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by spooker
The war between Earth and its moon is finally over. Now comes the harder task: learning to live and build humanity’s future together. Commodore Julia Kessler, an experienced fleet officer, is chosen to lead the first joint interstellar expedition. Her mission is simple: keep the peace, keep the peace, grow potatoes on a dead rock, and keep the peace. Under the dusty skin of this desolate planet, her colonists uncover something impossible. Something valuable enough to threaten the fragile trust they’ve only just begun to rebuild. And Earth’s uneasy neighbors might not be the only ones interested in what they’ve found. Regular Schedule: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays.2500-3500 words per chapter.
| # | Title | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | High Ground | 01 | You are not supposed to be here | 0 |
| 2 | High Ground | 02 | Were you making fun of me | 0 |
| 3 | High Ground | 03 | Just wait until you see the neighbors | 0 |
| 4 | High Ground | 04 | It was just enough for peace | 0 |
| 5 | High Ground | 05 | Nothing too problematic yet | 0 |
| 6 | High Ground | 06 | A platoon of bored marines at her disposal | 0 |
| 7 | High Ground | 07 | Look at the rocks for half a year | 0 |
| 8 | High Ground | 08 | Do we need to consider mission abort | 0 |
| 9 | High Ground | 09 | Was all that really necessary | 0 |
| 10 | High Ground | 10 | Keep those bandits in our bow sensor cone | 0 |
| 11 | High Ground | 11 | Looks like a dead end | 0 |
| 12 | High Ground | 12 | All we did was stare at screens | 0 |
| 13 | High Ground | 13 | The water’s all gone | 0 |
| 14 | High Ground | 14 | Grand punchline to this odd human colony | 0 |
| 15 | High Ground | 15 | I would try not to overreact | 0 |
| 16 | High Ground | 16 | Don’t touch anything else | 0 |
| 17 | High Ground | 17 | This isn’t going to work | 0 |
| 18 | High Ground | 18 | Following sensible construction codes | 0 |
| 19 | High Ground | 19 | There aren’t any bugs here | 0 |
| 20 | High Ground | 20 | Get me another shovel | 0 |
| 21 | High Ground | 21 | We are literal monkeys | 0 |
| 22 | High Ground | 22 | The potatoes are getting better | 0 |
| 23 | High Ground | 23 | Nothing can truly prepare you | 0 |
| 24 | High Ground | 24 | I’m a geologist not an archaeologist | 0 |
| 25 | High Ground | 25 | They had to climb through a decrepit old fence | 0 |
| 26 | High Ground | 26 | Disrespect that silly gray uniform | 0 |
| 27 | High Ground | 27 | Bandits are dragging decoys | 0 |
| 28 | High Ground | 28 | Where’s the ace now | 0 |
| 29 | High Ground | 29 | Welcome to the Lunar Navy | 0 |
| 30 | High Ground | 30 | We are the moon | 0 |
| 31 | High Ground | 31 | Must be a day that ends in y | 0 |
| 32 | High Ground | 32 | It’s only supposed to do that in an emergency | 0 |
| 33 | High Ground | 33 | Ever been to a dairy processing plant | 0 |
| 34 | High Ground | 34 | He found an ancient alien factory | 0 |
| 35 | High Ground | 35 | We’re in it now | 0 |
| 36 | High Ground | 36 | I don’t want to go to alien prison | 0 |
| 37 | High Ground | 37 | The mugger’s got a problem | — |
| 38 | High Ground | 38 | You wouldn’t lie to us | — |
| 39 | High Ground | 39 | You’re not even dead | — |
| 40 | High Ground | 40 | We navigate these waters frequently | — |
| 41 | High Ground | 41 | Which one of you is going to be responsible | — |
| 42 | High Ground | 42 | Earth is number two | — |
| 43 | High Ground | 43 | There’s nothing here they want | — |
| 44 | High Ground | 44 | We should avoid touching anything | — |
| 45 | [High Ground] 45 | Ready our ships and marines | — |
| 46 | High Ground | 46 | We won’t go as easily | — |
| 47 | High Ground | 47 | It might be more than a generation | — |
| 48 | High Ground | 48 | I thought we left this kind of war behind | — |
| 49 | High Ground | 49 | It is merely a curiosity | — |
| 50 | High Ground | 50 | Who blew up a nuclear weapon there | — |
| 51 | High Ground | 51 | There is nothing up our sleeves | — |
| 52 | High Ground | 52 | We’ll follow the plan | — |
| 53 | High Ground | 53 | I will give you five seconds to decide | — |
| 54 | High Ground | 54 | We won’t last until the reinforcements get here | — |
| 55 | High Ground | 55 | Winter will go on for a few more weeks | — |
| 56 | High Ground | 56 | People who would never reciprocate | — |
| 57 | High Ground | 57 | The different colors mean different things | — |
| 58 | High Ground | 58 | Sorry you missed it | — |
| 59 | High Ground | Epilogue | — |
| 60 | High Burn | 01 | I have informed my operators | — |
| 61 | High Burn | 02 | We are the only masters of our fate | — |
| 62 | High Burn | 03 | I’m allowed to tell you when I’m hungry | — |
| 63 | High Burn | 04 | You’re a demon | — |
| 64 | High Burn | 05 | I only want what’s best for you | — |
| 65 | High Burn | 06 | Afterwards if you survive | — |
| 66 | High Burn | 07 | Botswana is indeed in Africa | — |
| 67 | High Burn | 08 | There’s been an unpleasant development | — |
| 68 | High Burn | 09 | You can’t do this to one of us | — |
| 69 | High Burn | 10 | You will not have to testify | — |
| 70 | High Burn | 11 | They used to call that a miracle | — |
| 71 | High Burn | 12 | You would have made an excellent spymaster | — |
| 72 | High Burn | 13 | Look what peace has done to us | — |
| 73 | High Burn | 14 | Eliminate any resistance as quickly as possible | — |
