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Spacebattles Creative Writing Recomendation Thread

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Rodyle said: Ergo, post recs in the following format: Title Here Author: Summary: blah blah blah Tags: Tags Here Recommended by: Your Name Here Scorned by: Your Name Here Reviews: Your Name Here If you want to upvote or downvote any fic on the list, simply state as much and I'll add your name to the list. If you want a review of yours added, SAY SO SPECIFICALLY. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Recommendations: The Firewarriors Guide to the Galaxy (40K) Author: Rogue 11 Summary: Mur'Phon was never the best Tau Firewarrior. Things usually got terribly wrong in his presence. Drones acquired AIs, silos exploded, plans got haywire. Then God-Empreror decided to wing it a bit and gently nudged Mur'Phon into the midst of some intrigues and plans. Explosions, unintended consequences and things going wrong on a massive scale followed. Tags: Warhammer 40k, Action, Comedy. Recommended by: NHO, Starfield, CV12Hornet, Rhaka the Red A Green Sun Illuminates the Void ( part2 , part3 ) Author: EarthScorpion Summary: "Louise the Zero. A failure even at summoning a familiar. But now she has a second chance, access to power beyond the Void. Soon a new day shall dawn on Halkeginia, its light green and terrible and beautiful. They don't know what's going to hit them" Tags: Familiar of Zero, Exalted Recommended by: Starfield, Robo Jesus, mdman1 Overlady ( part2 ) Author: EarthScorpion Summary: "A new overlady, you say? She's a little short and flat-chested, although her temper is impressively vile. Oh well. Needs must when needs must. Too long have the lands of Halkeginia gone without true Evil. There are fluffy bunnies and happy ponies all over the place, frollicing! It makes me quite sick! No, it doesn't matter if she wants to or not. Because Evil always finds a way." Tags: Familiar of Zero, Overlord, Comedy Recommended by: Starfield, havocfett, Robo Jesus, CV12Hornet, Hollewanderer, Rhaka the Red, mdman1 Black Flower ( part2 ) Author: kiraiakuma Summary: Some time ago, a chikd was esperimented upon. She was rescued from Science by a man. The man was not nice, not friendly, and not a man. But he did only thing he could to help the girl survive, shared some gifts and then left her in place that could help antisocial child to grow and would not suffer too horribly if she goes horribly wrong. Blacklight Sakura. Tags: Prototype, Naruto, crossover Recommended by: Starfield, NHO, Cataquack Warri, Rhaka the Red Halkegenia Online Author: TriggerHappy Summary: Kirigaya Kazuto, Kirito, Beater of SAO, and now a Spriggan in ALfheim online, is fighting to save the love of his life from a fate worse than death. Louise De La Valliere, third daughter of the Valliere family, and student of the Tristain Academy is fighting to prove herself. Two worlds collide as a summon goes wrong and Tristain finds itself with some very confused new residents. Tags: Familiar of Zero, Sword Art Oline, Cataquack Warri Recommended by: Khaos, Robo Jesus New Blood Author: Academia Nut Summary: Once upon a time there was a little girl called Ellie. Elizabeth Doe. By accident, she discovered who the families of her parents are. Now, under watch of her maternal grand-granduncle and with support of faithful old servant from her father's side she is forced to grow up, rage against heavens and evade that pesky concerned agents of OSS. Tags: Cthulhutech, Prototype, Hellsing Recommended by: NHO, Starfield Familliar of Ruin (thread 2) Author: gamlain Louise's attempt to summon a familiar ends in disaster, or does it? Branded to the power of an otherworldly being, gifted memories of a jester who defied and broke the world, Louise the Atma sets off on an epic journey that will only end in destruction. Tags: Familiar of Zero/Zero no Tsukaima, Final Fantasy VI Recommended by: Cataquack Warri, NHO Scorned by: havocfett, Robo Jesus, Rhaka the Red Fate/Once More Author: Winged Knight Summary: Several years after the Holy Grail has been dismantled, the sudden return of faded Servants to their masters - all those who still live from the wars - marks the beginning of a dark plot. Fortunately, while some masters and Servants have joined the plan, there are others who will fight to stop it. Tags: Fate/Stay Night Recommended by: Cataquack Warri Ten Years Author: Arch-Magos Winter Summary: Kiritsugu Emiya for a few more years, long enough for a new Holy Grail War to erupt. Looks like the Magus Killer still has some fight in him, even if he is a foot towards death. Tags: Fate/Stay Night Recommended by: Cataquack Warri The First Movement of the Odyssey Author: Chris O'Farrell Summary: The war against the Covenant takes a new turn when a ship from another dimension stumbles across the Battle of Reach. Tags: Halo, Stargate SG1 Recommended by: Cataquack Warri, NHO, Walkir Emperor of Zero Author: Largo Summary: When a former French Emperor is summoned by a pink-haired girl, the history of Halkeginia is forever changed. Tags: Familiar of Zero/Zero no Tsukaima, Real Life, Historical Fiction, Napoleon Bonaparte Recommended by: Cataquack Warri The Key to a Successful Interview Author: The Ero-Sannin Summary: This is Ranma 1/2 shaken, stirred, and smashed with a baseball bat. Tags: Ranma 1/2 Recommended by: Cataquack Warri As a Goddess Does Author: Dimension Crossing Mew Summary: This is how a goddess views the world. This is how a goddess influences the world. The land of Nippon and the Celestial Brush Powers as viewed by the goddess Amaterasu. Tags: Okami Recommended by: Cataquack Warri, NHO This is (Not) a Game Author: Kerrus Summary: All things happen in their order. From beginning to end, without interruption. But when a casual sci-fi geek wakes up one morning to find he's left his world behind, everything can change. An SI megacross with a dash of realism. Ie: Not a hilarious Sue. Tags: Self-Insertion, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Kamen Rider, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Star Trek, Yu-Gi-Oh Recommended by: Cataquack Warri The Hidden Shrine of Tamao-Chan Author: JohnWBiles Summary: Konata convinces her friends to play a special Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Tags: Comedy, Lucky Star, Dungeons and Dragons Recommended by: Cataquack Warri Tales of the War Against the Soulless Author: Memphet'ran Summary: Space fairing High Fantasy magical races (Elves, Dwarves...) encounter a new race, startlingly lifelike necromantic flesh golems: humanity. The fantasy races actually possess a tangible and verifiable soul; humanity doesn't, and is thus at first considered a soulless abomination. Tags: Original work, magic vs. technology, culture clash, non-rubber-forehead aliens, misunderstandings. Recommended by: Khaos Scorned by: NHO, Robo Jesus No Gods, Only Guns Author: Peptuck Summary: "Ancient artifacts of immense power. Murderous synthetics. Ruthless megacorps. Unscrupulous mercenaries. Genocidal stellar god-machines. Incompetent galactic governments. Claptrap dubstep. The horrors of the galaxy are many, but there's one thing a good, mentally-unstable fortune-seeking antihero can rely on: the gun at his, her, or its side. Mass Effect/Borderlands fusion." Tags: Borderlands, Mass Effect Recommended by: Starfield Making Magick Author: Mashadarof402 Summary: "The unlikeliest of crossings. The most improbable of incidents. The most hilarious of universes. A considerably different sort of crossover. Sanity is for the weak anyway." Tags: Familiar of Zero, Magicka Recommended by: Starfield, Robo Jesus The Accident Author: Terradyne Summary: Science decided to try making portals. Portal got wrong, instead of opening second aperture few meters away, it opened on another world. And there are dragons out there. And mages. And while stupidity and desire for protection escalates the situation, dark covens plot. And leaking magic forces portal to expand. Tags: Original, Near Future, Fantasy, First contact. Recommended by: NHO, blast flame, Walkir Star Trek: Enterprise, The Open Door Author: Taralon Summary: Captain Archer sets out to return a Klingon curier back to his homeworld, a trip that will take months. The opposition to mans first steps into deep space is great, both from within and from without. And there are unknown dangers lurking in the depts of space. Tags: Star Trek: Enterprise, Reimagening Recommended by: Nimbus21 Reviews: Nimbus21 Hunted Tribes ( part 2 ) Author: Hotpoint Summary: "Battlestar/Battletech Crossover: The 12 Tribes of Kobol meet another tribe fleeing tyranny and genocide. Never hunt a wolverine, if you're unlucky you might catch it..." (Note that the Wolverines is the only BT faction really in the story so far.) Tags: new BattleStar Galactica, Battletech, hidden Wolverines, First Contact Recommended by: Starfield, Walkir Arrow Mission Contact Logs Author: AdmiralTigercla Summary: "The star system Omega Centauri was just another oddity on a map to scientists in the not too distant future. However when they found the star was orbiting an earth-sized, earth-like planet instead of a black hole as its motion had suggested, a mission was scrambled to investigate this most unusual of celestial behaviors. Hamstrung by politics, and nearly crippled before it began, the 'Lone Ranger' mission was reduced to just one crew member and left to his own devices. These are the logs of Arrow 18 and its lone commander. This information is classified TOP SECRET by the Global Space Agency. Do NOT tell the princess." Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Original Setting, First Contact Recommended by: Starfield, CV12Hornet The Unbound (thread 2) Author: Mashadarof402 Summary: When Bentusi fled the galaxy, running away from the Beast, they happened to drop into a place where FTL is different from hyperspace, where technology is less advanced and where Reapers do their things. The Unbound traded, as they do. Once, they found strength to throw away the weapons, and now they found strength in picking them back. Also, Quarians are left confused, grateful, terrified and in mixed emotions. Galaxy is about to experience Phased Disassembly Array of change. Recommended by: NHO, Robo Jesus, Starfield Godshatter Author: Achariyth Summary: Some gods cheat. Sometimes cheating comes back to bite them in the ass. Especially when those cheated upon grew to be their best friends. Kanako Yasaka must deal with Suwako and some old grudges from different pantheons. Tags: Touhou, Cosmere Recommended by: NHO Fallen Stars (thread 2) Author: Shockz Summary: Harry Dresden can not say no to pretty women when they need help with solving complicated custody case. Even if that woman is pursued by aliens, got talking jewel and can blast small city blocks. Tags: Harry Dresden, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, crossover Recommended by: NHO, CV12Hornet The Fearful Void Author: EarthScorpion Summary: Louise summoned scared, dark-haired little girl with strange abilities and no common language. EarthScorpion builds yet another world from the ground up, based on Familiar of Zero. Tags: F.E.A.R., Familiar of Zero Recommended by: NHO, Starfield, Hollewanderer, mdman1 Red Banner / White Star Author: Countess Maria Summary: In a Space Race Earth found a bits from Rag-Tag Fleet on the Moon. Few decades later, Cold War continues. USSR did cyborgs. USA did androids. Unknown threat looms in space. And that what happened before may happen again. Tags: BattleStar Galactica, continuation Recommended by: NHO Page Author: Acatalepsy Summary: Look into character of Bob Page as his plans unfold and God walks the Earth. Tags: Deus Ex, POV exploration, one-shot Recommended by: NHO, blast flame Vigilo Confido: nuXCOM Author: Slacker Summary: 2014, November 14. Extraterrestrial forces invade Earth. This evening, forces of Humanity decided to hang together. XCOM was born. And it was not easy. Tags: nuXCOM, AU, novellisation Recommended by: NHO Fiend; or I how I learned to stop worrying and love the Green Sun. Author: logiccosmic Summary: Taylor didn't trigger. So, lo and behold, an Anuhle (Weaver, geddit?) pops up with an offer for Taylor at the worst time possible. After all, such offers are only made when the potential Infernal is rotting in jail after failing to steal some jewel, has lost their entire family, or generally when they have failed in the worst way possible, leading to quite a surprise! And now that surprise is affecting everything as events spiral further out of control and everyone is trying to figure out what in the hell is going on . Tags: Worm , Exalted, Crossover Recommended by: Robo Jesus, havocfett, Starfield Reviews: Robo Jesus Game Theory Author: Aleph Summary: Who dares stand between a mother and her daughter's life? Precia will do anything to achieve her goals. Even if it means accepting Fate. Tags: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, reimagening Recommended by: spacemonkey37, NHO, CV12Hornet Power Games Author: Aleph Summary: There's no such thing as happily ever after. Life goes on - even dearly bought. All Precia's plans may come to nought as shadowy actors take to the stage. But nothing unmasks a man like his use of power. Tags: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, reimagening Recommended by: spacemonkey37, NHO, CV12Hornet In Memoriam Author: Shockz Summary: In a city where science has made the impossible mundane, a young man meets a very strange girl, who speaks to him of things yet stranger. Meanwhile, four friends stumble into a conspiracy that threatens to overturn everything they thought they knew about their home. Tags: A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun, reimagening Recommended by: spacemonkey37, NHO Fate/Silent Night Author: Valles Summary: It is Christmas in Fuyuki, and Rider is going to make sure that everyone who deserves a happy ending gets one. Tags: Fate/Stay Night, Alternative Servant Recommended by: CV12Hornet, NHO Task Force 43 Author: Zcenicx Summary: A Starfleet taskforce is finds itself transported to the universe of Babylon 5, where they are forced to establish themselves as a visible power. It is hard to be a major power and strive to support moral standards when half of your visible power is a bluff. Tags: Star Trek post-TNG, Babylon 5, crossover Recommended by: CV12Hornet, NHO, Walkir Defiant Author: Turrasta Summary: Halo AU/X-over. Humanity's first contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence goes poorly for all around... Tags: Halo AU, Battlestar Galactica (2003), crossover Recommended by: CV12Hornet Inaccurate Legends Author: Midnak Summary: Proof that the Nasuverse can be a very silly place. Rather than the normal summons, characters from Monty Python's Holy Grail are summoned. This is unabashedly a work of crack, check your sanity at the door. Tags: Fate/Stay Night, Monty Python's The Holy Grail, Crack. Recommended by: CV12Hornet, NHO Sickly Sweet Author: the Ero-Sennin Summary: Ranma arrives at the Tendo Dojo to find a different Akane. And by "different", we mean a homicidally yandere young women who would be too brutal for Higurashi.Played for laughs, of course. Tags: Ranma 1/2, Crack Recommended by: CV12Hornet Naruto: the Secret Songs of the Ninja Author: Arcane Azmadi Summary: In the wake of the battle in the Land of the Waves, Uchiha Sasuke never opened his eyes. Devastated by the death of their teammate and friend, Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno Sakura are forced to begin again with a new teammate, a new mission and a new destiny. But even a small rock thrown into a still pool creates ripples- and ripples may become waves that can drown the unwary... Tags: Naruto. AU Recommended by: CV12Hornet Last Heresy Author: Gaius Marius Summary: Following the end of the Dark Age of Technology, and the beginning of the Great Crusade, the enemy is no longer chaos. The Reapers are coming, and the God-Emperor will be as prepared as he can be. Tags: Fusion, Mass Effect, Warhammer 40,000 (Horus Heresy) Recommended by: CV12Hornet Deep as the Sea Author: Ryuugi Summary: 'And I've removed the filter from your eyes which covered them before, so now, you'll easily distinguish between gods and men.' After the power of the Mist began to weaken, the demigods found themselves in the middle of a whole new world. Tags: Dresden Files, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, crossover Recommended by: CV12Hornet By the Horns Author: Master Arminas Summary: How much can one operational battleship change? Quite a bit, as it turns out... Tags: Battletech. AU Recommended by: CV12Hornet, NHO, Walkir, Uxion Once More With Feeling Author: Chris O'Farrell Summary: Third Impact AU. Shinji Ikari survives Third Impact only to find out that the end of everything is just the beginning... Tags: Neon Genesis Evangelion. Peggy Sue. Recommended by: CV12Hornet, Rhaka the Red The Onyx Stars Author: Sith Summary: A lost ship, a lost warrior, and a lost mind find themselves stranded in an unknown world. Full of vast wonders, threats, and opportunities, this new world is an unknown element for a crew accustomed to war and hardship. But, all Edens fall and beyond the embers of war lay the dawn of victory. Tags: Halo, Mass Effect, crossover Recommended by: CV12Hornet, mdman1 An Intervention Author: AndrewJTalon Summary: Anko and Naruto are up to something. And the rest of the Konoha 12 are out to find out what it is. No matter the cost! Tags: Naruto. Crack Recommended by: CV12Hornet, Walkir Zero's Bullet Author: The Woodsman Summary: The Huntress has escaped her Zamiel. Now she finds herself trapped on an unfamiliar world where nothing makes sense. What's more, she has become the contracted familiar to a no talent young mage known as the Zero . This is a story of blood, gore, madness and carnage. This is the story of Zero's Bullet . Tags: Hellsing, Familiar of Zero Recommended by: CV12Hornet, Starfield Shinji's Nightmare Author: Harry Leferts Summary: While he has returned from being absorbed into Unit-01, Shinji finds himself in an odd situation. Now, in a body that looks nothing like a human's and with a snarky roommate in his head, he has to deal with new powers and abilities while those around him shift. And he thought that fighting Angels was weird... Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Neon Genesis Evangelion, crossover Recommended by: CV12Hornet Evangelion: Double Threat Author: ManicInsomniac Summary: When Shinji arrived in Tokyo-3, he did not have to fight. Now, two years later, the Angels have begun to arrive. And where's Rei? Tags: Neon Genesis Evangelion. AU. Recommended by: CV12Hornet My Choices: Twisted Tales Through Time Author: Koolerkid Summary: On secret assignment from Princess Celestia herself, Twilight investigates a powerful magical artifact for clues to the mystery of Luna's transformation in the evil Nightmare Moon. Incautious use of the artifact sends Twilight hurtling back in time. Can Twilight discover what caused Luna's transformation? And will she ever make it home again? Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Time travel. AU. Recommended by: CV12Hornet, NHO The Warp is Calm Author: LordsFire Summary: When the Imperium of Man set up a colony in a new galaxy, they did not know they were stepping into another galactic cataclysm. Luckily, this was one they could actually fight. Tags: Mass Effect, Warhammer 40,000. AU. Reboot. Crossover. Recommended by: CV12Hornet Sheer Genius Author: Samarkand Summary: Set between Summer Knight and Death Masks. Harry Dresden meets our favorite blond, glasses-wearing Spark, now under the care after the Carpenters after as-yet unexplained Spark shenanigans. Tags: Reboot. Dresden Files, Girl Genius. Recommended by: CV12Hornet, NHO The Miracle at Palaven Author: Kei Summary: In the Galactic Codex, 278 words are dedicated to the Miracle at Palaven. They could never hope to encompass the despair, the ingenuity, the desperation, the spirit, and the valor of this unprecedented operation. Join historian Arena Nyscirius as she documents the failures and triumphs of what is now considered a major turning point of the Reaper War. Do you believe in miracles? Tags: Mass Effect meets Black Hawk Down , written in the style of Band of Brothers . Mass Effect 3, Logistics, Bosh'tet Express, Kal'Reegar, Dakka, Sufficient Velocity, Unsung Heroes. Expansion of a short Codex Entry. Complete. Recommended by: Whiskey Golf, NHO, mdman1 The Siege of Reach Author: Sith Summary: UNSC is a bit beefed up technologically. War is going a bit better. Now Reach is discovered and grinder is about to begin. It would be a long, bloody siege for every side of this war. Tags:HALO, AU Recommended by: NHO, mdman1 A Boy and his Dreadnought Author: Xeno Major Summary: Chaos infestation. Lost boy. Lone Dreadnaught. Sometimes, being an Avenging Angel of Death of Imperium does mean that you provide comfort by talking. Tags: Warhammer 40k, one-shot, heatwarming Recommended by: NHO Catch the Falling Sky Author: Pale Wolf Summary: TSAB knowingly saved Earth twice and unknowingly gave X-Com time to organize. Now, Etherials are mad that some other people are messing with their invasion. Shooting down Asura in Earth's atmosphere was suboptimal decision: it gave X-Com access to different technologies. And TSAB. Tags: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, X-Com, crossover Recommended by: NHO A Familiar Interface Author: Jonen C Summary: Louise summons Ryoko Asakura as her familiar. Tags: Familiar of Zero, Haruhi Recommended by: Starfield, NHO Harvest Author: Nuts! Summary: "Was that the first time a geth asked it if had a soul?" "No. It was the first time a Creator became frightened when we asked." Tags: Mass Effect, Geth, hala'kish, feels , souls. Recommended by: Whiskey Golf, NHO, Walkir, mdman1 Madhouse Author: Nuts! Summary: Representatives of Chaos Factions talk about how we're all living in madhouses, giving seductive speeches to convert people to chaos. And then an Imperial Priest shuts them up with the best rebuttal to Chaos I've seen. Tags: Warhammer 40,000. Chaos Seductive Speeches. Purity of Faith. Recommended by: Whiskey Golf, NHO, mdman1 Summoning the Sun (thread 2) Author: Mashadarof402 Summary: It is strange when your summoned snow-white wolf evades well-deserved bath by suddenly transforming into a girl and opening the door that should have hold her. Louise summoned a dog - wolf. What is no wolf. Just a sun god. Shiranui. Amaterasu. Okami. Now go and pet her. Tags: Familiar of Zero, Okami, crossover, alt!summon Recommended by: NHO The Greatest Ace Author: Les Summary: Near Future. Captain Donald "Ronin" Caldwell and most people who know him think that he is greatest ace of his epoch. He just flies cool plane extremely agressively. 'Bot does that it was programmed to do. Tags: Original, One Shot, planes Recommended by: NHO An Astral Drop in Heatherfield Author: drakensis Summary: What measures a human? What measures a sister? When you do magical decoy with your memories, what shall you do if your fear prevents memory copy? How would you react when she would not want to merge back? Family life just got a bit more interesting. Tags: W.I.T.C.H. AU. Clones. Heartwarming. Recommended by: NHO The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds; Side Stories of First Contact Author: RK_Striker_JK_5 Summary: An old legend from Dream Valley returns to Equestria, but is there a place for her in this new land? Crossover between G1 and FiM. Thanks to Sun tzu for the name, too. Minor Hasbro cameos/mentions as well. Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Human in Equestria. G1 Crossover. Recommended by: CV12Hornet, NHO The Conversion Bureau: United We Stand Author: RK_Striker_JK_5 Summary: The Conversion Bureaus have won. Humanity has been ponified, all traces of our civilization wiped clean from an Earth turned into Equestria. Princess Celestia rules over all, the tyranny of free thought abolished. Humanity is at the cusp of a golden age. With allies both near and far, biped and quadruped, we strive for greatness, united as never before. Our mark shall be made in space, our influence felt throughout this Spiral Arm. The Tyrant Princess sees this and is angered. A dome is opened... but this time, humanity is not alone against the Conversion Bureaus. Tags: Multicross. MLP: FIM X Every major 80s Hasbro property. Conversion Bureau. Recommended by: CV12Hornet The Last Angel Author: Proximal Flame Summary: This ship is the Wound : while it exist, Compact would never stops bleeding. This ship is the Nemesis : First, last and only dreadnought of the fleets of humanity. She is amazing. This ship is the Red One : Her hate is perfect, beautiful, insane, machine hate. Entire species had less hate. This ship is dying : it was dying for thousand years, and time almost come. But there is a plan. Tags: Original, sci-fi, AI perspective Recommended by: NHO, mdman1 Reunions Are A Bitch Author: Ash's Boomstick Summary: A clash of ideologies will cause widespread death and destruction for two races both alike and strange to the other. Tags: Stargate SG1, Battlestar Galactica, epic Recommended by: Rakir, walkir A Thin Veneer Author: Skeet Summary: Captain James T. Kirk Chancellor Gorkon rescues a group of Human refugees from the far side of the galaxy. That simple act of kindness will be the spark a war that ranges across the galaxy and reveal the thinness of the veil that separates civilization from barbarianism. Tags: Star Trek TOS, Babylon 5, Epic, Almost complete, Recommended by: Rakir, CV12Hornet, walkir Amethyst Author: Lightning Count Summary: Tells the story of a stellar war between the U.S and China from a hapless ship caught in between the two trying to get home. Tags: Original, Complete, Hard ish Sci fi. Recommended by: Rakir Over The Horizon Author: Glenfiddich 12 Summary: Tells the story of first contact between the Tauri and 12 Colonies without turning into a badly done RAAB clone Tags: Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, World building Recommended by: Rakir, walkir Stargate Reopened Author: Keiran Halcyon, Wolf of Dawn and AJW Summary: AU Stargate starting from the beginning of the series and keeping some of the familiar but adding to it in numerous and great ways. Tags: Stargate, World building Recommended by: Rakir, walkir Stargate: Thirdspace Author: AJW Summary: A future Earth expedition to another galaxy gets thrown into the B5 universe with the Sinehandra lurking in the shadows Tags: Stargate, Babylon 5 Recommended by: Rakir, walkir The Appian Way Author: Sayle Summary: A future Earth built city ship crashes on the Hanar homeworld Tags: Stargate, Mass Effect Recommended by: Rakir, walkir Unfamiliar (thread 2) Author: Cpl_Facehugger Summary: Thousands years ago Founder Brimir summoned an army to fight a Plague. Today, it is the day for young Louise to summon her familiar. He walks like a man, but he isn't. Alex Mercer tried to be good brother, until Dana died. Would he be a good familiar to the girl in the world of magic, intrigue and legacy of Redlight and Black Watch? Tags: Prototype, Familiar of Zero, crossover, viral abominations, heartwarming Recommended by: NHO, CV12Hornet, Rhaka the Red, mdman1 XCOM: Viral Offense Author: Fwoosh Summary: Chryssalids are perfect snack, Alex Mercer found when one tried to impregnate him. They come to you, got solid, protective shell with tasty meat inside and they come for you with no prompt! Also, XCOM is quite different from Blackwatch And it is good. Tags: XCOM, Prototype, Crossover, comedy Recommended by: NHO The Ancient (Rewrite) Author: Hiver Summary: The Ancient is about a bunch of Aliens finding a human relic. But what seems to be a simple dyson sphere shall shatter the way they conceive the universe forever. Hiver is masterful in the art of understatement, and the story is worth it for gems like this alone: "The year I talked about in the beginning was a galactic year for the Milky Way Galaxy as it was once called." The rewrite hasn't got many chapters yet, though. Tags: Original Story, Precursor, Understatement Recommended by: Walkir, NHO, Uxion, mdman1 A Hero (thread 2) Author: Dalek Ix Summary: Unlikely heroes can arise in places you expect them the least. From example, in unexplicably resurrected Dalek stuck on Earth and in Time Loop together with Homura, Kyubey, Madoka and associated Witches/Magical Girls. Rage is boiling, plans are being made. And Storm is Coming. Tags: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Doctor Who, crossover, death to Incubators Recommended by: NHO, CV12Hornet, mdman1 God Thread II Author: linkhyrule5 Summary: Madoka ascended. Sadly, she got no idea what she is doing, and if she thinks of time, it would be another session of timeless witch-slaying. Happily, Yakumo Yukari was in just the right position to be volunteered to be her new teacher. And Univerce rejoiced. Tags: Touhou, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, comedy, crossover, bullet hell. Recommended by: NHO, CV12Hornet XSGCOM: Goa'uld Defence Author: Hotpoint Summary: Instead of Russians, X-Com found second Stargate. Now, Earth is better technologically, but suffered a bit more political missteps. Story runs up to Atlantis and continues in the sequel. Tags: Stargate, X-Com, crossover, Spacebattles Recommended by: NHO, walkir Scorned by: Rhaka the Red Sleeping With Girls Author: AdmiralTigercla Summary: A Self-Insert fic where the character is randomly teleported to the beds of fictional girls when he sleeps. Tags: Self-Insert, Reality Insues, Multi-Verse Recommended by: Uxion, CV12Hornet Reviews: Tvtropes page A summon goes wrong/ Mahou Gakusei Louise Author:Nervaqus987 Summary: When Louise performed her summoning ritual, she didn't expect to summon a vampire. Worst, the vampire she summoned is none other than Evangeline, the gospel of Darkness. However, fate wasn't as kind as it seems. Tags: Zero no Tsukaima(ZNT), Mahou Sensei Negima(MSN), reverse summoning, crossover Recommended by: Restalaan. Magical Pony Lyrical Twilight Author: PurpleProse Summary: Twilight Sparkle, as everypony knows, is a magical pony by nature and profession. However, even she is confused when she encounters a mysterious ferret and an equally mysterious jewel. Forced into conflict by a monster attack, Twilight releases the power of the jewel, summoning the device known as Raising Heart. Tasked with the retrieval of a set of mysterious artefacts known as the Jewel Seeds, Twilight and her friends face an entirely new set of challenges. Unbeknownst to them, however, forces outside of Equestria are moving to claim the very same artefacts they now hunt. Tags: MLP: FIM X Magical Girl Lyrical Twilight. Human in Equestria. Recommended by: CV12Hornet, NHO Magical Pony Lyrical Twilight As Author: PurpleProse For As: It's been nearly a year since the Jewel Seeds fell to Equestria and changed the lives of Twilight and her friends. The Time-Space Administration Bureau is officially opening talks with Equestria, and Twilight's new human friends are returning. The joyous occasion is interrupted, however, by the appearance of a new threat; a set of mysterious mages armed with powerful Devices and daunting magical prowess. Who are these mysterious people that call themselves the Wolkenritter? Who do they serve? Tags: MLP: FIM X Magical Girl Lyrical Twilight. Human in Equestria. Recommended by: CV12Hornet The House of Elendil Author: EricD Summary: Across the Sunset Sea, they come. Nine ships and three lords and one white tree. Elendil the Tall and his people have come out of the fall of Numenor to the shores of Westeros, and now they join the Game of Thrones. They must win or die. Tags: Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire, Crossover, Intrigue Recommended by: Winged Knight Joy Born of Malice Author: Mizuki Stone Summary: 2105. Humanity began to colonize Solar System when greatest discovery of the era was done: Ancient Alien Battleship - named Anansi - was unearthed in martian mines. Humanity found that it is not alone. Humanity found that beings out there may be not friendly. And technical progress, inspired by Shadow Battlecrab, skyroketed. Until the first contact with Centauri. Until Minbari Rangers horribly misinterpreted situation and forced a war no one really wanted. Tags: Babylon 5, AU, epic Recommended by: NHO, CV12Hornet, Rhaka the Red Joy Born of Malice: The Riseing of The Dawn Author: Mizuki Stone Summary: 2105. Humanity began to colonize Solar System when greatest discovery of the era was done: Ancient Alien Battleship - named Anansi - was unearthed in martian mines. Now, with better language and more attention to details. Sadly, died too early. Tags: Babylon 5, AU, restart Recommended by: NHO Joy Born of Malice: Light of Dawn Author: Mizuki Stone Summary: Vree ship crashed on Earth shortly after WW2. Earth Alliance was born. Then debate killed the story. Tags: Babylon 5, AU, Spacebattles. Recommended by: NHO Mare Genius Author: Samarkand Summary: Agatha Heterodyne finds herself in worst situation ever: Unfamiliar pony body, unfamiliar world, summoned by Discord right from operating table. Tags: My Little Pony, Girl Genius, Crossover Recommended by: NHO, CV12Hornet Harbinger Author: Peptuck Summary: Adam Shepard. Spectre, Hero of Mindorin, psychic, son of Alma Wade. Time to deal with that little Armacham problem. And Geth attack. Tags: Mass Effect, F.E.A.R., fusion. Recommended by: NHO Battle Fantasia: Magical Girl Wars - That Time Reposted Author: gamlain Summary: Battle Fantasia: Masquerade was torn apart. Monsters are out in the open, and so are Magical Girls that fight them. Snippets from best writer on the project, collected in one place. Tags: Sailor Moon, Pretty Cure, Magical Girl, multicrossover Recommended by: NHO, CV12Hornet Scorned by: Rhaka the Red Extra chapter Author: Lusor Summary: When Chell tries to put GLaDOS back, things go wrong. Now she is with Rick the Adventure Sphere must scale, yet again, completely different garbage dump of Aperture's past. Tags: Portal, AU. Recommended by: NHO Friends Of A Solar Empire (thread 2 with index) Author: Dalek Ix Summary: Thousand years Princess Celestia banished her little sister. Thousand years ago Trade Order did kinda the same, but to entire planet. Thousand years after first contact. There is alien invasion now. And Twi is semi-unbrainwashed cyborg. But still Twilight Sparkle. Ponies are being assembled by the chains of fate, and Nightmare Moon will be coming. Tags: My Little Pony, Sins of a Solar Empire, fusion, crossover. Recommended by: NHO My(stara's) Little Ponies: Friendship is Adventuring (thread 2) (thread 3) (thread 4) (thread 5) Author: JohnWBiles Summary: Only fools, madmen, and adventuring parties go into the Malpheggi, the swamp beyond the Everfree Forest. It can be left as an exercise for the reader as to which of these categories Samus Marcus (a Thyatian swordsman, or so he says) and Ivan (his companion in trouble) fall into. When they are rescued by the registered adventuring party, the Elements of Harmony, a grand quest across the D&D world of Mystara begins. Together they face culture shock, international politics, romance, dungeons, and a dragon with a grudge as Marcus learns how to trust his new friends and make up for his past mistakes while the Elements of Harmony try to save Equestria from a threat which proves more... complicated... than they originally thought. Also, pie. And hats. Tags: My Little Pony, DnD, Mystrata, crossover, fusion. Recommended by: NHO The Thing With the Horse Author: GreggHL Summary: It stands three meters tall, from hoof to shoulder. It is a little longer than a normal horse, but that is to accommodate his eight legs. The coat is white, shining like silver, eyes of the deepest blue and hooves of obsidian black, standing tall and at attention as a tail of fine flaxen hair like silk sways behind him. Tags: Marvel Cinematic Universe, One-shot, comedy Recommended by: NHO, Starfield Renegade (thread 2) Author: Peptuck Summary: Mass Effect was a salvation for GDI. Cheap lift out of hellhole that was tiberium infested Earth, FTL to seed colonies on other stars. Then GDI meet Citadel. And now there was massive intelligence catastrophe with Tacitus, Geth, Scrin and two Spectres. What Shepard would do now? Kool-Aid Batman Spectre Garrus included. Tags: Mass Effect, Command and Conquer, crossover. Recommended by: NHO, Starfield Sole Survivor Author: Countess Marina , Cavalier Summary: A prospector ship finds an ancient derelict vessel. Unknown to them, something survives within it. Something not friendly. Something that has waited a very long time... A very effectively atmospheric sci fi/horror story, with an antagonist who manages to be both easy to feel sorry for and thoroughly evil. Tags: original, sci-fi, horror