Rogues Revenge Ch 18 posted 6/10/03

[SteveMill]

Chapter 18: And Carve their Name with Pride

‘Kolumanias Thakliniak Kalioomus.’ He allowed himself to savour his name one more time, rolling each syllable, redolent with the pride of his long lineage, in his mind like a bantha sweet under his tongue.

Kolumanias Thakliniak Kalioomus, the Fifth and the last.

A fighter flashed across the nose of his Falcon, into the burning stream of plasma roaring from his guns. The Bayamon exploded into scattering shards and dissipating gases and Scarlet Claw felt one last moment of pride in the exceptional reflexes and acute peripheral vision that had marked his calling. When he had a name, when The General embraced him as comrade and weighted his chest with honour.

Continued on my Space Ritual site from sig link below
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For new board members this story is part of a trilogy that will be part of the X2 package. Acrobat format downloads can also be found on my site as well as links to the relevant message board. It started out as an experiment but just kept going as people seemed to like it.

Steve

[Al]

Great stuff Steve.

If anyone hasn't read this then I suggest you get started

Al

[KiwiNZ]

Excellent read! Great battle, shame about the Shadow Skin but definitely worth the exchange. By now Law is limping quite badly. Too bad also the loss of that Mamba, wasn't that the only one that could actually go at 1000? He's got to get used to going slow again
Sad that all the Teladi fell but it gets Max out of the misery of giving them shelter and getting cross with the races. Smart move

I am really looking forward to seeing how that all develops. Law should be slowly running out of fighters by now, Max's chances increase. Well,who knows what the Split are up to.

Bring it on!

[Faze]

Nice one Steve.

[Moss]

Nice one Steve, I just love these tricks Max keeps coming up with, very unexpected, you have a great imagination.

Cheers.