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Very nicely wrapped up. I'm eagerly awaiting your next AAR!

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There was no transition this time. I simply was the ship. Instead of being out in open space I was next to a gas giant, orbiting very closely. I could feel the energy building up inside me from the planets magnetic field as a sense of contentment. There was a nagging sensation though, that resulted in me focusing on one of the stars I could see. With a bit of magnification I realised it was a planet, and a memory surfaced so that I knew it was the planet I had originally been at. The Korath s

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I was woken by the sound of my drone quietly beeping away to itself in the corner of my room. Strange , I thought, it's never made that noise before . It stopped as soon as I sat up on the bed. A quick check of my watch revealed that I had just enough time for a shower before the meal was meant to start. So freshly showered, and with a chance of clothes, I made my way into the main area of the building. As I entered the room everybody turned to look at m

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Let's wait until I've finished a single story before handing out any plaudits?? It's easy to start a story, not so easy to finish it! The damn ending keeps changing on me, but I'll get it sorted soon.

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The evolution of Jordan was done brilliantly. I hated him to start off with, now I emphasise with him. Still don't like him though :) I'm looking forward to part 3, and the origins.

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I see I need to proof-read a bit more. I'll go edit that, so it makes more sense to subsequent readers. Thanks for pointing it out.

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I have no idea.... I was assuming something close to 24 hours for a standard cycle, but it's a bit more depth then the story needs to worry about that. We'll just go with 24 as that saves me having to work in a different day/night cycle.

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I had no idea how long I was asleep for. My sleep was disturbed by dreams of being a spaceship again, never the same, always victorious though. I'd never really thought about the Korath back home, but it appeared my sub-conscience really didn't like them. When I next woke up I was feeling better, but still not 100%. My mouth was very dry and I would have killed for a glass of water. Just thinking about it was hard though, and I wasn't sure if I would be able to get to t

Reply to The General and The President-memoirs of a Navy War Hero in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

It's been an absolute pleasure reading it! Although it looks like the humans have won, I still want to see how the rest pans out ...

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Poor guy, he's having a bit of a hard life. Great writing, it's sucked me in.

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Too much Vodka-Redbull. Far too much. We shuffled into the Library, all of us looking around and taking it all in. There was surprisingly little to see though, the omni-directional red light made it difficult to judge distances. There were still shadows visible in the walls, and the angular nature of them made me think they were caused by the diffraction of light within larger crystals. I made a mental note to discuss that with Paulo later. Running my hand along the

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I was going to post the next chapter, but i've got a heap on today, and off to Barcelona on the weekend, so hopefully next week I'll get the time to finish this off.

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Hi General I'll do my best to read the whole thing sometime soon, and leave a response once I have.

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The amount of history the Iconian's knew was astounding, and confirmed as many of my personal theories as they disproved. I wondered just how much information they were getting from us back on Earth with their own exchange group. Sadly though, most of the class didn't share the love of history that I did, and we got sidetracked on talking about cultural practises, how many Iconian's per planet, etc. The way of teaching was different to how we were used to, the Ico

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Offline writing isn't working, so I may as well just do it on here. You'd think being unemployed would make it easier, but no, it does not. It turned out I would have to wait a while to get inside. We humans were to be housed in a custom built building, designed to human specifications. Although the difference in anatomy of our two species isn't huge, our social activities were, and therefore our housing needed to be designed with that in mind. </

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Hi This isn't forgotten about, I've just been very busy and something had to be postponed. I've decided to write this offline, and once it's finished post it up in fragments once a day/week. Sorry about that....

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Sorry for the delay in writing again, June has been a very busy month. Ian would be about 16 I reckon, between high school and university or a bit before (depending on which country you're in of course). The trip on the EFS Enterprise was quite boring. After the initial excitement, the monotony of long distance travel set in. We formed our groups, Paulo and I sticking mainly to ourselves. Strategy games were common, in-between our mandatory history lessons. As

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The next month was a blur of activity. In addition to getting my studies to the level expected as an emissary, I was also being trained in my more clandestine activities. My dreams once more getting the better of me, I thought I'd be a junior agent and issued with all sorts of weird and wacky gadgets, with a security clearance to match. The reality was much different, and much much harder. In reality i was being trained to notice everything in a room in 1 glance. It's much harder th

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The Iconian's turning up un-announced on our door step changed the Earth Federation outlook. Previously, the Earth Federation had been exploring and colonising within our star cluster with impunity. The nearest Drengin outpost was in the midst of turmoil as the Korath clan staged a coup while the Drengin leadership were expanding closer to home. The Iconian's appearance meant the race was on. Over the next few months, the Iconian Empire claimed many worlds, more then both us and the Dren

The Iconian Dreamer in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

No child ever plans for where they will be when they grow up. We just dream our dreams, read our stories and get on with the important business of growing up. Subconsciously, the dreams we have and the ideas we read (or have read to us) imprint themselves and mold the person we become. So it was with me. Born to a diplomat's family, I always accepted the fact that humanity was not alone in the galaxy. The Arcean and Drengin were there because my parents said so. The Altarian's mysteri