Slater drove his avatar up to the crowd of Chixturax, spotting Hixrax near the front of the mob. The crowd skirted away from his imposing mech, afraid of being crushed beneath i...
2021-03-17 16:36:18 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a bit of concept art for Derelict 3. I was toying with using one of the big battles inside the station for the cover, but ended up wanting a shot of the ship in front of the station instea...
2021-03-15 15:29:18 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral things happened at once. First, Slater ordered his drones to build a pair of medpods for the injured kids. He had designed them for the Chixturax ship and knew they woul...
2021-03-15 14:07:57 +0000 UTC View PostWith resources flowing in, and over fifty construction drones working away, Slater made good progress on the two ships. While he was still angry, he didn’t stop work on the Ch...
2021-03-12 15:26:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Slater there is something I don’t understand about the early games of your culture,” Kraxton said. Slater looked over and found the young Chixturax had started his foray ...
2021-03-10 15:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostHis cyborks at target one had been caught out in the open, stacked up on the doors and ready to breach the building. The death contraption thingy went straight at them, the heav...
2021-03-08 19:22:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Slater, I believe we have uncovered some information that may be critical to our defense,” Hixrax said over the comms. The kids had just left with the prototypes for the ne...
2021-03-05 18:16:27 +0000 UTC View PostSlater watched the snipped of sensor data and audio from a human warship called the USS Phoenix. The ship was about to engage in a border conflict with a superior Chine...
2021-03-04 15:48:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the last chapter of War Core that I have written. I'll likely keep working on it, but will only be able to do a chapter or so per week while I focus on finishing up Derelict 3. The next cha...
2021-03-04 15:19:31 +0000 UTC View PostHugh was down to seven minutes when the machine gun team walked off the assembly line. The team consisted of two standard infantry mechs, each holding a component of the machine...
2021-03-02 15:29:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Here’s what we’re going to do. I need a section of five infantry mechs covering the west. The rest of our forces will crush the eastern force then move to support the wes...
2021-02-27 15:04:36 +0000 UTC View PostHamilton System, USS Oxford.
“Hold our course steady, this is a close to that thing as I want to get,” Capt...
2021-02-26 20:59:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Light ‘em up! I want focus fire on the two highlighted landing craft,” Captain Tran shouted over comms and the fifteen infantry mechs I had assembled began to lay down fi...
2021-02-25 14:11:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe debris remaining inside the dockyard was sparse, most of it had been sucked out when the gnomes destroyed the airlock. Thankfully, they had enough funds to bring in fresh sa...
2021-02-24 20:53:54 +0000 UTC View PostHugh’s brief overview of the type of fight he was participating in was complete and the GCA began his flight across the galaxy to Ix0071, wherever that was. Despite it happeni...
2021-02-23 14:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostSlater’s attention shifted from his Derelict to the construction drones at the dockyard. It was a bloodbath. All the Chixturax workers had been shot or hacked to pieces by a m...
2021-02-23 00:48:14 +0000 UTC View PostHugh did a quick assessment of his options. The unit upgrades were enticing, but he didn’t want to focus on a unit type only to be thrown into battles where they were banned. ...
2021-02-21 15:07:29 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain Tran divided his infantry mechs into three lines of nineteen. Weapons lowered and ready to fire, the mechs moved through the forest of red trees. Hugh kept his point of ...
2021-02-19 16:08:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe second stage of the Krixnas invasion of system es1422 is initiated. The attacker is making the following demands.
Krixnas Demands: 2021-02-18 14:35:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Slater watched as the entry compartment hatches adjusted to whatever this mystery challenger had opted for. This time, a single oversized hatch was placed on the wall directly o...
2021-02-17 18:09:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Fall back and defend the command post!” Hugh shouted as he changed unit orders, sending the faster T-7 mechs as well as the majority of the infantry back to defend the comm...
2021-02-17 13:41:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Looks like we’ve pushed them back, good work everyone. Let’s build up our forces again and see if we can take the initiative from the enemy,” Hugh said over comms to hi...
2021-02-16 14:23:51 +0000 UTC View PostA notifications pinged, telling Slater that the cyborg variant of his gnomes were ready. There were still some inefficiencies to work out with another pass through the process, ...
2021-02-15 21:21:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Sergeant Mendez, your pod is a go, button-up soldier,” Admiral Nix ordered over the commlink. Mendez was still not sure he liked this whole operation being under some Navy ...
2021-02-15 16:18:28 +0000 UTC View PostHugh watched the pair of drones struggle a bit to get the oversized resource container into the command post. It was the third they had brought back, and it should give him enoug...
2021-02-14 14:21:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Slater, you’ve done very well on the second attack, and I’m happy to see your construction drones are working hard at the dockyard. We gained ranking and credit income, h...
2021-02-13 19:36:14 +0000 UTC View PostI should also have another chapter in Derelict 3 ready for you tonight.
Hugh’s first infantry mech stomped its way out of the barracks. He...
2021-02-12 14:05:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Very well, Admiral, even if it was done against my will, I’m in this fight. We need to get moving, the time is counting down,” Hugh said, noticing they had only twenty min...
2021-02-11 21:03:52 +0000 UTC View PostHugh’s vision receded from planet x345z2, and he watched the stars fly past as he waited to complete the journey back home. The beautiful blue-green sphere that was Earth began...
2021-02-11 13:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post“What a dump,” Pixi said as they scanned their new “shipyard”. The location was in an old forgotten section of Sarton Station, which was perfect since it meant fewer peo...
2021-02-10 19:22:37 +0000 UTC View Post