StarTroopers Episode One The Train Job Tuesday Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA It was a cool but clear day in May when I got the call that a new Uber candidate was heading my way for testing. I’d picked this isolated region of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to take advantage of a particular natural resource of the area — a railroad track that carried coal trains down to the Midwest power ...

StarTroopers Book One, Episode Six by Shadar Our last breakfast meeting on Earth broke up as people began walking or floating away. Everyone was now focused on preparations to leave Earth. Unfortunately, the crazy plan we were considering — attacking the core of the bugs’ armada — only had a chance to work if we could get past the orbiting ships without detection. And then out to the Asteroid ...

StarTroopers Episode Two I emailed my report on the train wreck to Ops, and later followed up on the phone. My report was already generating excitement. Unknown to me, the bad blood with the Russian Ubers went back a ways. They said Pete Rozen was being pulled off his assignment and was coming up to fill in for me. I felt bad about that, but I couldn’t exactly say that I was healed. Four weeks ...

Super Relic Hunter by Shadar WRITTEN FOR SGI WORKSHOP 1.1 Chapter One Explorer’s Club, Whitehall Place, London “Gentlemen, I present to you our one and only female member, the daughter of our founder, Lord Henshingly Croft. The famous Miss Lara Croft.” A smattering of applause greeted the tall brunette as she walked through a side door and up the steps toward the raised podium. Lara Croft had ...

Test Pilot, Part One Original: January 2021 Revised: March 2023 A story loosely inspired by a visit back in 2019 with an old friend who lives in the Mohave and who used to work as an aeronautical engineer at nearby Edwards AFB. That and a scene with Clint Eastwood (set in his garage) near the beginning of the movie Space Cowboys. Prologue Chuck MacDill sat at his workbench in his garage, staring ...