• Foreword

    I’m slowly consolidating the stuff at https://toyhou.se/Sudrien/literatures and https://archiveofourown.org/users/a_b_b_e here. I think.https://toyhou.se/Sudrien/characters has some pictures of OCs, mostly commissioned. Continue reading

  • An Earlier Point

    “Goldie,”She was one of the new hires. There had been like four of them at once – they were already down to three. All completely fresh recruits, with their own dreams of what stage work was like, high drop out rate. No response. The girl was shaking. At least she didn’t seem to be bawling.… Continue reading

  • Practiced Mindlessness

    Mrs. L had not opted for a pen name when she wrote her book. This was, by some accounts, not foolish, but by one specific account, extremely foolish. Some corporate type that seemed to be intent on growing an empire. That also seemed intent to getting that book pulled from everywhere it could be found… Continue reading

  • “Orthogonal… Diagonalizer” “It a sphere in a tube.” “it’s symptomatic of a non-space faring species, I think.” “Ok, get it out.” “Humans have, for lack of a better term, a 3.1 dimensional system. Length, time, width, height. They usually even get that order wrong, because of how they learn it. Length, Width, Height, Time. Width… Continue reading

  • The Pathlayer Short Jump Drive

    Orthogonal measuring systems aren’t invalid. Width, Length, Depth, progression of time… 3.1D is not USELESS. But Orthogonal measure s only really useful under a incredibly small frame, in terms of… anything. It doesn’t really make sense past the horizon. It doesn’t really make sense on the quantum level. One that has been raisd with it… Continue reading

  • Motive

    The mandated minimum reintegration distance from a solar mass is 50 solar diameters, as an edict of the Plyd. The current doctrine of the Goos is to target 80 SD for arrival in a solar system, formally referred to as Site 1. Reintegration is the process of exiting MN speeds. At MN speeds, radiation can… Continue reading

  • Strata

    So Human, us Goos, Hrutxcan, N’mob, even Ouinhed – these are samples of Hot Carbon species. Liquid water. Some compatibility in foods, some compatibility in poisons, no guarantees. There are also cold carbon species. Liquid methane temperatures. Good trading partners, very suspicious if you mention altering contracts. But what, your year on planet Saturn is… Continue reading

  • Infrastructure

    According to current protocol, there are up to 5 designated sites. Site one is the cleared area at solar north… The counterclockwise pole, 80 (b+) solar diameters distance. plyd standards* say this is where all visiting craft should first arrive in a solar system. The distance provides more than sufficient space for cordon from MN… Continue reading

  • Impressions

    Taran held up a 1 rupee coin, examining the track. The spot had to be flat enough to keep the coin in place, but curved enough to make full contact.It didn’t really matter where he had got the coin, did it?Samyuel kept watch. The train would not sneak up on them, but adults might. Jyoti’s… Continue reading

  • Velocipede

    The ground, the tables, the umbrellas, were styled after a “french” cafe. Meena still had some trouble placing where France was in the world – across an ocean-river from where the Queen lived – As England was an Island similar to Ceylon. Well, more countries to it – or at least had the will to… Continue reading

  • Indicative of Concern

    “I got a letter from the school” “They can’t take your diploma back. That’s illegal. No matter how little you use it.” Usha’s response was quick in a way that suggested the though had been on her mind. “Hew heu. No. Apparently they don’t have the phone number or file, not that it would have… Continue reading