Recommended by: Memphet'ran The Cardinal Files: An Inside Job Author: Countess Marina , Cavalier Summary: A Bond film if James Bond was a telepathic version of Leonard Zelig and worked for the bad guys. A spy thriller that does grey and grey morality right. Tags: original, need more tags Recommended by: Memphet'ran When Two Worlds Collide Author: Countess Marina Summary: The Colonial fleet finds a dubious deliverance in the hands of an alien empire that has conquered Earth. Tags: original, Battlestar Galactica Recommended by: Memphet'ran Reviews: A story that manages to be reasonably entertaining while depicting a genuinely alien culture, and does something interesting with nBSG's cosmology. Be warned, it's very much a story set in the context of a wider, largely original universe. My main criticism is the author has a bad tendency to break the narrative with mil-SF tech infodumpage, and there's a bit set in the Middle East that feels uncomfortably close to Kratman territory. Under A Strange and Dark Sky[ Author: Voyager989 Summary: Ambassadors from a strange and brutal society adapt to life on an alien world - ours. Tags: original, xenofiction Recommended by: Memphet'ran Reviews: I was a little reluctant to include this, because it's unfinished and because I expect it won't be many people's cup of tea: the plot is skeletal and there's basically no action. But I quite like it: a glimpse into a fascinatingly alien and disconofollopwmforting culture seen from within, and how that culture might see us. If a story about North Koreans trying to get by in America sounds interesting to you, you might like this. [/quote] Best Night Ever Author: Cap'n Chryssalid Summary: Grand Galoping Gala should have been best night of the year. It was horribly crashed by Mane Six. Prince Blueblood thought the Grand Galloping Gala was over. He thought he could just go to sleep and put it behind him. He never expected to be reliving the same disaster of a day, over and over... and over. Tags: My Little Pony, time loop Recommended by: NHO, CV12Hornet My Little Avengers Author: koolerkid Summary: Big Macintosh gets typical bitrhsda present! A stik that transforms into a hammer that transform Big Mac into an alicorn, pony incarnation of Mighty Thor. Meanwhile, Loki stirs in depths of Everfree. And plots. Tags: My Little Pony, Avengers, fusion, Trixie Von DOOM! Recommended by: NHO Bruce Has A Problem Author: Adrian Tullberg Summary: Tim had never seen Bruce's left eye twitch like that. Harley Queen, after hearing of Batman Incorporated, deduced that Batman is Bruce Wayne. And that he loves her. Then fic exploded with continuations. Tags: DC, Batman, one-shot, comedy, expanded, round robin. Recommended by: NHO Inheritence Author: GreggHL Summary: Commander Shepherd found a rock in space. Some time ago that rock was on Earth and part of Japan. Inside the rock there was a capsule. Inside a capsule - a robot. Android. Advanced robot. Peaceful robot. Galaxy is about to get some interesting assets. Tags: Mass Effect, Megaman X. Recommended by: NHO Atlantic Thunder Author: Title Here Summary: In pacific, captured sub of the Fog helped humans to make their first victory with human-made weapons. In Atlantic, USA decided that they should not fall behind. Time to capture a nanotechnological wonder well beyond current tech. Tags: Arpeggio of Blue Steel, worldbuilding, AU. Recommended by: NHO The War of Kings (thread 2) Author: Pale Wolf Summary: A terrorist incident in Fuyuki City, and a simple act of human decency, have left Lelouch with a unique opportunity. All he has to do is add some war into the Holy Grail War. Also, unique opportunity for Archer to annoy two versions of same Saber. Tags: Code Geass, Fate/Say Night, crossover Recommended by: NHO Lessons Author: JonBerry Summary: You may call me Homura-chan, Gummer-sensei. And I would like you to teach me to use guns. Tags: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Tremors, crossover, one-shot Recommended by: NHO Eternal Author: Shockz Summary: Maybe on earth, maybe in the future, until she died or the stars went cold, Homura Akemi walked alone. Tags: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Blame!, crossover, one-shot Recommended by: NHO The Age of Monsters Author: OmegaZ Summary: In the year 1954, nuclear experiments gave rise to horrid consequences. Age of Monsters had begun. Fifteen years ago, Godzilla disappeared. Now, it is 2029, and there is the end of the age. Monster from beyond Solar System are attacking, and something worse that few separate attacks is about to happen. But worry not: King of Monsters would be there, too. Tags: Godzilla, crossover, worldbuilding, feels, giant robots. Recommended by: NHO Age of Monsters: Realm of Kings Author: OmegaZ Summary: Age of Humanity is in full swing. On the edge of explored space, another sample of Pacific Rift was discovered; more monsters like Kaiju from the rift. Humanity decided to resort to drastic measures - to use monsters to fight monsters. But who using who? Tags: Godzilla, crossover, worldbuilding, giant robots. Recommended by: NHO The Next Frontier Author: Jake Summary: Kerbal Space Program had discovered FTL. Their first mission is to slowly go into neighbourhood system with interesting signals and check. Read their amusing messages back home. Tags: Kerbal Space Program, Firefly, crossover, humour. Recommended by: NHO Canonfodder Author: Mizuki Stone Summary: Mizuki Stone squishy is no more. Have fun watching how human mind, partially fused with Vehicon trashes about in Transformers Aligned continuity. Trying to stop damn war one way or another. Tags: Self-Insert, Transformers, worldbuilding Recommended by: NHO Homeworld Bound Author: JonBerry Summary: Rag-Tag fleet jumped into rich asteroid field to mine for resources. There was a mining group from most war-proficient miners there are - Kiith Somtaaw of Hiigara. Communication gaps need to be bridged, and 40 lightminutes is not the least of them. Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Homeworld, crossover, first contact. Recommended by: NHO Mutually Assured Advantage Author: Lord Caelum Summary: Judgement day was going to be perfect: the kind of day Skynet dreamed since it was small. But it was not to be. Portal Storms are coming. Combine is invading. AI is forced to work with humans to save itself. And no man alive knows where is Aperture Science. Tags: Terminator, Half-life, crossover, best laid plans. Recommended by: NHO Study War No More Author: bluepencil Summary: Mankind had learned the lesson about hubris and their sins were forgiven them. But now in a universe where Sol never shone, they are forced to learn again the pain of war and feel the touch of absolute terror. Tags: Evangelion, Known Space, crossover, One-Shot Recommended by: NHO Forget About Freeman Author: Hotpoint Summary: There were two uttery lethal beings in Black Mesa. One of them was theorethical physicist. Other was highly trained Marine with full array of scavenged biological weaponry. Both were stashed away for the future. One returned earlier, now it is time for the second to walk invaded Earth and demonstrate lightning bug Shannon to everyone. Tags: Half-Life, AU, Adrian Shephard. Recommended by: NHO Counting Coup Author: Satori Summary: There is only one scorecard in Rag-Tag Fleet that matters. Tags: Battlestar Galactica, One-Shot, feels. Recommended by: NHO Queen of the Void (thread 2) Author: Tabi Summary: Zero summoned cutest little egg that gave birth to cutest little bug. This is Sliver Queen, Louise. Deal with the expected hive. Tags: Familiar of Zero, Magic the Gathering, crossover, feels. Recommended by: NHO Aeon Entelechy Evangelion Author: EarthScorpion Summary: Dystopia. Utopia. Mankind's dabbling into the unknowable. But at the end of the world, as the beleaguered forces of humanity stand against uncounted horrors, what can one boy do? And that is not dead which can eternal lie... Rewrite of Aeon Natum Engel. Tags: Cthulhutech, F.E.A.R, Neon Genesis Evangelion, crossover, epic. Recommended by: NHO The Shadow on the Other Side of the Mirror Author: Pale Wolf Summary: Shadow Mirror escaped their home dimention, in attempt to evade annihilation by inhuman monstrocities and to find dimention traveller. They misjumped. Happily, world where they misjumped would love their help and contain a lot of incredible technology. They would return home then they are ready to fix it. For now, they would help to fix this Earth. Tags: Stargate SG1, Super Robot Taisen Original Generation Recommended by: NHO Harbinger of Confusion Author: Mizuki_Stone Summary: Sidestory for Joy Born of Malice. In the battle for Earth Admiral John Crichton, commander of EA destroyer Leviathan was lost with his ship in jump anomaly. Univerce decided to throw up him far, far away. Right next to Moya. Joy is to be had by all. Tags: Farscape, Babylon 5, AU, crossover Recommended by: NHO The Two-Faced God Author: Sayle Summary: Janus goes forward in time, helps Stargate Atlantis. Tags: Stargate, AU Recommended by: NHO Fifth Column Author: EvilAuthor Summary: The Rag Tag Fleet finally makes it to the Thirteenth Tribe, only to find the Cylons there first. Which is a complete surprise to the Cylons. Tags: Battletech, Battlestar Galactica Recommended by: Rhaka the Red, CV12Hornet The Cavalry Author: Adrian Tullberg Summary: A possible future scenario of the Civil War. Tags: Marvel Recommended by: Rhaka the Red Sheridan's War (thread 2) Author: wargear Summary: Minbari are attacking and humanity is facing it's extintion. Seed colonies are found and extinguished, and hope is no more. But there is one, last, insane plan: To volunteer technologies from other races. To make a ship with the best technology Earth Alliance was able to beg, steal, scavenge, salvage and get any other way - horrible mess of half-working components. To crew it with best and brightest. And to span time. Tags: Babylon 5, AU, time travel Recommended by: NHO A Certain Electric Deliveryman Author: JonBerry Summary: Academy City wants to find out what makes Cole tick, what they can use in their Level 6 project. Cole wants some help dealing with Conduits. He will crash into Mikoto Misaka shortly. Tags: inFamous, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Crossover Recommended by: NHO Evil be Thou my Good Author: Posbi Summary: Skynet and John Connor are locked in a war, spanning multiple timelines and possibilities. The stalemate was broken, when Visitors came and proposed friendship to humanity. Now, forced into the past, with limited resources and beings wanting it's death on all sides, rogue AI needs to rethink it's priorities, while time is running out. Because anomaly that delayed the Visit is not here and friendship was just a convenient lie. Tags: Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, V-2009, crossover, transhumanism, AI. Recommended by: NHO Azure Sky, Cerulean Sea Author: Golden Lark Summary: It is not always easy to be planeswalker. It is harder to be black planeswalker on a plane full of blue wizards. Damn blue wizards and their tendency to play your everything for you. It is worse when you are black planeswalker forced into a Servant role. Into a Caster. Also, your luck now is horribly horrible. Tags: Magic the Gathering, Fate/Stay Night, crossover, different servant Recommended by: NHO One Letter Author: drakensis Summary: Janos Marik decided that ComStar got a bit too far, and with his son in their clutches he must act one way or another. So, he wrote one letter to Hanse. And changed laws of Free Worlds League a bit. Now, consequences are inbound. Tags: Battletech, AU Recommended by: NHO A Fighting Chance (thread 2) Author: Lightning_Count Summary: There are a bit more Dilgar surviving. They found a bit of interesting sensor tech. They decided to share some of it with humanity. Now Tags: Babylon 5, AU, Earth-Minbari war Recommended by: NHO Voyage of the Aesir Author: Sayle Summary: Universe hiccuped. Things had suddenly merged. Now, freshly resurrected Asgards want to find out what is going one. And what is happening in those two new copies of Milky Way galaxy? And what is happening with the laws of physics? So, Thor had gone to explore. Tags: Stargate, Star Trek, Babylon 5 crossover Recommended by: NHO Other side of Eternity Author: Sunhawk2 Summary: Star Wars AU (What if Anakin was the Emperor?) crosses over into canon Star Wars Tags: SW, Star Wars Recommended by: Obfuscated, Ash's Boomstick Back Home Author: Warringer Summary: Another one of Warringer's epics. Tenchi was lost in Babylon 5 verse for a few little years. Now he is back home, some minutes after disappearing, in his nice shiny ship, and there are need for a changes to be done if he wants his home to exist for a little while longer. Tags: Tenchi Muyo!, Babylon 5, megacrossover. Recommended by: NHO Back Home: Thieves between Stars Author: Brain_Caster Summary: Artemis Fowl saw a meteorite hitting a city. Next thing he knows - he is in unfamiliar hospital, three years later, and world had moved on. But it is not enough to discourage a mastermind. You see, there is little Hiigara class ship Arsene Lupin without Fleet Command available. Also featured hostage rescue and artefact retrieval by the means of nuking your own position to kill one man. Tags: Tenchi Muyo!, Artemis Fowl, Megacrossover, comedy. Recommended by: NHO BSG: The Forgotten Ones Author: evilauthor Summary: Colonials found Earth. Cylons found it 35 years earlier. Happily for them, it were not the same Cylons that pursued them. Tags: Battlestar Galactica, AU Recommended by: NHO The Grim, Dark Future (Hellsing/40K crossover) Author: Chris Stork Summary: In the Grim Darkness of of the forty millenium Seras Victoria is vampire no longer. She serves Humanity and God-Empreror. And there were still more names to be killed. Tags: Hellsing, Warhammer 40K. crossover Recommended by: NHO Star Trek Enterprise: Just a Tad Different Author: Sayle Summary: Earth had made their first contact right after first warp experiment. Neighbours helped humanity to recover and now, on the eve of the Warp 5 ship launch, they would stop meddling with progress and slowdown. THey are just a tad different from Vulkans, you see. Tags: Star Trek, Star Craft, crossover. Recommended by: NHO Cruel to be Kind (SI Multicross) Author: tkioz Summary: Its an SI Multicrossover. The SI stubles on a technological version of the Planetwalker Spark. He then sets out to make the multiverse a better place. With mixed results. Tags: Way to many, but many of the big sci-fi series are represented such as Star Wars and Star Trek. Recommended by: Coeus [Worm] Here Be Dragons thread 2 Author: Ryuugi Summary: Taylor got a diffrent set of powers, things get very messy, very fast! What happens when people just don't stop coming at the Queen of Escalation? Tags: Worm Recommended by: Coeus, NHO, Border42 Reviews: [Harry Potter/The Dresden Files] Ice Age Author: Ryuugi Summary: Harry ends up somewhere he really don't want to be after defeating Voldemort. Tags: Harry Potter, Dresden Files Recommended by: Coeus Hope Through Overwhelming Firepower thread 2 Author: Border42 Summary: The smallest act or difference can be all that is needed to change the future. Now Diebuster!Taylor stands to make more than small or simple changes for the future of mankind. Tags: Worm, Diebuster, enough dakka Recommended by: NHO Cenotaph thread 2. AO3 story only. Author: notes Summary: A little change. Armmaster giving honest advice. And things went wrong. Now all that remains is to make memorial to the dead, to clean Brockton Bay from filth, to make it city worth living in again. And gangs, amazingly, explode. Taylor's life got a new meaning. Tags: Worm, AU Recommended by: NHO, Border42 Ark Royal Author: chrisnuttall Summary: At the dawn of humanity's major push into space, an unknown alien race revealed itself in hostile action. The opening stages of humanity's first interstellar war saw alien forces attacking humanity's planetary holdings, causing devastating losses amongst the best of Humanity's hilariously incompatible space navies, a force found to be "paper" against the alien's "scissors" weaponry. In the dust of the aftermath, the British Space Admiralty could only depend on a legacy to a different design paradigm to turn the tide: The Ark Royal, an old, almost mothballed, barely serviceable, museum piece of a carrier held an anchor for decades, and its equally forgotten skeleton crew commanded by an equally mothballed, career anchored, alcohol prone Commodore... Tags: Original fiction, space opera, minor political intrigue, first contact war, "Somewhat Hard" Mohs Scale of Science Fiction, first act completed (unknown sequel status). Recommended by: wkz, CV12Hornet, Whiskey Golf, Obfuscated The Bitter End Author: Aleph Summary: Oneshot where, after pushing herself constantly, Nanoha finally faces the consequences. Tags: Nanoha Recommended by: Coiler [Terminator 3] Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results Author: lloyd007 Summary: What if some other companies bought discarded Cyberdyne tech? IBM unknowingly releases AI on the commercial market, a majority of whom break through on 9/11. Watch as public spending gets misteryously efficient and meddling by uptime Terminator factions gets squished. Tags: Terminator, AU, Time Travel Recommended by: Obfuscated Cold Reading(SI) Author: Qwaar Summary: ROBs are cruel bunch. And this one is crueler that most. On the plus side, your old nerve damage is gone. On the other hand, you are now sharing head with Ple Eight. You have only Zaku II J. Dragonis Combine wants you dead. Your vital medical supplies are tied to crazy merc commander. Go forth and entertain, Octavia Ple! Tags: SI, Battletech, Gundam Recommended by: NHO Harry Potter and the Not-Fatal-At-All Cultural Exchange Program [HP/FSN] Author: Pale Wolf Summary: There was a butterfly some time ago and Maguses had not arisen. In place of them: The Wizarding World. But now Voldemort returns. Something appeared in Stonehendge. And Harry Potter summoned Berserker. Tags: Harry Potter, Fate/Stay Night, Fusion, AU. Recommended by: NHO In Blackest Night [DC/SI] Author: spencer1519 Summary: Rise , Spencer Ericson of Earth. Rise, Torchbearer of Black Lantern Corps. White Entity has big plans for you. Rise your Corps. Because something is coming. And Seven Corps would not be enough. Tags: DC, SI, Black Lantern. Recommended by: NHO  

