Varouforos opened his eyes, drawing his laser pistol. He relaxed. Only he and Ippocampos had come through. The reactive translocator clipped to his belt hummed and ticked as it cooled down. It would be of no further use for an … Continue reading
I doubt you’ve noticed, but the URL scheme has changed very slightly—it doesn’t match the post title as closely as it used to. This is so that I can simply clone my template posts without having to make and changes … Continue reading
As a believer himself, Varouforos could hardly say this was a bad thing in itself. The particular form of the yashcherit Orthodox tradition, however, caused him no end of trouble. Their incense seemed to Varouforos to be chosen less for … Continue reading
This post is slightly longer than I wanted, but the Friday cliffhanger was too good to pass up. At this point, by word count the story is somewhat less than half done, so it looks like we’re closer to a … Continue reading
They stepped out into a neatly kept park, all manicured lawns and paths marked by stately lines of trees. The sun had passed behind the limb of Abila, so through the dome overhead, only stars could be seen. Ahead of … Continue reading
One way I describe the Empire in the RPJ Sci-Fi rulebook is that it is somewhat xenophobic, but that xeno- has long since ceased to apply to non-Greek humans. Varouforos is chummier with aliens than normal for nominal Imperials. One … Continue reading
The next day, Morana pulled into orbit above Abila Lysaniou. At sixty stadia—twenty kilometers, in the newfangled Gallic measure—he dwarfed every other ship there. The gigantic doors over her hangar bays rolled back, and four ships emerged: Perun, a battleship, … Continue reading
To emphasize Varouforos’ Russian-ness, I use that language’s convention for ship pronouns—namely, that there isn’t a special convention, and ships merely use the grammatically-appropriate pronoun for the ship’s name. Morana is feminine, so gets ‘she’; Perun is masculine, and gets … Continue reading
Morana tore through jump space at tremendous speeds, running for two days, then dropping to normal space for thirty hours while her reactors charged her jump capacitors. Two weeks of this brought him to the edge of the star system … Continue reading
Occasionally, there’s a break in the story right about where I want to split across posts here, and that feels great when it happens, as it did here. Varouforos is, as I believe I’ve already said in narration (unless I’m … Continue reading
