There were planets nearby, but all uninhabited and mostly gas giants. The few that weren’t the lizards hadn’t seen fit to take interest in, leaving this system one of several ‘stepping stones’ within their territory that they commonly passed through en route to other locations. In lieu of running...
The Kiritas stood in front of a display screen in his maturia quarters, two days from leaving and still he didn’t know what he was going to do. He had graduated a day ago and was now ready to transition into his ‘real’ life, but until he chose what his path would be they couldn’t assign him new q...
Ben-30118 commented as he was walking with Larissa to the spaceport. “It will always be too soon,” she countered, “but they’ve got to learn from practical experience and that means stretching them a bit. We can’t hold their appendages forever. Not enough hands anyway,” she joked, but the sarcasm ...
Coming through double translation, Mason wasn’t sure he was getting the gist of all of it, but from what he could tell the number of militants had doubled since the initial offer had been made that had prompted the Lieutenant to come out to Tieor. They were set up in a confiscated complex that ha...
Kev-10001 said, resisting the urge to punch the control sphere he was holding onto as he oversaw the planetary operations from orbit. He had 6 Warship-class jumpships contending with the Skarron fleet and guarding the cargo ships that had brought the troops in. He would have dismissed them to an ...
Now there were only 7 remaining, spread out widely across the planet having been bypassed by the Star Force troops because they were trap cities. Five of them still had their orbital defense towers intact, but the trailblazers had decided not to risk any more clandestine assault teams, for the la...
He and the others were stuck in an interior park that was only a few sections away from their LZ, but it was their only way through and the Skarrons had turned it into a temporary base of operations…with three of them and a horde of Hobbits in play. The bigger Skarron plasma rifles/cannons had al...
After disabling the lizards in the chamber he stood over top one of the lizard control panels and accessed the system, having gotten fairly good at it over the years and seeing that their computer systems remained virtually identical to those they’d first encountered on Corneria. There were doubt...
Shri, which is what she would eventually be called once they arrived in the ADZ, could sense her sisters all around her, but not just in the line she was traveling with. There were others nearby, all converging on the same area where the Human transports were waiting on shore. The Elarioni had a ...
They were pure brawlers, with two long blades extending from their arms that were presently pulled back inside bone sheaths. In fact, the standard variants in the kirby with them were specifically here to escort the maulers and get them to their target, for the fleshy minions the Hamoriti produce...
Or rather through it, for his fingernail was fully imbedded inside the material and poking through to the interior air as he used his Rensiek to increase and channel his internal heat production onto the surface of an invisible shield covering his finger. The heat went to it, pouring through his ...
She took the left side and walked ahead, sensing where the various minds where and seeing that they’d split up and were hiding in different locations, spread around a large ring. That ring turned out to be a square of hallways that connected to the entrance corridor forming a large key shape with...
None of his ships were down in the atmosphere, but the H’kar under his command were. Their Destar Conduits were far more efficient at wrecking unarmored infrastructure than anything Star Force had, and now that the defense shields were breached on several lizard colonies he’d sent his allies down...
As soon as she saw his black armor the envirosuit-clad medtech turned and ran, leaving her mix of bodyguards behind to deal with the Archon…but she shouldn’t have bothered, for it took Donn all of 8 seconds to dispatch them and another 6 to catch up to her, with the Archon getting a firm telekine...
He’d alerted them to gather as soon as he’d left Atlantis, but his Marquis and other top Clan members were outside the system at present. He wasn’t going to wait for them to get here before he got to work, though he’d sent out a summons all the same with instructions to get their butts back to Ea...
Kajit was watching the battlemap inside his helmet and the assault taking place on a colony several hundred miles to the north. The area in between them and it had been fought over and largely destroyed in the past weeks, but so far the Lacvamat had not been allowed to participate in the assault....
She’d had a defective shield and had to quickly swap it out for a new one in the equipment room, leaving her just enough time to swim through the corridors of the water-filled ship to meet up with the 22 others in this compartment. She bumped up against one of them, offering a distracted apology ...
Strong as the Voku were technologically, one large warship wasn’t going to be enough to beat the cruisers that were protecting the infantile colony on what had previously been a Skarron world. The lizards had recently moved in, eliminated the opposition, and were now devoting a significant amount...
He’d already gained that ability, but it was necessary for him to realign himself with it in order to pass it onto others…something rather easy in execution, once you knew what you were looking for. The trick was calibrating yourself without knowing where you were. Originally he and Paul had lear...