What happens when you are supposed to be working on one project, but cannot think, focus, or concentrate? You write some other meaningless piece. This is the product of perhaps too much caffeine, not enough sleep, and an attempt to not be so wasteful of the 30 minutes it took to write……
The sight before us was so perplexing that we couldn’t speak, couldn’t even move for several moments, creating more than enough distraction, to allow Dr. Pendergrass and the mysterious third person we couldn’t see to escape. “wha-, What, the hell…” I finally manage to get out. “Daniel, let me explain”…
The process of picking new crew members from the passenger manifest was a difficult and painful one. Every person you looked at, you would compare to the respective member they were replacing. It felt wrong, sick, like you were betraying a friend in picking someone to replace them. Alas discomfort…
“We’re in med bay, turn on the AGS!” I hear the frantic call from Alyona over coms. I’m not sure how long I had stood there staring at the blood, but the call pulls me back from some trans like state. I glide over to the science station, and hit…
There’s not much you can do or say to prepare yourself for delivering, nor receiving bad news. The situation faced by the crew aboard the TCSC transport ship Horizon was learning this lesson it seemed a little more every day. “Sir, we need to talk… now… Main computer control…” I…
“So, what the hell are we talking about? Little green men?” Commander Griffin’s reaction was mainly sour due to the impossibility of our situation having a strong dose of the bizarre added to it. “I don’t know sir, all I know is that I have checked the signal five times,…
The bridge crew was silent for a long time. “What does this do to our course change” Axelson finally asked. “Nothing. We make the course change on schedule, in 3 hours” Commander Griffin’s words seem hollow as he still stares at the screen. “Start making ready for the transit path.…
The quiet hiss and hum of the various computers and ventilation system are comforting and melodic friends. Late night flight operations on these new carriers seem meaningless and redundant these days. The computers manage the flight, course corrections, collision avoidance, and the new plasma shielding makes sure that even if…
