HSS Chasetail: Ready Room
The door slid shut behind Huxley as he entered the privacy of his ready room. He moved to his desk and picked up his tablet.
He scrolled through a familiar list of items needing review.
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Hundeerde
Episode 24: Intelligence
HSS Chasetail: Control Room
Lewis and Anika were reviewing the metadata from all the previous probe engagements. They were looking for anything that indicated a pattern of regular behaviour.
A blue spiderweb of all the plotted encounters shifted slowly across the table, lines connecting with points that had no business being connected.
Lewis leaned over the display, one hand braced on the edge.
Continue readingEpisode 23: Debrief
HSS Chasetail: Flight Deck
General Marvin Huxley was waiting for Greenwatch on the flight deck as they climbed one by one out of their fighters.
Over his arm, he was holding a neatly folded pair of clean flight pants.
Toby climbed down from his cockpit and came face to face with his Commanding Officer.
Continue readingEpisode 22: Split
Hundeerde Space: Sector 1-Quadrant Delta-3
(S1-QD3)
Routine Patrol
Greenwatch Squadron were on patrol in one of the furthest quadrants of Hundeerde space. They were travelling in a fairly loose formation, and the patrol so far had been completely unremarkable.
This was about to change.
Continue readingEpisode 21: Squish
HSS Chasetail: High Hundeerde Orbit
About one week later
Another rest day had come around for the Greenwatch Squadron, with no flying on their schedule. An opportunity to relax after another week of constant patrols.
Continue readingEpisode 20: Coulda, Shoulda,Woulda
HSS Chasetail: 03:21 Seb and Raven’s Quarters
Despite feeling tired and wanting to sleep, Seb lay wide awake in his bunk.
The sim. There must be something that he is still missing…
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HSS Chasetail: 13:00 — Briefing Room
The briefing for the simulation was about to wrap up.
Klaus:
- All squadron members and comms personnel other than yourself will be simulated.
- The simulation will commence in nominal patrol formation.
- Standard rules of engagement apply.
- Your objective is to protect the assigned asset.
- You will not confer before your run with those who have completed.
- You will make the decision you judge correct.
- You will each have one run only.
That is all.
Episode 18: Edge
Hundeerde Space:
Sector 1-Quadrant Delta-4 (S1-QD4)
Greenwatch Squadron streaked across the quadrant in pursuit of their quarry. Another Marauder probe had again entered Hundeerde Space. The probe was fast and agile, clearly equipped with the ability to anticipate, react, and avoid its pursuers. Of all the recorded probe encounters so far, they did not appear to have any ability to fire back or make any other offensive manoeuvres.
Even so—
It was proving decidedly difficult to catch.
Continue readingEpisode 17: Consequence
HSS Chasetail: Day One, 07:01 Ablution Block — Male
Grounded from flying for one week.
Assigned a cleaning list of all the shared male ablution blocks — shipwide.
10 blocks in total.
Continue readingEpisode 16: You Carry a Name
Hundeerde: Part 3 — Greenwatch
Proving Ground
HSS Chasetail: High Hundeerde Orbit
Lieutenant Lewis Vale (“Echo”), at just 17, would ordinarily have been too young to have joined the Hundeerde Space Defence and Communications Network; however, he was bright and intelligent. Bright enough to have passed all of the entry requirements by the time he was 15. The one and only requirement that he had not been able to meet was his age, normally set at 18. This had been taken care of by the one and only Hunde who could override the entry rule.
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Screw Pile Developments 