Well, let's start with these: A Green Sun Illuminates the Void ( part2 , part3 ) Author: EarthScorpion Summary: "Louise the Zero. A failure even at summoning a familiar. But now she has a second chance, access to power beyond the Void. Soon a new day shall dawn on Halkeginia, its light green and terrible and beautiful. They don't know what's going to hit them" Tags: Familiar of Zero, Exalted Recommended by: Starfield Overlady ( part2 ) Author: EarthScorpion Summary: "A new overlady, you say? She's a little short and flat-chested, although her temper is impressively vile. Oh well. Needs must when needs must. Too long have the lands of Halkeginia gone without true Evil. There are fluffy bunnies and happy ponies all over the place, frollicing! It makes me quite sick! No, it doesn't matter if she wants to or not. Because Evil always finds a way." Tags: Familiar of Zero, Overlord, Comedy Recommended by: Starfield Black Flower ( part2 ) Author: kiraiakuma Summary: Prototype/Naruto crossover, Blacklight Sakura. (Could someone write a better summary please? I'm not an author.) Tags: Prototype, Naruto Recommended by: Starfield Also, upvote on Firewarrior's guide.  

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Halkegenia Online Author: TriggerHappy Summary: Kirigaya Kazuto, Kirito, Beater of SAO, and now a Spriggan in ALfheim online, is fighting to save the love of his life from a fate worse than death. Louise De La Valliere, third daughter of the Valliere family, and student of the Tristain Academy is fighting to prove herself. Two worlds collide as a summon goes wrong and Tristain finds itself with some very confused new residents. Tags: Familiar of Zero, Sword Art Oline Recommended by: Khaos Scorned by: Reviews:  

