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Three Square Meals - Chapter 125 (Patreon)

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2019-08-28 12:02:48
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2019-10-11 10:29:47
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*** EDITED - Final version (30th Sept) ***

Hey everyone!

Here's the latest chapter. I hope you enjoy it!

With it being the summer holidays at the moment, my writing schedule has been quite disrupted. I'm hoping things will get back to normal in a few weeks time and we can return to the 2 chapters a month format. :-)

Cheers

Tefler

Comments

3Phayz (FMS)

Thank you, Tefler, for some tasty breakfast reading!

Nchalada

Thanks Tefler!

ringill

Woo hoo! And at 1 o'clock in the afternoon rather than the usual 1 o'clock in the wee smalll hours, double woo hoo!

Yılmaz öztekin

thanks tefler but am i the only one cant download the chapter?

Moon Dragon

Thanks Tefler. A fine way to start the day.

TF4EVA

thank you and as ever well worth my wait.

Bp Hlpt

Thank you Tefler!

Braw

cheers mister

David B

Yay!! Thank you Tefler!!

Cignal

Thanks Tefler

TP

Thanks Tefler. Now stuck at work for 8 1/2 more hours. Torture.

Rat

"Are you alight?" - oddly inappropriate to ask of a survivor of a terrorist attack.

commatoes

YAAAAY!!!! Now I have to wait an hour to read! But my self medicating with Scotch will decrease!

J B

M. Tefler, Laird o' the Twisted Plotlines, hath done his business upon the face of space-time yet again, complexifying the storied surreality of his most (in)famous creation. Incoming fishmen and progenitors and disease - we should be so lucky that the problems stop there....

B S

Dammit now I'm waiting for 126..............

Charles whitman

John needs to stop saying “ I would have done anything to prevent........”. He’s said it too much and it is becoming a hollow comment. Look, I like the story. I understand conflicts must be used to make the story interesting. John going to have to be continuously surprised and challenged, or the story is no good. But after the battles, etc, he says the same thing. Sorry, I wish I coulda, shoulda , woulda. It is beginning to ring of false lip service, cause with his power, he shoulda, coulda, woulda. I know it’s a catch 22. I apologize. Super awesome power leads to no conflicts. So, what to do? Idk.

Nchalada

Wow, what a chapter!

David B

Who is Gal this new Prog looking to attack??

David B

when will John make the brims pay and free their slaves ??

ClarasBestFriend

I keep being all hopeful that Faye is coming back... But the maintenance bots are still out there! The hope lives on! Tefler, solid chapter as always!

zingowner

"I didn't said anything about being..." say?

Phill

Hey Tefler, no worries. One chapter a week or one a year it’s an amazing story and prefer your quality over quantity. Though if you can do a chapter a week that would be grand.... 😉

Steve Langford

Tefler, I think you been watching too many American Biker Movies, LOL!

zingowner

For breaking through the regenerating hex shields, I feel like there's two ways to go about it. One would be the current doctrine of a single overwhelming strike and then striking again before the hole can be patched. Another tactic would be some sort of psychic acid or corrosive siphon which would coat the rotating shield and do ongoing damage to the whole thing at once. This would force the shield's owner to spend more energy and focus on regenerating the constant damage to the entire structure, as well as slowing the regeneration from any further damage you can inflict, thereby weakening the entire thing. You could also make tactic one more effective by doing something to slow the rotation, like creating a flurry of sticky strings over the shield and letting them blanket it and the surrounding ground. Eventually, the shield will be so entangled that it can't turn anymore. You could also use something to blanket the shield that would alternately obscure the wielder's vision, or prevent attacks from traveling out from inside the shield. Of course this is all predicated on those types of psychic tools being available, but if anyone can invent a new way to use psychic powers, it'd be John and the Lionesses.

Don's Projects

Ah, a beautiful morning on the island...sunrise, eagles, coffee....wait, what? 125? Woo Hoo for sure! Download! Faster!

Lawrence Hyde

Oh, my. The Brimorians are trading the Abandoned to the Kirrix. Hell's fury will PALE next to John's.

