Rogues and Other Means to an End – Chapter One
Everything has a name. Most things have several. Rogue asteroid RA-2061-07-yada-yada-yada was named and categorized by the Federated Organization Charting Unexplored Space (FOCUS), an organization formed during the early days…
Reckonings – Chapter Four
By the time planetary species develop the technology for interstellar space travel, their societies usually have become more or less unified. Whether this is due to the supreme effort and…
Homelabbing #3: Adventures in Ruby
Ruby is a 30 year old programming language designed and developed, primarily, by Yukihiro Matsumoto. It is a scripting language, meaning that code is interpreted vs. compiled. It is my…
Reckonings – Chapter Three
At last, after an eternity of walking, Feld realized where he was. As the darkness surrendered to grayish light, the details hidden from view were revealed. He was in an…
Tech Corner: The Crux Web Application Server
Back in the early 2000s, blogs were becoming a thing and WordPress was becoming quite popular as a blog software platform. It was some time in 2004 or so that…
Reckonings – Chapter Two
When the Genome War ended, the leaders of Nova Terra and the other human-populated planets took a long, hard look at how the war was conducted. In order to forge…
Reckonings – Chapter One
The man known to some as Feldmarschal woke up from his violent slumber greeted with sharp waves of pain and nausea. His head felt like it had been split open.…
Prologue: Kin-Marked
No matter how hard he tried, or how comfortable his parents tried to make him, seven year old Mathieu kin’Fontaine could not get comfortable in his bed. It was too…
What am I On About Now?
Yes, I just added fiction to the neverending series of projects that float mostly unimpeded in my brain. Well, that’s not exactly true. It’s always been up there; it’s just…
Rogues and Other Means to an End – An Introduction
The story of Barscape Prime had all the hallmark points of legend. There were heroes and villains, plunder and loss, victory and sacrifice. The known galaxy was littered with its…