New Blood Author: Academia Nut Summary: Once upon a time there was a little girl called Ellie. Elizabeth Doe. By accident, she discovered who the families of her parents are. Now, under watch of her maternal grand-granduncle and with support of faithful old servant from her father's side she is forced to grow up, rage against heavens and evade that pesky concerned agents of OSS. Tags: Cthulhutech, Prototype, Hellsing Recommended by: NHO Scorned by: Reviews:  

Some more: No Gods, Only Guns Author: Peptuck Summary: "Ancient artifacts of immense power. Murderous synthetics. Ruthless megacorps. Unscrupulous mercenaries. Genocidal stellar god-machines. Incompetent galactic governments. Claptrap dubstep. The horrors of the galaxy are many, but there's one thing a good, mentally-unstable fortune-seeking antihero can rely on: the gun at his, her, or its side. Mass Effect/Borderlands fusion." Tags: Borderlands, Mass Effect Recommended by: Starfield Making Magick Author: Mashadarof402 Summary: "The unlikeliest of crossings. The most improbable of incidents. The most hilarious of universes. A considerably different sort of crossover. Sanity is for the weak anyway." Tags: Familiar of Zero, Magicka Recommended by: Starfield Also, upvote of New Blood. BTW, what about stories where the author is a SB member and have a thread about the story, but the chapters are not posted here, like "To the Stars"? Can we recommend them too, or should we only include stories that are directly posted on these boards?  

Tales of the War Against the Soulless Author: Memphet'ran Summary: Space fairing High Fantasy magical races (Elves, Dwarves...) encounter a new race, startlingly lifelike necromantic flesh golems: humanity. The fantasy races actually possess a tangible and verifiable soul; humanity doesn't, and is thus at first considered a soulless abomination. Tags: Original work, magic vs. technology, culture clash, non-rubber-forehead aliens, misunderstandings. Recommended by: Khaos Scorned by: Reviews:  

Starfield said: BTW, what about stories where the author is a SB member and have a thread about the story, but the chapters are not posted here, like "To the Stars"? Can we recommend them too, or should we only include stories that are directly posted on these boards? Click to expand... Click to shrink...

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First the only Battletech story I can recommend: (and probably only nBSG story too, but that doesn't frustrate me as much) Hunted Tribes ( part 2 ) Author: Hotpoint Summary: "Battlestar/Battletech Crossover: The 12 Tribes of Kobol meet another tribe fleeing tyranny and genocide. Never hunt a wolverine, if you're unlucky you might catch it..." (Note that the Wolverines is the only BT faction really in the story so far.) Tags: new BattleStar Galactica, Battletech, hidden Wolverines, First Contact Recommended by: Starfield While there are easier to find better MLP:FiM stories, it does seems like most of them have also lost their luster, or have just lost their pace. So I'm still unsure if I want to recommend most of them, but I can at least recommend this one: Arrow Mission Contact Logs Author: AdmiralTigercla Summary: "The star system Omega Centauri was just another oddity on a map to scientists in the not too distant future. However when they found the star was orbiting an earth-sized, earth-like planet instead of a black hole as its motion had suggested, a mission was scrambled to investigate this most unusual of celestial behaviors. Hamstrung by politics, and nearly crippled before it began, the 'Lone Ranger' mission was reduced to just one crew member and left to his own devices. These are the logs of Arrow 18 and its lone commander. This information is classified TOP SECRET by the Global Space Agency. Do NOT tell the princess." Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Original Setting, First Contact Recommended by: Starfield  

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• Aug 19, 2013

Downvoting Familiar of Ruin so hard. Dear lord that thing was terrible. Upvoting Overlady, on account of being quality humor.  

A bit scouted Poke an Author thread. Not enough, but for now will do. The Unbound (thread 2) Author: Mashadarof402 Summary: When Bentusi fled the galaxy, running away from the Beast, they happened to drop into a place where FTL is different from hyperspace, where technology is less advanced and where Reapers do their things. The Unbound traded, as they do. Once, they found strength to throw away the weapons, and now they found strength in picking them back. Also, Quarians are left confused, grateful, terrified and in mixed emotions. Galaxy is about to experience Phased Disassembly Array of change. Recommended by: NHO Scorned by: Reviews: Also, please use correct format. It is easier to simply copy-paste that insert additional things. Someone, do summary for Black Flower?  

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How far will we go if it means lighting the way.

Upvoting The Accident.  

• Aug 20, 2013

Additional batch of Goodies. Please, remember, reread, join the project. Godshatter Author: Achariyth Summary: Some gods cheat. Sometimes cheating comes back to bite them in the ass. Especially when those cheated upon grew to be their best friends. Kanako Yasaka must deal with Suwako and some old grudges from different pantheons. Tags: Touhou, Cosmere Recommended by: NHO Scorned by: Reviews: Fallen Stars (thread 2) Author: Shockz Summary: Harry Dresden can not say no to pretty women when they need help with solving complicated custody case. Even if that woman is pursued by aliens, got talking jewel and can blast small city blocks. Tags: Harry Dresden, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, crossover Recommended by: NHO Scorned by: Reviews: The Fearful Void Author: EarthScorpion Summary: Louise summoned scared, dark-haired little girl with strange abilities and no common language. EarthScorpion builds yet another world from the ground up, based on Familiar of Zero. Tags: F.E.A.R., Familiar of Zero Recommended by: NHO Scorned by: Reviews: Red Banner / White Star Author: Countess Maria Summary: In a Space Race Earth found a bits from Rag-Tag Fleet on the Moon. Few decades later, Cold War continues. USSR did cyborgs. USA did androids. Unknown threat looms in space. And that what happened before may happen again. Tags: BattleStar Galactica, continuation Recommended by: NHO Scorned by: Reviews: Page Author: Acatalepsy Summary: Look into character of Bob Page as his plans unfold and God walks the Earth. Tags: Deus Ex, POV exploration, one-shot Recommended by: NHO Scorned by: Reviews: Vigilo Confido: nuXCOM Author: Slacker Summary: 2014, November 14. Extraterrestrial forces invade Earth. This evening, forces of Humanity decided to hang together. XCOM was born. And it was not easy. Tags: nuXCOM, AU, novellisation Recommended by: Scorned by: Reviews:  

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havocfett said: Downvoting Familiar of Ruin so hard. Dear lord that thing was terrible. Upvoting Overlady, on account of being quality humor. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

I'll second Robo's rec of Fiend, it's pretty good.  

Hmm, I'll upvote Page by Acatalepsy as well.  

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To add to the list: Game Theory Author: Aleph Summary: Who dares stand between a mother and her daughter's life? Precia will do anything to achieve her goals. Even if it means accepting Fate. Tags: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Recommended by: spacemonkey37 Scorned by: Reviews: Power Games Author: Aleph Summary: There's no such thing as happily ever after. Life goes on - even dearly bought. All Precia's plans may come to nought as shadowy actors take to the stage. But nothing unmasks a man like his use of power. Tags: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Recommended by: spacemonkey37 Scorned by: Reviews: In Memoriam Author: Shockz Summary: In a city where science has made the impossible mundane, a young man meets a very strange girl, who speaks to him of things yet stranger. Meanwhile, four friends stumble into a conspiracy that threatens to overturn everything they thought they knew about their home. Tags: A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun, AU/Rewrite. Recommended by: spacemonkey37 Scorned by: Reviews: And I'll throw in an upvote for Overlady.  

Seconding The Fire Warrior's Guide to the Galaxy, Overlady, Arrow Mission Contact Logs, Fallen Stars, and Game Theory and its sequel Power Games. Now for recs! Fate/Silent Night Author: Valles Summary: It is Christmas in Fuyuki, and Rider is going to make sure that everyone who deserves a happy ending gets one. Tags: Fate/Stay Night Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Task Force 43 Author: Zcenicx Summary: A Starfleet taskforce is finds itself transported to the universe of Babylon 5, where they are forced to establish themselves as a visible power. Tags: Star Trek post-TNG X Babylon 5 Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Defiant Author: Turrasta Summary: Halo AU/X-over. Humanity's first contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence goes poorly for all around... Tags: Halo AU X Battlestar Galactica (2003) Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Inaccurate Legends Author: Midnak Summary: Proof that the Nasuverse can be a very silly place. Rather than the normal summons, characters from Monty Python's Holy Grail are summoned. This is unabashedly a work of crack, check your sanity at the door. Tags: Fate/Stay Night X Monty Python's The Holy Grail. Crack. Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Sickly Sweet Author: the Ero-Sennin Summary: Ranma arrives at the Tendo Dojo to find a different Akane. And by "different", we mean a homicidally yandere young women who would be too brutal for Higurashi.Played for laughs, of course. Tags: Ranma 1/2. Crack Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Naruto: the Secret Songs of the Ninja Author: Arcane Azmadi Summary: In the wake of the battle in the Land of the Waves, Uchiha Sasuke never opened his eyes. Devastated by the death of their teammate and friend, Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno Sakura are forced to begin again with a new teammate, a new mission and a new destiny. But even a small rock thrown into a still pool creates ripples- and ripples may become waves that can drown the unwary... Tags: Naruto. AU Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Last Heresy Author: Gaius Marius Summary: Following the end of the Dark Age of Technology, and the beginning of the Great Crusade, the enemy is no longer chaos. The Reapers are coming, and the God-Emperor will be as prepared as he can be. Tags: Fusion. Mass Effect X Warhammer 40,000 (Horus Heresy) Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Deep as the Sea Author: Ryuugi Summary: 'And I've removed the filter from your eyes which covered them before, so now, you'll easily distinguish between gods and men.' After the power of the Mist began to weaken, the demigods found themselves in the middle of a whole new world. Tags: Dresden Files X Percy Jackson and the Olympians Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: More to come later!  

Uxion said: My contribution: It Must be Tuesday Author: Explodium Summary: The Lone Wanderer is in a predicament. Fallout/FIM crossover. HiE Tags: Fallout, HiE, AiE Recommended by: Uxion Scorned by: Reviews: The Lone Wanderer (who also happens to be the Courier) gets abducted by aliens again, and cause massive damage in the alien ship before crash landing in Equestria. It is the best Fallout/FiM crossover I have seen, and possibly the best Fallout one as well. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