Taco1085

omg, what a chapter, so glad Lynette got her hollowgram working. Colonel Fiske was a surprise, he sure changed his thinking. Dana and fixing the ship was a masterpiece. I was a little disappointed John did not start the process to absorb PJ. then he could unlock a lot of what he needs to do to battle a Progenitor and maybe answer the question of how to defeat the shields. Now lets get them in the air and find the 3 bots and mend the fence for the Node to let Illrith in and see if she can find Faye. Then when John lets the Brimorian leader know he will be dealing with his little shenanigan in the near future. This will make him wet his scales, on top of all that, Letting Alyssa loose to find the Traitors and deal out justice and cure Abigail and Maria's protectors.... cant wait.

j-dub

Awesome! Thanks, Tef.

Steve

Another enjoyable chapter, thank you sir.

Steve

I get where the outer colonies are coming from, but realistically what do they hope to accomplish? Assuming they were allowed to secede from the federation in the first place. Has there been any mention of outer rim infrastructure or manufacturing capability in previous chapters? I got the impression most of them were still in the 'shipping raw materials home' phase.

Hermit1157

When Charles, Lina and Lynette are talking in the lounge Lynette brushes Lina's cheek you say that Lina is the older woman. Pardon the mumbling I haven't slept yet.

a Norman knight

Tefler, a great chapter! I found some suggested edits for Chapter 125, as follows: Page 12: “Any complaints Charles might have disappear(ed) down Lynette’s throat every morning, noon, and night.; Page 26: “I’m stationed on Jericho for the foreseeable future; I’ll be (able around) to keep an eye on her.”; Page 27: “Your future son-in-law made it quite clear there would (be) serious consequences should anything happen to any of you.”; Page 47: “I didn’t (said) anything about being celibate.; Page 64: After hesitating for (along) moment, he made eye contact with Valia Gate’s governor.; Page 66: Start(l)ed by her distracted tone, he nodded, then watched spellbound as Dana approached the Invictus’ hull.; Page 72: Despite his supposed reluctance, Valeria could see the evidence of Gahl’kalgor(’s) excitement. As always, if you disagree, I completely understand. Good luck with Chapter 126. Thank you and Cheers!

3Phayz (FMS)

The look inside the remnant of the Larathyran Empire after Larn'kelnar husked all of his Thralls was greatly appreciated and I was saddened by their loss. They can't just look dismayed and call, "Time out!" With no fleets or warriors the other Progenitors are going to devour them.

Steve Langford

"whoever had slain Larn’kelnar was long gone"........“And prepare the fleets for an assault on Wael’rakash’s domain. I want to bathe in the blood of his thralls!” Are we looking at the start of a multiple intergalactic conflict between the home Progenitor Domains that will greatly reduce their ranks?

thomas rodrian

Thanks Tefler, You covered a lot of stuff in this chapter. It seems like the only thing not touched was Jehanna’s parents. Did the assassins attack them too?

Axi

Spent most of the day trying to resist reading so I can while driving to DragonCon tomorrow, but, nope. Curse this addiction! Jk, Tef, you're amazing.

Evan

After a long paused -> After a long pause So if I was to ask if -> So if I were to ask if in his judge of character -> in his judgement of character

AlyxHaestrom

Yay! New chapter! Thanks for all your hard work Tefler. I love your story.

3Phayz (FMS)

What are the rules for seed race vs seed race wars and the Progenitors? Are the Lathyrians safe for a short while so they can rebuild for a new Progenitor or is it conquest, enslavement, or even pedal to the metal genocide for losing? The only mention of rule-breaking was when Meal'nerak rammed Rahn'hagon's ship to save the Maliri so (pulling another one out from under the keyboard) there has to be some really harsh consequences. If not then it makes Mael's sacrifice kind of meaningless if he could have just sat back and chilled out. I'm assuming than Rahn'hagon's empire back out in the Milky Way and not under the Shroud was mercilessly wiped out, then its resources annexed after he husked his last Thrall.

Mjk154

thanks Tef

rich ed

If Mateo and Jack move back to the core worlds what does that mean for Emily, Mateo's girlfriend? Is she going to stay aboard the Damocles or transfer with them?

Merestil Haye

In the penultimate paragraph, "when he humiliation her" should be "when he humiliated her"

Mudbutt McMerkin

Damn.....we now know what the Brimoreans are using the Abandoned for...... Why do I get the feeling John’s gonna go fishing with TNT......

