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The aedarang was happy. No, that wasn’t entirely right, positive emotions were almost completely alien to its species. It was more like it had returned to a state of calm and anticipation that it hadn’t felt since before the M’kazi ambush. Nonetheless, it was quite satisfied. As its scouts...

25 May 1916 Guangxi Province, China “We’ve been marching in circles for the last day!” Captain Wen Shi grimaced, resisting the urge to shoot his subordinate for the umpteenth time that day. Instead, he stopped and slowly wheeled about to glare at Lieutenant Guan. “No, we’ve been going...

22 May 1916 Verdun The sound of artillery fire had boomed through the air for days now. It was nothing new, but as he crouched in the freshly-dug trench, Andre Pelletier could tell that this time was distant. During occasional breaks in the hailstorm of lead the faint rumble of shells striking...

The aedarang does know enough to play divide-and-conquer and it will be a major point later on. Thanks for commenting, btw.

22 May 1916 East of Lutsk, Occupied Russia “I fold.” Moravec said, disgust clear on his face as he tossed the cards onto the table. “Great,” Karpaty said, sweeping the pile of pebbles to his side of the table. “That puts us at what, twelve to one?” “Damn you.” Moravec said. He hadn’t a...

Note: This part was a bit rushed and might be revised later. 22 May 1916 Left Bank of the Putylivka River, Russian Empire Vladimir sighed, collapsing onto the dirt ramparts of the artillery dugout. It was a warm spring day with a nice breeze, but it felt blisteringly hot in his woolen...

The M’kazi attack had taken the Jedzans completely off-guard, leaving them backlit by a nebula as dozens of attack craft swept down upon them within a hailstorm of missiles and depleted uranium. They had returned fire at once, of course, and the light frames of the enemy ships had been worthless...

This was a concept I came up with this morning and quickly wrote out. I'm not sure if I want to turn this into a series, so please let me know what you think.