Thrice Damned
‘Accursed Devil, thrice damned is all thy race’ - Johannes Miltonus, M2The shuttle descends out of the sun, its slab sides resolving from dark shadow into the familiar blue and…
War Dove
A half dozen beige and brown aircraft stood inanimate in the Valkyrie depot at the edge of the airfield, steam drifted off the idling dual Vector-Turbojet engines. Mechanics and ground…
Ice and Starlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5PIlz4C_xg&t=10s Every breath Aramis took spread the ice a little further across the inside of his canopy. Starlight shimmered around the crystals as the crippled ship curved across the heavens.…
Salvaged
Heat bloomed in the core of the blast doors, a swell of actinic light in a tomb of darkness. Sparks pinwheeled like drunken fireflies as metal that had stood in…
The Last Embrace
Promotion ceremonies were always on the primary flight deck. They told us it was because it was one of the few places on the ship that could accommodate us all.…
Every Man His Duty
Duran stood in the green glow of the main deck’s displays and situation readouts with the majority of the ship’s officers--every man afraid to the pit of his stomach in…