Memory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human Colonist
Date [standardized human time]: March 14, 2160
With the minimal amount of sleep necessary, I found myself back on the metro train to the mines: holopad curled in my grasp. Dusty stone walls passed by through the windows, as several weary faces joined me on the daily transport. I kept to myself in the back corner, finding myself listening ...
2024-01-18 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThere were more difficult explanations in store for Tarva and Noah to give to their children; this time, they didn’t wa...
2024-01-17 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMemory Transcription Subject: Taylor Trench, Human Colonist
Date [standardized human time]: March 13, 2160
The sound of an alarm clock detonating by my bedside jolted me from a dreamless sleep, much too early.
I stumbled over to the sink and brushed my teeth, splashing some water in my face to wake myself up. The grimy mirror showed my binocular eyes, with twinkling...
2024-01-15 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThere was more blissful ignorance that once existed between the children, aside from not realizing they were from tw...
2024-01-13 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMemory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Scientist
Date [standardized human time]: March 13, 2160
The alien stood in silence after pronouncing those series of words in our dialect, waiting as we processed its message. Its two partners stood behind it, with the shortest one especially seeming deferential. I gawked at the visitors, setting aside all thoughts of approaching them with numbers and a...
2024-01-11 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s boundless playfulness within youngsters from any sapient species, but humans and Venlil are particularly high-energy. Endless afternoons in the woods were a rite of passage. With just the tiniest sliver of im...
2024-01-10 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMemory Transcription Subject: Tassi, Bissem Scientist
Date [standardized human time]: March 13, 2160
Attempts to send messages and search the skies’ radio signals for alien lifeforms usually entailed a quiet day at the office.
I was one of the preeminent experts on how Bissems would react to a first contact scenario, having written several papers on the subject; the protoc...
2024-01-08 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChildren are known for asking many questions. That wonderment over their surroundings and that zeal for learning about everything is like lightning in a bottle. Elia and Ari Williams were an experiment on what would happen when two different species—in this case, Venlil and human respectively—were raised side-by-side. There came a time when the children were old enough to recognize how different they looked, both from their parents and fro...
2024-01-06 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMemory Transcription Subject: Captain Kalsim, United Nations Prisoner
Date [standardized human time]: January 1, 2150
Humanity was a species that I had equated to a virus: something infectious that would take over everything they touched.
As I watched the galaxy transform through news reports and a closed internet link in my cell, I saw that I was right on that fron...
2024-01-04 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBissem - The Bissems are an aquatic race of flightless, tan-feathered avians with a contentious history. Their world has been plagued by wars and territorial disputes, due to the amplified differences among their factions: three main subspecies (tropical, temperate, and arctic) exist in the present era. A fourth subspecies went extinct during the colonial era. Bissems lack any international forum to settle their disputes, and ...
2024-01-03 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Ambassador Tarva Williams of the Venlil Republic
Date [standardized human time]: October 9, 2137
Under an immense amount of pain, it was difficult to remember why I wanted to have a child in the first place.
I clung to Noah’s hand as the contractions radiated pain through my body, finding it difficult to think. I forced myself to ruminate abou...
2024-01-01 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis one-shot is a follow-up on our characters from The Sacrifice, as requested by many of you!
Memory transcription subject: Cedric Flynn, UN Space Guard
Date [standardized human time]: May 29, 2137
Not days after I’d left Grenelka on a Leshee ship, an extensive cyberattack decimate...
2023-12-30 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Onso, Yotul Technical Specialist
Date [standardized human time]: April 9, 2137
Rather than settling down on Rinsa after arriving back at Leirn, I had duties to fulfill for my people before heading home. I was summoned to mainland Thysun, after requesting to speak to the Technocracy’s Intelligence Panel in closed testimony; departmental leadership, i...
2023-12-28 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCW: Eating Disorder
Memory transcription subject: Crysa, Zurulian Nurse
Date [standardized human time]: April 27, 2137
It was as if the weight of Colia was on my shoulders, as I forced my legs to carry me back to Adana’s room. This was going far outside the purview...
