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Good morning, friends and fans! Airlocks – sci-fi is full of them. Virtually every sci-fi series or movie out there makes use of the airlock as a plot device or at least as a feature of the story – we’ve seen them used to great effect in Star Trek, Event Horizon, the Aliens franchise –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!
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.
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!
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 Ambusulance.