Mudbutt McMerkin

Oh....and with all other avenues, Trankaran... Terran off the table (bad pun intended), the Brimorians are the only item left on the Kirrix menu. Alyssa only forbade humans and Tranks.....

Mudbutt McMerkin

And then we’ve got the new Peckerwood building a warpgate to invade. Can the crew highjack Larn’s space craft mausoleums in time? Can they figure out a way to bypass the effects Mael’s thrall ambush in the Lorilar nebula (Mael’s warpgate has to be there..... I think)? Excitement abounds....curiouser and curiouser...... and I’ve been puckered up now for months waiting on the big reveal on Jades origin story...... and crap on a cracker....soon to be 5 or 6 Jade scale nymphs?

GDay (FMS)

Thank you for another amazing chapter Tefler. Your universe is an addiction, and that is all encompassing with the strength of the characters and plot line that you instill in every chapter. Great stuff....

Kensyi

I know it has been a minute but I would love a look back to see how some of the characters are doing, like how is Captain Camilla T. doing after everything that happened there?

Sajith K S

Didn't enjoy this story as much as the previous one. My takeaways from this story; 1. No disclosure of Lynette and Jehanna being Lioness to general public. 2. A section Terran force will be aware of the fact Lynette is not what she appears to be. Considering there has been a cover up of the incidents in Olympus and Marie exists in no records. 3. Kintark is about to be attacked. Timeline for the operation is not known for now. Will the attack happen before John reach Olympus ? 4. Brimorian's have a working relationship with all civilization except for Terran. 5. Brimorian's provide offerings to Kirrix, solves the population problem of abandoned which John and lionesses considered at one point of time. Abandoned just seems to be livestock from Brimorian's POV. 5. Lathyrians and Progenitor/Matron who ruled them didn't seem to be pure evil by Progenitor standard. 6. Wael'rakash and the Matron both seem to be twisted and evil. 7. Lathyrians like Maliri seems lost but not with out a life. Question is how will John transport a whole civilization living in multiple planets? 9. Wael'rakash was about to build a portal for what? 10. Getting Calara's family to get to location near Terra was quite odd. Considering all the proud tradition and all quoted in earlier chapters , them folding and getting in line with this request was quite off-putting. 11. Unlike earlier where the artificial intelligence of Faye was constantly involved , the collective, little one and robots have almost disappeared from narrative. 12. Even in today's earth all responsible for an attempted coup of the scale mentioned in the story will be behind bars or dead. Nothing !

Sajith K S

13. Remote medicine does not exist in the future. Though it exists in today's world. Doctors would have consulted from onbaord the ship and known each other and the case history. It happens even today. Except for medication all other analysis would have been possible. 14. Mateo has a family and he has not possibly lost his lover to competition. 15. Dana can possibly convert the ship Invictus to a living entity with its own identity. She see and converse with it. Kirrix did have a similar concept. 16. Crytal Ayssium seems to have morphed again. Golden it says. Now Maliri also had a golden hull for their ships. So this must be interesting. 17. Jack was surprised by protection detail! Marie never disclosed they have a protection detail. 18. Jehanna was once considered important enough to be kidnapped. Lion killed her kidnapper, exhibition of killing was done by Lion and still she was considered less of a target. Her weakness in form of her family never used. 19. Nymphs and growing but in comparison with how Jade made progress they seems to be lagging. The intensity of relationship which Nymphs have with other girls is also not anywhere like Jade. 20. The scientific progress and deliveries have stopped coming. 21. Pacing of story has changed. A story now cover hours in a day when compared to earlier when it was days and/or weeks. 22. Update on the happening in Ashanth, Terrakan space is pending. Then in story only few days have passed ! 23. Brimorian leaders are all equally impotent. 24. Brimorian's are to be defenceless in the homeworld as they consider no Terrane can breach their defence. Idiotic considering they saw one of thier fleet was eliminated. 25. Why is there a meeting of governors in the outer rim world? Support for John but opposition to Terran federation?

Sajith K S

26. Even in make believe world I find it diificult for Carle's male ego to accept the concept of his girls being fed on another man's semen and them accepting it willing. Lynette was dying by Lina!! 27. John's guide given by father is evil and violent. Why does not this half die off? Why doesn't he get another proper guide?

Sparky's Wife!!!

