MAISON IKKOKU: WHEN IT RAINS... By Neal Richardson C & C Welcome (nrichard@paul.spu.edu) (This #FanFiction is a remake-of sorts-of "Against All Odds" which had it's roots in a Phil Collins song of the same name) A dark thunderhead approaches out of the north and a distant peal of thunder coupled with flashes of light bathes the park in a electric gray. I watch Kyoko and Shun run to the car. The first splashes of rain hit them just as they're getting inside. Th e car starts up and pulls out of the lot heading out of my life. I look up at the sky briefly and feel the rain run down face, mingling with the tears. Kyoko and Shun w...

A Story of the Starblade Battalion 'I would rather it was never complete.' - Episode 41 (2181.01.29) by Shawn Hagen (1998) http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~hagen/ Starblade Battalion is the Property of R.Talsorian Games. Opening Titles - As Before Redding watched as the battle continued. The SAC pushed forward, slower than before, but still forward. The ODF had taken some heavy losses in slowing that advance, the entire Medusa task force, though the SAC had lost most of Battlegroup Hudson. It would not be long before they SAC ships could start firing on the orbital constructs around Solingen. After that they would be able t...

A Story of the Starblade Battalion 'This war, very unprofitable.' - Episode 40 (2181.01.28) by Shawn Hagen (1998) http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~hagen/ Starblade Battalion is the Property of R.Talsorian Games. Opening Titles - As Before Redding had brought the Battalion into the Primus system some distance out from the Solingen, using the distance to mask his force. The ships of the Battalion had begun to move in, bringing up their cloaks when they could, then moving in faster, or as fast as the cloak would allow. At first this gave the Battalion a strung out structure, with the cloaked ships far ahead, but as hours past ...

A Story of the Starblade Battalion 'You all know your duties, I don't need to tell you anything else other than good luck.' - Episode 39 (2181.01.26) by Shawn Hagen (1998) http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~hagen/ Starblade Battalion is the Property of R.Talsorian Games. Opening Titles - As Before Faraday had become a symbol of the war. It was why the Colonial Forces had taken it, even though it was really not important to their war effort. It was why they expected the SAC to come and contest them for the planet. The ODF forces had been digging in and strengthening their position since the day they had put down on the pla...

A Story of the Starblade Battalion 'He looks so harmless, so frail' - Episode 38 (2181.01.15) by Shawn Hagen (1998) http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~hagen/ Starblade Battalion is the Property of R.Talsorian Games. Opening Titles - As Before A holographic systems map was projected into the very centre of the room. In the middle of the laser light globe was the Primus system. The other systems were shown as well, bright white lights within the soft blue of the globe. Not surprisingly Earth was not shown. It was too far away from the Pleiades to be included within the star map. Current SAC movements were tracked within the glo...

A Story of the Starblade Battalion 'Do you have a mother complex?' - Episode 37 (2181.01.09) by Shawn Hagen (1998) http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~hagen/ Starblade Battalion is the Property of R.Talsorian Games. Opening Titles - As Before Cerebus Force dropped out of Shunt as close they could to Athanaeum. One of the newer Task Forces in the ODF, it was an assault squadron. Four cruisers that were based around the battleship Cerebus. On the bridge of the Cerebus was the newly promoted General Justin Malokov. Son of Alexi Malokov. Like his father he was handsome, individualistic and a self made man. Unlike his father he was...

A Story of the Starblade Battalion "That still doesn't change that it did happen" - Episode 36 (2180.12.13) by Shawn Hagen (1998) http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~hagen/ Starblade Battalion is the Property of R.Talsorian Games. Opening Titles - As Before The Starblade Shoal looked festive. It was not that anyone had made a conscious choice to make it look so, it just did. Redding had ordered most of the Blades back into base, holding them ready for specific missions. The many ships, reflecting the light of the sun, their armour plates rolled back, revealing the armour glass windows, seemed to be covered in twinkling lights. The...

A Story of the Starblade Battalion "Looks like things are going to heat up soon" - Episode 35 (2180.12.13) by Shawn Hagen (1998) http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~hagen/ Starblade Battalion is the Property of R.Talsorian Games. Opening Titles - As Before. L.A. was burning. Grey was more than a little impressed. She would not have thought the city could truly burn, what with most of it being concrete and steel. Still, the USSA had dropped enough bombs to break all that concrete into small bits, and in all that rubble were things that would burn. Added to that were the many chemicals that had permeated the very city over the many deca...

A Story of the Starblade Battalion "It is that simple. Right or wrong?" - Episode 34 (2180.12.02) by Shawn Hagen (1998) http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~hagen/ Starblade Battalion is the Property of R.Talsorian Games. Opening Titles - As Before While the SAC lacked the cloaking technology that the ODF was using so effectively, they could still mount stealth attacks. Battlegroup Doji was one of the elements designated for such operations. The four cruisers, three landing craft and a handful of cutters were all stealth craft, newly built. They moved towards the unnamed planet, using natural phenomenon to further hide their signatures...

A Story of the Starblade Battalion "If we simply toss aside our beliefs when things get hard, they are of little value." - Episode 33 (2180.11.13) by Shawn Hagen (1998) http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~hagen/ Starblade Battalion is the Property of R.Talsorian Games. Opening Titles - As Before "Anything happened yet?" Akadi asked as she entered the bridge. "Opening moves," Jesse told her from the Celeste's command chair. The ship's refit had included a gold fish bowl bridge and all around the crew was space. "Any more ODF ships show up?" "No. I don't think any will, not soon enough to be of any help. They were bluffing."...