The year is 10804, humanity has spread out into the cosmos. On a far distant world under the soft glow of a blue sun in the sky a child plays in a sandbox with a toy. Sitting nearby, the child’s father reads the afternoon news on his interface unit, a descendant of modern day smart…
11:22
Robert crouched behind an overturned table. He could hear the sound of footsteps coming down the hallway. Between each footstep was a squishing slurping sound, like the sound of a rotting piece of meat being dragged behind some great beast of prey. His breathing was raspy and fast. His heart was pounding so hard that…
They are barely better than cavemen
The briefing of the Khlourian high council had been succinct. A new inhabited world had been discovered in a previously unexplored arm of the galaxy. A long forgotten scout probe had followed an unexplained EM signal and found a nickel-iron world in the habitation zone of a moderately sized yellow-white star. The newly scanned world…
Don’t mess with the Humans!
“How many times do I have to tell you? Don’t mess with the Humans!” Cryell’s fur bristled around his eyes as he brought his fist down on the computer console. Me’Ree’s ridge fur lay back in submission, “But I was only wanting to examine one up close. I put it right back where I took…
The Downfall of the Rix
For as long as anyone could remember every race in the galaxy had feared the Rix. Everyone in the galaxy lived with the knowledge that at any moment a Rix battle fleet could appear in orbit around your world. When that happened your life was over. Every sapient being on the planet would be eradicated…
Report to the Galactic Conference concerning the recovery of the logs of the High Fleet ship Indomitable.
As many of you know, contact with the Indomitable was lost eight cycles ago. Since no Galactic Conference High Fleet ship had ever been lost before, it was assumed that some cosmic event such as a unexpected supernova or chance encounter with a quantum singularity was the cause of her demise. However, with the recovery…