HUMANITY RISING Part 2: Jail Break The “Glory Of Loll” arrived at the wall of singularities within a year of the Battle of Broken Pride, an astounding time frame, even at ultra-luminal speeds, which pushed the ship’s gravity well generators to their very limits. Most burned out before arrival, and… Read More »THE HUMANITY SAGA – HUMANITY RISING – Part 2
HUMANITY RISING Part 1: The Battle Of Broken Pride They came from beyond the galactic rim, past the chaotic energies which bound the Milky Way, denizens of true emptiness, the noplace in the cracks between nowhere. The Galactic council sent an overwhelming force to destroy them. Ships of the three… Read More »THE HUMANITY SAGA – HUMANITY RISING – Part 1
HUMANITY FALLEN Part 7: The Blood Sun The Slave Fleet amassed in System One two weeks before the much slower Mad Dogs arrived. By then that’s what the Galaxy was calling them – the Mad Dogs. Despite Federation’s assurances of safety, billions of civilians evacuated System One in advance of… Read More »THE HUMANITY SAGA – HUMANITY FALLEN – part 7
HUMANITY FALLEN Part 6: The Culling Of Mylex While humanity tore itself to shreds the War Dog emergency didn’t just disappear. In fact, it quietly escalated, often lost in the shuffle of local and galactic headlines. It was difficult for local governments to keep track of a few hundreds or… Read More »THE HUMANITY SAGA – HUMANITY FALLEN – part 6
HUMANITY FALLEN Part 5: The Unmooring The pogroms began everywhere, all at once. On the worlds where humans were a minority population, local Federation species ganged together and acted swiftly. Human storefronts were smashed, homes were burnt to the ground and lynchings became commonplace. On thousands of planets – like… Read More »THE HUMANITY SAGA – HUMANITY FALLEN – Part 5
HUMANITY FALLEN Part 4: PALTHURIAN It started as a rumor. A bloodbath on a distant world no one had ever heard of at the very edge of Federation star charts. The place didn’t even have a name, just an alphanumeric label – JX23-19. It was a trumped-up mining colony with… Read More »THE HUMANITY SAGA – HUMANITY FALLEN – part4
HUMANITY FALLEN Part 3: The Taste Of Blood My dad raised bloodhounds. I never much cared for dogs myself, but these were majestic creatures, I must admit. Growing up it sometimes felt like he loved those dogs more than he loved me. I never mustered the courage to ask –… Read More »THE HUMANITY SAGA – HUMANITY FALLEN
HUMANITY FALLEN Part 2: Never Forget There’s a common misconception about humans. It was common before we wiped out a quarter of the galaxy’s population, so I can’t blame anyone for believing it now. Hell, most humans believe it, including, I’m sure, most of the people reading this. The misconception… Read More »THE HUMANITY SAGA – HUMANITY FALLEN – part 2
HUMANITY FALLEN Part 1: The Truth My father grew up on Earth. I was born there, but I never really called it home. The lima beans shipped me out when I hit 10 for basic training on some satellite world of a satellite world. My dad was too old to… Read More »THE HUMANITY SAGA – HUMANITY FALLEN – part 1
HUMANITY UNLEASHED Part 6: The Void Space warfare is no simple thing. Compare a spaceborne conflict to a war on the ground, where two or more armies approach one another restrained, in effect, by the orientation of gravity and the contours of the planet upon which they battle. Although the… Read More »THE HUMANITY SAGA – HUMANITY UNLEASHED – Part 6