Fresh Baked Stories

The space elevator dominated the main viewing port; it consisted of two massive black tethers suspended from a large space port in geosynchronous orbit. On e...

Winterborn watched as Quin'tel loomed ever closer. Most of the planet was verdant, with large oceans of sapphire-blue contrasting the deep greens. Orbiting a...

Ren’brus felt his world spinning. He scanned the list of names again; he hadn’t heard a word from anyone on this list for more than ten standard cycles. A low...

Winterborn looked at the wormhole nexus in awe; more than twenty spheres of bent and warped light were nestled between arches. Each arch looked to be made up...

Ren'brus lay on the medical table, surrounded by comforting vines and branches. He inspected the areas where the Ven Saish had nearly torn his arms from his ...

Winterborn woke to the soft trill of the alarm she had set sounding through her neural implant. Was it really 0500 already? She silenced the alarm and checke...

Winterborn returned to the conference room, calling for a general officer meeting along the way. Her mind was thoroughly occupied; thoughts of Rosa, the Quin...

Winterborn watched the visual feed in horror as Rosa and the Ven collapsed to the ground. Time seemed to slow; her blood ran cold, and she felt as though the...

Winterborn nodded, “So, it’s some kind of shapeshifter or changeling?” Captain Gul'bres mimicked her nod, “Yes. They are called the Ven; they are a species w...

Winterborn turned and strode out of the conference room. As she walked, she called for two security officers who had been cleared thus far by the investigati...

Winterborn hissed in a stream of breath, thoughts whirring in her mind. Was it possible the torn cloth had been a plant? A ruse intended to shift suspicion o...

The ship was a standard Daedalus Class research vessel, if a few years outdated. The design was practical and efficient—two long cylinders joined together in...

Both officers dropped their salute and came out of attention. Commander Val Springborn walked around the table, taking her seat at the right hand of the Capt...

Fallborn took in the familiar cabin—as always, there was an ordered chaos about the room. Stacks of paper lay strewn across nearly any surface which could ho...

Lieutenant Fallborn walked into the hallway just outside the Captain's quarters, meeting the aliens as they milled around aimlessly. Fallborn was struck by t...

Winterborn and the three Quin'tel walked down the hallway and towards the conference room. Each subsequent step seemed to cause the Quin'tel to shrink more i...

Forty-three minutes later, Captain Winterborn blinked open her eyes, wiping away a few tears. She noticed that she was in the Medical Bay and sighed in deep ...