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The Pillar - Around The Room

Stine walked out of chaos into controlled chaos. The C.I.C. was loud. Officers were shouting their reports over each other.

The Captain slumped in his chair, looking exhausted. He seemed barely conscious. Stine noticed that his console was lit up with Nav controls.

He jumped us out of there. Stine thought. How’d he manage that?

“Lock it down!” he belted, silencing the roar. The Captain barely moved his head in response. “Now, sit-reps around the room.” A pause. “Go.”

Lieutenant Bjorn had just taken his seat from the young Ensign whimpering on the deck. Her face was bleeding from where something had scratched her.

“All systems are nominal, sir.” Bjorn reported. “No damage.”

“Weapons are 100%.” Came another report from Stine’s left. “No rounds fired.”

“What about the crew?” Stine asked, turning to Lt. Commander Rebon. “Was everyone affected?”

“Reports in from every deck.” Rebon responded, “her voice still tremored. “Thirty-six crewmen MIA .”

Stine remembered The Pillar.

“No bodies?”

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JLaughter
Posted 3 months ago

Creepy. Where’d the bodies go! Surely they’re all having Pan Galactic GargleBlaster’s with Relk and Slartibartfast now! Write more now!
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PyroPunk 51 (PPP LoA)
Posted 3 months ago

Need my fix. This is one seriously gritty sci-fi action, story. Well done. Who are the “Borg” going to attack next?
LoA
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Browncoatben
Posted 3 months ago

Ha…dammit!

I’m really trying very hard not to steal from established sci-fi. I know the Borg smiliarity is there, but am hoping that the overall creepiness and lack of lite-brite eyepiece visuals are making up for it.

Thanks for the “fix” comment…means a lot.
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KevMullins
Posted 3 months ago

No, “I’m-THAT-Guy!” they are probably all at an Alien’s Anonymous meeting ;)
Hey Pyro, I read “BJork” and thought “Björk”. Then got the mental image of her in the swan dress within the setting of the story… I’m twisted, yeah.
Great “Space Epic” you’ve got here Ben… keep it going!
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PyroPunk 51 (PPP LoA)
Posted 3 months ago

That’s why I put it in quotes. The sheer superiority of the aliens conjured borg like images for me. But they seem a little bit more organic, more in the vein of lexx/farscape.
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PyroPunk 51 (PPP LoA)
Posted 3 months ago

That’s why I put it in quotes. The sheer superiority of the aliens conjured borg like images for me. But they seem a little bit more organic, more in the vein of lexx/farscape.
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THX 0477
Posted 3 months ago

Love the chaos and confusion of it all, everyone still reeling from it all. Great stuff. And yeah, I wasn’t thinking Borg either. This villain is much more cerebral, back-door attack than brute strength and superior technology.
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THX 0477
Posted 3 months ago

Love the chaos and confusion of it all, everyone still reeling from it all. Great stuff. And yeah, I wasn’t thinking Borg either. This villain is much more cerebral, back-door attack than brute strength and superior technology.
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Mighty-Joe Young
Posted 3 months ago

where are the bodies i must know this is like bleach