Captain's Office, Zephyr, Inbound Tau Ceti, 16.9.775 CW 21.2 megaseconds since the catastrophe Despite that only a small portion of the crew had been directly involved, the rescue of the Thessalian freighters had made a serious dent on flagging morale. Arriving in-system, the crew had

Tau Ceti, Robinson Station, 16.8.775 CW 21 megaseconds since the catastrophe Karenski had expected long silences between volleys of communication between himself and Zephyr. In fact, he had barely managed to get a word in edgewise. Rather than waiting on him, or indeed, on much of anything, a

This week is a bit of a short chapter, arguably only about half a chapter honestly, because I was at Supercon 2026 this weekend. I wrote what's here, there (because Supercon is basically 60 or so nerds in a ballroom parallel-playing) but now I'm pretty well

Robinson Station, Tau Ceti, 16.8.775 CW 21 megaseconds since the Catastrophe Vadim Karenski's alarm sounded. He silenced it and rolled over. He did not rise immediately, the way he ordinarily would have, the way he had almost every wake-shift over two gigaseconds of his career. Today,

Newer York, 10 Tammuz 2541 AS Singer usually woke up fairly quickly, whether from a set alarm or from natural processes. This waking, however, was a very slow thing, as she became aware of different, disconnected bits and then gradually sorted them into something that made sense. The first bit,

Zephyr, 500 kiloseconds since arrival at David's Star Singer spent the entire trip back to Zephyr irrationally wishing she could make the boat move faster. Alas, she found once again that her empathic gift did not come with a side-helping of telekinesis. Her time in Newer York had

Newer York, 8 Tammuz 2541 AS Captain Hannah bat Chaya of Alexei Leonov allowed herself to be ushered into Briefing One, willing herself to present a confidence she did not feel. She was the proverbial bearer of bad tidings, and dreaded facing the representatives of the TCTO she knew would

Once again, this is shorter than usual, and maybe I should have simply called it 58 Part 2. Newer York, 8 Tammuz 2541 AS Singer felt hairs standing up on the back of her neck as she realized what was appearing on screen. Knowing as she did that Georgette had

Okay, folks, this is shorter than usual, and (spoilers) ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. It's really only about half the chapter as it should be, but there's a bunch of stuff going on right now. It was important to me, though, to get something