Most of them coughed and gagged as whatever chemicals in the smoke were sucked down into their lungs. Their minds blurred as their breaths shrank. They literally took heaving gasps for air, but all they got was more and more smoke. The last thing most of them remembered was when the LDCF charged in
“Sounds like he lost control ages ago,” she retorted. “And it’s time he actually gave up trying.” Just as the man was about to argue, the sounds of shouting could be heard from the background. They caused him to take pause as he listened to it. Then when it was done, he turned back to her. “I’ve g
Taloren Prime, Throne System, Imperial Domain of the Boundless Drogar Felothi, the long-reformed Sanguine Fundamentalist, sat on a long, comfortable couch in the middle of his family’s small but cozy hab. He was joined by his wife and two children, happily. They had spent many years in the same ha
Though the audio was crude and scratchy, it was clear enough to be heard. The voices of a half dozen or so drogar could be heard. Their dialects and inflections seemed foreign to Felothi and his family. They seemed so far beyond common Drogarii, yet they could still understand them to some degree.
“Our empire is embroiled in a needless, costly war. The technocrats funding it grow fat from its spoils. And everyone else is left to fight for what resources are deemed ‘for the public’.” The screen switched again, but this time the footage was modern and clean. It was clearly taken by an EyeCast
Dendrus IV, Purgatory System, Great House de Jardin The planet was, as it had been for the past century, a pure black void invisible to everything. It was like a planet-sized black hole that wasn’t a black hole at all. It didn’t suck anything into it by some massive gravity well. But anything that
“Does that mean you’re ready for a test run?” “Well…” The Matriarch sighed in exasperation. “Every time you say you’re proceeding, it never actually seems as though you’re proceeding at all,” she complained. “Need I remind you that time is against us. If we cannot get this superweapon of yours up
An Imperial mecha squadron skated across the industrial city. Or rather, the ruins that used to be an industrial city. Everything all around them from the largest fabrication bays to the smallest machine sheds had been completely annihilated. Their coral facades and armor plating had been cut apart