I have been on the lookout for enemy vessals ever since our journey began. It had not occured to me that Centauri would find a less direct way to strike, although given what I have been told of their ways I should not be surprised. One of the main engines blowing out while in hyperspace could not be a coincidence ( Read more... )

Thanks to londo_mollari, I may once again call myself a captain without reservations, being in command of the Centauri cruiser Purple Splendour. I have inspected the ship from top to bottom, and I am satisfied with its speed and firepower - both of which may be called upon if I am to fulfill my mission. According to what I've been told, the Centauri have earned ( Read more... )

As far as my translator microbes can make out 'indulgence' implies frivolity, and I have had little room for that in my life. It also implies 'pleasure', however, and there has been that. Some of it has caused me guilt ( Read more... )

I can think of far more good reasons not to become inebriated. And having been blind (albeit briefly) I should sooner avoid repeating the experience ( Read more... )

If I had a part to play in the community of my birth, it was one of the many things stolen from me by the Peace Keepers. The society I was born into was not the one in which I lived most of my life. Now I have no part in any society ( Read more... )

I suppose I should begin by explaining why I am still alive. Perhaps I would do so, if I understood it myself.

I only know that I fully expected to die - to starburst in an enclosed space is fatal. It was fatal, for Talyn, as far as I can tell. The link that lay between us is certainly dead ( Read more... )