Sorry, folks. I'm feeling a bit fried, so no chapter this week.
If you've fallen behind, this is a great week to catch up!
If you're fuzzy on what's gone before, it's a great week to read from the beginning!
And if all else fails, what the heck, Ask Me Anything! It's been a while.
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,