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Operation Search and Expunge (1/5): Entry
Narijic System, Freeport Loop The lights of the stargate flared as the megafreighter emerged from its throat, making its braking burn to slingshot around the Narijic sun for the outbound gate, and at...
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Operation Search and Expunge (2/5): Breach
Illicit Drift, Narijic System, Freeport Loop – Mission Elapsed Time +0:00:01 In the base of the crater in which the pod had impacted – aided by the requirement for stealth of the illicit drift, which...
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Operation Search and Expunge (3/5): Meatgrinder
Security Checkpoint, Illicit Drift, Narijic System, Freeport Loop – Mission Elapsed Time +0:08:17 Shit. Unbelievable greencored shit. The fresh-awakened linobir finished struggling into hsis combat...
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Operation Search and Expunge (4/5): Dying Meat
Central Office, Illicit Drift, Narijic System, Freeport Loop – Mission Elapsed Time +0:11:22 The monitor showed a picture of absolute carnage; the inner security checkpoint littered with corpses,...
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Operation Search and Expunge (5/5): After-Action Report
Unidentified Habitat, Moons of Braníthár, Mírlan System – Mission Complete The view from the hab’s for’ard lounge was spectacular, Morria decided. Outside, storms and swirling winds swept the blue face...
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Trope-a-Day: Global Currency
Global Currency: Played straight, twice, and arguably more often. The first of them is the Empire’s esteyn, acceptable everywhere in it and existing in the interests of internal free trade. It’s a...
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Refuge Cities
In today’s random postage, something I just wrote on the worldbuilding mailing list, in response to the following: Do your worlds have a Peace town [city of refuge], where people can go in order to...
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Trope-a-Day: Liberty Over Prosperity
Liberty Over Prosperity: Outright inverted, from most perspectives. The Empire with its tiny apathetic example of The Government is also, by any reasonable standard, the polity with the largest amount...
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Trope-a-Day: Proud Merchant Race Guy
Proud Merchant Race Guy: This and the next couple of tropes are difficult, because, well, it’s just not all that hatty a universe. The Imperials are notorious for their pro-commerce attitudes (see:...
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Question: Great Powers
It’s question-answering time again: Would you mind if I request a list of “great powers” and their overall internal/external policies? I am very curious about major powers other than the Empire and the...
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Trope-a-Day: Space Cossacks
Space Cossacks: This is where much of the Rim Free Zone’s population comes from. And, indeed, more than a few independent drifts and city-ships.Filed under: Trope-a-Day Tagged: Rim Free Zone, Space...
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Trope-a-Day: What Do You Mean, It’s Not Political?
What Do You Mean, It’s Not Political?: It is, I suppose, only in the generic sense of fiction featuring utopias or near-utopias, which is to say, only insofar as it’s therefore automatically a Take...
View ArticleSo you’ve been attacked in the Rim Free Zone…
“So you’ve been attacked in the Free Zone… “…you had a security provider, right? At least I hope you had a security provider, given the giant ‘THE RIM FREE ZONE TRAVEL FACILITATORS’ ASSOCIATION...
View ArticleIntellect Property
DORJE (FREE VERGE) – In a punitive innovation repugnant to all civilized polities, Corporate Fejj-Doval (a major corpclan on Dorje, an associate world of the Rim Free Zone, specializing in deprecated...
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