***** Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre People’s Republic of China Earth Eight years after the attacks “Congratulations on your new promotion, Commander Liao. She’s a fine ship.” Field promotions could be bittersweet. In most cases, they represented recognition of skill or capabilities beyond your ...
Instantly the inside of the canopy turned crimson, my blood splattering against my Heads-Up Display as the decompression alarm sounded. Air hissed out the hole, sucking the blood splatter towards it and out into the void like some bloody flower blooming right all over my cockpit. My wound didn’t ...
Of all his many talents, patience was not one. The scouts had told them everything he needed to know; all had returned without sign of the Humans, but one had not returned at all. It did not take a tactical genius to realise where they were hiding. Insolent whelps, cowering behind their ineffectu...
Landri muttered as he ground his teeth. Maybe it would have been different if his mother still lived, but she had been gone for five years, taken by a fever that refused to break, the delirium that had overcome her at the end a memory he couldn’t escape. His father had grown colder to him then, s...
InfirmaryTFR Beijing2037 AD "You're pregnant." Doctor Saeed’s words were like a hammer to Commander Melissa Liao’s heart.Liao, the Captain of the TFR Beijing, had not lead an easy life. She was what they called a “Summer Flower”—a woman raised in China two generations after the ‘one child’ polic...