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Adam Gaffen
Oct 26, 20218 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Seven
The discovery of Lemnos was probably the most immediately impactful encounter of the entire first mission of the Enterprise. Why? Well,...
Adam Gaffen
Oct 19, 20216 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Six
And here we are, continuing our tour of Tau Ceti, and Dawn Zihal got to make the big discovery this time. Of course, she then went and...
Adam Gaffen
Oct 12, 20214 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Five
Ah, Niflheim. The garden spot of Tau Ceti. It’s better now, of course. It took a few years to get the terraforming up and running, and...
Adam Gaffen
Oct 5, 20218 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Four
Ooh, a couple notable occurrences in this chapter! First, Cass very nearly spoils her line of immortality, like Neil Armstrong’s famous...
Adam Gaffen
Sep 28, 20218 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Three
I still don’t know how Alley was so calm! I know, naval professional, thirteen years in submarines, blah blah blah. But when you emerge...
Adam Gaffen
Sep 21, 202112 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Two
Hello again, and welcome back to the maiden out-System voyage of the TFS Enterprise! It’s funny; I still wish I had been there for this...
Adam Gaffen
Sep 14, 20215 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter One
No, you didn’t fall into a time warp. Since each volume of my story is divided into ‘books’, when there’s a new book the chapter...
Adam Gaffen
Sep 7, 20216 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Twenty-One
And this is where we started to put it all together. We knew that the Solarian Union was pissed at us for launching a starship. Maybe we...
Adam Gaffen
Aug 31, 20218 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Twenty
I’m so glad I didn’t know any of this when I first met Nicole. We’ve all done things we aren’t proud of, right? I mean, I was an...
Adam Gaffen
Aug 24, 202112 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Nineteen
There was only one problem with the first operational cruise of the Enterprise. I wasn’t aboard. This would be the problem for many, many...
Adam Gaffen
Aug 17, 20217 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Seventeen & Eighteen
Alley can be a complete bitch; what makes it worse is her sense of humor. Low, it is, and black. She knew I’d been sweating over what her...
Adam Gaffen
Aug 10, 202114 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Fifteen & Sixteen
These two chapters could have been posted separately; the first one is just long enough to stand alone, but they work beautifully...
Adam Gaffen
Aug 3, 20215 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Fourteen
“Venomous snake” are the first words which leap to mind when thinking of the Primus. “Egomaniac” and “paranoid bitch” are close in the...
Adam Gaffen
Jul 27, 20217 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapters Twelve & Thirteen
Today brings a couple shortish chapters, which is why I was able to get it past our faithful watchdog. Everyone wave hi to Adam! The...
Adam Gaffen
Jul 20, 20217 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Eleven
Welcome back! And the streak ends at 5 days, boo! What streak? Well, I managed to convince Adam to allow me to post multiple chapters for...
Adam Gaffen
Jul 6, 20217 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter EIGHT
You’ve been listening to me long enough now to know I’m not dramatic for the sake of being dramatic, right? Well: the conversation we had...
Adam Gaffen
Jun 29, 20217 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter SEVEN
Hello Dogfish! Richard Percoco. One of my favorite people ever! He was simply a no-nonsense type who got in and got the job done, no...
Adam Gaffen
Jun 22, 20218 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter SIX
Right after we got back from that epic first flight I had to come back to Earth, as it were, and talk with Mya Hartman. Talk about a...
Adam Gaffen
Jun 15, 202111 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter FIVE
First Flights are special. This one was truly memorable; it was the initial departure for the Enterprise from the construction yards, and...
Adam Gaffen
Jun 8, 20214 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter FOUR
Oh, Vasilia! She was such a piece of work. Yes, I know, she was a product of her environment, she had no choice but to respond in the...
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