Good morning, friends and fans! Shuttles are often a feature in sci-fi, and the Galaxii universe is no exception. Shuttles are generally smaller space craft used to carry crew or cargo between space ships or between a space ship and a planet. Sometimes they’re used as lifeboats. The notion of a ship carrying smaller craft…
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The Tech Side #13 Imperial Starships – Battlespringers
Hello there, friends and fans! In the Galaxii universe, battlespringers are scaled-down compact starships used by the Terran Space Fleet. Several of my stories are set aboard battlespringers, for example short stories, “The Devils In The Sky” and “Beyond”, so my readers should be slightly familiar with these ships. When I first envisioned battlespringers, how…
The Tech Side #12: Imperial Starships – The Medical Complex
Hello again, friends and fans! Starship sickbays – we’ve seen all kinds over the years, haven’t we? Examples include the warm sickbay of the Enterprise, to the industrial, austere treatment centers of Star Wars, overshadowed by industrial overtones and staffed by droids, to the grungy austere sickbay of Serenity in Firefly. Likewise, in Galaxii, Quantum…
The Tech Side #11: Stardrives
Hello, friends and fans! Terran starships of all kinds, from loderunners to imperial warships, use a faster than light drive system colloquially referred to as the ‘stardrive’ or a ‘warp drive’ or even a ‘hyperdrive’. This article looks a little more closely at the technical details of this type of propulsion system. Stardrives are a…
The Tech Side #10: Imperial Starships – The Benatar Class Cruisers
Hello again, friends and fans! As sci-fi lovers, we love the starships our favorite characters cruise the cosmos in, don’t we? Star Trek has its various incarnations of the Enterprise, Star Wars has the Millenium Falcon, Battlestar Galactica… well, has itself. Firefly has the Serenity. Buck Rogers had the Searcher, and The Expanse has the…
The Tech Side #9: Tech To Die For – Sonic Pulse Weapons
In this series of articles – The Tech Side – I continue expanding on various bits of assorted tech, what gave me the ideas for them, and a little about what I did with them in various stories. This time, I’ll be taking a quick look at sonic pulse weapons!
Fun Fact #12: Vhere Are Mein Eyebrows? – The Tragedy Of Dr. Gleichstein
Today in Fun Facts, a series of articles about characters and plot devices I’ve used in my stories, I’ll be talking about Dr. Gleichstein.
Secret Weapons of the Resistance #8: The Loderunner “Celeste”
In “High Steaks”, the most recent addition to the Quantum Series, a resistance rises to meet the fascists who’ve overthrown the legitimate local government of the Terran colony Deanna – a resistance with friends in low places. This time, we look at the loderunner Celeste.
FAQ’s Answered #17: My UFO Experiences
Today in a series of replies to FAQ (frequently asked questions) sent to me by fans (and sometimes not so much), I answer the question: “Have you had any UFO experiences?“
The Tech Side #8: Tech To Die For – Starship Weapons Hubs
In this series of articles – The Tech Side – I continue expanding on various bits of assorted tech, what gave me the ideas for them, and a little about what I did with them in various stories. This time, I’ll be taking a closer look at starship weapons hubs!