POV: Khluti, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Seven Whiskers)
The hull of ZNS 2040 echoed with the sound of buckling metal, groaning as the ship’s exterior cameras showed the return of coherent starlight.
At least four hours before it was supposed to.
As captain of one of the Forager-class missile destroyers that ...
2025-02-17 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Spisme, Znosian (Teacher)
“… then you see another hatchling being teased and pushed around by another. Do you… one, join in because other people are doing it; two, ignore it and walk away; three, report it to the local security official; four, try to stop—”
“If she’s being pushed around,...
2025-02-14 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: “Mark”, Terran Reconnaissance Office
Click click click click click.
The Geiger counter in his suit clicked urgently as Mark scanned the internal contents of the opened storage box. About a dozen large, enclosed warheads were stacked on top of each other, each about the size of a small Znosian...
2025-02-12 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Coyote-300 Swarm, Terran Digital Intelligence (Base Build: 2124-A)
The operators buried in the dirt heard the buzzing of the drone swarm before the base sirens. A dark blur in the sky — hundreds of miniature munitions each carrying just two kilograms of plasma incendiary explosives — they dove out of the clouds syn...
2025-02-10 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostExtra bonus chapter today. This is meant to be read before Chapter 47.
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In certain forms of cardiac arrest, there appears to be a possibility of restoring by artificial means the rhythmic beat, and tiding over a sudden and temporary danger…
Now we know that when the mammalian heart has been inhibited through the vagus nerve i...
2025-02-10 16:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Skhork, Znosian Dominion Marines (Rank: Six Whiskers)
Skhork didn’t have much time.
Every time the human operators left him alone in their safehouse, they’d ask him what he planned to do to escape. What he was plotting. How he was going to hurt them or get them killed. Questions of that nature, which he was co...
2025-02-07 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Plodvi, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Six Whiskers)
It wasn’t easy. The FTL radio was not meant to be used covertly by a couple of low-ranked officers in the Digital Guide section nor a supervisor for the life support module.
But they had a few advantages. Their adversaries were officers in the Dominion Navy, bred and tra...
2025-02-05 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Sophie Garnier, Saturnian Resistance Navy (Ace of Clubs)
The Ace of Clubs brushed at the new scar on her cheek absentmindedly as she watched her minions escort the guest onto her bridge. Since the advancement of organic reconstruction technology in the early 21st century, scarring was entirely optional — and her wounds fr...
2025-02-03 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Plodvi, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Six Whiskers)
Plodvi woke up groggily to the hum of the ship’s inertial compensators mixed with a loud ringing in his ears. As he slowly regained his senses, he realized that he was in some kind of maintenance closet. His paws were tied behind him to a chair by a thick rope. As his concusse...
2025-01-31 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Carla Bauernschmidt, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Rear Admiral)
Even with his limited knowledge of Znosian facial expressions, Speinfoent could feel the inexorable smugness exuding from the State Security administrator even as he crowed, “You shall get nothing out of us. Nothing. As you deserve as abominations! Your ships will fal...
2025-01-29 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Plodvi, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Six Whiskers)
Plodvi identified two distinct, hushed voices coming from the vents. One was a female, the other male.
“That’s why they say: the brutality of combat is a product of incompetence,” the male said.
The female voice snorted. “Spoken like someone who isn’t very ...
2025-01-27 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Plodvi, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Six Whiskers)
Plodvi’s new job was simple.
Four-hour watch. Nap time. Then another four hours. Dinner. Assignment of responsibility. Bed. And repeat.
As a six whiskers in the ship’s computer room, he was in charge of a small squad of technicians monitoring the automated life s...
2025-01-24 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Carla Bauernschmidt, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Rear Admiral)
“Twelve shipyard modules in orbit at Fsuzve-4. Judging by the hull shapes in their assembly berths, it looks like they’re for combat missile destroyers,” Speinfoent reported. “They’ve made updates to their spaceframes. See? Look at those angles… they almost ...
2025-01-22 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Bertel, Znosian Dominion Marines (Rank: Five Whiskers)
“Ground team, we can’t get any closer. We are going to be firing blind into your proximity. Take cover.”
Bertel selected a small squad of infantry — it looked like four or five — huddling near the street corner furthest away from the broken-down convoy, zeroed her Skyf...
2025-01-20 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Catarina Ibarra, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Rear Admiral)
Sieges were rarely airtight. In terrestrial warfare, cutting off the ground line of communication — the most accessible routes between a defended unit and its nearest secured supply points — did not entail closing off all avenues of access. Interdiction was by its...
