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Short Story – “Icarus-Nine” [Conclusion]
Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this story can be found at: Salvar Station’s upper security bay was split into two sections: from the entrance a long central gantry led to the skiff docks, arrayed around the gantry on spinning mountings. Every hundred paces, long supporting walkways spidered out to the station’s inner walls in…
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Short Story – “Icarus-Nine” [Part 3]
[Part One available at: https://scrubreport.com/2026/07/12/short-story-icarus-nine-part-1/] [Part Two available at: https://scrubreport.com/2026/07/30/short-story-icarus-nine-part-two/] “Spectra Vestal,” Granté echoed. “Holy shit.” Hiss made a savage grinding noise that probably stood in for an expletive. Lady Spectra snickered. “Pleased to meet you, too.” Granté’s head swam. “What are we doing, Cap?” Paola blinked. “Uh.” Whatever it is, make it soon, Hiss…
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Short Story – “Icarus-Nine” [Part 2]
[Part One available at: https://scrubreport.com/2026/07/12/short-story-icarus-nine-part-1/] Stationmaster Polk steepled his chrome-plated fingers. “The way you say that would make me suspicious, if I didn’t know how much of a nervous wreck your ship is.” “Oh, right,” Paola smiled disarmingly. “You’ve met before.” “Really, though…what’s with the light haul?” Polk’s eyes were dark wet slits in split…
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Short Story – “Icarus-Nine” [Part 1]
The Pequod limped through the void, thrusters firing intermittently like a baby hiccupping blue flame into the dark. The crew, clustered on the bridge, winced in unison with every burp of fuel and tried to distract themselves with the news. The ICOMM newsfeed was cluttered with talk about a girl from House Vestal gone walkabout…
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Picking the Perfect “Breach and Clear” Playlist
My friends and I have been playing a fair amount of “Ready or Not” recently – for the unfamiliar, the game is a first-person shooter where you control a SWAT team member participating in various missions, from stopping a robbery at a gas station to rescuing hostages in a hotel (and some much, much worse…
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Adventures in Oblivion, Part 2: The Madness Continues
Well, shit, that took a while. After getting sidetracked with Expedition 33 and Death Stranding 2 (as well as a road trip from Vegas to DC that very nearly ended in disaster on multiple occasions), I got back around to my sorcerous adventures in the Shivering Isles (for the uninitiated, the Shivering Isles contain the…
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Short Story: “One Last Catch”
Crab season had been over for eight solar days, but the Pequod cracked the asteroid anyway. The thing was sitting right there, all fat and juicy and full of karkinoi, and a catch was a catch. The Pequod’s take had been lousy the back half of the season, and the only cargo kicking around the…
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Adventures in Oblivion: Madness Awaits
In many respects, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is my favorite video game. I’ll spare you my misty-eyed recollections of the original box art and instruction manual: Oblivion was to me what Skyrim was to people who like the cold more than I do. I fucking love Oblivion. Hell, I bought the original version on…
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Playthrough Journal – Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
As you might have gathered from the image above, this is not what one might call a “traditionally heroic” story. If you’re not familiar with the Kingdom Come series, it’s a franchise of historical role-playing games set in early-15th-century Bohemia (somewhere in Europe). The series stars Henry, an everyday guy who started the first game…