2023-12-27 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Captain Sovlin, United Nations Fleet Command
Date [standardized human time]: April 9, 2137
I wasn’t sure what I imagined human funerary traditions would be like. Not too long ago, before I grew close to the gentle-hearted primates, I wouldn’t have imagined a predator race would hold sincere burials at all.
Carlos would be laid to rest in a f...
2023-12-25 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostCW: Eating Disorder
Memory transcription subject: Crysa, Zurulian Nurse
Date [standardized human time]: April 27, 2137
Learning human anatomy was one thing, in the emergency room.
When the emaciated predator arrived at the hospital, with sallow skin that hugged her bones, I was a little terrified of her doubtless desperation. I really hadn’t been afraid of Terrans in months, after fi...
2023-12-23 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Ambassador Tarva of the Venlil Republic
Date [standardized human time]: April 7, 2137
As I turned to stroll back into the auditorium for Zhao’s resumption, I noticed that Noah hadn’t followed me. Immediate concern blossomed in my heart, knowing how unusual that was. Ever since I’d begun my pregnancy, the astronaut had stuck close to me, like I was a fragile obje...
2023-12-21 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Jimek, Venlil Art Student
Date [standardized human time]: February 2, 2137
There had been a time, long before Cylek’s torment or Dustin’s arrival, that I a...
2023-12-20 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Ambassador Tarva of the Venlil Republic
Date [standardized human time]: April 7, 2137
The past few weeks had been packed with important events, falling alongside the stunning victory at Aafa. With the prototype cure set to be injected into my veins, Noah and I had taken the opportunity to visit Earth after the Skalga referendum. Both of his parents we...
2023-12-18 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Jimek, Venlil Art Student
Date [standardized human ti...
2023-12-16 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Chief Hunter Isif, Arxur Rebellion Command
Date [standardized human time]: April 6, 2137
After devoting hundreds of thousands of ships to the Kolshian cause, then having a large portion of those vessels turned against Betterment’s mandate, Giznel’s regime had all but collapsed as soon as humanity won. That selfish despot only wanted to save his ow...
2023-12-14 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Jimek, Venlil Art Student
Date [standardized...
2023-12-13 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Onso, Yotul Technical Specialist
Date [standardized human time]: March 26, 2137
When the lab became accessible, I could see excesses of equipment; shadow caste workers must’ve been cleared out, but the traces of their presence were still there. A dirty plate left out on a countertop, a chemical beaker which had been hastily put away, and crimson...
2023-12-11 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Jimek, Venlil Art Student
Date [standardized hum...
2023-12-09 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Onso, Yotul Technical Specialist
Date [standardized human time]: March 26, 2137
I was glad to have a moment to relax and contemplate the city, rather than listen to Kolshian spiels. There were engineering advantages to building underground. Natural disasters aboveground wouldn’t touch the shadow caste, and the insulation of the encompassing topsoil ...
2023-12-07 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Jimek, Venlil Art Student
Date [standardized human time]: February 2, 2137
The call with Callsi had been too close of a shave yesterday, and...
2023-12-06 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Captain Sovlin, United Nations Fleet Command
Date [standardized human time]: March 26, 2137
The captured Kolshian sentry led us up several flights of stairs, after the UN soldiers rejected taking the elevator, and I waited with unease for a trap to show itself. There was only a modest room where an elderly Kolshian, with baby blue skin and a pompous air about him, wai...
2023-12-04 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSpoilers for Venlil Foster Program; this is a story focused on Jimek, and also follows what we saw of him in Human Exterminators 2. Other spoilers might be present for tangentially related stories such as HE1 and Predator Disease.
Memory tran...
2023-12-02 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMemory transcription subject: Onso, Yotul Technical Specialist
Date [standardized human time]: March 26, 2137
United Nations soldiers were amassing by the governance hall, the very building where every Federation diplomat once gathered. If the shadow caste’s hideout was in that intricate construction, I could almost respect the brazenness to keep the secretive underbelly so close to every other ...
2023-11-30 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFarsul Abductee - The following is a follow-up to the Farsul Abductee miniseries: spoilers ahead. To the enthusiastic fans of Veiq, as a complex character, this one is dedicated to you!
Memory transcription subject: Veiq, Farsul Archivist
Date [standardized human time]: March 23, 2137
Whe...
2023-11-29 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post