Pounding, stabbing pain woke Astarte. She felt like she had two little ice picks pounding into her temples. The muscles in her eyelids twitched, and soon she found that she could no longer stay in ...
2024-02-28 20:29:52 +0000 UTC View PostIn a park, one whose main attraction were giant twisting metal sculptures, a short unassuming figure stepped forward. It looked to the left, then the right, and then the glass eyes of their mantis ...
2024-02-15 23:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostAdmiral Tharadun strode onto the deck of the pirate’s vessel, the Astaroth. The first thing he noticed as he stepped through the hatch was how well cared for the ship was. Even though hu...
2024-02-09 19:30:53 +0000 UTC View PostDaniels shifted on the makeshift chair the Gotari had made for him, it was uncomfortable, especially in his black-gold armor, but Daniels refused to complain. Because today the Gotari were finally ...
2024-02-03 17:27:09 +0000 UTC View PostModius watched the broadcast and felt his heart pound. The little hole in the wall noodle shop was burning fiercely, the fire was so intense that it compromised the structural integrity of the whol...
2024-01-31 19:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostDaniels was metaphorically kicking himself in the side for how the meeting went. Eliza stepped up next to him, walking just as primly as always.
“That could have gone better” Daniels mutt...
2024-01-28 18:22:50 +0000 UTC View PostKarega watched as more and more SS officers swarm the Astaroth’s upper decks, completely irreverent of the small gauss cannons meant for shooting down missiles. Just one could clear away...
2024-01-24 20:25:55 +0000 UTC View PostFezzen watched Dan-yalz face off with the looming alien with thick pulsing blood veins in its neck. The alien was a whole head shoulders above the hyoomahn and yet Dan-yalz stood with utte...
2024-01-22 05:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe situation erupted into Chaos. Astarte ducked behind a road barrier, the SS officers didn’t even notice her move as they were all searching for the snipers.
CRACK!
An officer fell ...
2024-01-18 22:08:27 +0000 UTC View PostFezzen stood next to watch captain Foric, as they waited in front of the yunyon spaceship. The council had grown tired of waiting and had ordered his uncle to assemble a force outside thei...
2024-01-13 17:49:07 +0000 UTC View Post“HEY! Be careful with my microscopes, I have no idea where we’ll get more at this time.” Alwen snapped.
“Yes Sir,” A Marine from the Lucifer responded curtly.
“How ...
2024-01-11 22:15:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe sounds of the city woke Fezzen before his alarm clock. He hadn’t slept well, disturbed by strange dreams he couldn’t remember. He idly wondered if the hyoomanz shared that trait, t...
2024-01-07 04:46:33 +0000 UTC View PostLucile wasn’t a smoker, she had bad memories of addiction, when one craving vanished another took its place and you were enslaved to a different substance. She had fought hard to squash such thin...
2024-01-03 22:34:43 +0000 UTC View PostAstarte and Lucile both sat in silence on the bullet train. Both had opted to wear their full armor, and as such every non-human on the train chose to give the two women a large bubble of breathing...
2023-12-14 20:11:17 +0000 UTC View PostAlwen pulled on the metal grieves, the armor automatically sealing and a foam layer inflating to push against her legs. The new marine space ready combat suite was supposedly an improvement in ever...
2023-12-07 19:20:41 +0000 UTC View PostAstarte watched as the entire world view of two Union born humans was called into question. Both internally wrangled with what she just said.
“You can see why I’d like to get into contact...
2023-11-30 21:10:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe violet skinned doctor had helped Rachel into a wheelchair and was now wheeling it along the ship’s cramped feeling hallways. The space was more than enough for human sized creatures, but Rach...
2023-11-15 22:33:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Rachel awoke she found herself in an unfamiliar room with a very familiar smell. It was sterile and tinged with the septic odor of a hospital. The lights felt blazingly bright, and the bed she...
2023-11-09 20:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostOzzath’s shuttle landed on the grounds of the Heart estate. It had only been an hour since Zera had made her scene. The fire in the hedge mage had been doused, and the gaping hole in the glass do...
2023-11-01 19:35:30 +0000 UTC View PostAstarte had never actually done this before. Only the marines had experience with this particular brand of insanity, and that was under sterile training conditions.
The multi-vector thrust of...
2023-10-25 22:06:47 +0000 UTC View PostKarega checked his watch. It was a tasteful silver wristwatch, it functioned purely off of clockwork gears and springs, and had three hands and only ten number to match Union time keeping instead o...
2023-10-18 21:52:12 +0000 UTC View PostSeriously, how shitty was the Hearts security? Astarte had stepped out to get some time to calm herself down, maybe break a few things until she felt better, before going back in to face the two me...
2023-10-11 22:14:47 +0000 UTC View PostRachel was struck by how different this man seemed from her mentor, Judge. How could they both be from the same family?
Judge always held himself upright and with authority. He walked into a ...
2023-10-04 19:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostAstarte was bleeding from her shoulder, the blood soaking into her dress and ruining the fabric. Rachel was hunched over nursing a side that was either badly bruised or broken.
In front of th...
2023-09-28 17:23:44 +0000 UTC View PostAlwen read the blood chart again. And again it didn’t make sense. She compared it to the MRI brain scan and also frowned. After seeing both she had ordered a full sweep of tests on Gato and had s...
2023-09-07 23:05:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe soft rhythmic thump of flesh hinting leather was calming. Despite his best efforts Gato only felt calm when he was in motion, and if the motion was violent all the better. This was something he...
2023-08-29 17:41:36 +0000 UTC View PostHard Truths, Soft lies
They walked in silence, Astarte scooping up a glass for herself while Rachel decided to take it slower.
She looked back up to where the pirate ha...
2023-07-28 14:58:04 +0000 UTC View PostDespite saying that he wanted to borrow Rachel for his undercover mission Judge hadn’t yet called on her. Instead with her main case appropriated and her other cases on hold Rachel got to spend s...
2023-07-20 18:56:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe fact that the core of Unity never experienced night time was really disconcerting. When Astarte and Karega left the Astaroth night was falling over that section of the city and streetl...
2023-07-13 21:11:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe insectoid machines did their job with the same boring precision as always. Once upon a time a bunch of squishy Xeno doctors had been responsible for Zera’s maintenance, until a servo in Zera...
2023-07-06 16:37:02 +0000 UTC View Post