July 2008 - Title: "Pilot"The Raider jinked hard right, so when the Viper's RCS thrusters kicked in to spin the fighter around, Joseph got slammed into the side of the cockpit. Another burst of exhaust and the Viper stopped turning, lined up perfectly on the Cylon's six o'clock. Joseph banked just a little and lined up his crosshairs ( Read more... )

June 2008 - What is your career ambition? Why?

Huh. You know, that's kind of funny. I don't think anyone's asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up since I was eight. Everyone's always pretty much assumed that I was going to take up the family business, I guess you could call it.

( Next In Line )

May 2008 - The world is ending. You are in charge of planetary evacuation. Aside from your friends, family, and loved ones, you must decide who to save -- you can only save five people. Who are they and why do you save them?If we're talking about something like what happened back at New Caprica, then it would have to be the five people deemed most ( Read more... )

April 2008 - What does your muse consider a good day?

The one thing Joseph liked a lot about living life on a battlestar was that you always had a good idea what you were going to be doing that day, and when. One thing he sometimes didn't like was that you always had a good idea as to what you were going to be doing, and when, and where, and how ( Read more... )

March 2008 - Lyrics prompt, Rob Thomas, "Little Wonders"

our lives are made
in these small hours
these little wonders,
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away,
but these small hours,
these small hours still remainI was still in the ROTC classroom at 2200 when my father found me working. Capt. Chiang had assigned me to work up individual ( Read more... )

16 - If you could live in any fictional place, where/when/what would it be?When I was little, I used to make my mother and father tell stories about the Twelve Colonies all the time. It seemed like a fairy tale, really, every time they did. When you're a kid who's never seen anything but the inside of a space ship and the view outside the ( Read more... )

13 - To Whom It May Concern...((Posted anonymously to the Fleet News Service ( Read more... )

6 - Contrary to popular belief...

...there really is room for a second person in a Viper cockpit. Enough room, that is, if the other person isn't any older than three or four.

I was three and a half the first time I saw space from behind something thinner than the Galactica's windows, the first time I even saw the old battlestar from the outside ( Read more... )

5 - Which of your five senses is the most important to YOU?

Sight, definitely. I mean, I'm a pilot-- or at least I'm training to be one. And except for the instinct that my father and all the other pilots I know always talk about, the one that comes from hours in a cockpit and years of experience, it's the one sense that's going to keep you ( Read more... )

3 - What makes your life complicated?Oh, wow, are there a lot of ways to answer that one. I guess I could go the predictable route and talk about my family again, or maybe even the whole "we're out in space, crawling our way to a place that most of us aren't totally convinced exists", or just the fact that I'm eighteen ( Read more... )