Linda Wilson
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The Federation ships that had escaped the nuclear bombs and then went on to clean up the dregs that the Fifth Fleet ships had left had stories to tell as well, but their odyssey paled in comparison with what the Earthers went through. And the Earthers seemed to have yet another magical device that had been able to stop the enemy in its tracks. It was what had saved Colossus from harm. And even though all the enemy ships had all been captured, the EM field was still there. But Mia wasn’t letting on that…
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“This is Reena, shieldmaiden of the Royal Elyran Flagship, Talon, battleship of the Earth’s Fifth Fleet. I am calling in behalf of EarthForce. Greetings to all of Colossus and the Galactic Federation of Free Races, and request permission to approach.” “This is Colossus Control to Talon. T’Chahn, shieldmaiden. From all of Colossus, welcome to the Zeos system. But our detection systems do not see you yet. Are you ship-maneuverable?” “I am aware of that, Colossus. We are still about fifty…
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A long, slow tolling echoed through the station, signifying that the next session was starting shortly, so Mumu and Pinpin cut the Earthers’ tour short and started escorting their charges back. Mumu said that the afternoon session was being moved from the Shihayn, the Main Assembly Hall of Colossus, to Aonta, the Main Debate Hall, but only Mia was required, so he was to escort Mia plus a small handful of her “Marines” to Aonta, while Pinpin was to escort the others back to their assigned…
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In yet another ceremony, because of their upgrade to Type-Ones, the former Type-Two cruisers of Captains Dupont and Okonkwo were rechristened as “DSC” instead of “DSR” cruisers. They were also given new hull numbers – Hermes was now DSC 60 and Constellation was now DSC 74. Four other new Type-Ones were added to the Fifth Fleet. This made the fleet almost complete - Mia now had six Type-Ones under her command. She was still waiting for another one, but it wouldn’t be ready for a while. But this…
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The Secretary-General, her group and her visitors walked a little behind Queen Margaret and Admiral Daxx to give them some privacy. By the look of things, the two seemed to have hit it off and were having a good time getting to know each other. The queen looked positively diminutive walking beside the tall Dixx admiral: Dixx were extremely tall creatures, typically as tall as Detterex. As Earthers would find out later, the Dixx and Detterex were the tallest among the known oxygen-breathing bipedals. There…
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- with a nod to the masters of space opera: J. Michael Straczynski, Larry Niven, David Brin, E.E. (Doc) Smith, Iain M. Banks, and, of course, George Lucas. My thanks. And my apologies. - excerpt from the welcome speech of Alexandra Romarkin, Secretary-General of the New United Nations, during the arrival rites for the first GFA, Earth,…
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The three Elyran and two Dixx cruisers continuously went around the moon on constant deceleration, continuing to bleed off their velocity. As for Seeker, Hermes and Constellation, they, as well as several other ships, were parked in orbit just above the three crashed cruisers, with the Legacy ships doing occasional re-orbits to maintain position. They patiently waited for their Federation friends to bleed off enough velocity so that they could join them. Mia had deliberately selected different ships - a…
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“Admiral Steele,” Silverman said. “How are your Federation charges?” “They’re fine, sir,” Mia responded. “As soon as we heard about the EM effects, we established a laser comm line to them immediately. All five of their ships are all right.” “Good.” “Has the EM field’s Phase-Wave boundary been identified, sir?” “Here you go,” Silverman said. His people sent over an extrapolated Phase-Wave graph of the system and it replaced the video on the main screen. It was the Solar…
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Most of the things onboard Seeker seemed to be the same as before. There were a few changes though, most notably that Mia wasn’t standing watches anymore, but it made little difference as she was still on the bridge a lot of the time. Mia was careful though not to give command instructions, and coursed any through the watch command duty officer. She also commandeered Seeker’s smallest conference room, which happened to be on the deck below her quarters, and just two cabins over. She had it converted…
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