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Topher Lydon

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  1. Someone has to be competent
  2. 02 The chronometer on the bulkhead of Captain Hollis’s quarters read 0200 hours, ship-time. It was an entirely arbitrary measurement. Time, much like the structural integrity of the Zodiac and Hollis’s own will to live, had become a fluid and deeply unreliable concept since the accident. Hollis lay flat on his back, staring up at the beige ceiling panels. He was wrapped in a standard-issue synthetic blanket that managed to be simultaneously too thin to provide warmth
  3. Topher Lydon

    Chapter 5

    I will do more of these, keeping them as short adventures. It's set up as a Dungeons and Dragons party, each role clear. So it fits to short, episodic adventures. Plus we need to explore the 12 kids Gabe fathered, the naughty monk.
  4. Will's retail political approach, with his blatant honesty resonates with people. It's what Trudeau needed, that credibility of a man known to sit down, say "Look this is all screwed up, here's why it is screwed up, and here's what I am going to do to try to fix it. If you want that, vote for it. If there is a better option for you, vote for them. But get out there and decide." It's why, in Carter's Order, Trudeau is relying so heavily on Will to bail the party out of scandal. And why, when it backfires on the Prime Minister, things go badly.
  5. The border
  6. Topher Lydon

    Chapter 5

    Next Week:
  7. Boris Petrov was not a hero. He was thirty-eight years old, possessed a mild astigmatism that required him to wear thick, wire-rimmed glasses, and had spent the last fifteen years of his life writing backend financial routing code in a series of increasingly bleak office buildings. He had a wife named Elena who taught primary school mathematics, a twelve-year-old daughter who desperately wanted a horse, and a profound, bone-deep desire to remain entirely unnoticed by the world. He worked o
  8. Topher Lydon

    Chapter 1

    Jacob is from a Line of Carters. Liam Carter who served in Crimea circa 1885 (from the Frost Faire) Jacob Carter who served in WWI and WWII and earned a Victoria Cross (From Blackwater) David Carter who served in the Iraq War and died defending his men (saving West's life) (Army, Vanguard, and Recourse) I have half a mind to have Jacob attend either West Point or Annapolis, it seems something he would want to do. given his Grandfather, Andrew's and his Uncle West's example. It runs in his blood.
  9. Each Episode is structured after a Star Trek cliche: The Cave Episode The Holodeck Episode The Away Team Episode I was just having a bit of fun with this, to clear my head, have a laugh, and write some chaos as I figured out what I wanted to write next.
  10. Topher Lydon

    Chapter 5

    This one like that you like!
  11. Topher Lydon

    Chapter 5

    Thank you guys, I hope you enjoyed this short little romp. remember, the Goblin's are out there!
  12. Chapter Six: The Longhouse The hold appeared out of the snow like a ghost—smoke rising from the longhouse chimney, torchlight flickering at the gate, the dark shapes of the palisade walls. Shem had never been so glad to see anything in his life. They had walked through the night. The children had been passed from shoulder to shoulder when their legs gave out. Marta had ridden on Shem's back for the last two miles, her small arms locked around his neck, her breath warm agains
  13. Yes, it's nice to see Will with flaws. He's terrified of letting other people down. But in his quest to be a good person he's bared his back to a future Prime Minister. This deal will haunt him.
  14. Topher Lydon

    Chapter 4

  15. I like the fact that Yani and Peter have become good friends. They've got a fun dynamic together.
  16. Well if Byk was sitting beside it, maybe.
  17. I also found it amusing that Peter's extortion computer got hijacked to save the country...
  18. Topher Lydon

    Chapter 1

    The progress of Will from Canaidian Politics, to Prime Minister, through War with America and the Annexation is covered in the Order Trilogy of books. Order, Run, Throne.... followed up by campaign in that order.
  19. I want to make a Yugo joke, a You go nowhere.
  20. OMG there is ACTUALLY a Budget Voyager, and it's adorkable!
  21. This is Voyager off of Temu. With 100% more Ensign Tweek!
  22. To boldly go, where nobody wanted to go.
  23. The silence of the Zodiac was not a peaceful silence. It was the heavy, suffocating silence of a space designed for a hundred people currently being occupied by ten. It was the silence of a haunted house drifting at warp speed through a completely uncharted, utterly uncaring void. Lieutenant Hollis woke to that silence every single "morning," a strictly conceptual time frame dictated by the ship’s erratic chronometers. He lay in his bunk, staring at the ceiling. The ceiling was beige. Not a
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