Tefler!!! I am still reading it but Sparky is on his 3rd go around already! He is being a meany and won't let me listen to it with him the brat. He wanted me to let you know that you did a Great Job on this chapter. Setting up so many things to come and moving forward on older things. He did have a question tho. After Dana had her moment with her ship, you stated that they looked down the ship and it had a golden glow. Was this just left over power from Dana , did the color of the metal change, or was it just a reflection of the sun gleaming off the ship?? Please let me know so I can get him to shut up over this.

commatoes

Rereading the chapter, one other thing, left unresolved and not referenced for a while, stood out. Rachel and John are talking about their respective childhoods and Rachel comments, “I’ve always envied Dana’s deep connection with you. You were both orphaned at birth and shared that same desperate need to find out about your parents... Dana's unique and unresolved origin seems to stick out. Everyone is exceptional but nothing was remarkable about their birth except John and Dana. I am excluding the Jade, the nymphs, and Helene for the time being. And, as I commented in the last chapter, Dana's powers seem to be new and unknown even to and amongst Progenitors. As she was genetically engineered at Ganymede and has a very unique baseline genome, does this mean that her differing abilities are due to this artificially manipulated genome? Just wondering if the detail is intentional OR incidental and I am reading too much into it.

David B

Tefler, Really hoping you have John and Co beat up the Brims soon - they are well overdue for John to take them apart and teach them a lesson / get payback for the TFeds and the Abondoned. And now we know that they were feeding the Kirrix too?!

David B

so much still to do and catch up on - when will John claim all the ships and “Thralls” from the killed Prog rival? How will he incorporate all the young girls and men / boys that did not die? Can he integrate the men / boys too into his army / lioness?

Alphaonetango

Another good post Tef boy, got some good world building and I am liking the extra content out side of the main core team of John and the Grills. Gives the galaxy more depth in the lore pool.

VycronDyz

So Auralei is 29, but has not completed the Ceremony of Allegiance and is not considered an Adult Woman. I wonder if the Larathyans have similar life spans to the Maliri (are Thrall races based on the same Template?). The Ceremony of Allegiance has me intriqued, how does a Progenitor "activate" thousands upon thousands of Thralls. He can't feed them all personally, John at least had the assistance of Jade. John really needs to figure this out so he can get more Maliri on board the Thall train and progress his Societal changes.

Matt

Thanks for the new chapter. Seems like the outer worlds are going to secede and form their own alliance or conglomerate, that should be interesting. But they don't have their own fleet, wonder if they'd ally with another race... Even if they joined those unaligned races from the mutual protection pact a while back they'd all still need to build a defensive fleet and they don't have the infrastructure for it. I have been considering the Faye situation and thought maybe once the girls were further enhanced that Rachel might be to genetically engineer an organic body for her and Irillith might be able to be a conduit from the technology housing her 'essence' to Alyssa who could implant it into her brain. Of course either she'd need some speed learning if they made an adult body (the idea of a child's mind in an adult body with all it's additional urges and complications always bothered me) or she's their first child (in that the new body is a baby) and they all raise her together. This new progenitor needs to get what for before too long! And John should take custody of those remaining thralls, because I worry what his father would do with them and they've already been through so much. Also a shame that they have to delay their arrival at Maliri space once again. Poor blue babes :(

Mudbutt McMerkin

Was it ever determined just how many ships Larn had....like empire total? Can’t remember reading that...

Thanatos95

Whew... A lot of progress on multiple storylines. I love it! Especially interesting was the view of the remains of Larn'kelnars empire and finding out exactly what the Brimorans were using the Abandoned for. John will be in full planet killing rage mode when he finds out.

Forbsey

I see a secession of a portion the outer rim possibly happening unless something is done about it. Maybe a democratic change? Stellaris ethics change much?

Dean R White

Speaking of Quantum Annihilators! I'm surprised John and crew haven't gone back to the moon to peruse the wreckage of the "Boom in the Moon". Even all blown up Dana might be able to Hoover out some interesting tech, and who knows how much might have survived. Hmmm? Hell, maybe Dana could miniaturize the QA and create a ship mountable weapon capable of taking out a progenitor dreadnought with one shot. Of course they have been a bit busy since that little battle:-)

Mudbutt McMerkin

What ya’ll wanna bet Dana and Tom Walker are bro and sis......it’s the gold ring around the corneas that has me convinced, that and they are close in age.

