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Chapter 53 In the dim, early morning light, the heavy, humid air clung to the fatigued bodies of the Tekkadan and Oceanian soldiers. The thick foliage cast elongated shadows over the rows of tents and other field structures, and the dirt-smeared, exhausted soldiers huddled together in small...

Chapter 52 Takaki Uno wandered through Tekkadan’s Mars base, not entirely sure of where he was and how he got there. His confusion was heightened by the fact that everyone who acknowledged him kept calling him “Yamagi”, which wasn’t entirely surprising. A lot of the new guys had gotten the two...

Chapter 51 “Cognito-hazard scan shows no deviation from last recorded neurological scan.” Eugene tried not to be too obvious about sighing in relief, but the sight of Dr. Vass in a fully sealed combat hardsuit, complete with a Scorpion sidearm had him rattled. The Salarian gave him a...

Chapter 50 Takaki Uno stood on the back of a mobile worker, took a swig of water from his canteen, looked over his section of the perimeter, and sighed. He was the officer in charge of Charlie and Delta Squads, assigned to protect the perimeter of the Arbrau Parliament building during the...

Chapter 49 Jastley Donomikols sat across from McMurdo Barriston and tried very hard not to say “I told you so.” “Four attacks by these mystery ships on Turbine convoys,” the Old Man complained. “At least half a dozen attacks on other companies’ shipping by the mystery ships pretending to be...

Chapter 48 After a long day in the office, Kudelia Aina Bernstein felt the sting of betrayal as the sun assaulted her eyes. Good old fashioned sunlight isn’t supposed to hurt, she groused to herself as she nodded to the Tekkadan bodyguard opening the door to the sedan that’d take her home. Of...

Chapter 47 Time passed, and the calendar rolled into PD 325. Companies collapsed, companies rose to new heights. The MNCEA’s Mars outpost took shape, and a small team of explorers began probing the Prothean outpost’s secrets. Chryse’s development surged as more people flowed through the small...

Gaelio Must Suffer #9 Once again, Gaelio stepped into the mess hall on the Sleipnir, doing his daily rounds with the children. It was harder now, knowing the truth about his best friend. The secret that had been kept from him, all these years. Something so big, it shattered a foundational...

Chapter 46 Gaelio Bauduin was taking things one day at a time. The first day after they had captured the target – he refused to think of the ship’s name – he’d managed to distract himself with reports and communiques with the other task forces. It’d been quite easy to lose himself in the...

Chapter 45 The wait was over. Caitlyn Staziak stood on the bridge, in the middle of multiple overlapping conversations, as Task Force 43 made preparations for the final phase of the operation. The last six hours had been nothing but non-stop motion, every crew member doing their best to check...

Chapter 44 For the past five days, Caitlyn Staziak’s schedule was basically a color coded spreadsheet. Each day, she would shadow the members of at least one department, getting B roll and explanations on military technology and procedures. For the first two days, that was basically the...

Chapter 43 Caitlyn Staziak wiped her sweaty hands on the armrests of a well appointed private VTOL jet. Normally, she wouldn’t show much, if any, fear when meeting with a sponsor or possible subject for a documentary. But a look out the window, at the seemingly unending expanse of deep blue...

Chapter 42 “Welcome aboard the Hephaestus, Mr. Itsuka.” Anastasia Avilova smiled and motioned for him to follow her through the corridors of Montag Company’s command center for its new Martian operations. She effortlessly sidestepped around people moving to and fro on some business or other...

Chapter 41 Sandoval Reuters nodded as his lieutenants entered his office. The twins handed him two different tablets; a quick glance told him that one was the list of everything they’d salvaged, and the other was a list of everything they’d lost fighting alongside Tekkadan. The pirate captain...

Chapter 40 “Heads up, we’ve got heat signatures in the upper atmosphere! Count’s around 100!” Orga acknowledged the report with grunt. After weeks of tense anticipation, actually fighting the battle was a relief. That relief was countered by the massive pain in the ass he now dealt with...

Chapter 39 Vorhess cursed as he ran the final hookups to portable generator he and his team of Asari and Salarians, not all of them engineers or even scientists, were using to kickstart the ancient Prothean fusion reactor back to life. Unlike most of their equipment, the generator was human...

Chapter 38 “You know, you’ve stuck me in a shitty position.” Orga played with a holographic projection of the Prothean outpost’s interior as he spoke into a secure QCCS line to McGillis Fareed. He could zoom into the parts of the base that’d been surveyed by the drones and see the literal lay...

Gaelio Must Suffer #8 “Hey Major, got a second?” Gaelio looked up from what seemed like the ten thousandth performance report he’d read that week and spotted his assistant, Lieutenant Claire Heathrow, anxiously shifting her feet as though she was holding a grenade behind her back. I’d almost...

Chapter 37 Two weeks after Iok Kujan’s latest paranoid, but completely accurate assessment of Tekkadan’s action, McGillis Fareed felt well at ease as he described the proposed cooperative action with the law enforcement agencies of Earth’s economic blocks. Most of the other Seven Stars were...

Chapter 36 President Nguyen Van Tomas sat behind the desk all presidents of the Oceanian Federation, contemplating the long, miserable road to the desk. He was not a political creature at heart; that was why he’d managed to remain in office so long. He was a man who just wanted to solve...