As always with nanowrimo, unedited, unproofed, no spellchecker, stream-of-consciousness nonsense. Enjoy. So, the bad news first, we failed, we hit all the tipping points and global warming was worse than everyone feared, nations collapsed, sea levels rose, floods, famine, pestilance, war, all the bad stuff, tens of millions died in “natural” disasters that if they’d acted sooner could have been avoided, fasiscm became the inevitable route that most nations took, late stage capitalism crumbled and…

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“And what of it?” The armoured man asked the plates of his heavy armour pitted, dented and, spattered with a drying brown liquid. “His lord may be displeased,” the gaunt figure said, it had the aura of a perpetual sniveling thing about it, a worm perhaps. It’s round pink mouth full of yellowed thorn like teeth, little black eyes. “Pah,” the armoured man spat, “if I cared what that puss filled festering boil of a…

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Let’s be frank I know full well that my lack of successful writing is entirely down to my own laziness tinged with the level of misery and self loathing created by my job. But I hope that will be solved very soon. Very soon indeed.

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I became an abject failure again over December and have continued being a bum since then, I’ve not managed to get back into the flow of writing on a daily basis due to my laziness and I must do better.

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“I’m on it,” Case replied and started to type furiously as her companion started to project a virtual net around her. “Now, I wonder what is in those missiles?” Colin said, “Not worried about the security intrusion?” “If Case needs us, we’ll do something, and if she can’t keep them out of our records, I suspect a couple of missiles will be the least of our worries. Now, I suggest we fire the rail cannon…

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“I hope not, I don’t think either race would be able to live down the shame,” Leah said with a chuckle, and the rest all followed suit. “Man and I thought I was supposed to be the comedian?” He shook his head in fake disdain. “Nah, we just laugh to make you feel better,” Case added with a look of sympathy. “It’s not my day.” “Brighten up, it could be worse, at least you didn’t…

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Case and Colin flew through the rumbling station avoiding splinters of metalwork that had been blasted throughout the station like flechettes from a cannon due to the explosions occurring throughout the rings superstructure. They started down the duct leading back to the deck that the deck where the Ushingi was docked, Colin checking over his shoulder to make sure Case was still behind him, then they rocketed downwards. Halfway down the duct, there was a…

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The Ushingi’s floodlights lit the scene as the figures of Yori and Case slowly propelled towards the surface of the megastructure the environment suits had small multi-directional thrusters. Yori glanced at a location next to the docking door and instructed her suit that it was where she wanted to get to and the thrusters started to release careful jets of pressurised gas. Case instructed her suit to follow closely behind Yori. From the ship, the…

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Sat in the cockpit Vivek, Yori, and Colin were going through the final checks for launch they’d spent the last few hours making sure the ship was fully supplied and ready for launch. The companion fox was laying in the space between the bank of consoles at the front and the windows, evidently having powered down for a while. “Hey, shouldn’t we give the ship a name?” Vivek turned from his console asking the rest…

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The fox was sitting like an ancient monument to some long-forgotten fox god, a clear sense of aloofness and disdain about it. “What does that mean?” Yori squinted. “Sorry, I’m not entirely used to the vocabulary in this thing as of yet. I was created due to emergency circumstances, and I am not a naturally born life form.” “Well that much seems clear,” Leah interjected head leaning against the side of her cushioned headrest. “Why…

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