Mudbutt McMerkin

Hey fellow TSM addicts.........due to my iPads spell check enthusiasm in a previous thread, the Callopian Shoals became the Fallopian Shoals. Might we petition Tefler to adopt this name in the story?

SSH

As I was rereading the story I came across multiple descripency. In chapter 15. When John and Alicia and John boarding the kirrix hive ship by a kirrix drop ship after they kill all the drones. Dosent the broomother won't detect the drones are dead when they used the drop ship to boatding.

SSH

And also in recent chapters the nymph with the brimorian lord getting affected by John's pictures. But how come jade haven't reacted the same when she met John first time.

Benjamin Barnes

Okay, I'm gonna need John to perform some type of insta-kill on Giga'Douche. Then he can claim Valeria as another of his matriarchs. He needs somebody that's been living that progenitor life so they can figure out what they don't know. Also, if he doesn't, Sakura is going to beat Valeria like a rented mule and really think she needs somebody to show her some affection.

Mudbutt McMerkin

Whoever the confrontation is between, I can’t see it happening for several chapters......laying the groundwork for an epic face off like this will take time to set up. I’m thinking Tefler will have to resolve the Brimorean/abandoned situation, steal Larn’s fleets, find and study Kythshara amongst other things before he can confront Giga Douche.

Benjamin Barnes

He's also got to get out to trankaran space so that Dana can realize that their starforges are really progenitor soulforges. And make more maliri babies and bring the rest of the houses into line and solidify his control of the maliri.

Kensyi

Also, we have to resolve the Vulkat, and figure out the presence in the Brimorians cyber realm as well. The Achonin and Enshunu presence at the Underworld too.

Jammus1

Can someone throw me an invite to the Discord board please?

Jammus1

Someone help me out, please. I don’t think I’m following with the whole Tom Walker thing. Wasn’t he supposed to be set up as the traitor? Is this going to plan or has something changed? And why are people thinking that he was genetically enhanced?

VC

If jade has achonnin runes on her heart and we think she was made by a Progenitor, that makes the achonin and enshunu both previous thrall races. They couldn't be the same, could they?

Imhotep

i am guessing the new Progenitor is good for another 20 chapters or so....with the gradual introduction of other players --- and allowing John to take control of the Larns old realms (which co conveniently has a bunch of excess males that match with excess females amongst the Maliri), Kill Giga Douche - and deal with the Fishfaces who have been selling Helen's kinfolk to the bugs.

Imhotep

The nymphs seem like a race of Progen super batteries --- each one added creates major new psychic well of power - an entire race - or several thousand was no doubt behind the original's success in becoming the strongest and taking an entire galaxy for himself.

Dean R White

We need to find Mael's cloning facility and turn out about a dozen Teflers. lol!

Dean R White

Aside from wanting to know who created the nymphs, I am curious as to why they were created.

Forbsey

Food for thought, maybe the Kyth'faren bloodline over the eons have been diluted on purpose by Xar'aziuth to keep them in line. The shroud may function as a suppressant and as John was born outside the shroud, he is becoming a true Kyth'faren. Xar'aziuth maybe pressed for time to kill John quickly before he attains his true inheritance via the citadel.

Big Dude

Hey Tefler, could you schedule your releases this fall and winter to be the 10th and the 30th/31st of each month? That way the cry babies will have a schedule and we won't have to listen to them boo hoo hoo each month! For instance, I wonder if some of them are of this impatience generation... https://www.studyfinds.org/hurry-up-modern-patience-thresholds-lower-than-ever-before-survey-finds/ "Survey shows average person grows frustrated after waiting 16 seconds for a webpage to load, 25 seconds for traffic signal to change." - Sounds like some people here. BTW I now save my posts so when those wonderful thoughts are deleted I can replace them! :)

Evan

Since so many people seem to want Tefler to post a schedule... I'll post one for him. I fully anticipate and predict that Tefler may or may not adhere to this schedule September: 1 or more postings (to the forum) before the end of the month. This may or may not include a minimum of one(1) new chapter attached to the posting. October: 1 or more postings (to the forum) before the end of the month. This may or may not include a minimum of one(1) new chapter attached to the posting. November: 1 or more postings (to the forum) before the end of the month. This may or may not include a minimum of one(1) new chapter attached to the posting. December: 1 or more postings (to the forum) before the end of the month. This may or may not include a minimum of one(1) new chapter attached to the posting. That's covering the remaining months of this year. I can do next year, too, if desired.

