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Episode 5: Intent The most prevalent question on Sara's constricted mind was what use a space criminal like Orcelot Rex could have for an advanced AI matrix that refused to cooperate. Because she certainly wasn't planning to make things easy for him. It was conceivable that the tech he currently had set up would be used toward the goal of forcing her into some form of action, but she still had plenty of free will, perhaps more than he appeared to realize. There wasn't much a machine could do to her aside from some form of psychological torture.Presently, Orcelot Rex was standing nearby punching data into a terminal that was built into the ...

Episode 4: Dead Echoes Twin eruptions swelled up from two different locations within the Absolution 's structure. One toward the back where TOM, years ago, had awoken in a fresh automaton unit and the other one near the auxiliary power station. The bombs had their with the ship, breaking the entire thing into three massive chunks while further destruction sheared through its body lengthwise, ripping it into even smaller fragments. The fingers of destruction soon found tubes and storage tanks that held oxygen and other gases relevant to the ship's operations. They emerged from the broadcast ship's guts with a blinding starburst, lighting u...

Episode 3: Depthcharge Orcelot Rex alighted on the Absolution 's dorsal section like a weightless Goliath. He brought his arm up to chest level and a small control panel slid open just behind his wrist where he punched in some commands. Behind him, his assault ship detached from the weaker yet infinitely larger vehicle's plating and gently thrust itself forward until it was hovering over the nose of the broadcast ship. It fired another small explosive into the vessel's prow end, burning through the deep blue one-way glass to create a fresh hole complete with enormous cracks in its opaque surface. Then it returned to the Absolution where...

Episode 2: Commence Destruction The Absolution was still. Whatever motion the huge ship retained was due to the recent impact and the momentum left from its no longer functioning engines as it slowed to a halt in the middle of deep space. Surrounded by red flashes and alarms, TOM pushed himself up in the dark bridge. Any time the Absolution 's control center got this dark or noisy, it was bad news, and now it was suffering both symptoms at the same time. He looked at the outboard camera feed to see the great empty spot that the ship's reactor had occupied less than a minute ago. The sight of scorched and twisted metal made his stomach s...

Episode 1: Space is the Place "Take her up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it … keep 'er goin' …" Two Clydes, each clamped to either end of a girder, responded carefully to TOM's directions. Being the size of volleyballs, they kept it aloft using their relatively powerful antigrav cells while TOM made sure everything lined up. Normally, fixes like this weren't necessary on the Absolution , but recent events had placed it under some pretty intense hyperspace strain, warping and damaging more structure than Ghost Planet Industries could pay for. That had been many months ago, and there was still more to be done."Right there," TOM said once he was...

TOM sat pensively on the bridge of the Absolution as he watched a seemingly endless field of stars gliding by. Normally, in the depths of outer space, he would be watching an actual starscape with a backdrop made up of limitless darkness. But right now the stars were fake. One of the holographic screens hovering over the bridge's computer hub was playing the ending credits from an anime that had just reached a tremendously poignant finale. This, TOM thought to himself, is probably what if feels like to ascend to heaven. Pity on those who would argue; they don't know what they're missing. He leaned his head on the back of his chair and...