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• 549. Last Ops on Sorrel II

  While most of the Migration’s leadership were poring over the launch of the Star Hearth, one in particular was much too busy to pay attention.It was George.While everyone else in the leadership was off in space and flying away to other star systems, he was back on the ground on Sorrel II, fighting Mitigok, scrambling against time to save as many people as he could from the ruins of the New Dragon Empire.“Third Legion, advance and cover the Fifth’s left flank!” George ordered from atop Raven’s flagship, surrounded by snipers covering the supply depot below. On either side of the Sky Galleon were lines of artillery airships providing fire support and bombarding far away targets. In front of him were five Turtle Shieldships protecting the air fleet, yes, Turtles, not the starship types, but the spaceship types, the old ones built before they were able to build warp drives.When everyone else took to space, George specifically changed his focus from helping people out there, to helping

• 548. Star Hearth

  In the following month, most of Starbright’s assets were dismantled and shipped to Star System Crimson. Their Shipyards and other facilities were placed in orbit around Crimson Sands, taking full advantage of its abundance of iron and other metals. The Nanoline Manufactory and Matter Compressor were finally finished and brought to full functionality there.The first Star Hearth Shipyard was built as the second month came around. It was rather scrappy and clunky comapred to the streamlined Long Haul and Turtle shipyards, but Benny assured Remian that it would do the job.Starbright started building the first Cruiser slowly. The project stalled several times and there were a few stumbles, but by the third month, the general form of the Cruiser was coming along well.By that time, Sky Haven itself was ready for dismantling and shipping. It and a smattering of defense stations, space farms and other mobillized space stations were still drifting their way toward Sorrel VI, but if necessary

• 547. Planet Heart

  “What planet did you offer?”“Crimson II, also known as Crimson Swamp, Crimson Sand’s sister world.” Tim said. “In case you’re wondering, Crimson Sands’ official name is Crimson III, the third planet of the Crimson Star System.”Remian perked up. “Is it inhabitable?”“Too inhabitable. Low gravity, lots of humidity. There are a lot of big, fierce lizards down there.” Tim said. “Big bugs too. Not a place I’d want to build a settlement, but the Star Wolf King likes it as a hunting ground. Or a training ground. They’ve got big edible fruits and plants too, but Alani says the Elven crops have higher yield for less space.”“The Star Wolf King is there?”“Oh yes, he moved over with his main clan two months ago. They’ve been happily digging and hunting ever since. Incidentally, they have their own fleet now, three Star Galleons and

• 546. Enetari Radicals

  While Dinah was having tea with Eriane and Isabella, Tim was working on overdrive.Thousands of Lynxmice scoured Sky Haven. They sped through the ventilation shafts. They lurked among the maintenance tunnels. They spied and bugged and stalked and staked out all manner of Enetari. Once suspicions were confirmed, rogue Enetari began to disappear off the streets.They called themselves the Enetari Renaissance, committed to ‘restoring Enetari superiority across the galaxy’, a greater vision than the ‘already great’ Enetari at home. For the sake of their superiority, they would stop at nothing where their lessers (such as the Sorrelians and basically everybody who wasn’t Enetari) were concerned.Tim had another name for them; Enetari Radicals. He caught them attempting sabotage, planting explosives, stealing cheesecakes, and riling up Woofers with bribes of lamb-flavored kibbles in attempt to turn them against the local adm

• 545. Suspicious

  “I’m done with Kanonasia.” Tim announced as he came by to visit Remian in the hospital after Vance left. “It’s chaos out there.”“Doesn’t that mean it’s the best time to seize whatever tech we can get?” Remian pointed out.“It is, and that’s why I’ve been busy, but I think we’ve gotten everything worth scrambling for. Maybe too much. I’ve outstayed my welcome and they’re getting very jumpy about us coming by.” Tim grimaced. “At this point, they’re watching us even more than the Mitigok, and that’s saying a lot since they’re losing entire star systems to the Swarms.”“The Mitigok have reached Kanonasia?”“Yep. Three star systems down, and one more contested as we speak. They’re facing several Princesses out there, not mere Duchesses.” Tim shook his head. “Compared to them, what we had to dea

• 544. Waking up

  Remian woke up to find himself in a cocoon of sorts. It wasn’t an Elven cocoon; way too dry, and it had tubes and wires trailing from it, not vines. Phoebe’s work, most likely.Memories flickered. He grimaced. “We lost.”Lan Shan died. Remian shut his eyes, breathing deeply for a bit. Shadowy lightning crackled over his head, psionic energies leaking out of control.“Right. I advanced to Class 8.” Remian sat up, then held his head and laid back down again. “Ugh.”Phoebe burst in. Clearly, she’d come running. She must have received an alert that he was awake. “Remian! What happened?!”“I Blinked.” Remian tried to explain. “Not a physical blink. I mean, the Psionic power ‘Blink’. The short range teleportation that Class 8 Psionics are able to learn. They normally take weeks, maybe months to train it before trying a jump as big as I did… but it was an emergency. I had to take the risk.”“Well, you made it. You’ve been in a coma for three months, but you made it.” Phoebe went from machine