SS: Al'i Aurora Aboard the TFS Uictoria Part 4

Al’i awoke in a daze. What time is it? She left her quarters and made her way to the elevator. She glanced at the directory. Third for the doctor. She left the elevator into an open common area. Finally some people. She walked up to a group of Tiur seated at a table together. “Excuse me, how to I get to Dr. Ishî from her?”

The table stood at once and said at once, “Lieutenant.” Al’i turned immediately and saluted. No one was behind her.

“Lieutenant Aurora?” one of the voices said behind her. Realizing her mistake, and her new title at the same time, she turned back to the group, blushing blue in her face, and said, “yes, I’m looking for Dr. Ishî.”

After giving her directions, one of the Tiur soldiers spoke up, “Lieutenant Aurora, we were actually just talking about you.”

“Oh?” Al’i felt like she was blushing again. Why is this so embarrassing?

“Um, yes. I’m Private Travis. I work in the armory. Engineers Taylor and Trey are almost done with a prototype for your orbs.”

ORBS! I only brought two orbs with me…what is wrong with me.

Travis continued, “They think they built a shoulder strap for you. It will contain your orb material inside it and on command push the material out at one point to create an orb.”

Trey added on, “We think. We don’t really know how your orbs work.”

“That makes two of us,” Al’I said as the group laughed. “Here, take this one.” Al’i reached in her pocket and gave Trey an orb. They thanked her, and Al’i left to find Dr. Ishî.

She ran into the doctor before getting to far. “Good to see you up and about,” Dr. Ishî said, “especially at this time for you.”

“What do you mean?” Al’i asked.

Dr. Ishî explained, “all Tiur fleet ships use the same time system, for coordination. We use the time that it is on Coesi, our government base. That makes it about 1 PM Tiur Fleet Time or TFT, and currently, I believe, about 12:30 AM on Munera. Oh, and it’s also a 24-hour system, shorter than the 25-hour Thavma system.”

“There’s a lot to get used to,” Al’i said.

Dr. Ishî laughed and said, “Yes. I suggest trying to power through today to get on the same time as everyone else. Also, head down to the armory sometime. We have some communication devices there that can display both Munera’s and our ship’s current time for you.”

“Thanks Dr. Ishî.” said Al’i. Al’i then left Dr. Ishî to head to the armory.

SS: Al'i Aurora Aboard the TFS Uictoria Part 3

Al’i awoke to a huge jolt. She turned over the side of the bed and puked. She felt dizzy. As she spit to get the taste out of her mouth, she thought, where did this pan come from? A voice took her by surprise, “here, take these. It will help with the dizziness.” 

Al’I sat up and looked down at a white, blue eyed Tiur. She took the pills, “Thanks.” Who is this?

Sensing the confusion at her presence, the voice introduced herself, “Dr. Ishî. I’m the ship’s medical doctor.”

Al’i went to stand up, but Dr. Ishî stopped her. “Lie back down.”

Al’i laid down, “what’s wrong with me?”

Dr. Ishî explained, “It’s sickness from the space jump, happens to everyone their first time through a space jump portal. You’ll gain your space legs and get used to the jumps eventually.”

“Space jump?”

“Yes, we left the Thavma system and jumped to the Dunamis System. From here, we are going to head out to find that signal. Get some rest and I’ll check on you later.” Dr. Ishî left the room.

What other lovely surprises did people leave out about space travel? Al’i thought before closing her eyes to rest some more.

SS: Al'i Aurora Aboard the TFS Uictoria Part 2

Al’i pinned a picture of her parents up in her new quarters. This has all been so fast, she thought. How did I even get here? I’ve never even left Munera before. In a matter of a week, Al’i Aurora had graduated from her continentia, been recruited to the Service Guard of the Muneric, and then been informed by the Muneric himself that she would be transferred to a Tiur fleet ship. Not just any TFS, the TFS Uictoria under Commander Blaze.

She finished unpacking her things and sat on her bed. She slide her right hand in the front flaps of her shirt, pulled a device out from a pocket, and looked it over. The device was a small communication portal. The Muneric gave it to her before she left with specific instructions, report back in secret. A direct link to the Muneric Offices… What am I supposed to even report back about?

Her train of thought was interrupted by a knock at the door. She quickly put the device back, “Come in.”

Commander Blaze entered. “Settled in?”

Al’i stood. “Yes commander. May I ask what’s next?”

“We are just about to drop off some Tiur researchers in Minoci and then we will head to an unmapped region in space. There’s been pickup of a signal but with heavy inference in our laser communication system coming outside the Dunamis System. Going to see what is it,” Blaze said.

“And what’s your plan for me?” she asked.

“That depends on what you show me you can do,” Blaze replied. With that, Commander Blaze left Al’i to finish settling in.

What am I doing here? Al’i took the picture of her parents. The picture frosted over and Al’I dropped it. It had been a long time since she had lost even the slightest control over her emotional state. She looked at her hands, which were completely blue for a couple seconds before going back to her normal state of a constant morph between purple and blue. She picked up the photo and tacked it back on the wall. Get yourself together, you can handle anything.

She pulled the device back out of her shirt compartment. Turned it on and hit record. “Heading off to unknown region. Some signal with communication interference in area. Will report more when information is known.” She clicked send. I don’t always have to keep the Muneric informed on everything. Just give him enough occasionally.

