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Children of the Gods – Part 1 The phrase "hurry up and wait" was widely known in the military for a reason, but this was getting ridiculous. You had been urgently called to Washington, rushed with a helicopter from Andrews to the Pentagon, just to sit in a blank room for three hours. Then some...

It's time for you to be a fighter jet ace in a strangely realistic setting; a Strangereal setting, you might say... Project Wingman/Ace Combat/Top Gun/Top Gun: Maverick inspired You hate rainy days. You especially hate monsoon days, when the sky drops half the ocean on you. Actually, you...

A Man's Mission: A Regiment at War Quest It is a time of great upheaval within the United States of America. A great Civil War has broken out that has divided the nation. When Abraham Lincoln won the election to the Presidency in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging...

Brockton Bay. The shithole of the world. Take the most drab, unassuming run-down town in the middle of nowhere, and then have it populated by the highest amount of superhuman criminals in the world. A world being treated as a petri dish by an eldritch abomination from space, and being run in...

Chapter 1 Field Promotion Ishmael was cold. His back was screaming and his legs were ablaze with fatigue as he rhythmically placed one foot in front of the other. The coarse yet soothing sound of gravel and sand shifting at his bodyweight combined with his even tempoed pace made for an almost...

https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/guns-and-butter-violence-power-and-alternatives-in-alternate-history Our genre is a violent one. Much of its speculation is on military conflict to the detriment of other areas of human history. To investigate this question, I assembled a panel of...

Kalinland is a 'quest' set in a medievalesque fantasy world. It is about realm management, politics, intrigue, war, the protagonist's (your) day-to-day life, etc. How the story plays out is largely dependent on the readers' choices, but also the happenstances of the world and other people's (in...

Dropped into the Hellstorm A Guardswomans Memoir By Meradet ver Melliur The First Drop 0845 hours, 9.163.672.M38 What is the most agonizing part of combat? Some may say it’s the noise, the deafening orchestra of shouted orders, screams of the wounded and chorus of guns of every caliber and...

You are the former coordinator of America's most elite and most secret special forces unit. You have been retired for the past seven years. It is August 2021. You receive a phone call from President Biden. Vampire ultranationalists have stolen the launch codes again. ВАМПИР. The 0th Special...

In a well lit room buried deep underground, a dozen world leaders surround a table and read the report that had been presented to them. The contents were both incredibly difficult to believe and backed up with ironclad evidence. The very fabric of reality was fraying and coming apart, evidenced...

Prologue - The Beginning The western part of the Imperial State of Iölana, near to the Orceán Bay. 5:21 pm - Julia 7, 2442 -=-=-=-=- The sun has begun to set itself back to the body of water signifying that afternoon is going to end soon, and the night will eventually turn the world of...

Q4 2009 - Turn 0.5 December 2009 While billions of people around the world celebrate the beginning of a new decade, world leaders, UN- and military officials come together at an undisclosed location to discuss the establishment of a new organisation under the banner of the UN to investigate and...

Prologue: You Can't Take the Sky From Me The aircraft was a gleaming dagger of polished stainless steel and titanium, resting on the end of the tarmac like a coiled spring. Everything extraneous had been sheared away, from the second seat and console and her mighty rotary cannon, to the tiniest...

One hundred tons of pure rolled composite steel crafted in the heart of the hottest forges. Mind-breaking attention poured over every single detail, rooting out imperfections with surgical precision. The most advanced technology to date that even Mantle could never hope to replicate. Night...

The year is AC 2215, The planet has been despoiled by the weapons unleashed in the Six Minute War, The uncontrolled rise of the sea, The rampant Janissary-machines of the Septen-Trianon Empire, And the fracturing of the alliances that once held the continental Westernesse whole, ONLY NUOVO...

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Wings of Glory: The Untold Stories In the year 20XX, the planet earth is aflame in war War not caused for once by humanity fighting against itself, but against an enemy that came from the watery depths bearing grudges, the Abyssals. The Abyssals, in just the span of a year, had driven humanity...

The year is 1860 of the Victorian Era, an era known for massive changes in society propelled by never-ending inventions and a grand desire of nationalists to proclaim their nation as the greatest on the globe, empires are being built while others fight to keep their long achieved status...

The greatest war the world has ever seen has ended. Ragnarok. It came and ended with the Alliance victories over the Middle Realms. In four years, the world saw more death and change than in the century before. Warfare has changed massively since the war began. Quickly, the honorable way of the...

Jessica Dunbar stood at the front of the wood-panelled room, her hands folded neatly behind her back so that no one else could see her fist clenching and unclenching almost spasmodically. She glanced down at her notes one last time, not that she needed to. She'd given this exact briefing a...

Hi. This story is called "On the Gallian Front". It's a VC fanfiction that takes the Valkyria Chronicles universe and places it within an alternate version of 1935 Europe, at the start of where the first Valkyria Chronicles game would be. I plan on making this into a series with this one being...

Hi. This story is called "On the Gallian Front". It's a VC fanfiction that takes the Valkyria Chronicles universe and places it within an alternate version of 1935 Europe, at the start of where the first Valkyria Chronicles game would be. I plan on making this into a series with this one being...

Since it keeps coming up and cluttering my original fiction thread, I decided to make a thread specifically for discussing rewrites, reboots, and fixits of StarCraft. I know there's already a general idea thread for StarCraft, but I feel that this concept is specific enough to deserve its own...

Well, this is my first Let's Read thread, inspired by @The Victorian's Let's Read: David Weber's Honor Harrington. And I chose David Drake's The General series, mostly because the 8 out of 10 books of the series are free, and I have brought the last two books. And also because I really like the...

Part 1: The Calm Before the Storm A pothole jolts me awake, the sudden shock causing my eyes to dart around in a panic, before reality reasserts itself. “You okay, ma’am?” Ledovskoy isn’t looking at me. His eyes are on a waterproof map, one he’s annotating with a ballpoint pen and a yellow...