Alternate Homeworlds Notes
Notes I wrote that explained the homeworlds of each of the Star Frontiers non-human races. I only got to the Vrusks when I started writing this. The Vrusk Homeworld – Klick’Ra – was a warm world with deserts and swamps …
Author: Ron McClung
Preamble to the End
Another short story I wrote in early college. Once again, not very original, but I thought it had some character.
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Die Hard the Hunters Part 3
“You did what, captain?” The comlink to Imperial Terran Law cruise Wyatt Earp was fuzzy and had a long delay, despite being a subspace link. The Siren System is really active today. “Commander, let’s just say I cut through a …
Tagged with: Terran Expanse Saga
Die Hard the Hunters Part 2
The Roulies were large bipedal primitives with amazing hunting instincts of their own. They looked like a humanoid mix of a wolf and a boar. They were savage. But the Science Council believed that they had great potential to be …
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Die Hard the Hunters Part 1
The three humans walked up the gangway into a small unmarked transport class star freighter – the Star Slinger. Officially it was here in Port Trescha to pick up some mundane cargo. Unofficially, Captain Brax Seldron was here to pick …
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No More Wall Tag
It has been a long time since I’ve seen my home colony on Drelna Beltiar. War tore me away but I remember living on the harsh new world and how much of a struggle it was. My parents were the …
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Wyan Moonstalker
Another short story I wrote in early college. Once again, not very original, but I thought it had some character.
No Intelligent Life, Part 3
Drie’a was amazed the captain got to the ship so fast. The main gun took out the sailing vessels fairly quickly and the land forces retreated once that happened. If Drie’a had thought about it, he would have slaved the …
Tagged with: The Thinkers of Bolin
No Intelligent Life, Part 2
H’ia was running all the protocols and regulations through his head. What if there is sentient life here? What is first contact protocols? We aren’t prepared for this. We are simply a recon scout team – observe and report back. …
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No Intelligent Life, Part 1
We were lost. I knew one little mistake in the astrogation plotting would put us somewhere else in the ass-end of this galaxy. Probably was some ashes from my Bilarian Cigars. Cap has always told me that they would be …
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