She peeked her head out into the hallway. It’s so empty, where is everyone? Well maybe I best get some rest then.

SS: Al'i Aurora Aboard the TFS Uictoria Part 1

Commander Blaze stepped off his shuttle after arriving at the capitol building in Munera. He was about as fierce as a Tiur could be, being only a foot and a half tall and covered in fur. His auburn color looked darker in the Thamva light, giving a seemingly radiant glow to his white streak on the middle of his face that ended on his nose. A Thavmain shortly greeted him.

“Commander Blaze,” she said as she extended her hand, “Service Guard Al’i Aurora. Muneric Demosthenes will be with you shortly. He is just finishing up with the representatives. Right this way.”

As Al’i led Blaze to the Muneric office, Blaze noticed constant flickering between purple and blue along her skin, a trait belonging to the Thavmain race Boreaian when in fear, giving them the ability to freeze anything they touch. A Boreaian, he thought, she can’t be fearful of me can she?

“Am I that ferocious looking?” Blaze puffed out his chest, while Al’i gave a puzzled look in his direction. “Your skin, it’s changing,” Blaze added.

“Ah no,” Al’i said, “just precisely tuned emotionally. The Service Guard recruited me right out of the continentia for it. It makes sense. I mean, I do guard the Muneric. People think twice when they see it.” She opened a door and said, “The Muneric will be right in, can I get you anything in the meantime?”

“No thanks,” Blaze said as he entered. Interesting, learn something new every day, he thought before turning his mind at the task at hand.

Before long, Muneric Ethe Demosthenes entered. “Commander, good to see you again. Shall we get down to business?” Blaze nodded and sat as Demosthenes continued, “The representatives agree that a Tiur/Thavmain joint research facility would be highly beneficial. We’d like it to be here on Thavma. We already have space in the city of Minoci ready to go.”

The Tiur were prepared for this. Muneric Demosthenes was well known in trying to negotiate anything and everything. Truth be told, the Tiur did not care where the lab was. In fact, they had a team of researchers on his ship already.

Before Blaze could agree, Demosthenes continued, “We’d also like a Thavmain to join the Tiur fleet. We have a Favonian very capable.” 

Blaze was taken aback, but collected himself. His instinct was to decline, as it seemed like a ploy for to have agreement to move the facility location to Thavma. Last thing I need. An invisible Thamvain snooping around. Another thought crossed his mind and he surprised himself when he answered, “my choice.”

Never one to be unprepared, yet secretly surprised, the Muneric pushed further, “We just want to make sure you have the best Thavmain available to your needs. That could take time to decide, as you interview…”

Blaze stepped in, “Aurora, your service guard.”

“We are not sending a Thavma out to be a private stuck in the Tiur system. She’s hardly trained, no diplomatic skills, just graduated from a continentia last week! We have highly skilled people more useful that eventually can come back to help Thavma in what they’ve learned,” Demosthenes said before Blaze answered.

“She’ll be in my crew on the TFS Uictoria.”

Demosthenes did not hesitate and agreed immediately, half in disbelief that he got someone on Commander Blaze’s ship, “We will have her meet you on your ship.”

“Excellent,” Blaze said as he stood, “we will drop off our research team in Minoci before we leave.”

The two shook hands and Blaze exited. He eyed up Al’i once more as he passed her, while Demosthenes motioned her to enter. This should be interesting.

Short Story Series: Al'i Aurora

Starting tomorrow I will be releasing a short story series about a character named Al'i Aurora. I'll release a new segment of the story each day! Hope you enjoy!

Dunamis System

The Dunamis System contains two separate civilization that were initially unaware of each other, as neither had space travel capabilities until the Tiur arrived in their hunt for minerals. The system has two planets, Dunamis Major and Dunamis Minor. Dunamis Major is the larger of the two planets and contains the Tiur named species Gia. Dunamis Minor contains the Panths.

Gia

The Gia are nymph like creatures, fairly large in statue. They are considered one with the earth, meaning they can create and control it. There are two races of Gia, erb (forest loving) and aq (water loving). All Gia go by these two names, erb and aq, depending on their race. This makes it difficult for other species in conversation to discern who one is talking about. 

The Gia solved Tiur mineral problem, as they help provide for Tiur. Being "one with the earth," some Gia offered to move to the planet of Shudra in the Tiur System, in order to keep the planet from becoming barren. The Gia had very little technology, only due to the lack of necessity for any.  

The Gia have a monarchy system in place, currently ruled by Queen Erb.

The Panths

Very little is known about the Panths. What intel is known is from Tiur fly-overs. The Panths appear to be a young civilization, making them less technologically advanced. It does not seem to be from a lack of intellect, however. The Panths fight with spears. They have a warmonger mentality and a conquering desire, believed to be from the young age of the species.

The Tiur did once visit their planet to with technology as a welcome peace offering (armor they so  could fight with spears against more tech savy weapons). The Tiur lost communication with the landing party. It appears the Panths raided the party and took the ship.

Currently, the Gia are worried about the possibility of an eventual invasion of the Panths.

Thavma World Map

 Below is the current world map of Thavma.