“Looks like we’re pretty much done here,” she said. “Command,” Xylo said through comms, “all mission objectives met, and we’re headed back towards the extraction zone.” “Acknowledged, commandos,” Aurora replied. “Send notification once you’re back in the air.” Aurora then flipped her comms from t
Certainly nothing with its own consciousness. “It’s like a mirror,” ze said over comms. Like Freya, hir voice echoed with a kind of a digital signature, as though it was created purely through computational means. “Or maybe more like I’m controlling a mirror version of me,” ze continued. “How’s
Lucifer’s heart thundered madly in hir chest as ze fell down an eternal darkness. It seemed ze had been falling for centuries, and yet it took no time at all until ze hit something. Hard. It felt as though ze had literally fallen back-first onto a slab of titacrete. Pain spread across hir body, but
And although ze didn’t have the energy to fight back, and although hir body throbbed with the pain of multiple broken bones, ze still managed to extend hir middle fingers and point them at hir father. “Die,” ze shouted. “Just die forever!” ~ “Lucifer!” Freya screamed into her comms. She watched
Rhylen Terra, Vencal System, Major House Felrahn The largest megacity on the planet of Rhylen Terra stretched out for nearly a thousand kilometers in every direction. Its center was also its densest, and boasted terrifying towers that stretched up ten kilometers into the sky. But only a few were
As if the Hegemony would send precious resources to protect aging technologies. Especially since they’ve proven to be all but worthless against Imperial weapons. “If only I had the ability to sway the Grand Parliament,” he replied calmly. “Sadly, I’m just another one of their voices. But if I had t
The Imperial battleships both took on incredible amounts of damage - with one taking far more than the other. The two Felrahn reinforcement fleets absolutely hammered the battleship that faced off against them, and shattered its armor with every moment that passed. Their rail cannon slugs also stru
Their heavy, pointed noses struck the relatively unprotected chitin at the battleships’ other sides, shattered the armor and exploded violently. The force of their impact rippled across the chitin armor, and literally split them apart into tiny fragments. Worse, many of the torpedoes were aimed at