This comes of me going off on a complete tangent in response to the Tell-me Tuesday prompt "What comes next?" and asking aldersprig, whose prompts they are, what she would like to see more of. This is in response to one of her three answers. (I also ignored the word count.)

This comes after Viewing The Moon Rises and is pretty much concurrent with The New ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's prompt "Rensa's world! consequences of the rebellion, positive." This occurs when the underground rail project starts kicking into gear....

“So, how far down are we going?” Lubboc was the new guy, brought in to replace a man who hadn’t been able to stand being in the tunnels.

“Today?” Brallic held his snack bar ready to take ( Read more... )

This comes some time after A Possible Way Ahead and runs to 738 words. It was written for aldersprig's second prompt.

Rensa was looking after Mirren for once, not the other way around. Bannoc was away giving his lecture to another set of new military recruits and Mirren was within three weeks of her due date. Her baby could decide to be born at any time ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's first prompt.

Ritorian had been settled as part of Firilis’ defensive diaspora and it had begun with all the advantages that Firilis had given the other colonies. Then one important piece of terraforming equipment had failed. Attempting to repair it had killed two of the colony’s guides and their absence plus the inability to ( Read more... )

Here in response to aldersprig's prompt at my Female Characters and MarWomen post, is Rensa.

Rensa is an Imperial Princess of the Third Persisan Dynasty and the last surviving member of that Dynasty. When the revolutionary coup that breached the palace struck, she was locked in her work area’s stationery storeroom by her work colleagues and kinsmen and was ( Read more... )

I wrote this to kelkyag's prompt "Missing pieces: Rensa and her therapist at work."

“I’m not sure about this.” Rensa looked at herself apprehensively in the mirror. “Do I look ordinary enough? Well as ordinary as I can with this hair and skin.”

“You look fine,” Mirren assured her, “and you’ll do fine. You’ll be drinking tea and eating healthy snacks ( Read more... )

I wrote this to shutsumon's Twitter prompt "Myth and Mythic Figures - Something more about the reality behind the so called gods and the Discord on Rensa's world." It follows on from Paradigm Shift.

“How many people has Moid suborned?” Suohonn drummed his fingers on the table.

“Not that many,” Kalhara, his wife, looked up from her terminal, “but ( Read more... )

This follows on from Full Circle and was written as part of a word exchange with aldersprig.

They chose Cebor to undertake the task of rebuilding Firilis. Once they’d helped each other do maintenance on their ships, maintenance that more than one of them had hoped would take place in a fully manned shipyard, it was clear that Cebor’s ship was in the worst ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's prompt "Are there people left in Rensa's universe who know why these worlds were colonized?"

Cirian first appears in Return Visit.

Cirian was a week early to the meeting. She had thought to do some sight-seeing first and find out how Firilis had changed in the centuries she’d been travelling the stars. Perhaps do some shopping ( Read more... )

The Iphana stories are set in a sci-fi universe with the tag "defensive diaspora." There are some other stories set in the same universe but not on the same planet which I will include on this page because although they don’t affect Iphana they do help explain the background. The Iphana stories, in order, are:

On The Edge Of Disaster;
Winter;
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