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oh boy, time travel-ish. i like time travel and the issues it can bring up, though also find it can be challenging to follow the authors intent. seems as if you kind of put a stop to more messages from the future with Will saying that the future four are locked in their time line now, which does make sense as the four who sent the message experienced a different result at the battle of gilese prime, so most anything that they have to say later would not apply to the current version of the characters.... but my head hurts now ;-) very nice interlude and looking forward to the story continuing :-)

Thanks!!

nice format to move the story along :-) my question is what is a (military?) short shift? I assume a shift rotation faster than what is traditional (and what is that?) so that the staff can function at a high level of readiness, which can be difficult/impossible to hold over a 'normal' shift? please educate me :-)

Acid07, I submit this for your consideration with respect. This is not intended as an attack on you, but rather as constructive thoughts. While I suspect your comment was intended to be praise, the part quoted above is damning praise. I get that we appreciate different content, but also please keep in mind that the authors work hard to write their stories and then post them, opening up their world(s) to us. Let's support these authors, praise them for what we like and when we find story line aspects we may not appreciate, just not bring them up, as others will certainly appreciate them. Constructive criticism may be appreciated, but that depends upon the author and perhaps may be best left to structure/spelling rather than content, It would be unfortunate if any authors feel pressured to change their story just because some don't like specific content. There are hundreds of story lines on gayauthors.org, some of which will likely meet your criteria. In the worst case, as readers, we have the choice not to continue to read or we can skip scenes that don't interest us but continue on with the story after those scenes have closed. If an author chooses not to (continue to) publish due to one or a few critiques, many (hundreds) of us would not have the pleasure of escaping into the authors world due to those few critiques. That is not fair to the author or to other readers who do appreciate all aspects of their stories. Thank you!

well damn.... did not see the alien alliance coming! very much enjoying your story and so glad to run into this update. very much looking forward to your next chapter!