Somewhere in the long forgotten future

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Kevin Colbran. Somewhere in the long forgotten future

The Odyssey begins

On the way to Grnatz

And back Again

Fwelsving in Interesting Times

A new crew member

New friends In Strange Places

Old Enemy New Friend

Mike's World Is turned Upside Down

The Crew Grows

A Friend In Need

Zombie hunting

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The appointed time arrived with all the fuel and cargo aboard, so the ship lifted off bound for Grnatz. First heading towards the main route to their destination; the passage to the hyper point took about two days, first accelerating at 50 G dampened to one G internal then cruising to the exit point. This performance is consistent with a standard light freighter behaviour so as not to draw attention from the watchers.

Humph phased into hyper then warped the path to spiral through the maze necessary to avoid detection by potential belligerents. While Humph's ship the Yella Terra was unique in construction, at this pace the signature of the emissions was consistent with an under three kiloton tramp freighter and usually considered too small to be worth tracking or reporting. He was careful not to engage full power near technically advanced planets as that would give a signature consistent with a 10-kiloton military vessel or a 50-kiloton capacity freighter, either of which would attract unwelcome interest.

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Rham and Blohm were consulting the strategic map of the area that the group had vanished. “Once they entered that forest we are basically into the unmapped wilderness. Aerial surveys show herd animals which leave similar traces to speeder bikes, so until they settle into one group and show something we are blind,” Rham said.

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