It is done, and the recent falling of the star is seen as an omen by our people. A herald announcing a golden age for us. A harbinger of better fortune than we have had of late ( Read more... )

Success! Admiral Ullas' scouts have returned with word of our missing crown princess. Her Highness has indeed returned to Earth, though not to the city where once she dwelled. More, they captured an audiovideo transmission demonstrating her continued mastery of her powers ( Read more... )

Nothing. No trace of Komand'r. She had her flaws, true, but she had also displayed the strength to unite our people in her final days as queen (if they were indeed her final days). Admiral Ullas has searched the systems around our former homeworld, where she was last seen, but has found nothing to tell us whether she escaped destruction or died ( Read more... )

Yesterday's ceremonies should have been perfect. All went according to the ritual. With the rest of the Council of Elders, I extinguished the memorial flame before the monument to our late king and queen. That should have been enough for the people ( Read more... )

And'r's Dawn draws near. We dare not cancel the festivities, though its approach is inciting the people to cry more loudly for a king or queen. They are dwelling on the victories won by our late sovereign, choosing to shove aside the memories of earlier outcries against some of his decrees ( Read more... )

The people are impatient. The old complain that we are not truly remaking this world into Tamaran. The young complain that we are building a sterile copy. And both the old and the young complain that we are too slow in addressing their concerns. There is grumbling in the streets that a coalition of the lesser Houses is no substitute for a ( Read more... )

We are no longer nomads. No longer homeless wanderers, weeping over the loss of Tamaran, or existing on the charity of others. We have a homeworld again. And New Tamarus grows, moment by moment, month by month, until sometimes I can wander the streets near the starport and think myself returned to the Tamaran of my boyhood ( Read more... )