Entry to The Second Tempest Contest. Category: Exploration of Space (Genre: Sci-fi)... more>>

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Space. A scary frontier. Yet, it is a frontier full of promise.

Ancient wrecks, asteroids with rich potential, expansive debris of old battles, and ruins full of wonder. Space is waiting for those who are willing to risk their lives to plunder its riches. And space has many surprises for those who dare brave the risks.

It is a tough job, yes. It is a dangerous job, definitely. It is also a lucrative job, of course! That's why only the toughest, the meanest, the best men and women step forward to be the first to brave the frontier and plunder its untouched resources.

They are the Space Wreckers! Join now!

Sign up with your team and receive a grant of H$50,000 to build your own ship to your specifications! Wrecker Administration Authority Group of Holdings (WAAGH) will provide all you need to start your very own exploration business. The first 100 applicants will get six exploration suits of your choice for free! What are you waiting for? Sign up now!

*Exploration suits are not given permanently but are rented to wreckers at a fee of H$500 a week each. Loans are available at a 28% interest rate.

Disclaimer: By signing up, wreckers agree to waive WAAGH of all indemnity and liability whether actual or imagined and that any risks taken 'on the job' are strictly the wreckers' own. Any injuries or conflicts 'off the job' is not the business of WAAGH and WAAGH will not be held responsible or accountable for any crime the wreckers commit whether on or off the job. Wreckers also agree that in the event of unpaid loans, WAAGH has the right to collect anything of value from the wrecker's ship, body, or corpse, if necessary.

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Cover attribution
Space image is 'free for commercial use' image from https://pixabay.com/photos/earth-moon-ache-sunrise-space-1388003/
Space ship is 'free for commercial use' image from https://pixabay.com/photos/space-ship-model-moon-base-alpha-1-2923803/
Photoshopped together by Ai-chan.
Cover image made on canva by Ai-chan.
Full size image at https://i.postimg.cc/vZ4MgKXm/Space-Wreckers.png <<less

War has begun in the United Republic of Vostria. The ethnic Valtriat people fight for their right of succession, spurred on by hate and the... more>> ever-increasing tension between them and the Vostrians. Several months into the war a battle breaks out in the town of Belitoskye in its aftermath a duel will take place in the sky. A duel between two pilots, who carry opposing ideals upon their wings. <<less

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An interface, through which dispatch controls a three-story metal war machine. <<less

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Ryudo Kelekolio's had a rough past. Taken advantage of then thrown out as soon as he questioned his abusers, he's now back home and re-integrating into society after rehabilitation, learning to be a person again, and picking up new hobbies.

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Grandson of the man who invented full-dive technology *and* its most popular game, Ryudo had an aversion to the technology, but he finds himself grudgingly giving it a try, and stepping his way into a grand virtual conflict as a central character, because of a rider his late grandfather stuck on his biometric data for his first login.

The Battleframe "Jackdaw", stolen information, and a traitor prince? It's all so overwhelming. Maybe his sister smothering him isn't so bad after all. <<less

The year is 1937, and Avery Alejandra, Belle Delafleur, and Joltin' Jim Ross are the swashbuckling Red Kites. The tight-knit team commands the incredible flying machine known as Cloud Emperor. Together they can solve any problem, for a price. When trouble strikes close to home, and the people of Boot Bay start exhibiting strange changes in personality, two plucky scientists drag them into the mission of their lives. Now, they have to save the world before their reality is forever transformed by a rift that has opened to a dimension without gender roles or inhibitions.... more>>

*** NOTES & WARNINGS ***
⚙️ This story contains transgender and non-binary characters as well as nonconventional gender roles. It also contains graphic scenes of sex. If any of this isn't for you, please back away slowly.
⚙️ This story takes place in a steampunk world of my own creation. The year 1937 would usually place it in dieselpunk territory, but this is a place where steam technology is still predominant.
⚙️ The gender-bending tag on this story references psychology changes or awakenings rather than physical gender swapping.
⚙️ For those of you picking this up for the sex, please note you're my kind of people! But also note it will take several chapters to build up to it. It starts in a very straight-laced culture but this will change, dramatically. However, it will take a while, so don't be too disappointed. <<less

When Sekai Rodriguez's shuttle breaks down in transit to Titan, she assumes that her life is over. However, help arrives in the strangest of places as a hidden AI emerges to save her life!... more>>

Or, more likely, keep her company as the oxygen slowly runs out.

