"Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave
A paradise for a sect; the savage too
From forth the loftiest fashion of his sleep
Guesses at Heaven; pity these have not
Trac'd upon vellum or wild Indian leaf
The shadows of melodious utterance."
-John Keats, "The Fall of Hyperion"...
Name: Ze'ev Yarad
Age: >1 Year
Gender: Male
Height: 6'1
Weight: 141lbs
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Grey
Ethnicity: Uncertain, possibly Israeli descent
Appearance:
Other Information: Sphere Reactor of the Dreaming Twin Fishes, An artificial construct fashioned by Shurouga.
Biography:
In a...
September 10th
High Security Asteroid Datacenter & Research Facility "Charon"
4:00 PM
Funny how, even for a ruler, there were parts of his domain that were shrouded, and dark.
"Charon" had been the Directory's spacefaring Fort Knox - a research facility and military fortress that had...
Bunker 48 Factory Area
September 4th, OE 102
8:18 PM
"Well, if it isn't Alan. To what do I owe the unexpected pleasure?"
Thane Ashford's voice echoed through the interior of his "home", the warehouse-like interior littered with his modern-art furniture seeming to almost shrink before its...
August 28th
West Siberian Plain
Late Afternoon, six hours after "Prelude to Singspiel"
"C-aw!"
The rubble left in the wake of Shiseiten's death - not to mention the colossal corpse of the creature itself had become a carrion feeding frenzy. Flecks of black riddled a clouded sky, so thickly...
August 30th, OE 102
Depths of the Cydonia Trench, Unexplored Zone
4:18 PM Local Mars Time
Falling.
Falling down, down down.
The Getviewm's hand, reassuring as an angel's, swept out beneath her as she fell, shielding her body from the debris - but it seemed X's work had been done. The...
August 30th, OE 102
Mars Atmosphere Descent
"Cydonia. That's where you'll find what you're looking for."
Those were the words spoken by the Database, the artificial beings who seemed to be the first to fully grasp who, or rather what she really was.
The great "Face on Mars", it had once been...
Trees. Carols. Presents. Giant battleships with drills on them.
Oh yeah. It's Christmas time. That means it's time for the annual SRW Ignition Secret Santa!
If you're interested, here's the rules and guidelines:
What are the limits? Gifts should range from $25 ~ $70 dollars total, not...
August 28th
The Crystal Forest
7:18 PM
The ever-encroaching halls of the Crystal Forest, as it had come to be called, were characteristically quiet. None of the organisms that had, in the wake of the eruption of Dimensional Power that had transformed it, which called it home, were stirring -...
August 27th, OE 102
Artemis Outskirts
Reconstruction Area 42C
10:18 PM STD
Hope.
That was the word on Queen Selene's lips, what she had sought to spread across all of Luna. The Kingdom was gone, but Endymion endured. Lunarian and Terran hands alike worked to rebuild, slowly but surely, what...
September 7th, OE 102
Bern, Switzerland
Jericho Faction Advanced Forces Temporary Camp Outskirts
8:18 PM
So far, so good.
As the Jericho Faction had made its way north in parallel with the efforts of its equally ambitious Lunar-sympathizing rival in the east, there had been surprisingly...
August 28th
Armored Train "Pelegri"
West Siberian Plain
En route to Germany
The rattling of the traincar around them would have made anyone a little nauseous, but after a little while? It wasn't so bad. It was definitely a far sight better than the rattling the orbital forces were taking, so...
September 18th, OE 102
Citadel City, Perindor
Perindor Citadel Garden
The hour was late.
A cool breeze filtered through the gardens of Perindor, past the bridge, the only sound being the distant hooting of owls, the chirping of crickets, and the gentle babble of a stream. A man sat cross...
September 1st, OE 102
Prosperity Outskirts
3:18 PM
It hadn't changed at all.
The wind rustled her hair, dust lapping at the end of her boots as Eris Pseudea moved past the creaky, wooden gate. The mid-day sun hung over the ranch, located just outside of Prosperity. Behind her, the gangly...
UE ???
Time: Unknown
The Center of the Universe (?)
A sea of faces, all of them like her own, all standing to attention. Observers, doing what they - what she - had been designed for: recording, cataloguing, inspecting.
A sphere of jet black in a sea of white. That was what her "eyes"...
August 28th, OE 102
Mars Airspace
En route to Deimos
Five days of silence had reigned across the communications array of the Valstork in its lonely mission as it crested the void, like a silver arrow cast from the blue planet in defiance of the red. Not a soul had passed them on the way back...
August 28th, OE 102
Bunker 48 Factory Area
Residence of Exiled Former Lord Thane Ashford
9:09 PM
It could hardly be called the executive suite.
As the artificial evening settled in among the Colonies, at least one area remained quiet in comparison to the ceaseless, factorial churning of its...