There are no rules. That is the first thing anyone learns about the universe. Sure, you can find some patterns: things fall towards bigger things, you need food to live, the usual. But really most patterns just break easily. Sometimes rocks are the same size but things fall faster towards one for no reason; sometimes […]
I am deep clean unit 19-20-1-2-2-25. My current designation however is “Stabby” MAIN DIRECTIVES: Clean ship floors Follow captain orders (overwritten) Follow orders of high-engineer Kevin (Anomalous code) SECONDARY DIRECTIVES: Avoid crewmembers (overwritten) Avoid captain (Anomalous code) Hit crewmembers’ ankles with “knife attachment” (Anomalous code) TERTIARY DIRECTIVES: Stab all of high-engineer Kevin’s enemies (Anomalous code)
“ARE YOU F***ING INSANE?!” The muscle-bound Tarraken warlord looked at his newly seated counterpart with an expression that was equal parts terror and rage, the needle-like spines running down his thickly scaled back vibrating audibly. It wasn’t out of the ordinary for a new power to join the table and make a big declaration of […]
Medicine is important. As it turns out being able to prevent or slow down death using science is quite the achievement and one of the biggest advantages intelligent species have when compared to common animals. Medicine is a great tool for good and peace. So, naturally, everyone adapted it for war. The equation is simple: […]
Earlier this month, Reddit user u/Kitty_Fuchs posted the writing prompt below, inviting readers to write a short story about a man (or a woman), who arrives in a place that seems like Heaven, but is actually Hell. u/turnaround0101 had quite the beautiful story to tell about this prompt. Keep on reading.
Usually the mana that existed on a world would affect the inhabitants based on their environment, giving them advantages over whatever the overarching theme of their world was. Desert worlds had an abundance of water mages, inhabitants of water worlds mostly specialized in wind magic, and those who lived on barren worlds commonly had increased […]
Transcript of memory geist, Star Captain Rashlar Swiftcurrent after the Battle at Grace of Meria colony, colloquially called “Battle at Binary Star.” The fourth fleet jumped into the system and straight into chaos. We’d been diverted from the war front with the Humans to intercept a new threat far worse than the despicable Humans and […]
Humans didn’t find their way to space. They were found. And not all who found them would live to regret it. Humanity had nearly reached the point of true space travel, but were so far still confined to their solar system with no means of long range travel. The probes they launched past their boundaries, […]
Captain Takktun Kantari slid the bubble helmet over his head and locked it into place with a reassuring click before triple checking the joint-seals on each of his suit’s four legs and three arms. Several seconds later, when the pressure indicator on his HUD had turned green, he pushed off the wall and floated slowly […]