The Vulcan Forge, 2300 light-years from Earth Noriko Null tries to think of a worse situation, but nothing comes to mind. Strapped to a medical bed, in a steaming hot room, facing Talas Khanos who is picking up a scalpel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Vulcan Forge, 2300 light-years from Earth As if a mission to blow up a base built on the surface of a neutron star wasn’t weird enough. Noriko Null is sitting in front of a female robot wearing a red[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lower decks of the Supreme Scorpion, 2000 light-years from Earth Vesta opens the door to the spaceship’s engine room. Most of the space is occupied by the giant reactor that powers the ship and allows it to travel much faster[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null Island, Pacific Ocean Laceration is near the shore, knee deep in the ocean, exercising her use of the energy whip. Her father Torn is watching her from a distance, in silence. He doesn’t acknowledge the arrival of Noriko Null,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null Island, Pacific Ocean The Valkyrie lands on the only landing pad of the island, suitable only for vehicles capable of vertical take-off. Doctor Catherine Kalama gets off the vehicle, shielding her eyes from the sun to admire the beautiful[…]↓ 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…
Leiko Tanaka doesn’t say anything when she comes out of the hospital. Her bodyguards keep the journalists at bay, and the words “no comment” are heard over and over. She left against the doctor’s wishes: Abyss inflicted her some serious[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The two girls seem unremarkable: just two friends out shopping. The fact that the twenty-something white girl has purple hair might draw a few looks, but this is New York: she’s hardly alone. Her younger Japanese-American friend might seem more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In one of the many labs of Null Tower, Noriko is working on the Heart of the Universe again. In full cooperation with the Washington Protocol, her every move is recorded in fine detail. <There appears to be some sort[…]↓ 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…
