Not that they ever needed to. She was a natural. Her friends, too. They sped in between the towers almost as easily as she did. Their hoots and hollers were loud over their open comms. But Redstar was dead quiet. In fact, she hardly felt any joy at their outing. She had always looked forward to i
Miko entered the building, eyes and mind wide open. She polished off her takoyaki as she stepped onto the spiral ramp headed downwards. As she descended, she saw the wide open hackerspace before her. It was roughly 40 meters high, and had a handful of mecha stations in each of its four corners. And
“You may run a new diagnostic,” she said. “Your problems are solved.” The boy’s mouth gaped wide open as he mindlessly took the datapad back from her. He tapped a few commands and ran his diagnostics again. When the results came up, he just couldn’t believe it. She was right. No more problems, an
The four test pilots stepped off the Federation frigate and back onto Tartarus Base, the asteroid research station secretly stashed away somewhere in Federation space. They were all in relatively good spirits, Eva especially. Even Redstar had gained some of her exuberance back. The four of them had
“Secrets stay secret the less people know about its existence in the first place. In order to keep its location a secret, Tartarus base emits a kind of… dampening field that prevents all manner of detection. “However, like with anything else, if our signals increase beyond our ability to dampen, th
Mack’s bloodshot and bleary eyes widened with surprise and envy and sadness all at once. At the same time, his heart fell from within his chest and disappeared somewhere into the depths. Not that he even noticed. On his screen was Eva’s full stream, which he had been downsampling for later editing
Her heart beat with deep, steady thrums as she controlled every ounce of thrust with her mind. The fighter slid around effortlessly as she went through maneuver after maneuver, each attempt a little faster and sharper than the last. Over and over and over. The others were astounded at Eva, at her
On realizing just how much their minds had been altered, the medic in Commander Chase immediately hit the alarms. His voice was filled with passion and authority. “Alright, I’m putting a stop to this,” he said. “No more Prometheus for the rest of the cycle. There’s something else going on here, and