Author Archives: Astronut

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A World with a Bluer Sun, Part I

Stard­ate 9842.5. Receiv­ing an ancient Earth Star­fleet dis­tress sig­nal from a crashed shuttle­pod, Lyo­n­esse res­cues a crazed sur­viv­or, while sensors detect a ves­sel stran­ded in the event hori­zon of the nearby wormhole.

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The Shadow Beneath, Part I

Stard­ate 9839.3. Lyo­n­esse’s ober­ser­va­tions of the bio­me of “space whales” feed­ing off stel­lar winds at BC-03 are inter­rup­ted by a loc­al hunter, and the dis­cov­ery that the whales them­selves are sentient.

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Plato’s Cave, Part II

Stard­ate 9833.4. The land­ing party’s invest­ig­a­tion of the Vul­can site on BC-02e con­tin­ues, as they enter the seed vault and dis­cov­er a hid­den tun­nel lead­ing to what appears to have once been a mis­sile silo repur­posed as a “dooms­day vault” for a small num­ber of res­id­ents. Des­pite it being over a mil­len­ni­um since it was built, some­thing is still act­ive within.

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Plato’s Cave, Part I

Stard­ate 9833.3. Lyo­n­esse finds anoth­er long-dead Vul­can out­post on an ice-age world har­bour­ing the remains of an ancient civil­isa­tion. Once a land­ing party begins explor­ing the ruins, they dis­cov­er some­thing is still alive.

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