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Chapter Twenty-One What is won by soldiers, at a high cost, is often given away by political leaders. - Professor Leo Caesius, The Waning Years of Empire (banned). Lucas Trent was a careful man by instinct and training, such as it was. He’d mastered the skills required to stay alive on Earth, in the...

Zaune wrote:Oh, right. That desperately needs either some clarification or to be dropped completely, because that kind of sentiment does not work coming from the hero.

Will do.

Chris

Zaune wrote:I think you might have missed my point. Are mixed-race families only common in the Undercity?

Ah. That makes more sense.

No, basically. Edward just comes from the Undercity and thinks of it in such terms.

Chris

The prisoner was thrown into the chair and cuffed to the metal. Edward smiled thinly as he recognised the man’s features, the racially-mixed features of Earth’s Undercity. Edward’s own father had been the same race as his mother, but several of his half-siblings had had differently coloured skins a...

For those interested, I have another ongoing story under way on CF.NET - http://counter-factual.net/upload/showthread.php?t=9801. Comments would be welcome.

Chris

Chapter Eighteen There is a joke that runs ‘a nation is a group of people united by a shared delusion of the past and a hatred of their neighbours.’ Like many such jokes, there is a hard kernel of truth within the humour. Society is always a consensus, a shared understanding of right and wrong. If ‘...

UrusaiKaimuki wrote:nore please! I love this world build. You've made a cool idea. The only thing I don't understand is the creation of the Empire

I just need more responses. It's hard to write without some feedback.

Chris

I've been lurking sd for the past 2 years and only your story pulled me out to finally comment to say. PLEASE CONTINUE. I'm hooked, and I'm trying to find a way to download it to iphone so I can read it prior to work xD Thank you :) Chapter Sixteen What motivates resistance to the Empire? There are...

Thanks to everyone who commented. I just need feedback.

Thanks

Chris

Chapter Thirteen The standard form of colonial government – at least in stage one and two colonies – is rule by the Development Corporation. The Corporation appoints a Governor and a law enforcement force, who can be counted upon to enforce the law the ‘right’ way. As time passes, democracy is intro...

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Chris

Chapter Ten Although the Empire likes to claim that planetary development corporations are free to operate without supervision or obligation to the Empire, that is actually very far from the truth. Every settled planet, for example, must build – out of its own pocket – an Orbital Transhipment Statio...

Chapter Seven It is impossible to exaggerate the levels of corruption present at all levels within the Empire. Senators routinely accept bribes from contractors; civil servants frequently steal or ‘mislay’ vital supplies for their own purposes; military officers cheat their men of their wages, or vi...

Chapter Four Among the Marines, there is a culture of personal dedication, personal responsibility and service – service to the Marine Corps and its ideal. A Marine learns to take and shoulder responsibility, or stays out of the chain of command. Outside the Marines, it is harder and harder to find ...

Hi - this is a story I wrote some time ago that I am currently revising. Any comments or advice would be very helpful. Chris Cover Blurb You Should Never Speak Truth To Power… The Galactic Empire is dying and chaos and anarchy are breaking out everywhere. After a disastrous mission against terrorist...