Evan

Tefler, my apologies for committing you to such a schedule before checking with you, first. ;-)

Bp Hlpt

Can someone please remind me which chapter it was that the runes on Jade's crystal heart were discovered? TIA

Nonconformist

There was a comment from someone who said John had not claimed the Maliri , while rereading the series while waiting for the next chapter I found it. John claimed the Maliri in chapter 106 on the first page.

Avenger0201

The issue raised during the story regarding Maliri was John claimed them but not subjudicated them.

Benj

How spoiled are we beggars for chapter 126!

Father Sin

Who still remembers Faye?

Big Dude

My guess: Faye returns between Chapter 132 to 135. The metal epiphany Dana had will allow her to repair the Progenitor Server. But, there are more important tasks she will be tasked with now with the Invictus upgrades. She will use Eternity Crystals in some new and ingenious ways that even the big dude hadn't thought about.

em110905

Mael was the creator of the Nexus server. I think the visit to his home planet will reveal a few interesting items concerning the future for faye.

FOEAI

I loved the Jade "do I have a soul?" Moment! Makes ya think that a little purple sprite might have gotten a soul from her Progenitor lover maybe? Would that mean she's trapped by Xar-whats-its-name? Is John and crew gonna travel to the other side and mount a rescue to bring all the Faye souls back to some eternity crystals?

Joe Marchese

So as an IT guy I am still stuck on the fact that you didn't have a full backup of that computer...…… :-P

Benj

Can the psi detector be used as surveillance for incoming progen? I could also imagine a tracking missle that follows tendrils to their sources. What devastating approach to eliminating threats. John can turn his off at will but the other progen may not know how.

Hermit1157

With all the comms interference, Irillth should implement an encryption program for secret communications. She and Dana could make a decoder to give to selected allies. They could base it on Vulcat 8-eye code. That at least would keep comm hijackers from learning anything. You could also have it acknowledge receipt. Lynton just used the Progenitor language, but that would be one of the groups that could intercept comm. After all not everyone is a Lioness. I do not understand why schematics cannot be transmitted telepathically since even emotions are communicated. Of course it would have to be between full Lioness'.

Braw

Dear Mr Tefler,could we have an update please?

Anon Mus

Hey Tefler 👋, just a suggestion but can we have status updates on a fixed day of the week or month? Don't want to rush you with writing but knowing if the next chapter is going to be released soonish or later would greatly alleviate the anxiety of waiting for consequent chapters.

teresa beasley

si/fi dave I will wait for the next part of your epic patiently ..thank you

Mudbutt McMerkin

Was just thinking......Rachel never got a sample of either Larn’s or Rahn’s DNA......would have been interesting to know if Larn and John were related as well as the degree of variance between progens. It’s gotta be a vanishingly small gene pool with only a cupla dozen individuals. Notwithstanding their ability to manipulate genetics, it’s still a shallow damn pool.

Who Me

Out of pure boredom, been re-reading TSM from the beginning while waiting for Chapter 126. And in Chapter 76, Dana said, “When we moved Faye to her own (Nexus) server the old hacking deck was fucked. She’d screwed up the AI boot sequence when she expanded her system memory and basically bricked the thing. I’m just using it as a backup for her Core Systems now.” Backing up her Core Systems! Does that mean they can restore Faye from the hacking deck and bring her back to life? There WAS a backup! We want Faye!

Kensyi

Also we never addresses that Tash picked up Larn's staff, did we?

Cody Strong

Since John's sword is hungry for power he should probably try using it without filling it up like he wants to do. Especially since it hurt Larn when he tried to touch it.

Soulweaver67

This new Prog must die in a viscous and very painful way.

Benj

Cody's idea of new toys for the girls makes a ton of sense (ancient blades for everyone). John encased Jade's crystal in a protective shell. Might he also upgrade this and make ones for the kittens as a sensible precaution? We lost Faye by forgetting to upgrade and I see no reason why we would this again.

