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It is 3134 and the Romani are taking the war to the home galaxy of the Saltic. The Romani consist of two species, one human and one reptile. They form the Republic of Nova Romae, which was founded by human exiles from the large area of human space ruled by seventeen corporations, seven large and ten small. These corporations govern human space and have done so for a millennium, ever since the destruction of life on Earth in its final world war. Earth itself was re-inhabited by a billion caretakers who turned it into a museum planet and all human governments recognized it as neutral ground ...

It was now the year 3133 and it had been seven years since the crew of the NR Tempestas set out to find the Sakkara and five and a half years since they returned. The Romani had not seen or heard of the Saltic in all that time, and their life returned to normal. The idyllic existence of the remaining Andromeda 7 continued on the home world of the Romani, Nova Romae. Complacency had settled in on them, since they were the only ones who knew of the Saltic, other than the Sinclair Corporation, which had tried, much to its detriment, to ally with them. However, complacency was the enemy of ...

Six college friends are at the end of their junior year. They have been friends since orientation and rent a house together. Early on, they discovered that none of them was interested in partying, since half were exchange students who were more serious than the average college student was. They banded together to use their vacations to go on adventures looking for lost fragments of history. For the summer before becoming seniors, they decided to spend part of their vacation looking for a legendary necklace, last mentioned in an obscure, medieval text. The necklace was called The Apocalypse ...

It is the 32nd century and the treaty between the Romani and a reptilian race they call the serpents has been in force for 300 years. It had started with an act of kindness by the humans towards dying serpents in a derelict ship. This compassionate action so impressed the serpents that they sent a diplomatic ship to the Romani home world, Nova Romae. Unbeknownst to the Romani, serpents had been watching humans evolve since first visiting earth when humans were at the dawn of their civilizations. They attempted to make contact then, but humans were afraid of their own reptilian species and ...

Deep in corporate space, the Romani freighter Castalia was returning from delivering a cargo of rare wood to the Highline Corporation. They were taking the profits from the sale to their next destination to buy more cargo for delivery. The ship was not what it seemed but was also a sophisticated spy ship that was one of a fleet of cargo haulers the Romani sent out to keep an eye on the corporations. As she was passing through the N9723 system, she picked up a degraded telemetry signal. The Romani intelligence service loved to while away the time deciphering random signals. You never knew ...

It is 3122, and things have been quiet. Two years have passed since the serpent civil war ended. After the half year spent in serpent space, much was changing in serpent-human relations. The serpents are a reptilian race, which has been allied with the Romani for three hundred years. However, only in the past two years did the two species actually make a real attempt to understand each other. This was the result of a civil war, which almost ended the alliance. The serpents were now fully integrated into the civilian and military aspects of Nova Romae, the home world of the Romani. Most of ...

It is the 32nd century and the Dragon’s Claw sailed through the energy paths between star systems called slipstreams. These highways of energy were the only way to go faster than light. With the proper sails to catch the energy, and the right ship, one could travel as fast as two light-years per hour. The Dragon’s Claw was a state of the art mining scout ship from one of the most powerful corporations in human space, the Sinclair Corporation. After the last world war on earth, only the space based mining corporations survived and for the past 800 years, they were the only political ...

It is the 32nd century and earth is no longer the center of humanity. After the last war on earth, all governments have fallen and known space is ruled by the huge mining corporations that had previously served the needs of earth. The corporations have waged periodic war on each other but there have been no corporate wars for over a century. One of the most powerful of these corporations is Sinclair Corp., headed by Horatio Sinclair. On one of the corporation’s far flung mining bases a distress signal is received from a yacht registered to Sinclair Corp and carrying Horatio Sinclair’s ...