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Prologue Her breath fogging up the bottom of her visor, the soldier deftly made her way across the face of the asteroid.  Just a few hours ago, Space Station Liberty sent word to the Vindicator about the hostage situation: a dozen pirates seized a small mining facility and are holding the miners ransom.  The 20th Tactical Space Corps is to rescue the hostages and neutralize the pirates with maximum efficiency.  And so here Sergeant Jennifer Mironda was, shuffling across a dusty rock with almost no gravity and nothing between her and vacuum but her Combat Battle Armor.  Her specific job: to make a door. Keeping low to the ground, Jennifer

Across Pandora Green forests stretching as far as the eye can see, Bounded on many sides by mountains high in the sky. Rocky and grey, like any mount you can devise, The forest climbs up and covers the rocks with vines. Fields of Loreyu open their spiral leaf to the sky, While Fngapsutxwll glow as the insects reach their pads. Slowly the Anemonids turn, following invisible lines, And the Helicoradians pull themselves into the ground. Breathing in the pungent smell, the Pa'li drinks the nectar with his tongue, While behind it the Thanator roams. Stalking through the bushes the Palulukan readies a pounce, But the Direhorse jumps to

Chapter 4 It turned into a very long meeting at church.  Granted it both started and ended exactly when it was supposed to; that wasn’t the problem.  Drawing every minute out to an eternity was Builds’ overactive mind.  He was searching through my memories so furiously that I was getting flashbacks.  Between memories he would stare at Julia until she would look back; he’d then avert his gaze.  It was a good thing I could pay attention to the talks, otherwise Builds would have missed everything. When it came time for the closing hymn Builds’ attitude towards singing had cha

Chapter 3 The sun was streaming through the window right onto our face.  Despite the valiant effort from both of us there was no way to stay asleep.  Builds groaned a bit as he rolled out of the bed, then once our feet were under us he stumbled his way to the kitchen for breakfast.  A few minutes later both bacon and sausage was sizzling in the pan while a bagel toasted. You know, it’s a good thing you were able to land that job at the port.  I normally wouldn’t be able to afford breakfasts like this every morning. I commented to him. Builds took in the meaty aroma.  “I don

Chapter 2 I had been dreading this test for over a week.  Normally tests don’t bother me, but Dr. Chandra’s were impossible.  I guess I should be thankful that I couldn’t take it after all, but it’s hard to feel that way when you can see the paper in front of you and the answered in your handwriting. My eyes looked over the newly finished problem and when my hand went to the next I quickly scolded, That’s wrong.  Your total forces in y are too high. Builds the Bridges ignored me, so I pressed harder.  Listen to me Bob, you used the wrong value for gravity and that’s throwi

Engineer’s Soul Prologue It was the stupidest accident in the world.  I had crossed this road at the same intersection hundreds of times, knowing all the while that the people in their cars didn’t always pay attention to who had the green light.  Still, I walked into the crosswalk like I always had, never seeing the car that was trying to speed through the now-red light.  All I knew was that one-second I was walking and the next I’m hitting the ground with legs that refused to work.  At the hospital I was told that both of my legs were broken as well as three of my ribs.  Appa

Chapter 1 United States Government Archives Ruins, Sublevel 4 Washington DC 15 April 2414 Stardate 91287.3 Archeologist Jennifer Mironda was right at home in the dark ruins that was once the site of Earth’s largest library.  Millions of books, folders, files, and 21st century computer hard drives were present in the old Archives.  Having been buried below the city had protected everything from the nuclear blast the leveled the city almost 400 years ago, but the EMP still made it through to wipe the computers.  Of course it can’t be too easy for us, then archeology would be no fun, the young woman thought to herself. Grabbing a