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USS Fresno - IKS Hegh’ta - USS Valley Forge

The Burden of all Selves

When opposing realities collide...

Mission Description

When a reality you know is confronted with one that could have been, what lengths would you take to ensure the survival of both?  Captain Michael Dart is forced to face precisely this dilemma, and must make the ultimate decision for the best interests of all…

About the Mission

Commands
USS Fresno
IKS Hegh’ta
USS Valley Forge
Status
In Progress
Total Stories
11
Start Date
05/04/2026

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10 May 2026

Burden 11 - Resolved

USS Fresno: The Burden of all Selves

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal.” -C.S. Lewis Thalissa lay awake in the dark, wrapped around Michael like [...]

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9 May 2026

Burden 10 - The Other Perspective

USS Fresno: The Burden of all Selves

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” -Carl Jung The doors to sickbay peeled open with a polite hydraulic sigh that belied the violence that the Fresno had just seen, and Commander Thalissa Zheen stepped through looking like she’d gone [...]

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2 May 2026

Burden 09 - Consequences that Loom

USS Fresno: The Burden of all Selves

“…However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing, as it were, behind your back.” -George Orwell It wasn’t so much that Michael woke up.  More that he got thrown back into himself.  A loose part hammered back in that was made to fit where it clearly didn’t belong.  [...]

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1 May 2026

Burden 08 - The Bloodletting

USS Fresno: The Burden of all Selves

“…But still there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.” -Jack London (White Fang) The cloak wrapped the IKS Hegh’ta in a low, predatory hum that one didn’t hear so much as feel.  A vibration in the [...]

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