2025-01-17 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Eupprio, Malgeir (Executive)
“What is this?” the head representative from Stoers asked gruffly.
Eupprio traced his paw to her Terran pilot seated next to her in her conference room. She turned back to him with a smile. “Representative Umvinto, that is my personal shuttle pilot, Abe from Terra. Ab...
2025-01-15 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Svatken, Znosian Dominion State Security (Position: Director)
“We would have to have been hatched addled to accept this idiotic proposal,” Sprabr declared on Svatken’s screen.
“It is merely in discussion right now,” Svatken replied calmly. “But even some of our Digital Guide programs seem to think that a si...
2025-01-13 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Amelia Waters, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Fleet Admiral)
“I’m here to begin negotiations with your people. Like civilized creatures would.”
Amelia stared at the screen for a full ten seconds, wondering what was going on in that tiny Znosian brain. “This is a hoot. Alright, just to let you know, Bun, you’re barking up...
2025-01-10 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Torsad, Grantor Underground (Department Leader)
Torsad and Insunt picked up their pace as they heard the sounds of gunfire echoing throughout the large building in front of them. They were greeted at the mall’s door by the local cell leader shouting directions at his subordinates.
“You! Are you in charge here?” T...
2025-01-08 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Torsad, Grantor Underground (Department Leader)
“They’re in effective range now, Department Leader,” Insunt announced as he watched the enemy signals approach on his tablet. “Six enemy choppers. This is their quick response team. You’d think they would learn that flying around here has consequences after we sh...
2025-01-06 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Torsad, Grantor Underground (Department Leader)
“They’re taking off!” Insunt announced, lifting his headset just enough to peer out.
They’d been on the roof for over an hour. Torsad had gotten used to waiting. They did a lot of it on operations. But waiting so high up, exposed, always carried its own dange...
2025-01-03 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Sprabr, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Eleven Whiskers)
“Another meeting over there tomorrow?!” Sprabr exclaimed at his computer officer as he examined his schedule.
“Yes, Eleven Whiskers,” she replied. “It appears you are very popular with our State Security friends in the Grantor City offic...
2025-01-01 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Durnio, Malgeir Federation Navy (Rank: Delta Leader)
“Fire! Active fire in midsection hallway Two-Bravo! Fire! Fire! Fire!”
“That’s all of you!” Durnio screamed at his group of wide-eyed spacer cadets. “Get your vacuum gear on now! Let’s go! Let’s go! Move it!”
The group consist...
2024-12-30 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Carla Bauernschmidt, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Rear Admiral)
Carla stared slack-jawed at her command console. “They— they what? Is that— is that what I think it is?”
Beth examined the data feed for a second longer. “Kill codes, ma’am. They must have remote— remote kill codes for— for their own ships. Prel...
2024-12-27 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Fskokh, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Nine Whiskers)
“Broadcast the State Security kill codes.”
“Yes, Nine Whiskers.”
With the press of a button at his computer officer’s command, a radio signal beamed out from the ship towards every Znosian ship in the system.
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POV: Sophie Garnier, Saturnian Resistance Navy (Ace of Clubs)
The pinpricks of light on the external view monitors imploded into the coherent starfield familiar to human eyes.
“Post-blink preparations complete, Ace,” Felix reported about a minute later.
“Damn, that was slow,” the Ace of Clubs said, staring...
2024-12-23 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Sophie Garnier, Saturnian Resistance Navy (Ace of Clubs)
“They’re taking forever, aren’t they?” the Ace commented as the exodus of enemy ships from the planet continued. As she watched, hundreds of shuttles ferried troops from the surface into the massive holds of the enemy cargo ships.
Felix glanced at the ba...
2024-12-20 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Fskokh, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Nine Whiskers)
Fskokh stared at the brazen enemy on his screen in shock for a moment. “The Free Znosian Navy?!”
“Yes, Nine Whiskers,” Krizvum replied. His eyes looked down, reading aloud from an unseen datapad, “As per our rules, all Dominion officers are welcome to accept new r...
2024-12-18 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Carla Bauernschmidt, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Rear Admiral)
“So your plan is to just throw us against the aliens and then sit back and place bets on who comes out on top?” the Ace of Clubs glared at Carla. “And you think we’d just be okay with that plan?”
“We’re in the wild, wild west out here,” Carla...
2024-12-16 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Carla Bauernschmidt, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Rear Admiral)
“Admiral, Resistance One sent a message requesting a— a strategy meeting with you,” Lieutenant Beth Woods announced from the electronic warfare station.
“The Ace of Clubs? Is this some kind of trick?” Carla asked.
“We can always shoot her o...
2024-12-13 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post