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 a powerful people like humans one day. Yea, powerful enough to find a million ways…
Author: Ron McClung
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 up some very rich passengers with particular tastes in past times. Captain Brax watched the…
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 first colonist on the world, after the corporations gave their OK to start building the…
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 weapons systems to his implants too but they did not expect life, let alone hostile…
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. The last war left the Thinkers and the Council nervous. Now we observe first, let…
No Intelligent Life, Part 1
Replace 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 the death of me but I ignored him. This time, it might be true….
The Siren, Part 7
Another short story I wrote in early college. Once again, not very original, but I thought it had some character.
The Siren, Part 6
Another short story I wrote in early college. Once again, not very original, but I thought it had some character.
21.0 – Volturnus: Returning from the Artifact
Fighting through the Mindwalkers of Pale, the party meets the final lead Mindwalker – a life-sucking pisonic and his cybo-dragon war beast. Reaching the lower levels, they finally meet with the remaining Templars of the Eorna, powerful mentalists who survived the Sathar invasion and continue to fight the war with the Sathar today. The conveyed…


