Tokyo, Japan When the lab doors open to reveal Leiko Tanaka, all the scientists bow respectfully. She rarely comes here, but when she does it’s always bad news. <<Everybody out>> she commands in Japanese. She’s quickly left alone, with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nowhere Noriko is sitting at the edge of this world, dangling her feet over the horizon. The gigantic empty thrones of the Drylon are a million miles away, bigger than the sky. The shadow of Ulysses is right behind her,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kythera, 950 light-years from Earth A six hundred feet tall statue of Aphrodite dominates the city. The statue has both hands above her head to lift a dove; other than a seashell necklace, she’s completely naked and very anatomically correct.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hackensack, New Jersey Alejandro parks the stolen car in front of a rather anonymous warehouse. His sister Maria isn’t impressed with the destination. <You better have lots of money in there, for making us drive all the way to New[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null Tower, 47th floor Vesta pours coffee in a mug; her right hand is on fire, heating the beverage before she hands it to Todd Slate. The current head of the company’s public relations looks her in the eye. <So[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a seemingly empty room in the Tower, with only a chair in the middle connected to hundreds of fluorescent optic cables. The way Noriko Null sits on it, crossing her legs and placing her arms on the armrests, it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The White House, Washigton D.C. This might just be the President’s worst day. First a new organization calling itself the Empire of Shadows launched the largest and most ambitious terrorist attack in history, then hostile forces invaded Project Silver, then[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mumbai, India As he disintegrates the last of the Centurions, Max Black a.k.a. Quantum takes a moment to watch the destruction brought upon the city by the Empire of Shadows. Technically, this isn’t his first warzone… but the Myridian uprising[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs The entire complex trembles, shaken by a fistfight on the surface. The masked woman in military uniform is the only one with permission to set foot here, but Blue Star is also escorting Noriko Null, Torn[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
