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Hey everyone,

Here's the latest chapter. It's complete, unless you notice some vitally important scene I might have missed, in which case let me know!

I've proofread the first half pretty extensively, but not the second half as much. Please let me know if you spot any typos or continuity errors and I'll try to fix them immediately.

Best wishes,

Tefler

Comments

Evan

Thank you, Tefler! Get some sleep! It’s 04:30!

Vince

Thank you and Godspeed on your various issues!

HillCountryCowboy

When it rains, it pours. Hang in there. I lost my Mom almost exactly a year ago, and I’m still dealing with the emotions and her estate. Life is different, but good. God bless.

Cignal

Thanks Tefler, get some sleep.

Antoine Scrivener

Much appreciated. Been suffering from severe TSM withdrawals

Evan

Tefler, I found an error: “How many?” Darthas asked, feeling as badly shaken as Aldorellan looked. “Maybe ten fleets so far?” Darthas said with a shrug. “I haven’t been keeping count.” —- Obviously, the second part shouldn’t be Darthas speaking. Is it John?

Evan

One more: all the minefields will be dragging them through S/B all the minefields we’ll be dragging them through

Evan

And: will rue the day that decided S/B will rue the day that they decided

Evan

Is this a British spelling issue? she heared instead of she heard

James Dougherty

Just want to say how much I enjoy the story. I work night shift at a hotel so my shifts have often been time for me to download and read each chapter in MS Word. Think I've edited the last 20 or so chapters that way. Cant wait to dive into this chapter

Michael56Smith

.17: found another oops, sorry: on page 41 of 50 in Word, "The enemy Progenitor has join those warships and they continue to advance towards Venkarys.”, .... I am sure you meant to write 'joined' ,... loving this chapter, thank you, ... ;-) ttfn

Bill

Good chapter!!

Cornbread

Question: What is going on with that fleet of ships they captured? John was deciding the fate of the planet and space station and no one mention using the fleet. I am sorry, but it is not rational to leave an asset off the table with millions of people at stake.

Silent Count

Best Monday wake up notification.

Bill

Next chapter would be a really really good place for John's father to show up cloaked and ambush Gahl’kalgor. Just destroy his engines so he's stranded. Enough time for the captured fleet to get thru the gate. Does the updated Malari fleet have cloak capability

Michael56Smith

.31: I am sorry Bill, Larn'kelnar's (now Rahn'hagon's) dreadnought was the only cloak capable ship in that fleet, .... -- and since what we found out in this chapter (#162), that the Males on the trade stations had reverse engineered the cloaking technology, from Mael's old weapons platforms, and in a way that can be made using Maliri tools (crystal tech), ... so if Queen Edraele asks nicely, then the Maliri at Genthalas could have the info to start cranking out some powerful camouflage devices for their ships and key facilities, ... --- and yeah, I agree that the next chapter (#163) should be an Awesome one, especially if Rahn and Jessica put in an appearance, ... 'and just destroy Kal's dreadnoughts' engines huh? ... has Rahn been spying on John to keep tabs on the Progenitor War, and to maybe see how his son is doing impossible things? smh, ... ;-) ttfn

Fred Hunter

...enthusiastic thumbs up. "That would awesome, thanks!"

Fred Hunter

should be ....enthusiastic thumbs up. "That would be awesome, thanks!"

Robar

I don’t care, just bring more story!

Bill

I just read chpt 162 again. The men on Genwynn and the cloaked planet cities, and their cloaked fleet. Wonder if there are any warships in that cloaked fleet and maybe some new surprising weapons????

20 ton

The hidden guns were built by Mal. The engineers said they couldn’t cut or replicate them. A scaled down version might be available. If you parked a dozen cloaked ships behind parked ships you might be able to do some damage. The torpedo warheads are working on the spider mines. Cloak the raptor and see if Dana can repeat her Kintark mine blast.

20 ton

The spider mines have only been built with CA. I don’t know if Edraele couldn’t have a freighter full made with existing crystal tech, parked at Kys waiting to be deployed.

AzureReader

Do I remember correctly that Edraele worked out a solution to their supply problems a chapter of two ago? I thought they put a ton of supplies on ship and sent it far away from the Maliri home worlds somewhere. What happened to that?

Mark Strom

I think Rahn should get hushed going in the deep Astral. When he finds a new archive it's a trap. Then Jessica comes looking for John in valaden. The ship could be crewed by Amarillo. I think Rahn should die his services are no longer required

blargarble

Hey so I only recently found TSM and have really enjoyed the story, but I have to bring up an issue here. The Maliri population is ridiculously small. There is 4x 30m males and 1 male for every 20 female, so 2.4b females. This is supposed to be the largest and oldest empire in this section of space, with a population about one third of modern humanity. I get the the population decline is a big issue for the Maliri, but at this point there would be more vacant planets than occupied cities.

stan kelley

all i can say is im sick of john being a god dam pussy its kill or be killed its time john dies let rahn take over idc at this point john is killing the story ive seen more bad comments then good comments here and on lit the only good comments r the simps whos on there knees for tef