POV: Sprabr, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Eleven Whiskers)
“What exactly is the problem here, Administrator Krelnos?” Sprabr asked the shorter female figure in front of him as patiently as he could. This new station director had been giving him a headache for the past couple months. If that Director Svatken hadn’t pr...
2024-12-11 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Martina Wright, Terran (Executive)
“I thought you said Panoptes had more computing power than anything we’d ever had,” Amelia said, glaring at the Raytech exec sitting calmly at her desk.
“It does,” Martina answered. “Were the miracles during the Battle of Sol not enough to convince you?”
“Then what...
2024-12-09 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Catarina Ibarra, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Rear Admiral)
The newly promoted rear admiral stared intently at the Resistance-flagged ships that they were supposed to be escorting through Sirius. Her ship was now accompanied by the three Python squadrons (one of them so newly activated that the radiation-absorbent paint on their...
2024-12-06 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Amelia Waters, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Fleet Admiral)
“Why doesn’t this feel like winning? Why aren’t we just holding them by the original agreement made during the Battle of Sol?” Senator Seimur Eisson complained as he loosened his tie after a long day of negotiation. “The Saturnian Resistance Navy is over. They’ve got nothi...
2024-12-04 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis is Radio Free Grantor. The Granti speaking to the Granti, from Grantor City.
Before we begin, we have an important personal message: Quarmui, your boots are dirty. Quarmui, your boots are dirty.
You should get that cleaned up, Quarmui.
We have the news for you tonight. Uncensored by Grass Eaters. Uncensored by the Ministry of Defense. J...
2024-12-02 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Spisme, Znosian (Teacher)
“Let me get this straight, Slow Predator,” Spisme said in dismay. “You want me to teach these hatchlings wrong on purpose?”
“Not wrong,” Torsad said, shaking her head. “Right from wrong. You just have to teach them the basics. Empathy, compassion, morality.” 2024-11-29 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View Post
POV: Torsad, Grantor Underground (Cell Leader)
“Ten guards for each prisoner.” Torsad pointed at the guard towers on the digital map. “According to my people in the hatchling pool camp, they have patrols all around the perimeter. And shift changes are now staggered. New policy.”
“That’s what the other cells...
2024-11-27 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Torsad, Grantor Underground (Cell Leader)
“Cell Leader, I can’t see anything,” Torsad heard her lieutenant complain as his shovel bounced off a hard rock in the soil. “What are we doing out here, digging at this time of night anyway?”
It was just past midnight, and the two of them were out in the middle of nowher...
2024-11-25 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Guinspiu, Granti (Head Councilor)
“What’s that do?” Guinspiu peered at the simple glass contraption in Kara’s hands.
“It’s a Molotov cocktail,” she replied, smiling.
“A Molotov cocktail?”
Kara’s smile widened further, if that was possible. “Take any— well, I don’t need to teac...
2024-11-22 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Torsad, Granti (Former Prisoner)
“What do want me to do?” the recently liberated prisoner, Torsad, asked.
“Do you still remember how to read?” Guinspiu asked as she reached into a sack next to her, rummaging through its items.
“Grass Eater or…?” Torsad asked.
“Which do you prefer?”
...
2024-11-20 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter includes depiction of self-harm that could be disturbing to some people.
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POV: Guinspiu, Granti (Head Councilor)
Guinspiu admired the camouflage netting the trio of Terran operators had thrown over their landing shuttle as they began to unload their equipment with...
2024-11-18 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Guinspiu, Granti (Head Councilor)
“High Councilor, I need to prepare you for what we will see down there. We know from their own history and communication that there are five general phases of a Znosian xenocide project,” Kara said, glancing at the external cameras showing the shuttle ready for orbital entry. “Invasion—”...
2024-11-15 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostDo not remove this document outside of authorized facilities. Unauthorized disclosure or distribution of this document will result in legal penalties, including imprisonment up to life. If you believe you have inadvertently come into possession of this document, i...
2024-11-13 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Skhork, Znosian Dominion Marines (Rank: Six Whiskers)
“Infantry, front, dugout!”
“I see them. Firing coax.”
Rat-at-at-at-at-at-at.
The machine gun roared, wiping out the squad of predator infantry emerging from the trench in front of them.
“Oh shit! Resistance tank, three o’clock high! Th...
2024-11-11 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Skhork, Znosian Dominion Marines (Rank: Six Whiskers)
“You’re doing better,” the Lesser Predator medic declared. “More lung volume… lungs volume in your breathing. I think some of your cells are responding to the experimental regeneration therapy.”
Skhork grunted. “What do you want with me?”
The medic stuck ...
2024-11-08 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Guinspiu, Granti (Head Councilor)
“Get the declawing tools. We’ll extract the information out of her the more reliable way.”