At least she won't be alone for her final days. <<less

Eager to get off earth, the emotionally-distant Violet uses her savings to buy a ticket aboard a colony ship headed out of the Orion Spur. The last place she expected to wake up after entering her cryosleep pod was a hospital bed in a solar system populated by demon girls.... more>>

Her body now heavily augmented to stave off centuries of cryosleep deterioration, Violet is given an address in her phone and thrust out into a new world which is both alien and familiar in ways she never could have imagined. If there's one thing Violet has experience with, it's how to roll with life's punches - but she soon realizes this place won't let her get away with that for long. <<less

Defenders of the colonies, lawmen and arbitrators who settle disputes. Their sole function is to serve and protect the people. They are the Rocket Patrol!

What would you do if you were reborn in the Borderlands universe, and as if that wasn't enough, on a planet that is under the dictatorship of a military corporation? Luckily, Maxwell has awakened the Titanfall System, becoming the Apex Predator of the universe!... more>>

Stand by for Titanfall!
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Disclaimer: All rights reserved to their respective owners. The Borderlands and Titanfall franchises don't belong to me. <<less

Project Hound is a military project funded and ran by the Artemis corporation to create the first series of fully autonomous fighting mechs. But the... more>> mercenaries assigned alongside them think something isn't right. <<less

Theo Altair has a death wish.... more>>

He has tried everything he can think of to cut his life short but he can never seem to get it right, and somehow he always manages to survive. His latest attempt nearly destroys his ship, which houses a sentient A.I. named Shade who is not particularly thrilled with Theo’s antics, and the duo is forced to make an emergency landing on a nearby farming moon to make repairs.

There Theo meets Dimitri, a farmer-cum-engineer with a penchant to sing away his worries. The two form an unlikely friendship and when Theo tries to run away from his feelings, Dimitri isn’t quick to let him go so easily. He takes it upon himself to join Theo on his flight to the next star system — with some help from Shade — and Theo is forced to face his feelings head on.

But there are some things lurking in space that are more frightening than letting yourself be cared for.

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ALL SYSTEMS CRITICAL is part pastoral sci-fi, part sci-fi horror lite, part lgbt romance... and my first full novel! this was written for nanowrimo 2020, and completed/edited in the months after. new chapters will be posted weekly.

rating: pg13-ish
content warnings: suicidal ideation, brief allusions to self-harm, and violence/injury <<less

"What?" A soldier asked himself as herself and quickly hid behind a tree.
The sounds of swords and spears clashing, arrows whizzing dangerously close, resounded... more>> throughout.
"Where am I?" She asked confused.
One second she was living her ordinary life yet the scenery suddenly changed.
Her body felt pulled down.
She looked down to stare at her chest covered with armour, heaving up and down.
She touched a part were a sword seemingly had pierced as there was a hole in the metal plate covering her chest.
*Rizzzz*
An arrow narrowly missed her head as she brought her head back up.
'Armour?' She thought, ignoring that her life almost ended.
"Then...." She muttered and swiveled her head to her left.
She saw a man shouting like an idiot, head over his head with a sword in his hands. Running towards her.
Cold seat ran down her back as a thought came to her head.
"Did I perhaps reincarnate in a battlefield?"
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To those who are confused about what happened to this book.
The potential was wasted since after chapter one, I couldn't find a way to continue it.
So, I recycled the book into an original novel. Though for some stupid reason I can't change the type to novel anymore.
I hope I could at least make a great book with this. <<less

Suddenly waking up in a state of confusion on a spaceship, they had to live a life full of interstellar exploration, space wars, and other cyberpunk things they had never experienced before on Earth.... more>>

However, with their high-tech spaceship and super weapon system that could even defeat a fleet of ships, their journey would be difficult to hinder. But things changed during their journey because..." <<less

12 years after a cataclysmic event, the mysterious organization Ertragen recruits telekinetic teenagers to pilot giant robots.
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I post 2 chapters a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays.... more>>

Come hang out with me on Discord:
https://discord.com/channels/756198516241727608/756230087443218665 <<less

Two cities, closed behind walls, halfway across the world, are all that's left of an atomic war lasting many decades. Fueled by hate, disagreements, misunderstandings,... more>> and stubbornness, the war rages on day after day. Caught in the crossfire, two opposing teams of pilots, united by fate, took with them a hope to find the truth, and to end the war for good. This is their story—a story of war, discovery, and rebellion. <<less

|15X WATTPAD FEATURED| After the Beacerika injures her, Rey battles with the Light and Dark sides of the Force while it takes her on a journey like none other-though supernovas and wormholes-right back to Ben Solo.... more>>

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Rey remembers the day she and Kylo Ren/Ben Solo fought the Praetorian guards perfectly. Nevertheless, since the battle, something's changed inside her. She is not the Rey she remembers. Her Force abilities are no longer a gift; they are a threat. Everybody, including Rey's friends, fear her power.

