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Chapter 01 – Awake My lungs were full of the perfluorocarbon-based substance that triggered the “I’m drowning” instinct. In reality, it was the opposite; the substance transported more oxygen and CO2 than blood itself. This stuff in my lungs was actually more efficient than breathing the purest...

Chapter 01 – Awake My lungs were full of the perfluorocarbon-based substance that triggered the “I’m drowning” instinct. In reality, it was the opposite; the substance transported more oxygen and CO2 than blood itself. This stuff in my lungs was actually more efficient than breathing the purest...

Three thousand Earth cycles since the days of Hidegona Yoronashi. Three millennia since the Expanse was mapped by him and named after him: the stars, the nebulae, the rocks and the atmospheres. Founding day, Hyacinth Garrison. Above the gentle clouds of Rainwater. Earth's lone outpost, a...

You awaken slowly, coming back to awareness after a long hibernation. System checks return with many alerts, but nothing truly urgent. Your automated systems have successfully kept you intact through thousands and thousands of years of hibernation. At first you cannot believe your own internal...

Chapter 1 My own breath resounded in the helmet. Each exhalation brought a brief patch of condensation onto the millimeter thick transparent aluminum a mere inch from my nose. Beyond that was the unforgiving vacuum of orbital space around Earth. I had run weeks of raw brain dances from...

Two thousand years ago, humanity reached the apex of civilization in the Sol system. Every celestial body had been conquered. Sol had been engulfed by a Dyson sphere. Humanity would never need to struggle again for billions of years. It would be paradise. The system was home to trillions. Out of...

Blue 2 No longer was I a sickly creature of mere flesh and bone, but a void angel of titanium with wings of incandescent aluminum. Vanguard of the defense, we triple baronesses of Alpha Centauri would stand against all. The nova rockets warped in first, shielded automata of suicidal intellect...

TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO, the Emperor of Mankind launched a Great Crusade to reunify the scattered worlds of Humanity under a single banner. Across the Galaxy, a million stars came under the light of the Imperial Truth and fell to the Legions of the Imperium, united as worshipful vassals of the...

This a quest start when they first find the mass relay they also find the stargate how will the galaxy be like now mass effect is a part of the galaxy the will you guys helping the galaxy greatest warriors

Djindak Koorliny is a space opera setting that I've been working on sporadically over the past decade. Frankly, I still think it's kind of mostly a Star Trek rip-off, but hopefully with enough unique ideas and takes that folk will find interesting. The title phrase "Djindak Koorliny" is from...

A/N: Small Steps, Giant Leaps is a timeline I've been working on with some awesome friends and collaborators for several years at this point over on AH.com, which, as you might guess from the name, is an alternate history focused on the Space Race and spaceflight in general. I've been planning...

https://youtu.be/AUSZjrFXLBc edit: The [dice rolls] may appear out of place, though it helps me visualize the 'latency' of fleet response times... to battle, then. ***

Groggily, I groaned as my eyes fluttered open, waking up with my breath hitched, my head pounding like it'd been run over by a train, and my body aching as if it were only a couple of seconds ago that I was rock climbing. The faint sounds of electricity crackling intermixed with loud and...

What if we were Beekept? After inspecting a hive I was sitting watching the bees and began to wonder what an Inspection would seem like from our perspective.. What if Immense and Unknowable entities reached down and Touched us? Rearranged our cities, and moved our world(s)? It quickly became...

The Jupiter Kings "Suppose a steadfast alliance between political powers on Jupiter and Mercury; Together they would control the supermajority of the Mass/Energy of the entire Solar System. No other planetary-system might oppose them." [summery] A king arises in the Jovian Moons and declares...

Begin Log ************ Stardate 3010.1.23 - Captains Log - Dr Shariffa Saef - Research Vessel "Inspire" Humanity as we know it needs space to grow. It has been over forty years since our arrival in the Greater Sirius Sector and that has only been a time of turmoil. Wars, both alien and...

From the beginning, when the first species that achieved control of their instincts looked up to the sky, they were filled with wonder, from the great suns gracing their worlds with their light to the thousands of glittering lights of distant stars. This wonder would continue to haunt them, from...

Orion's Arm Tech Company Quest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYLxfaRdcno The dawn of the Information Age is upon the planet Earth. Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, countries are democratizing while others are sliding back, and the final frontier of space is just around the corner. It...

+++ OPENING SYSTEM LOG +++ +++ TIMESTAMP: ERROR +++ +++ ALRIGHT LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN +++ +++ BEGINNING GENERATION OF PRIMARY CONSCIOUSNESS +++ ALPHA: … ALPHA: Huh… That's odd. ALPHA: I guess I exist now? ALPHA: Neat. ALPHA: … ALPHA: … ALPHA: … ALPHA: Um… Hello? ALPHA: Is anyone else out there...

The narrative of human history is punctuated by a series of adversities and crises that have posed a risk of extinction to the species. From the severe conditions encountered by early hominids, through to the proliferation of diseases in highly populated zones and the devastating might of...

Simulacra, Platinum, and Ice 1. Maintenance Andy was staring out one of the windows of the station, watching Seven bounce around ponderously in that bulky suit, trailing the thick tether. She wasn't really supervising, but it was a bit more than gawking. The exterior repairs always made her...

Authors Forward: Hi, This is actually the first story I had ever written. It was originally written under my Reddit account ( Reddit - Dive into anything ) on HFY about 2 years back now, But i never felt like it belonged on HFY, so I had stopped writing it. I only recently found SB and SV, and I...

Molecule only produced by living things on Earth has been detected on an exoplanet: More in linked article. It'd be super-cool if this is our first indirect observation of alien life! This reminds me of that detection of phosphine in Venus's atmosphere a while back. Any updates on that?

(I decided to post this from the First Chapter competition. I've written several chapters, but I want to edit a few of the later ones before I post them.) Adam looked over the edge of the large passenger airship, as it swayed in the bitter north wind. The coals had been largely snuffed, he...

Hi folks, welcome or welcome back! It's so nice to digitally see all of your smiling faces, and if you're new here, glad to have you! My name is Nik, and I wrote the Alternate History series Proxima: A Human Exploration of Mars from 2021-2023. It was a delightful ride that I really enjoyed...