“Got it. Hold her still. I don’t want her to bleed out before we’re done here, or we’ll have to go get another—”
Crinkle. Crinkle. Thud.
His order was i...
2024-11-06 17:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Sonfio, Schpriss (Chancellor of the Confederacy)
“Your history, Minister?” he asked carefully.
“Yes. Our history. Short as it is compared to your civilization…”
“Of course, Minister,” he answered politely. His inner academic was curious. And… “The complexity and richness of history is not determi...
2024-11-04 17:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Niblui, Malgeir (Ambassador)
“These guys really took the whole ‘put all your eggs in one basket’ thing as advice instead of precaution, huh?”
“Eggs in one basket?” Ambassador Niblui asked curiously of the human. Republic Minister of Alien Affairs Tsai was looking down at the planet in wonder.
As an ...
2024-11-01 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Vzglars, Znosian Dominion Marines (Rank: Seven Whiskers)
Bang.
As Vzglars scrambled to find cover in her tiny command bunker, her world went white. A painfully loud sound assaulted her eardrums and she lost her balance, toppling over where she stood.
It took ten seconds for her t...
2024-10-30 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Vdrastostr, Znosian Dominion Marines (Rank: Five Whiskers)
The Znosians were not all gullible. A good trick only worked so many times against them. In this case, exactly four times.
The 6th defensive line figured it out, about six kilometers in.
“Five Whiskers Vdrastostr, they didn’t use our prearrang...
2024-10-28 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostSchpriss Confederacy: 13 star systems.
Malgeir Federation: 51 star systems.
Znosian Dominion: 582 star systems.
Where our people go…
(Fade to dark.)
Your star system…
(Mark IV exosuit powering on sequence.)
It belongs to us.
(Title text: NOTHING BEYOND YOUR REACH)...
2024-10-25 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Cerbos, Malgeir (High Councilor of the Federation)
“High Councilors, we’ve just received a message from our embassy in Sol!”
“FTL radio traffic is finally going through now?”
“Yes, High Councilor, a channel has been opened just for us. Ambassador Niblui reported in from our embassy on Atlas.”
“...
2024-10-23 16:48:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Zvojshur, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Nine Whiskers)
Nine Whiskers Zvojshur was getting nervous. Half of the ships of the Grand Fleet were waiting on the wrong side of the Great Predator Nest here with her in charge in the system of Sirius.
For the first couple days, the relay ships came back from the other side with consis...
2024-10-23 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Amelia Waters, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Fleet Admiral)
“The districts’ air forces are requesting that we help them deconflict their targeting,” Samantha reported as tens of thousands of atmospheric jets took off to continue their sorties against the enemy landers, the last of which were still in the process of entering the a...
2024-10-21 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Jakub Fiedor, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Captain)
“Captain! CIC reports that the Corsica took a hit, midsection to rear! They’ve got at least two modules open to vacuum.”
“How bad?”
“They’ve lost primary comms! But sensors show they’re still cruising at 85% of maximum acceleration. We’re the second clos...
2024-10-18 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Stsinkt, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Ten Whiskers)
The seventy remaining destroyer squadrons of the Grand Fleet — over eight hundred space combat ships, with the thousands of troop carrier and fire support ships they were escorting — they dived down at the enemy home planet near the system plane. Stsinkt saw the sensor signals show...
2024-10-16 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Vdrojert, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Nine Whiskers)
Nine Whiskers Vdrojert, commander of Battlegroup Dwarf, looked curiously at the city lights on the night side of the red planet on her battlemap. “Unbelievable,” she exclaimed. “A completely inhospitable planet, and they colonized it anyway. To live here! It’s not even a pri...
2024-10-14 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Tvadnek, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Nine Whiskers)
Negotiations? Now?
Servants of the Prophecy were not above using trickery and playing predators’ disunity and greed against each other. Intrigued at the opportunity and recalling his briefings about the internal political strife of the Great Predators, Tvadnek ordere...
2024-10-11 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Tvadnek, Znosian Dominion Navy (Rank: Nine Whiskers)
“Only six ships?” Tvadnek questioned.
“Yes, and they are not hiding at all. We can see them all on our sensors without issue.”
“Surely they don’t think these are sufficient to stop our six squadrons with half a squadron and a smattering of immobile batteries?...
2024-10-09 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Kaja Kowalczyk, Terran Republic Navy (Rank: Lieutenant)
“Abandon ship! This is not a drill. Abandon ship! This is not a drill.”
The automated announcement was accompanied by the repetition of the ship’s general alarm: seven short trumpet blasts and one long.
As she worked intently to input the last few c...
2024-10-07 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View Post