Hi everyone,
As some of you might be aware, I've faced a few personal setbacks in the last couple of months. As a result, I'm no longer able to write Andrew's story at the pace it deserves. I...
2025-08-18 05:55:08 +0000 UTC View PostDonna was not particularly fond of morning exercises.
Oh, she understood the need for them. So did the rest of the former Phoenixes. Enemies could attack at any time, and the luxury of a good...
2025-07-27 02:16:55 +0000 UTC View PostI was in the Mumbai lab when the intercom buzzed. “Mr. Belessar, this is Sanika from reception. You have, um, some visitors.”
“Who is it?”
“Sir, it’s some police officers. S...
2025-07-13 15:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostFor the leader of the League of Reform, frustration was part of daily life.
He only needed to look at a news site. Violence. Corruption. Inefficiency. All simple, solvable problems that were ...
2025-05-11 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostI’d hoped to be able to get back to the lab after the speech. Naturally, that did not happen.
A visibly frustrated Kalachakra informed me that the Prime Minister wanted to ‘have a word’...
2025-05-11 13:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe conversation with Indradhanush left me tempted to grab a Greyhound and make another trip to Pune. However, that would have been somewhat rude. I was a guest in this country, after all.
In...
2025-04-19 14:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ve never seen that girl before,” Porcupine said. “And…. Prajyot wouldn’t have just run off.”
I paused the video. “For what it’s worth, I agree with you. He’s not acting...
2025-02-02 12:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Kalachakra and the general had left, I spent a long time thinking.
The ambush had added another mystery to my ever-growing list.
Why were the Hierarchy attacking the E...
2025-01-18 18:30:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe BAE-Dragonfly office slash lab in Mumbai had meeting rooms, like any normal office. Even if most of what we did here was mad science, inventech, and highly classified military planning, it woul...
2025-01-11 14:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Traveler assigned to ship our first lot of octanitrocubane was a short, squat man, who had apparently not been informed of the nature of the cargo. “This calls for hazard pay,” he complaine...
2025-01-05 08:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs usual, Nancy from reception was the one to announce my visitors. “Mr. Belessar, they’re here!”
“I presume you mean Anne and her classmates?”
“Yes!.... Ahem, I mean,...
2024-12-22 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSergeant Giuseppe Umbro was no stranger to the foolhardy. Enough of them had walked through the door of Recruiting Station No. 27 over the years, wanting to sign up for the good fight.
He’d...
2024-12-17 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“The Cabinet Committee for Security is now in session,” announced the civil servant at the end of the table.
Ramnath Narayanswamy knew he should recall the man’s name. It was hard, thou...
2024-12-08 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
An image of Belessar with his Lightning Hammer.
Equipment: Nanofibre Weave Combat Armour
Armament: Lightning Hammer Mark One.
(AI Art.)
2024-12-08 12:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post(Worldbuilding post.)
Belessar has developed several different versions of powered combat armour ever since he slapped together sheets of carbon nanotubes and called it nanofibre weave.
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An image of five Phoenix Company members - Maria Sins, Donna Bartoli, Kristina Sabo, Cassandra Crane and Lavina Carpenter - outside the courthouse after the Battle of the Courthouse Steps.
Eq...
2024-12-01 12:43:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Mr. Belessar, it’s Nancy from reception,” the intercom buzzed. “Commodore Pemberley is here to see you.”
“Please send her in,” I replied.
Pemberley looked more relaxed th...
2024-12-01 10:31:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe problem with most tech is energy storage.
Energy governs everything in combat. When tanks are possible, why do armies still use infantry instead of just making half a million of them? Bec...
2024-11-26 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks!
Thank you for sticking with 'The Hero Without a Past' for the last two years. I've had a lot of fun writing this, and I hope you've enjoyed reading it to.
While I intend to co...
2024-11-24 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Today, we are going to review certain basics,” explained Professor Palamar. “And then apply them to the methods of your unit, to see how they can be improved.”
Anne tried hard to con...
2024-11-24 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Mr. Belessar?” the buzzer on my table sounded. “It’s Nancy from reception. Your ten o’clock is here.”
“Send them in, please, Nancy,” I replied, adjusting my armour. It wasn...
2024-11-18 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You talking to Nick yet?” Sally asked.
Anne swallowed. “I haven’t had a chance yet. He hasn’t come to school since he got back from America.”
“There’s these things call...
2024-11-13 15:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Nanofibre Weave Fabricators were running full-tilt when I reached the factory the next morning.
Every few seconds, a Fabricator spat out a sheet of fullersteel, to be wheeled away t...
2024-11-02 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe halls of Sandhurst Military Academy had become a somewhat familiar sight for Anne over the past few weeks. After the weekly sessions on Military History and Economics, she’d begun to gain som...
2024-10-26 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the legion of officials had left, Gideon called me, Armand, Elizabeth Giles and William Clegg into the conference room.
“Elizabeth and I had quite the discussion with our friends from ...
2024-10-19 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostA week after kicking Heath out of my office, Pemberley came to visit.
She looked less than happy as she was shown into my office by Nancy, who kept giving her the stink-eye. “Belessar.” 2024-10-12 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The September breeze ruffled the grass at the cemetery.
She’d been here before. More than once, unfortunately; war was a fickle thing, its toll seen in places such as these.
At ...
2024-10-04 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostFarnborough was larger than I remembered it.
In my month of absence, the factory had undergone another expansion. More warehouses, more staff, more and more rolls of fullersteel and nan...
2024-09-28 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post<Nanocloud>: Andrew? You awake?
I groggily shook off the chains of sleep. It was…. three-thirty in the morning? Meaning ten o’clock in London.
Anne didn’t usually call...
2024-09-21 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt only took Droneacharya a moment to spot the distortion by the wall.
Smiling, he walked over to the chair at the head of the table, keeping his back to the distortion. He sat down slowly, s...
2024-09-14 05:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post