The sand below the city began to shift and rumble as they spoke. Large mounds began to rise up from all over its sandy surface. Tens of thousands of large armored batteries pushed their way to the surface and rose up out of the sand majestically. Each one opened up along the top, which revealed mas
Taloren Prime, Throne System, Imperial Domain of the Boundless Drogar Night had fallen on Sudorath City, yet another of the massive domed floating cities that dominated Taloren Prime’s ocean surface. Unlike most, Sudorath was hyper specialized and was focused almost exclusively on industry. The ci
“Too passé?” “Stop using old words.” It only took a few moments for the drone to perform a complete inner scan of the building they were heading into, and passed all of its data to the two drogar. Both of them reviewed it quickly before Orsethii stood up to her full height. She stretched out a bi
And if Orsethii had only half-killed anyone along her way, Colviss made sure to finish off the job. There was no sense in leaving their prey in agony, after all. In truth, she went down every nook and cranny to check each and every dead drogar, just to make sure everything was clean. That their dea
Unregistered Orbital Station, Unnamed Planet, Unlisted System, Great House de Jardin The last of the Einherjar flashed into the incoming port beacon at the unregistered orbital station. Though it had taken them a great deal of time, they had been able to escape whoever or whatever had attacked th
When she came to the spot she needed, she activated a nanite link through her DI and gained physical access to the circuit. Or, part of it anyway. She sent a quick ping, received the reply, and solidified the tap. Happy that it wasn’t going anywhere, she moved on to the next node and did the same t
All three bolted straight out of the datanode access room, through the closest panel to them. The datacoder hopped out first, immediately followed by the engineer. But neither got very far - both were knocked to the ground by a couple of running wolves after only taking a half dozen steps away. The
Helios Megastation, Sol System, Sol Federation The shop’s door chime rang out melodically. It wafted down the aisles and swept across the old Toymaker’s ears. They let him know that he had visitors. More specifically, they let him know to listen to the footsteps of whoever just came in. And it too