“Deep space hates you, it wants you dead with every element of its empty being, it’ll freeze you, it’ll make your blood boil, it’ll pop your eyes, it’ll irradiate you, it’s smash you into pieces, it’ll drive you mad. Deep space hates you.” Those were the words of my old man, when I have a moment to reflect I can’t really fault his words, while the giant orbital structures that over 99.99% recuring of the…
Sam was leaning back in his chair staring at the wall trying to figure out where life went wrong as Mike harrumphed again in the corner and Dave looked across with a timid grin. They’d got back from a meeting a half hour ago and Mike had been quietly stewing ever since, Sam slowly rotating left to right in his chair. Now they’d worked together for some time and Sam was renowned for his poor…
“DevOps? Man don’t talk to me about that, I used to be a systems adminstrator and your whole purpose was to make yourself redunent with a small snippet of code. Problem was people kept finding new things to do everytime you finished automating something.” Sam said with a chuckle as he ate a chip and followed it up with a swigg from his pint glass. “That and devs wanting to cut corners and do our…
Sam had been watching the engineering team tackle a problem with the JBoss servers for the last couple of hours, Sam had asked a couple of questions and given some pointers but didn’t feel any good would come from jumping in and solving the issue for them but now people were starting to lose patients with the situation. Sam strummed his fingers on the table staring two rows of desks over at the support team…
“What do you think you’re doing?” “Just about anything I can to keep from dying?!” “Well try harder!” The mecha, twice as tall as a human strode across the battlefield, bullets ricocheting from their dense armour, powerful muscular myonmer strands glistening beneath the starburst rounds exploding in the sky bathing the hellscape of the battlefield in an alien light. A squad of white machines wrestled in an intense melee with grotesque beasts the likes of…
“Sam I’ve checked the test environment and I can’t do a search!” Dave stood next to Sam with an annoyed look on his face. “Shit.” Sam grumbled firing up the web page in chrome and clicking a few buttons and running a search that after thirty seconds returned no results. “People need to get their shit together Sam, I’ve got the whole team needing to test this new release and we’re up against it.” Dave…
“Deploy the puppets.” Senior Comptroller Stern commanded, a cold certainty in their voice. The others in the small control room looked at the comptroller for a moment shock visible on their faces then they looked back at their consoles as hands started to mechanically move between different screens and switches. A man with four robotic arms commanded two keyboards faster than a skilled pianist. The white-haired woman with plastic-like skin nodded as she turned to…
“Why’s it always something cool?” Mitchel suddenly exclaimed while staring at a monitor. “Pardon?” Tia responded looking up at him from her tablet. “Why’s it always something cool? Yo know when someone goes ‘I was a so and so in a previous life’ or ‘I have a spirit animal and it’s a unicorn’ when’s the last time anyone went ‘A dung beatle is my spirit animal’ or ‘My previous incarnation was a drunken sewer worker’?”…
Colin works in a steak house and spends most of his time ideally smoking out the back, he also has a thing for the store owner. Colin it seems has a gambling problem and has found himself owing a local loan shark a significant sum of money. The owner of Colin’s work gets kidnapped by the loan sharks goons. Colin manges to get the money to pay back the loan shark with interest but is…
Terra is an uptown girl from a highly privileged family, she spends her time flitting from one high class socialite party to another and mixing with all the coolest and most important people in town. Terra finds the entire affair tedius and one day goes downtown encountering Dual and a makeshift family of gang bangers. Distrustful but curious she becomes a ad-hoc member of the group. The corporation Terra’s father is a senior leader for…