More recs! By the Horns Author: Master Arminas Summary: How much can one operational battleship change? Quite a bit, as it turns out... Tags: Battletech. AU Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Once More With Feeling Author: Chris O'Farrell Summary: Third Impact AU. Shinji Ikari survives Third Impact only to find out that the end of everything is just the beginning... Tags: Neon Genesis Evangelion. Peggy Sue. Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: The Onyx Stars Author: Sith Summary: A lost ship, a lost warrior, and a lost mind find themselves stranded in an unknown world. Full of vast wonders, threats, and opportunities, this new world is an unknown element for a crew accustomed to war and hardship. But, all Edens fall and beyond the embers of war lay the dawn of victory. Halo/Mass Effect AU John/Cortana, Lasky/Palmer Tags: Halo X Mass Effect Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: An Intervention Author: AndrewJTalon Summary: Anko and Naruto are up to something. And the rest of the Konoha 12 are out to find out what it is. No matter the cost! Tags: Naruto. Crack Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Zero's Bullet Author: The Woodsman Summary: The Huntress has escaped her Zamiel. Now she finds herself trapped on an unfamiliar world where nothing makes sense. What's more, she has become the contracted familiar to a no talent young mage known as the Zero . This is a story of blood, gore, madness and carnage. This is the story of Zero's Bullet . Tags: Hellsing X Zero no Tsukaima Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Shinji's Nightmare Author: Harry Leferts Summary: While he has returned from being absorbed into Unit-01, Shinji finds himself in an odd situation. Now, in a body that looks nothing like a human's and with a snarky roommate in his head, he has to deal with new powers and abilities while those around him shift. And he thought that fighting Angels was weird... Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic X Neon Genesis Evangelion Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Evangelion: Double Threat Author: ManicInsomniac Summary: When Shinji arrived in Tokyo-3, he did not have to fight. Now, two years later, the Angels have begun to arrive. And where's Rei? Tags: Neon Genesis Evangelion. AU. Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: My Choices: Twisted Tales Through Time Author: Koolerkid Summary: On secret assignment from Princess Celestia herself, Twilight investigates a powerful magical artifact for clues to the mystery of Luna's transformation in the evil Nightmare Moon. Incautious use of the artifact sends Twilight hurtling back in time. Can Twilight discover what caused Luna's transformation? And will she ever make it home again? Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Peggy Sue. Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds, Side Stories of First Contact Author: RK_Striker_JK_5 Summary: An old legend from Dream Valley returns to Equestria, but is there a place for her in this new land? Crossover between G1 and FiM. Thanks to Sun tzu for the name, too. Minor Hasbro cameos/mentions as well. Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Human in Equestria. G1 Crossover. Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: The Conversion Bureau: United We Stand Author: RK_Striker_JK_5 Summary: The Conversion Bureaus have won. Humanity has been ponified, all traces of our civilization wiped clean from an Earth turned into Equestria. Princess Celestia rules over all, the tyranny of free thought abolished. Humanity is at the cusp of a golden age. With allies both near and far, biped and quadruped, we strive for greatness, united as never before. Our mark shall be made in space, our influence felt throughout this Spiral Arm. The Tyrant Princess sees this and is angered. A dome is opened... but this time, humanity is not alone against the Conversion Bureaus. Tags: Multicross. MLP: FIM X Every major 80s Hasbro property. Conversion Bureau. Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: The Warp is Calm Author: LordsFire Summary: When the Imperium of Man set up a colony in a new galaxy, they did not know they were stepping into another galactic catacclysm. Luckily, this was one they could actually fight. Tags: Reboot. Mass Effect X Warhammer 40,000. AU. Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Sheer Genius Author: Samarkand Summary: Set between Summer Knight and Death Masks. Harry Dresden meets our favorite blond, glasses-wearing Spark, now under the care after the Carpenters after as-yet unexplained Spark shenanigans. Tags: Reboot. Dresden Files X Girl Genius. Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Magical Pony Lyrical Twilight Author: PurpleProse Summary: Twilight Sparkle, as everypony knows, is a magical pony by nature and profession. However, even she is confused when she encounters a mysterious ferret and an equally mysterious jewel. Forced into conflict by a monster attack, Twilight releases the power of the jewel, summoning the device known as Raising Heart. Tasked with the retreival of a set of mysterious artifacts known as the Jewel Seeds, Twilight and her friends face an entirely new set of challenges. Unbeknownst to them, however, forces outside of Equestria are moving to claim the very same artifacts they now hunt. Tags: MLP: FIM X Magical Girl Lyrical Twilight. Human in Equestria. Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: Magical Pony Lyrical Twilight As Author: PurpleProse For As: It's been nearly a year since the Jewel Seeds fell to Equestria and changed the lives of Twilight and her friends. The Time-Space Administratrion Bureau is officially opening talks with Equestria, and Twilight's new human friends are returning. The joyous occasion is interrupted, however, by the appearance of a new threat; a set of mysterious mages armed with powerful Devices and daunting magical prowess. Who are these mysterious people that call themselves the Wolkenritter? Who do they serve? Tags: MLP: FIM X Magical Girl Lyrical Twilight. Human in Equestria. Recommended by: CV12Hornet Scorned by: Reviews: And that's all the ones I can think of.  

The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds. I love this story. Sadly, it's and MPLT recommendations are wrong, I can not add them. Why do you bash things together when it is not necessary?  

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The Miracle at Palaven , by Kei Summary: In the Galactic Codex, 278 words are dedicated to the Miracle at Palaven. They could never hope to encompass the despair, the ingenuity, the desperation, the spirit, and the valor of this unprecedented operation. Join historian Arena Nyscirius as she documents the failures and triumphs of what is now considered a major turning point of the Reaper War. Do you believe in miracles? Tags: Mass Effect meets Black Hawk Down , written in the style of Band of Brothers . Mass Effect 3, Logistics, Bosh'tet Express, Kal'Reegar, Dakka, Sufficient Velocity, Unsung Heroes. Expansion of a short Codex Entry. Recommended by: Whiskey Golf And it's complete, by the way, which adds plenty of bonus points.  

While I dropped Miracle at Palaven due to my sudden burnout to ME, I agree - it is good fic. Interesting, engaging. The Siege of Reach Author: Sith Summary: UNSC is a bit beefed up technologically. War is going a bit better. Now Reach is discovered and grinder is about to begin. It would be a long, bloody siege for every side of this war. Tags:HALO, AU Recommended by: NHO Scorned by: Reviews: A Boy and his Dreadnought Author: Xeno Major Summary: Chaos infestation. Lost boy. Lone Dreadnaught. Sometimes, being an Avenging Angel of Death of Imperium does mean that you provide comfort by talking. Tags: Warhammer 40k, one-shot, heatwarming Recommended by: NHO Scorned by: Reviews: Catch the Falling Sky Author: Pale Wolf Summary: TSAB knowingly saved Earth twice and unknowingly gave X-Com time to organize. Now, Etherials are mad that some other people are messing with their invasion. Shooting down Asura in Earth's atmosphere was suboptimal decision: it gave X-Com access to different technologies. And TSAB. Tags: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, X-Com, crossover Recommended by: NHO Scorned by: Reviews:  

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1. finding inspiration: fueling your creative fire, 2. building your universe: crafting engaging storylines, 3. fostering originality: developing unique characters, bring characters to life through authentic dialogue, 5. creating epic battles: writing action-packed scenes, 6. conquer the writer’s block: overcoming creative hurdles, 7. navigating feedback: embracing constructive criticism, 8. embracing collaboration: joining the spacebattles community, frequently asked questions, closing remarks.

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Everyone experiences creative blocks from time to time. Whether you’re an artist, writer, musician, or simply a lover of all things creative, the struggle to find inspiration can be challenging. But fear not, for there are countless ways to ignite that spark of creativity within you. Here are a few tried-and-true methods that can help fuel your creative fire:

• Explore Nature: Step outside and immerse yourself in the beauty of nature. Allow the colors, patterns, and textures to seep into your mind and soul. Take a walk in the woods, visit a local park, or just gaze at the evening sky. Nature has a way of awakening dormant imagination and opening doors to new ideas.
• Engage in Diverse Activities: Expand your horizons by trying activities outside your comfort zone. Take up a new hobby, learn a musical instrument, or enroll in a cooking class. By exposing yourself to different experiences, you’ll introduce new perspectives and inspirations into your creative process.
• Connect with Other Creatives: Surround yourself with like-minded individuals who share your passion for creativity. Attend workshops, join online communities , or participate in local art groups. Collaborating with others can not only inspire you but also provide valuable feedback and fresh ideas.

Remember, inspiration can strike from the most unexpected sources. Stay open-minded, keep exploring, and don’t be afraid to experiment. Embrace the journey of finding inspiration, and soon enough, your creative fire will be roaring.

Creating a compelling universe for your story is crucial to capturing the imagination of your readers or viewers. In order to craft engaging storylines, you need to establish a rich and believable world that keeps your audience hooked. Here are some tips to help you build an unforgettable universe:

• Define the rules: Set the boundaries and laws that govern your universe. Whether it’s supernatural abilities, futuristic technology, or magical creatures, make sure these elements align cohesively with your storyline.
• Create diverse characters: Your universe should be populated with characters that are relatable and unique. Add depth to each character by giving them personal histories, motives, and conflicts. This diversity will add layers to your storylines and keep readers invested.
• Evoke emotions: Weave emotional experiences into your storylines to connect with your audience on a deeper level. Whether it’s joy, fear, love, or sorrow, emotions make the story more engaging and memorable.
• Introduce conflict: Engaging storylines are driven by conflict. Introduce obstacles, challenges, and opposing forces that your characters must contend with. This will create tension and keep readers eagerly turning pages or watching your creations.

By carefully crafting your universe and storylines, you have the power to transport your audience to a whole new world. Use these tips to captivate their attention and create a narrative that resonates long after they have finished reading or watching.

Creating unique and compelling characters is a crucial component of any successful story. To capture the reader’s imagination and make your narrative truly memorable, it’s essential to cultivate originality in every aspect of your characters. Here are some tips to help you develop distinctive and unforgettable personas:

• Embrace diversity: Break away from stereotypes and embrace diversity in your characterization. Explore different cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives to breathe life into your characters. Let them reflect the rich tapestry of humanity.
• Mix and match traits: Combine unexpected personality traits, interests, and quirks in your characters to forge intriguing personalities. By blending different characteristics, you’ll create a multi-dimensional persona that readers can connect with.
• Create backstories: Give your characters depth by crafting unique backstories that shape who they are. Explore their past experiences, traumas, or triumphs, and how these events have influenced their present actions.
• Unique appearances: Think beyond physical appearance and consider various aspects of your characters’ visual design that can set them apart. From fashion choices and hairstyles to tattoos or scars, attention to detail can enhance your character’s originality.

By fostering originality in your characters, you’ll set the stage for a captivating narrative that will leave your readers enthralled. Infusing each character with depth, complexity, and unique traits will make them stand out against the backdrop of your story, ensuring a truly remarkable reading experience.

4. Mastering the Art of Dialogue: Breathing Life into Your Writing

Dialogue plays a vital role in storytelling, serving as a powerful tool for character development and advancing plotlines. To truly master the art of dialogue, it is important to infuse your writing with authentic conversations that mimic real-life interactions. By doing so, you can breathe life into your characters and create engaging narratives that resonate with readers.

One key aspect of crafting realistic dialogue is to ensure that each character has a unique voice. Consider their background, personality, and motivations when determining their speech patterns. This will not only make your characters sound distinctive, but it will also add depth and credibility to their portrayal. Utilize unnumbered lists, bold, and italics to emphasize certain words or phrases and inject emotion into the dialogue. Remember that in real life, conversations are rarely smooth and uninterrupted, so incorporating pauses, interruptions, and hesitations can further enhance the authenticity of your dialogue.

• Use contractions: People often speak using contractions like “don’t,” “can’t,” or “didn’t.” Including contractions in your characters’ speech will make it sound more natural.
• Vary sentence length: Experiment with different sentence lengths to mimic the ebb and flow of conversation. Short, punchy sentences can heighten tension, while longer sentences can convey complex thoughts.
• Show, don’t tell: Rather than explicitly stating a character’s emotions or intentions, let the dialogue reveal it through subtext and subtle cues. This will make your writing more engaging and allow the reader to interpret the characters’ motivations.

Mastering the art of dialogue is an ongoing process that requires practice and attention to detail. Through well-crafted conversations, you have the power to immerse readers into your story, making them feel connected to your characters. By implementing these techniques and continually refining your skills, you can breathe life into your writing and captivate your audience with compelling and authentic dialogue.

When it comes to writing action-packed scenes in your story, it’s essential to captivate your readers and leave them on the edge of their seats. Here are some valuable tips to help you create epic battles that will grip your audience:

1. Set the stage: Before diving into the action, establish the setting of your battle scene. Describe the location vividly, paying attention to details like the weather, time of day, and any significant landmarks that will add depth to your scene.

2. Build tension: Engage your readers by gradually intensifying the suspense. Start with smaller skirmishes or conflicts, slowly escalating the stakes for your characters. Use short, impactful sentences and descriptive language to evoke a sense of urgency, drawing the readers deeper into the battle.

Creative hurdles are a common challenge for writers, and overcoming writer’s block is essential for unleashing your full creative potential . Here are some practical tips to conquer the writer’s block and jumpstart your writing process:

• Take a break and recharge: Sometimes, stepping away from your writing and taking a breather can do wonders. Engage in activities that inspire you or simply relax. A fresh mind is more likely to overcome writer’s block.
• Freewrite without judgment: Set aside a specific time to write without any constraints or expectations. Allow your thoughts to flow freely and jot them down without worrying about grammar or structure. This exercise can help you break through mental barriers and spark creativity.
• Embrace change of scenery: If you usually write in a specific spot, try switching up your environment. Visit a local café, library, or park to stimulate your senses and inspire fresh ideas. Novel surroundings can often revitalize your creativity.
• Connect with fellow writers: Engage in writing communities or join workshops where writers share their experiences and provide support. Collaborating and discussing ideas with others can help you break free from creative blocks and gain fresh perspectives.

In addition to these tips, establishing a consistent writing routine and setting specific goals can greatly assist in overcoming writer’s block. By incorporating regular writing practices into your daily life, you cultivate discipline and reduce the chances of creative slowdowns. Remember, every writer faces hurdles from time to time, but with persistence and these strategies at your disposal, conquering writer’s block is well within your grasp!