Benj

Also, please add more robot jokes.

rich ed

So where is Faye's chassis now? Did they place her in her room? Also Tefler has never alluded to this but were the Maliri predominately a homosexual society due to the 20/1 ratio of women to men and that the men escaped to the boarder worlds. Or were they not so inclined into getting jiggy, living 300 odd years you would want to get your rocks off from time to time surely? The only mention from Tefler that I can remember is “Dyani Spiritwing from Plasma Fire Over Caranos!” the Maliri breathed, her fingers trembling as she reverently stroked the Nymph’s arm. “She was my first girl-crush...” Chapter 116

Dean R White

I may be mistaken, but wasn't Dyani Spiritwing a Terran character?

Jeff Eaton

So do you I think the plan is to push the prepared Invictus into combat with the Brimorians or still go back to the protectorate to build a new ship? How long would it take to build a ship from scrap? Because we know every engineer in there aunt and uncle would be thrown into the project. :)

Arrowglass

Olympus first to save Abigail! Then, I wonder, if the Brimrians are going to attack the Kintark, if the Empress will ask for help from John? Of course, she will have to back on her request to keep the Invictus out of Kintark space! "Oh, what wicked webs he (Tefler) weaves"...to slightly paraphrase the old saying! What will they ignore to return to Maliri space with all that is going on?

Dean R White

I agree with John going to Olympus first. I think I remember reading that it would only take them 10 days to get there after Dana psycho-straightened the superstructure. Here's something else to think about. If our heroes build a worm-hole generator to haul a bunch of Maliri crews to Larathyran space to "requisition" Larn's thrall ships, he's going to pop up on Xar's radar as soon as they arrive. Xar will immediately order an attack by at least one progenitor, giving John and crew just slightly over 12 hours to get in, crew the ships, and get out. On another note, unless the worm-hole generator is powerful enough to transport the Invictus and a fleet of thrall vessels along with it, they won't be able to get back safely. If the Maliri leave in hyper-warp, any progenitor dreadnought will be able to catch and destroy them, and even if they did get through. Depending where the Larathyran Empire is located it could take a very long time to get home, unless there is a convenient hyper-warp gate or a bit of high end "Dana Magic" involved. And, what will happen with the surviving Larathyrans? With all the enthralled Larathyrans dead, will the Maliri hate them, or is it only thralls that hate each other. Can they be rescued?

Big Dude

With Dana modifying the ship superstructure in chapter 125, the ship should be way stronger than it was before the sneak attack by Larn'Kelnar. Was there any story line of the fabricators creating the wormhole generator parts? Since Dana has the schematics and blueprints; why can't Dana create another ten or twelve additional wormhole generators for the Maliri battleships or dreadnaughts? Imagine if Dana has two generators they can jump to point A - deliver ass-kicking #1 or rescue #1 and then jump to point B - deliver ass-kicking #2 or rescue #2 Why haven't the eternity crystals been investigated for additional uses besides weapons platforms? How about eternity crystals being used to reduce the worm hole timeframe through time focusing?

Kensyi

Probably because only 2 days have passed since she got the wormhole generator schematics

rich ed

Tefler when you do the e-book for chapter 116 you may wish to edit this paragraph a little. “Alyssa’s back... so lots of flirtatious teasing,” Dana replied with a smile. They started walking after the maintenance bots again and she studied Faye with an appraising eye. “It totally sucks that you can’t hear her telepathically. I wonder if there’s some way we could adapt one of the Ashanath psi-shapers? It’s a machine that receives incoming telepathic commands, so if Alyssa projected her thoughts at it, then perhaps you could receive the signal...” I bet Faye knows what the psi-shaper is by now in the story line, especially after they used it when they refitted the ship the first time to check the connections of all the Maliri, and reviewed the footage after they left Maliri space.

Jeff Eaton

I know what I want for a present. :)

Kensyi

Please I don't think I can start over again and reread it right now lol

GrandPaM

My BDay is tomorrow, Tefler...? When's F5 time?

Oldwood

Congratulations Tefler on the new addition to the family coming soon ........ who needs sleep anyway . LOL.

Tefler

I've updated the post with the final version of chapter 125. :-)

Tefler

New final version added! I missed some edits in the last draught, so I've fixed those too. :-)