting is the hardest part
We waited. And we waited some more. I waited very impatiently. The empty Nanias system mocked me. It knew I would live and die in such a tiny span of time compared to the billions of years that lay behind and before it. If you think stars can't be judgmental, please point out the last time you asked one about it. Case closed.
We waited. And we waited some more. I waited very impatiently. The empty Nanias system mocked me. It knew I would live and die in such a tiny span of time compared to the billions of years that lay behind and before it. If you think stars can't be judgmental, please point out the last time you asked one about it. Case closed.
Chapter Two- Sightless
Sightless
word count: 3176
I was drifting, somewhere in the unfamiliar dark. From an extreme distance, a loud voice was trying to penetrate the layers of fog that kept my vision obscured.
Chapter one- Daylight
Word Count: 3772
Daylight:
It was an incredibly bad idea, going to the surface in the daylight hours. But I didn’t have any choice-we were starving, and Marty was in desperate need of medicine.
“You’re....really going, into the light, aren’t you.”
They came from the sky
The prior pages of this book have been deleted, so that the story may be revamped and presented differently.
