Tales From Tewanta

Wilson Port, Tewanta - 3306-04-06 09:51 GST Sir Cedric Nolan lined up his Fer de Lance directly in front of the mailslot of Wilson Port and brought it to a full stop 7.49 km from the station. His cockpit was dimmed and he had his remlok deployed. Just under seven minutes of emergency oxygen remained. He had turned off all non-essential systems on his ship, which at this point included regular life support. He requested docking clearance which was granted promptly. He engaged forward thrusters to bring his speed up to 200m per second, launched a heat sink, and turned on silent running, as his ship drifted towards the station. An alarmed flight control officer broadcast that they had lost his signal and requested that he make contact. He ignored them, focusing on keeping his ship on a straight trajectory for the station dock entrance. He was flying without any automated flight assistance at all, as was appropriate for a knight of the...

Stable Cryptographic Analysis, Tewanta - 3306-03-18 08:27 "Hey, Denzel", said Brian Jones, as he walked into his supervisor's office carrying a data pad and a bulb of coffee. "I think I might have found something interesting." "Lay it on me!" "Well, I was working with FIDO to fine tune analysis of the low temperature diamond markets. Grete was complaining that some of the search routines were slow and difficult to use. So, to test the exploration interface I decided to put in that cult we were told to keep an eye on." "Chapter of Isinor?" "Yes! Them! Well, I may have found something weird." "How weird?" "Well, I was expecting some delivery contracts and maybe, they'd be the supplier for some LTD futures. You know, low level stuff. Well the search took a few minutes and I was worried that had mucked up the search indices somehow....

Luiken City, Reshas - 3306-03-13 13:41 Hiroko Watanabe took a drink from her beer. She was sitting in a small bistro bar near the outer edge of Luiken City with a journalist from The Luiken Gazette, Clive Glover. She'd been there for about an hour trying to get some insight into who in Isinor would want to attack Tewanta. So far Clive had spent he time boasting about his expense account, talking about how expensive the food was and dropping names about the famous people that he'd met. They were just finishing dessert on a delicious, but very pricey, lunch. Hiroko was bored and impatient. She put up with it because so far she learned that the guy across the table from her was the most likely person on the station to know about any shady dealings that Isinor factions were involved in. He had a reputation for uncovering corporate and faction corruption. He also had a reputation for being a bore and spending beyond his mean...

Wilson Port, Tewanta - 3306-03-11 18:24 Commander Austin Graves lifted a forkful of spinach and ricotta ravioli into his mouth and savoured the mix of flavours: the sharpness of the creamy ricotta, the freshness of the spinach, the richness of the pasta and the creamy sage flavoured sauce. He took a sip from his bulb of white wine and glanced down at his hand terminal. A small unobtrusive icon indicated that the data transfer was complete. He was sitting in a small bistro in Wilson Port which just happened to be right in front of a hidden surveillance camera in the wall on the opposite side of the narrow promenade. At least, it used to be a surveillance camera, when Official Tewanta Order ran the station. Prior to handing over the station to The Buurian Protectorate, he had the camera repurposed as a dead drop server, one of eleven. One was destroyed after a particularly unfortunate incident caused by an inexperienced and ...