Chapters tagged starship

by JackSimth

Chapter 9

The vesk (a lizard warrior race, he goes by Bob due to pronunciation issues) who officially recruits me (he seems the least skeezy, but I think that has more to do with him not being a mammal than any inherent personality traits). Bob wears patched golemforged plating armor that...

by JackSimth

Chapter 10

“We're one of around a hundred different ships tasked with shipping one item,” Bob begins, “some alien machine. We were all given numbered crates. Ninety-nine of them will explode when opened, one has the actual thing. The receiver knows which crate number to open, but not which...

by JackSimth

Chapter 11

As we walk down the bare metal hallways, I ask a question, “You're not armed?” The stocky human in armor wordless holds out a hand, and a crystalline void manifests between his fingers. I get it, “Ah,you have a connection to cosmic forces.” A Solarian, probably. It's...

by JackSimth

Chapter 12

The messenger isn't hard to find, the ship isn't that big: Most of the structure is either cargo space or machinery of various kinds…and it helps that there are labels on the doors and it's right across from the barracks: I was definitely tired when I went to bed. I check the com...

by JackSimth

Chapter 16

We have Bob on the comms when we finally settle in to return to real space. I take a last glance at the big screen and the Drift, that infinite void, the nothingness broken up by floating pink and purple clouds of mysterious energy. We shut everything down to engage the Drift eng...

by JackSimth

Chapter 25

As I'm wondering, we get an alert, “We have company,” over the coms… Bob's watching, apparently. We run to the bridge and see it on the screens: A tug. It's a Small ship, only seats two: The draw if the thing is the little issue that it has a Heavy weapon mount - the only...

by JackSimth

Chapter 36

I tour my new ship. I went with the default frame: The Explorer. It's a Medium starship, two hundred feet long, space for six. I went with the Luxury accommodations, so each crew member will have a private cabin, bathroom, kitchenette, and such: Basically an apartment… not that t...