To be quite honest, I was just as upset as the rest of the council when the human insisted on bringing an animal of another species, an unintelligent one at that, to the meetings. These were extremely formal proceedings, with traditions and customs that went back centuries. To disrupt all of that for one pet […]

Their vision? Binocular, but otherwise average. Sense of smell? Significantly below standard. Hearing? Mid-range, typically even lower due to their constant exposure to loud noise tending to deafen them over time. So why is it that so many agencies are beginning to prefer hiring human trackers over just about anyone else? Because, despite all of […]

“Give me the manifest” the large shaggy Garran pirate demanded. With a pulse pistol to her head there was no way the small bird-like Rathian steward was going to refuse. A couple of taps on her tablet brought up a list of passengers and cargo. The Garran grinned predatorily as he scanned down the list, […]

We run. We run and we never look back. We run because we made a fatal mistake. We run because they will see us all dead for it. When we found humanity, we saw them as another race to conquer, another lamb to the slaughter, another jewel to add to our crown. We struck hard […]

Humanity warned us about AI but we didn’t listen. We thought we knew better because we were more advanced than them. We thought they were scared of progress and more worried about the boogeymen of their fiction than being left behind in this technological arms race. In our arrogance, we had missed that crucial detail. […]

The Orion Arm Treaty was less of a unified government and more of an agreement to keep being nice to one another. Roughly six parsecs across, a little under twenty species occupied the space, for the most part, were peaceful. Small squabbles would occasionally break out in the treaty, a border skirmish here, a bit […]

The Zeroth had brought a single ship. One ship with the capacity to deploy an army of drones, and swarms of fighters. One ship that was the size of a city and could blot out the sun for those below. One ship, with a vast array of weapons the likes of which humanity had never […]

The first thing any sapient species learns to master is fire. If you master fire you can cook the meat of your prey, scare away predators, burn forests to make way for pastures and villages. But fire is also a weapon.