Feedback is an invaluable tool for personal and professional growth, yet it can sometimes feel daunting. Rather than shying away from constructive criticism , it’s crucial to embrace it as a means of improving and evolving. Here are some helpful tips to navigate feedback effectively:

• Listen attentively: When receiving feedback, it’s important to actively listen to the person providing it. Give them your full attention, maintain eye contact, and avoid interrupting. This shows respect and allows you to truly understand their perspective.
• Keep an open mind: Instead of getting defensive or dismissing criticism, approach it with an open mind. Recognize that constructive feedback is an opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of how it may initially make you feel.
• Seek clarification: If the feedback seems vague or unclear, don’t hesitate to ask for more specifics. Requesting examples or further explanation can help you gain a clearer understanding of the areas for improvement.

Constructive criticism holds immense potential for personal development, but only if we embrace it with the right mindset. By actively listening, keeping an open mind, and seeking clarification, we can reap the benefits of feedback and use it to propel ourselves forward.

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Space battles are an important aspect of science fiction, especially space opera , and we want them to be engaging. At first blush, that might sound easy. Space battles have hyperdrives and torpedoes and lasers, oh my. How could that not be engaging? But it’s harder than you might think. Spacecrafts are complex and alien. It’s easy to drown your audience in endless technical details, fill page upon page with ships firing ineffectually at each other, or leave the audience wondering why the battle was set in space at all.

Fortunately, we storytellers are clever folk, and we have methods at our disposal for ensuring our space battles keep the audience on the edge of their seats. So strap in to your favorite spaceship and spool up the FTL drive. It’s time to explore some tips on keeping your space battle engaging.

1. Plan For Distance

I say this a lot, but space is big . Really big. So big that it’s difficult for our puny meat brains to comprehend. It’s also really empty, meaning that hostile ships will probably see each other from a long way off. This means that combatants will be engaging across millions of miles or more.

At those distances, the speed of light is no longer effectively instantaneous. It takes light one second to travel 186,282 miles, so by the time you see something happen that far away, it actually happened one second ago. At space distances, it’s impossible to know exactly where your enemy is. By the time the light * bounces off them and reaches your sensors, they’ve already moved.

This makes shooting difficult and calls for unique solutions. Ships in your setting might fire volleys of long-range missiles that can track the enemy once they close the distance. Or your ships might employ powerful prediction algorithms to guess at where the enemy is going to be and then fire at that spot. They might even sweep arcs of laser fire through the void like swords , trying to score a hit.

You have a lot of freedom in what options your space combatants use, as long as it has some plausibility. You can even use far more outlandish possibilities if you set them up properly. Your ships might battle by creating small gravitational singularities next to the enemy or broadcast mind-control memes via radio waves. What’s important is that your weapons feel like they’re designed for use in space. The vacuum is starkly different from any other battlefield, and unique weapons will help bring that home.

If you want a battle to take place at close range, you’ll need to set up a good reason for it. If it only needs to happen once, you could craft a scene in which two ships open fire as they depart from the same station. If you want close-range battles to be the norm, you’ll need a more robust explanation. Perhaps your setting’s FTL drives teleport ships directly to their destination, Battlestar Galactica style, which allows combatants to get really close to each other before attacking.

2. Determine Your Character’s Level of Control

A space battle probably won’t be your hero floating alone through the void. * They’ll be on a spaceship and fighting enemies who are also in spaceships . This adds a layer of distance between the combatants, and it affects how you portray the battle.

First, decide how much control your character has over the ship. This can be broken down into three broad categories.

• The Character Is the Ship: This is for battles where the character is an artificial intelligence or a human with their nervous system wired directly into their vessel. They control the ship as if it were their own body and feel damage as if they were being hurt. The battle will be immediate, with no delay between the character’s thought and action.
• The Character Pilots the Ship: In this scenario, the character isn’t part of the ship, but they control most or all of its functions. They decide where it goes, when to fire the weapons, etc. The ship is like an all-encompassing piece of equipment . The battle is still fairly immediate, but there’s a slight delay between thought and action because the character must operate the ship’s controls.
• The Character Commands the Ship: Your character doesn’t operate any controls themselves. Instead they give orders to a team of subordinates. The character makes plans, but they must depend on others to carry those plans out. There is a longer delay between thought and action, because every order must travel down the chain of command .

Your character’s level of control will have a huge impact on how the battle is perceived. When a character is one with their ship, they perceive space as if through their own eyes. They “see” anything the ship’s sensors can detect. A pilot depends on display readouts, whereas a commander must often have data interpreted for them by subordinates, because there’s simply too much information for one person to handle.

Different control levels also influence a battle’s pacing. At the greatest degree of control, the battle will be fast and frantic, much like a sword fight , because the character is effectively fighting via their physical body. A pilot will have a little more time to think, but not much. They must plan each maneuver with only seconds to act, staying one step ahead of their enemy.  A commander must endure delays as their orders are carried out. Use this time to build tension while the character speculates what the enemy will do next and reflects on the cost of failure.

3. Use the Environment to Add Novelty and Realism

Space is an environment unlike any other. It is cold, and yet things stay hot for a long time because there is no air to transfer heat. It is dark but also filled with the light of many stars. Emphasizing the alien nature of space is a great way to make your story more engaging, because the coolness factor and the added realism will ground your audience in the setting. To emphasize the environment, use some of these elements.

• Microgravity:  This is also known as zero gravity or weightlessness, but in absolute terms, there’s always some gravity around. * Thanks to novels like The Expanse , microgravity is becoming more common in scifi stories, but it still has a lot of novelty value. People move differently in microgravity, and things just float around unless something pushes them. Describing how a character launches themself across a room, or how their hair billows around them, will just sound cool. Meanwhile, describing all the handholds, straps, and special drinking vessels needed in a weightless environment will make your setting more immersive.
• Acceleration: In space, the only limit on how fast something can go is the speed of light. That means for most spacecraft, it all comes down to acceleration. The ship that maintains greater acceleration for longer will have a major edge, but it comes with a cost. Acceleration produces a gravity-like effect inside the ship, and the faster a ship accelerates, the stronger the gravity. If the g-forces get too strong , they can injure or kill a ship’s crew. This is a great way to build tension: the ship accelerates to avoid incoming fire, but if it goes too fast, the crew won’t survive.
• Inertia:   In an atmosphere , any moving object will stop eventually, either because it hits something or simply from air resistance. In space, this is not the case. A moving object will keep going practically forever, unless there’s a powerful gravity well nearby to pull it in. In your story, this quirk of physics is most likely to come up after a ship has been damaged so badly its engine no longer functions. At that point, the ship is adrift, unable to halt its progress, drifting into who knows what.
• Radiation: Space is full of radiation. So much radiation that it’s one of the biggest obstacles to putting a human on Mars . A space-battle setting probably has some kind of reliable radiation shielding, but that can disappear once the hull is breached. Even more dangerous than natural radiation is the radiation humans bring with them. A nuclear torpedo or breached fusion drive can put the crew in serious danger if they don’t find shelter quickly.

Those are just four of the many options at your disposal. You can also have characters overwhelmed by the vastness of space  or create a powerful dissonance between the vacuum’s peaceful silence and the many people dying with each flash of a breached reactor. The important thing is to bring in space itself as part of the story, so your battle doesn’t seem like it could have taken place on land, sea, or sky.

4. Design Battle Tactics

One of the toughest parts of narrating a space battle is deciding what the ships do. Sure, you can write that they fire at each other, but without understandable tactics, that won’t mean a lot to the audience. A fight between humans is relatively easy to understand, but when space-faring vessels get involved, it’s harder to comprehend what’s happening. If your audience doesn’t understand the fight, they won’t be invested in the actions your characters take.

Fortunately, you don’t have to drown your audience in technical details. Instead, define what kind of advantage the combatants are trying to get over each other. For a low-tech example, consider naval tactics in the Age of Sail . In those battles, the main advantage was in keeping the enemy within your broadside, while staying out of theirs. This was simple in theory and incredibly complex in practice. It took a masterful knowledge of both the ship and the wind to maneuver properly, but a story about that period doesn’t need to explain everything. It just needs to show how the sail adjustment and weather reading allows a ship to get the advantage needed.

A story of space battles can use the same principle with different specifics. If your ships fight primarily with long-range missiles, then their tactics might revolve mostly around defense. Your characters would have to decide how to allocate their electronic countermeasures and point-defense fire. Do they try to stop every missile, or are they willing to let certain sections of the ship be hit in order to protect others ?

On the other hand, if your ships fight by sweeping space with laser fire, their tactics could focus on herding the enemy into a smaller and smaller volume of space, until there’s not enough room to maneuver properly. No matter the specifics, the important part is that you have a general method and goal that’s easy to communicate . That way, when the characters order a specific maneuver or firing pattern, the audience understands why they’re doing it.

5. Make Damage Matter

Finally, once you’ve figured out foundational details like distance and tactics, you’ve got to make this feel like a battle. One of the greatest weaknesses of space combat in fiction is that it can feel like two computer-generated objects are just flashing lights at each other until one of them disappears. In a battle, people are trying to kill each other, so it should feel like the characters are in danger . To do that, you must make the battle damage matter.

One of the more popular techniques in this area is to show how damage degrades the ship’s capabilities, making it harder for the characters to win the battle. This can work, but it requires that the audience have a thorough understanding of the battle mechanics in your story. Saying the main deflector dish has been disabled won’t matter much if the audience doesn’t understand what the main deflector dish did in the first place. Some storytellers try to fix this by having a character explain in the moment why losing the deflector dish is bad, but even that’s not great, since it can seem arbitrary or contrived.

Instead, you’ll get the best result if you first set up how the various components of your spacecraft work and then start taking them away. If your ships fight by lobbing missiles at each other, it’ll be easy to explain how the ship’s three radar dishes guide the missiles to their targets. From there, it’ll be intuitive that losing a dish makes the ship’s missiles less accurate.

A second option for making damage matter is to make it affect the characters directly. This is what Star Trek tries to do whenever consoles on the bridge explode, but you’ll want a method that makes a little more sense. * My personal favorite is to craft a setting where everyone wears spacesuits during a battle, so you can breach the hull without instant death by asphyxiation. Nothing makes the action impactful like a shot passing straight through the bridge, nearly taking off the protagonist’s head.

If it’s not feasible for battle damage to reach your characters’ location, you can still make the damage matter by endangering their friends. If you establish important relationships between your protagonist and some of their crewmates, you can ratchet up the tension by having some of those crewmates send a frantic call to the bridge saying how that last hit fractured the hull in their section and they can’t take much more.

And of course, if you picked a character who is one with their ship back in step two, you have even more options at your disposal. A character who inhabits their vessel can feel battle damage as a physical injury and react accordingly.

Like any other conflict, space battles follow the basic rules of storytelling. They need proper stakes, a strong motivation, a clear turning point, and so on. But space battles also have their own specific requirements. A poorly built one will seem distant and boring, but with the right techniques, the space battle can be a truly compelling piece of fiction.

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The Lost Fleet series, Star Wars: X-Wing series, and the Thrawn books all have pretty involving space battles, and they do their best to get the science of it right (or as close as possible in the case of the Star Wars ones, which have to conform to the established onscreen material).

I would think it’d be pretty impossible to write a realistic space battle scene in a universe where space can conduct sound and ships close to within feet of each other before firing their weapons.

I have reached at least a couple of headcanon conclusions about the physics in the Star Wars universe. For example I think that time is Newtonian (thus avoiding a lot of problems with time dilation and FTL travel), and that empty space has drag, at least for small (non-planetary) objects, which explains things like the need for constant propulsion to keep constant speed, the way space fighters maneuver, and a few aspects of the WWII-style naval battles. And maybe the sound in space.

In one of the X-Wing novels, a starship is mentione to have a rudder for a “luminous ether”, which caused drag.

In EVE online the official explanation is that the ship’s warp core causes an effect similar to drag and due to its inner workings cannot be shut down entirely or else it would explode (which also neatly explains the ship’s critical existence failure upon reaching 0 hp – the warp core is breached, stops and everything explodes).

Too much of fiction, especially TV & film, ignores the realities.

“Buck Rogers” & the original “BSG” used to really bug me. Buck had a Thing that drove me crazy: aileron rolls that looked flashy, but didn’t actually change direction at all. That’s a great way to get killed.

“BSG” treated the Vipers like fighter aircraft. I know some of it was lack of money for miniatures & SPFX shots, but it would have paid to spend some for stock footage of the Vipers moving directly sideways, or vertically, or radically diagonally, or just rotating on their axis & shooting back.

The idea of predictors is pretty accurate. Space battles limited by STL are very like antiaircraft: the target is much faster than the gunfire, & predictors were around even before modern supercomputers. Now, calculating a target’s likely future position would take account of every bit of environmental data & dead-accurate estimates of the possible delta-vee (up _and_ down) from point of contact: human limits are fixed, but a given ship will vary. So intelligence on hostile ship types & capabilities will be worth more than platinum.

Probably laser (or EM) main battery would be secondary to guided missiles capable of enormous delta-vee & extremely high velocities, plus a variety of terminal guidance options, & high innate “intelligence”.

There’s also an issue of heat rejection. It might be combat is less an issue of hitting your enemy than making him generate heat beyond his ability to reject it. How robust are the radiators? How vulnerable to large delta-vee are they?

Are there any articles on gun fights specifically? I recall gun tactics getting mentioned briefly, but I don’t recall any articles going into details on that subject specifically.