She must sacrifice everything she loves and give herself to the conflicted Supreme Leader if she is to change her fate. Nonetheless, something is hiding in the ashes of the galaxy-the Descendant of Evil. Now it is up to Rey and Ben to stop this growing threat.

As the galaxy crumbles, Rey will face danger like she has never faced before, including a wormhole, a supernova, and a Force-sensitive monster who swears allegiance to her. As she moves closer and closer to her supernova, her friends will try to save her. However, at the end of the day, Rey and Kylo Ren are the only ones who can change the fate of the galaxy. They are the only ones who can take the name "The Rise of Skywalker".

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*Awesome cover by @dorkiest_nerd on Wattpad!*

*Start Date: July 2018*
*End Date: June 2022*

Word Count: 30,000-35,000 <<less

Marie McCloud is a woman stuck in a galaxy coming apart under an interstellar war. So used to being pushed around by forces beyond her control, she finds herself caught off-guard when she is put in the pilot seat of an unfamiliar Battlemech and fielded alongside new companions. Is this an opportunity to turn her life around, or is this the first step down the wrong path?... more>>

Battletech and Mechwarrior are not mine, they are the property of Catalyst Game Labs.

Rachel McCloud and the Bristol are creations of James Long.

I am also hosting this series on YouTube, where you get to hear me read it to you alongside some sound effects and music I found on the Internet. So if audio is more your thing, you can find the full playlist at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KokyPoimpGU&list=PLBPKALVoB6iB_cUJhqAzqjdNzva-6R9iu

Or you can go download the audio as a podcast, though you'll be missing out on the music and artwork: https://lucendacier.podbean.com/ <<less

Most people look for escapes in their life, and Myles Vester always is looking for a way to leave the world where his parents neglect him. He escapes into VR, exploring one of the most popular, the VRMMO Stellara Nova. When his last character died a foolish death, he's stuck trying to figure out his next steps, when he gets the chance to try out an experimental long-term VR program. ... more>>

Taking the chance and diving back into the world of Stellara Nova, there is a minor glitch between his new hardware and the game. He finds himself spawning the life of a randomly generated female body, and a lot of confusing emotions as the newly minted Kaela strives to make back her place in the galaxy.

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**This story is being posted here on ScribbleHub and on Royal Road. This work is my own, and should not be posted elsewhere.**

This book is just a silly little project to help me with my daily writing goal of putting out 2000 words per day! If you stick around and enjoy it, then I'm so glad!

Be warned, this book is written around a trans woman and her experiences of discovering that fact, and hate won't be tolerated in the comments or anywhere else regarding this. It's a fun story for people to enjoy, not a punching bag.

-Mae <<less

(I found a mecha-battlesuit in the ruins and now we survive together in this horrible world)... more>>

Sold to slavers from birth, a girl makes a final all or nothing bid to escape her old life and to chase her single dream or die trying in the attempt. Delving into a forbidden layer of the local ruins, she finds something unexpected. Something that will change the course of her life forever.

(Minimal LitRPG) (Single mecha in a dark-fantasy world) (Greedy protagonist) (Slow start) <<less

Akari, a young Japanese woman, suddenly finds herself in an unexpected, deadly situation when returning home from the airport. She has to decide quickly...run away or trust a complete stranger to find safety.... more>>

After accepting the offer, she quickly learns that "safety" isn't here on Earth...but on a huge spaceship near Mars. There she learns that her experience gained from playing flight simulator games, suddenly appears to be surprisingly helpful.

While slowly changing into another lifeform, Akari must find a way to keep up hope and fight against impossible odds. She chooses to fight at the side of the Vahli and puts her human morals aside to find a way to end their enemy's existence once and for all.

A series of events is set into motion that will not only determine her own fate and the fate of two warring worlds.....but the fate of humanity as well.

When she finally returns back to Earth, she quickly learns that her beloved planet is already being invaded.

Join Akari on her adventures in becoming the most unconventional Queen in Vahli history.

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Notes:

-This story is completed.
-Please note: I'm not a native English speaker.

I would appreciate it if you could leave a comment. Just for fun, or to help me improve my writing skills.

Thank you for reading, and please enjoy.
Moriko <<less