USS Astute

Those that Walk Beside Us.

Dispatched to render emergency aid to colonists on Encedis-#5, Captain Monique McDowell and the crew of the USS Astute discover that the need for thier assistance runs deeper than they think.

Mission Description

In the aftermath of the Vaadwaur invasion, planets and settlements throughout the former DMZ are left shattered & devastated  –  in desperate need of emergency assistance.

The USS Astute is tasked with assisting the neutral colonists of Encedis-#5 (once a fruitful water – world with a thriving aquaculture industry that several other planets in the system relied upon for thier food supply) with the restoration of thier weather control satellite – network, that was intentionally sabotaged by the departing Vaadwaur forces.

But as Captain Monique McDowell and her crew delve deeper into this mysterious world, what they will uncover will unleash a tsunami of confusion & upheaval as a long – forgotten secret from the abyss threatens to change the very fate of a world and its people.

About the Mission

Command
USS Astute
Status
In Progress
Total Stories
8
Start Date
18/06/2025

21 July 2025

Stormrider

USS Astute: Those that Walk Beside Us.

  “Into this house we’re born, Into this world we’re thrown.” The Doors – “Riders on the Storm” (1971)   The Lion was going to kill Talia, of that much she was pretty sure. The storm reached out in all of its manifest and terrifying fury and clutched at the darting [...]

16 July 2025

Angels

USS Astute: Those that Walk Beside Us.

  “All God’s angels come to us disguised.” James Russell Lowell (1861)   Three incandescent, shining figures bathed and clad in a startling ethereal light that the eye could not see, hung motionless above the undulating grey swell of the endless ocean and regarded the outsiders [...]

11 July 2025

Adrift

USS Astute: Those that Walk Beside Us.

  “O Savior, whose almighty word The winds and waves submissive heard, Who walked upon the foaming deep, And calm amid the rage did sleep; O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea.” Hymn – William Whiting (1860)   The big pink lizard sat in the captain’s chair [...]

7 July 2025

Grounded

USS Astute: Those that Walk Beside Us.

  “If an aircraft is still in one piece, don’t cheat on it; ride the bastard down.” Ernest K. Gann   From the storm’s perspective, everything is calm. Captain Monique McDowell’s own personal experience of this euphemism proved to be decidedly in the ulterior as she fought to [...]