Talia took a moment to examine her appearance in the restroom’s mirror. The elegant, form-fitting white dress hugged her curves, while a thin trail with a side slit nearly reached her boot ankles. A pair of white gloves reached just past her biceps, ...
2023-08-23 05:47:25 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Eighteen Hours since hostile fleet incursion.
Location: Meltisar, MNS Aegis Flag Bridge
The bridge was awash in the quiet drone of officers and specialists quietly going about their work. Admiral Parks had retired for a break. That was odd, considering the situation, but then again, he likely ha...
2023-08-22 21:52:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia awoke to the sound of her alarm, a gentle chime echoing through her apartment. She grunted and rolled over, the silky sheets of her over-sized bed shifting with her. The light level slowly crept its way up, and she instinctively covered her eyes ...
2023-08-22 04:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostI've had a really stressful time since last Thursday, with my dad's doctor appointments. Apparently he hasn't been back to see them since after his heart attack and the stent they put in for his blocked artery. Skipped all the tests and things, and didn't reschedule them. Then today I had Jury Duty which was extremely stressful to me, being an i...
2023-08-21 17:25:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia realized she still had her rifle in her hand and swung it toward the blue with one arm. He kicked it hard enough to send it flying, striking the window and bouncing further down the hall. Then he rushed her while she was still sitting with her ba...
2023-08-17 16:45:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The colossal Giant Jungle Worm’s roar seemed to reverberate through every fiber of her being. Talia gritted her teeth and watched as green plasma orbs raced through the disappearing smog to splash onto its carapace. Smoke hissed and the rocky scales ...
2023-08-17 06:03:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The tunnel was a charnel house of blood and burnt Blues, and Talia instinctively raised the inside of her elbow despite her oxygen system being completely isolated from the rest of the environment.
[Notice: MIRU units cleared this area ap...
2023-08-16 18:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia felt the plan was very well made. Her units executed their movements precisely. Why the rapidly moving enemy LAV suddenly whipped around an embankment and headed directly for the crater and her command APC was unclear. It had been driving dumbly o...
2023-08-16 04:28:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Senior Legionnaire Tarzlyk watched the light chariot disappear into the dusky shadows and around the opposing hill’s crest. The demons of this place were weak and pathetic, but still clearly visible on the scout monitor. Two had been picked up coming ...
2023-08-14 21:11:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Officers rapidly called out orders to coordinate damage control efforts across the CSS Bellerophon’s bridge. Chi Aurea s...
2023-08-13 23:22:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The convoy crossed through the desert sand rapidly, a small group of four CRD-X9s and a single pod of LIRUs trailing behind it as the slower construction units fell behind. Talia had decided to bring those along as well, since they were likely going to...
2023-08-12 13:23:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Piles of wreckage had been dragged from down the hill outside the base, the remains of the attacking vehicles partially melted and processed. The equipment of the infantry had also been stacked in a pile, and she swallowed a bit of bile as she realized ...
2023-08-10 23:16:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The Pegasus and CRD-X9s returned to the base in silence. The weight o the recent attack hanging heavily in the air of the APC’s crew compartment. Dusky and Dapple watched silently as Talia worked to direct units to return underneath the protective dom...
2023-08-09 19:54:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The HEM mining operation proceeded smoothly, and with the tunnel already in place, it took much less time for the twelve vehicles to fill up their internal storage. They filled with the precious cargo she was prompted to think about how to improve futur...
2023-08-08 19:10:51 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: Two hours later
Location: Meltisar, Military Shuttle 8701-A, Rendezvous with Aegis
The shuttle hummed as it came in for its final approach to land inside one of the Aegis’ many boat bays. Alex was oblivious to the noise as she focused on scanning the intelligence reports on the incoming Imperi...
2023-08-07 12:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post
ROSE-TT3 was a helpful and useful AI, in her opinion. While the others had ridiculed her for surrendering to the User’s demands and working for nearly no credits, she had been focusing intently on processing a new language. The amount of effort and w...
2023-08-05 09:59:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Centurion Terraxxus sat upon his command dais, a stern and imposing figure. His eyes scanned the parchment Cornicen Verrrox had provided as his report. The cool lighting of the great hall was provided by monitors and screens in the most technologically...
2023-08-04 16:54:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia’s heart raced as she processed the information, her eyes locked on the monitor. She hadn’t expected the Blues to be at the HEM deposit, let alone mining it. The convoy came to a halt awaiting further orders while the Raptor drones diverted th...
2023-08-04 11:18:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia spent the rest of the afternoon meticulously planning the operation, doing her best to cover every detail and what each unit’s specific role and purpose would be, as well as an action plan for how they’d approach the site. One thing that beca...
2023-08-04 08:43:38 +0000 UTC View Post
For two days Talia agonized on what units she needed for the operation while overseeing the resource gathering efforts. Key points that she had to keep in mind were that she wasn’t able to simply shell the area with the artillery units, because that ...
2023-08-03 10:24:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia stood outside in the morning sun, observing the deployment process of three new CRD-X9 units. The late-night resource run had come in without an issue, and the two new maintenance drones had worked hard to replace the partially used fusion cells ...
2023-08-01 10:44:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The map the Seeker-H7 had returned with was painted as a hologram on the side of the Bootstrap Module’s hull. The blue light glowed in the dark, mixing with the ethereal blue sheen from the shield generator that now marked Sigma 16’s night inside he...
2023-07-31 10:16:55 +0000 UTC View PostUSD: A month after A3123Y departure.
Location: Nu Crateris, SRS Heaven’s Fire II, Rexxor CIC.
Heeler’s metallic tipped tentacles tapped rhythmically on the command console. It was difficult to maintain a constant stream of inputs on the dozen screens laid out before him mentally, so the addition ...
2023-07-30 15:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Dusky and Dapple worked together to stabilize the load while the CRD-X9 hauled it into place on the large Durasteel foundation that Talia had prepared for it. When it was finally centered, they even helped to get it to land on the little markings sheâ€...
2023-07-30 06:07:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia watched as the repair module went to work on the damaged CRD-X9. Laser lights painted over the area where the main damage had occurred, melting away the entire structure before replacing it with brand new material.
While it worked, she turne...
2023-07-29 12:52:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia watched the battle unfold, her heart pounding in her chest. A second tracer from the auto-cannon flashed out, narrowly missing the damaged CRD-X9 by a hair’s breadth. Fire from the vehicle’s secondaries lashed out, hundreds of small geysers of...
2023-07-28 01:56:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Both CRD-X9s had filled up to the brim with 20,000 units of High Energy Matter, and Talia had set her little convoy back towards base. The first order of business would be to set a hundred new fusion cells into production.
[Noti...
2023-07-27 11:53:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia watched as the module finished its deployment. Unlike the other modules, there would be no shell to recycle, because the shell had become ramps that lead up to the raised platform. Twelve adapters each housed a drone slightly larger than her RSU-7...
2023-07-27 00:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia watched as the seventh tree crashed to the ground. She had spent the better part of the day locating the most ideal trees to cut. The glow bugs were beaten back from the trunks as the CRD-X9s’ lasers played over the material, rapidly ...
2023-07-26 02:23:23 +0000 UTC View PostLavigne leaned against the cold, metallic wall of his cell, feeling the chill seep through his thin jumpsuit. The hum of the ship’s environmental system provided a constant background noise, a reminder that he was trapped with...
2023-07-24 03:46:38 +0000 UTC View Post