Quote:Okay, here we go. I _REALLY_ want some feedback and opinions on this.

Quote:Suddenly a glow appeared in Noah's coffee cup, expanding into a human-sized field above the conference table. Everyone but Yayoi winced at the light, which disappeared as quickly as it came... leaving behind a beautiful young woman with long black hair. "Things aren't going to stabilize any time soon, Mr. Scott."

Noah offered his hand to the Visitor, helping her down to the floor. "You honor us and out timeline with your presence, milady Skuld. I assume this isn't a social call?"

Quote:"Not a lot, Katie. The continents are all still there, but some places don't have city lights at night any more. We aren't picking up radio signals from some large areas any more, and some of the signals we are picking up don't make any sense."
"In what ways?"
"Some of them are in languages we don't understand. Others are in what seems to be English, German, or Japanese, but are dialects nobody on Freedom has ever heard and are coming from places that didn't have large populations that speak those languages. And some of what's being broadcast in languages we can understand are reports about ... well, things that are scientifically impossible. And there's something else, something that isn't on Earth. We've detected a Solar observation satellite where we never put one."

Quote:The Lunar Fox202*, Somewhere in the deep black of the Sol System
Bored.
I was bored, Vanessa and one of her Mad friends had shanghai'd me into taking them out into the black of the system. Something about trying to filter out some odd signals away from the Earth-Lunar mad house. So here I lounged in the Lunar Fox's cockpit with the gravity field off. One foot hooked under a console to keep me in place as my tails flicked lazily under me. Most of the ship's system where offline except for the really important, like life support. With everything off there wasn't much else to do but watch the stars and the sole planet shine. Something about it kept eating at the back of my brain.
Frowning, It's awfully bright.
A flicked tail brought the NAV systems back online as I used my anchor point to swing around to it. It's holo display springing to life and a flash of fingers brought up the Sol system overlay.
"So what planet are you?"
I searched the overlay and found none that matched the planet shine I could see.
"Computer bring all systems online. Run diagnostic of the NAV system and then compare current reported location to all visible light landmarks via external cameras."
Settling to the deck as the gravity field returned to and a muted "HEY!" echoed up from the vehicle bay.

Foot steps sounded on the gangway, but went mostly ignored as my hands flew over holo keyboards. The four docked sensor drones deployed themselves from the bow of the Fox. They spread out in a circle around the ship with on board camera's pointed at the planet shine.
Van stormed into the cockpit. "What the bloody hell mate? We nearly had the signals isolated.." Then paused at my focused attention on the displays. Her gaze swept across them in confusion. The other mad had finely made his way up to the cockpit. He noticed how I was lining all the cameras together and focusing them on one point in space. Voice hissing from a implanted voice box, "A improvised distributed telescope array?"
Not even bothering to look up as the image started to come into focus of a bluish-green planet, "Planet shine where there shouldn't be any!"
"Bloody fuzzball, that's earth."
I Jabbed a finger at the NAV's Sol system overlay, "Earth is over there, this is in front of us and none of the other planets line up with it."
There was a pause, ".. oh shit."

Quote:Everybody keeps telling me that I'm good at this type of writing, so why doesn't anybody trust me to write this sort of thing?

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