Sins of Empire: CH 3 PT 3 by SlingBlade87, literature
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Sins of Empire: CH 3 PT 3
As the Grand Admiral killed the link, Kara couldn't help the smile that spread across her features.
He gave her a halfhearted scowl. "What?"
"It's just that you must be in good spirits." she replied stoically. "Otherwise you'd never have accepted her invitation."
Admiral Delas snorted and swept his arms out to the viewport and the ships resting in the shipyard beyond. "Of course I'm in a good mood. This is the breakthrough we've needed all this time. We have no experience building ships of this size. The Vengeance and her sister ships are the first vessels we've built approaching or exceeding something this heavy."
"We have our own b
Sins of Empire: CH 3 PT 1 by SlingBlade87, literature
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Sins of Empire: CH 3 PT 1
Noah watched as the latest major engagement played out on the holographic display floating in the center of the council room. His eyes traced the movements of the fleet with avid interest as the outgunned Twin Suns forces positioned themselves to best effect against their enemies. One of his own ship designs had participated in the battle; the Trident-class. It was a revolutionary craft and one of the first ships he'd designed when he'd taken up his original post in the Ship Design Bureau, before being made a Grandee. It had the standard central hull of most fleet destroyers. Where it differed from other destroyers however was that it mounted
When referring to ships, capital ships are always referred to as a 'she' while support ships are referred to as 'he'. This distinction is made in reference to ancient honor codes which dictated that it was a man's duty to protect any woman in need. The honor codes may no longer apply, but the tradition still stands among warship crews.
WEAPONSweapon systems are divided into tiers. All ships carry three tiers of weapon systems comprised of primary, secondary, and tertiary arrays/banks/batteries. Capital ships also tend to carry one or more main guns/cannons/batteries. Strike craft mount small scale versions of these weapons. The most co
Sins of Empire: CH 2 PT 2 by SlingBlade87, literature
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Sins of Empire: CH 2 PT 2
"Aldred, I wish to discuss something with you." Thiera said as she stood looking out from the palace balcony at the sprawling cityscape that was the capital city. It never ceased to amaze her how beautifully blended technology and nature had been in the design and construction of Highast. It was a true tribute to the culture of the Twin Suns Empire, a culture she would go to any length to defend.
"Of course your Majesty." Aldred said with practiced deference.
"You are aware of Project Slip Knot?"
Aldred's presence in the Weave shifted to one of uncertainty. "The slip-stream engine your Majesty?"
Thiera smiled. "Yes, that is it exactl
Sins of Empire: CH 2 PT 1 by SlingBlade87, literature
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Sins of Empire: CH 2 PT 1
"I don't see what this has to do with me." Noah said as he walked around the holographic display at the center of his office. He keyed in a command in his computer pad and the ship's schematic floating in space changed to suit his new idea. He frowned, twisting his hand on the screen and spinning the schematic once again to examine it from a new angle.
"It has everything to do with you." snarled Grand General Tye. "My granddaughter's reign may depend on you Admiral."
Noah snorted. "You've seen how well that went with the Emperor."
"You did not kill him." Grand Admiral Novas intoned coldly. "He gave his life so that you might escape and
KotOR: A Pilot's Forgiveness by Fischmeister4, literature
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KotOR: A Pilot's Forgiveness
Jenzi was startled when she looked up and found herself standing just outside the cockpit. The trip from the garage where she'd been talking with Canderous was nothing but a blur the front of the ship had seemed a light-year away when she'd started walking, but now there she was with no recollection of how she had gotten there. Her mind had simply been elsewhere, she reasoned. Challenging though it was, she'd forced herself to make the rounds through the Ebon Hawk polling each of her companions as to their thoughts on the recent and startling revelation.
"Do you want to tell them what Malak said, or should I?"
"I'll tell them. I'm
The four figures stood at the cemetery's center amidst the stone monuments to the dead. All around them rose the edifices raised by the living to honor the hallowed dead. That the three of them were responsible for the mass desecration of those honored dead was of little concern to them. They all felt at home within the tombs of ages past, in some cases more so there than they did within the cities of the living. It was for that reason that they'd arrived, a mutual summons had reached out across space and pulled each inexorably here no matter how hard they'd resisted. None wished to revisit the shame of their past. To do so meant reliving th
Sins of Empire: CH 1 PT 1 by SlingBlade87, literature
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Sins of Empire: CH 1 PT 1
The doors to the council room chambers flew open with a resounding bang as the Empress stormed into the room in a flurry of red armor and rippling cloth. She was flanked on all sides by her Knights of the Guard dressed in black armor with red lining, their faces hidden by their helms.
The Empress glared at the assembled members of her council around the table, not a one of them seated and all at attention.
"Sit down all of you," she snapped.
All seven members sat wordlessly as she took her own seat, slamming her gauntleted hands onto the obsidian table with a bang.
"The meeting did not go as planned then your Excellency?"
The Empres
Sins of Empire: CH 1 PT 3 by SlingBlade87, literature
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Sins of Empire: CH 1 PT 3
Kara stood with her back to the wall, her gaze placidly fixated on the statue across from her as she ignored the venomous stares of her former comrades. It wasn't that she didn't understand their hatred for her. On the contrary she understood it perfectly and would have done the same thing in their shoes. It was that she just did not care. An Imperial Knight's life was to be committed to the Imperial Family that was their creed. To abandon that creed for any reason was to become a pariah at best, perhaps even a traitor in the eyes of some. She'd certainly fought her share of Knights who'd come to take her life for her 'treason', most had the