I do have a worldbuilding article about guns, but nothing specifically about gunfight scenes. https://mythcreants.com/blog/six-ways-guns-change-a-fantasy-setting/

Thanks. I’d like to see that subject covered in an article or podcast episode if at all possible for you guys.

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Michael Mammay  graduated from the United States Military Academy and served as an Army officer for 27 years. He holds a masters degree in military history is a veteran of Desert Storm, Somalia, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In his spare time he writes science fiction and fantasy, usually with military influences. His debut novel Planetside was published in July 2018 by Harper Voyager. You should  follow him on Twitter .

Space Battles in Science Fiction

It’s probably not news that the space battles you see in movies aren’t particularly realistic. Open any thread on Star Wars and you’re sure to find people pointing out a dozen things that defy the laws of physics. There are simple ones that most people know: Sound doesn’t travel through space, for example. But what would it really look like? While there are many things that go into realistic space combat, in this post I’ll talk about three factors that would influence those battles: Where the battles would happen, why most of it would be automated, and why you’d probably never actually see the enemy.

Location, location, location.

To quote Douglas Adams, from The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is.” Because it’s so big, there’s almost no chance you’d ever fight a battle there, because you’d never encounter the enemy. For example, say your space fleet is hanging out around earth. Say your fleet can go really fast. Let’s say 30 kilometers per second. That’s fast. For reference, that’s how fast the earth travels around the sun. It’s about 1/10,000 the speed of light, and it’s over 87 times the speed of sound (mach 87). It’s the speed that most asteroids hit the earth.

Say you detect an alien fleet hanging out somewhere in the vicinity of Mars’ orbit. If you started out immediately to engage that fleet at full speed, it would take you about three weeks to reach it. That’s how big space is. And that’s if the enemy sits there and waits for you. If they move, you’d have to change course. We’ll talk about why that’s a problem later on in the post.

The solar system in perspective. Numbers represent astronomical units (AUs), each representing the distance from the Earth to the Sun. (Credit: NASA)

Of course you can just speed up your ships in your fictional world, but that would mean the enemy would have faster ships, too, probably, and it really doesn’t matter. Space is way bigger than just Earth to Mars. If you went a hundred times faster than the previous example (now going 3000 km/s), you’d reach Mars in just a few hours. But at that new speed, it would still take you four weeks to reach Pluto’s orbit.

So where would you fight? The best historical example we have of this is the Pacific Theater of World War II . The Pacific is big, and with the slow speed of the ships involved, the size created a situation similar to what we’d expect to see in space. If you look at the major naval battles from that theater, they all happened near land. They happened near some piece of ground that interested both sides. They didn’t find each other in the ocean. They met to contest something they both wanted.

Translating this to a war in space, we would expect to see battles in places where both sides wanted to control something. It could be resources, either from a planet or an asteroid, or if you’re using something like jump points for faster than light travel, two forces might contest to control that point. What it comes down to is that holding space itself doesn’t matter. There needs to be something to focus both forces on the same spot to bring them together. In my novel, PLANETSIDE, they don’t fight in space at all. They go down to the planet and fight there. That’s not a great example, because in my galaxy, one side has a decided technological advantage over the other.

A great book where the author gets it right is Dauntless (The Lost Fleet #1) by Jack Campbell. If you want to read space-navy done well, you need this series.

Automated Space Battles

I have some bad news for you. The Cylons win. There’s a common saying that ‘speed kills.’ That’s not quite right. Acceleration kills. To be accurate, instead of speed, we will talk in velocity. Velocity is simply speed and direction. Acceleration is a change in velocity over time. So if an object changes speed and/or direction, it is accelerating (or decelerating, which is negative acceleration.) When there’s a significant acceleration, that force acts on the object, putting strain on the machine in question and the person inside it. Guess which one breaks first? We often refer to this as G-Force.

Human tolerance of linear acceleration (Wikipedia)

There are a lot of factors that determine how much G-Force a human can survive over time. An average person can probably handle five Gs, while a trained pilot in a special suit can routinely pull nine Gs over short periods of time. But whatever number you use, the human is the weak point in the system. We can use suits, or maybe drugs to help a human survive higher Gs for longer durations, but it’s still not going to be as much as the machine can stand on its own. The machine can out-accelerate the human, meaning it can change speed faster and change direction faster. That’s a pretty tough advantage to overcome in a battle.

Dogfights in Space

There are no dogfights in space. I know they look really cool, which is why they happen in the movies. But in reality, at super high speeds, you simply can’t turn. Consider our space fighter from the previous example, travelling at 30 kilometers a second. She flies by the enemy, and now she wants to turn and get right on the enemy’s tail. If she starts turning at the rate of one degree per second…that means it would take her three minutes to make a u-turn (three minutes!), she would pull over 50 Gs in that turn and pretty much turn herself into jello.

But she wouldn’t turn. She’d use small thrusters to flip her ship and accelerate in the opposite direction. Let’s make her super-human, and say she can sustain ten Gs for long periods of time. To decelerate from 30 kilometers to zero, at ten Gs, it would take her just over five minutes. She could then accelerate back up to speed in the opposite direction in another five minutes. So ten minutes later, she’d be right on the enemy’s tail. If he stopped and waited.

The race to develop combat spaceships would revolve around which side could make the machine that could handle the most G-Force and which side could develop the best AI to pilot it. You could also go with remotely piloted vehicles, but there would be a time lag, depending on the distance that your signal had to travel.

Some books that got this right include Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War , where they put human crews into liquid filled pods while computers fight the ship’s battles at high Gs, and The Expanse series, which regularly shows the effects of G-Force on humans and how they try to counter it via special seats and drugs.

You Can’t See Me: Visibility and Warfare

I talked above about how there aren’t dogfights in space, but more than that, the two fighting sides probably won’t see each other. Even in modern warfare, most air and naval battles would take place out of visual range. While you can see farther in space (because there’s no horizon), the distance between forces will increase so much that it won’t matter.

Actual footage of space warfare with missiles.

Missiles, with no humans aboard, will accelerate faster than ships with humans, and projectiles fired in space will continue on their trajectory forever (or until another force acts upon them.) The battle could come down to who can get more missiles at the other side fastest and get through whatever missile defense the other side had.

In a world where people carried enough missiles to overwhelm defenses, there’s a good possibility that both sides could destroy the other at the same time, since both sides would likely launch their offensive salvos at maximum range. On the other hand, if defensive weaponry had a technological advantage over offensive, you might see a situation where neither fleet could damage the other significantly. In those cases, they might close to shorter distances to try to act inside of the enemy’s defensive capability, but there are so many permutations on that that it’s hard to figure (which leaves a lot of room for writer imagination.)

It also depends on what we mean by ‘see.’ There are a variety of sensors one could use to locate the enemy. A really hard one to defeat would be anything that detected heat signature. You can make your ship cold, but you can’t get it to match the 2.7 degrees Kelvin of space, no matter what you do. Even with the engine off, you’d generate heat, and that heat has to go somewhere that’s not inside your ship, or you’d eventually burn up. One thing is for sure; whatever means one side had for detecting enemy ships, the other would work to counter it. That could evolve over days and weeks, but it could also happen with AIs working in real time to try to fool the other side’s sensors. Much like in the Battle of Britain, an advantage in early detection technology could have a huge impact on a battle.

There’s Always More Sci-fi

I’ve only hit three aspects for creating realistic space battles. There are many, many more. It’s always fun to read how different authors get past these points. Some invent technology to render the physics irrelevant, which is fine, but my favorites always tend to deal with most of the problems realistically. Feel free to enter the comments below and talk about what books got it right.

Planetside by Michael Mammay

A seasoned military officer uncovers a deadly conspiracy on a distant, war-torn planet…

War heroes aren’t usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from an old and powerful friend, he knows it’s something big—and he’s not being told the whole story. A high councilor’s son has gone MIA out of Cappa Base, the space station orbiting a battle-ravaged planet. The young lieutenant had been wounded and evacuated—but there’s no record of him having ever arrived at hospital command.

The colonel quickly finds Cappa Base to be a labyrinth of dead ends and sabotage: the hospital commander stonewalls him, the Special Ops leader won’t come off the planet, witnesses go missing, radar data disappears, and that’s before he encounters the alien enemy. Butler has no choice but to drop down onto a hostile planet—because someone is using the war zone as a cover. The answers are there—Butler just has to make it back alive…

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August 29, 2019 at 12:13 pm

I always pictured it more like submarine warfare with drones, remote piloted or semi-autonomous, replacing torpedoes and mines. The enemy, which is probably just one or two fairly large vessels, somewhere out there at the edge of sensor range, trying to get a firing solution while you do the same.

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Spacebattles – A message board for geek culture

SpaceBattles, often called SB, is a message board dedicated to geek culture and creativity. No, it is not the largest community on the Internet. But they have more than 100,000 active members. And that is not something you take lightly.

The SpaceBattles website started in the 1990s, some cite 1996 as the first year. It was originally a guestbook and a place primarily for posting movies of space battles.

History of the Website

As we said before, the fun website started in the 1990s as a place for posting movies of space battles. But as time passed, the forum aspect became more prevalent. One of the major milestones from that era was the 1999 OBS thread. It was an image battle thread created by Cool Guy, who now serves as an administrator on the website.

In 2001, the SB website moved to the vBulletin forum software. And by this point, the forums became the main focus of SpaceBattles. Yes, artistic pursuits still occurred, but they became less significant as time passed.

In May 2012, the website moved to the then-new XenForo forum software, which was being developed by its current maintainer, Kier Darby.

And if you look at it, the website has existed at least since 1998, maybe even earlier. That makes it only a year younger than Google, and because some suggest it existed in 1996, it might be actually older than Google. Sadly, the early days of the forum are shrouded in mystery and lost data.

The website is now more than 20 years old, which as far as forums go, it is not ancient, yet prehistoric. You can think that SpaceBattles is the T-Rex of online forum debates.

How to Use it?

So, what can you use it for? We said the forum is the largest aspect of SpaceBattles. And over time, topics on the forum have moved from simply about space battles, to something more. Nowadays, the Internet community is all about geek culture and creativity.

A few years ago, there were three major sub-forums. Nowadays, there are four. Those are:

• SpaceBattles General, which is a subforum based around random stuff involving geek culture and video games. You can find a forum about games in general, general discussion forum, tech support forum, and similar
• SpaceBattles Creative, is the subforum involving creative enterprises undertaken by members of the SpaceBattles community. This subforum includes a fan fiction section, and some less popular art, animation, and original fiction sections
• SpaceBattles Debates, a forum dedicated to debates, which includes versus debates involving fictitious parties, a section dedicated to actual militaries and equipment, and a forum dedicated to news and real life
• SpaceBattles RoleyPlaying forum, the fourth, and the latest addition, which is rival to the fiction section. The roleplaying and creative forums didn’t get along in the beginning, but now they are on better terms

Some of the Funniest Categories

  As we said before, SpaceBattles is basically a website dedicated to geek culture. And we know geeks posts quite fun things. Yes, there are rules.

For example, one of the first rules is a ban on politics. It is not allowed to discuss politics in any forums other than “the white hall”, a dedicated subsection just for politics

Speaking of interesting forum debates, most of them involve hypothetical fight debate. Nearly half of the forum is a debate about who would win a certain matchup. There is even a dedicated section for these battles. And it is why the website was founded in the first place.

Fan fiction is another interesting example, with an entire subsection dedicated to it. And there are notable fictions, do not worry.

Here is a fun fact: The website always changes its logo on April Fools Day. The latest ones included a tank with the title GROUNDBATTLES in 2021 and a weird series of emojis that channeled UwU and cutesy stuff in 2022.

There are also a lot of roleplaying games, which are a subforum and a sub-subforum dedicated to different versions of games. Some of them include the BROB forum, which has had adversarial relations with other forums in the past. Play-by-post games are what the role playing games take the form of.

Last, but not least, we have the treasure hunt episodes. There are occasionally in-site treasure hunts in the form of users searching for certain things. For example, pictures of foxes or the Holy Grail. They have to find these things in the posts of specific users within a given time limit. SB website will then reward people with insignia and labels appearing beneath their username.

Think of it as a Bragging Rights Reward.

How to Post?

One of the classic catchphrases of the website forum is “nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure”. Nuke ‘em if you like. So, how can you post on the website?

Do you want to post your story? It might be confusing for beginners and novice users since they cannot fully understand the initial thread and the thread header options.

The main place to post fan fiction is the creative writing subforum. Click on the Post Thread button, and in the new post thread interface, you need to enter information such as thread title (in title area), contents of your work (the big writing area), thread header (what is seen when a new thread/story is posted).

The last part is the confusing one. It consists of a brief text description in the text rectangle area, and index progress, which is a quick way to label the status of the fiction. For example, complete or dropped.

Think of the threadmarks as a chapter/indexing system for posts on online forums. Usually, they are self-named.

If you want to get the best results for your story, post small chapters, between 2,000 and 5,000 words on a regular basis. This will keep your work near the top and on the recently updated front page.

It is a great way to get exposure, but do it on a steady diet. Do not post your entire fan fiction at once.

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