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Texas: A Collection of Stories from Residents - Tomtomrawr - 07-21-2012
//All work here will never be used in the actual Discovery Universe. It is merely a unique outcrop of my own design. So things might be different in the real Disco, such as policies or something. Don't make a legal battle out of it - nothing written here actually happens, so just ignore it if it bothers you.
Texas: A Collection of Stories from Residents - Tomtomrawr - 07-21-2012
More stories may be added here at any time.
Story Collection:
The Misty Mask
A Liberty Police Inc. Lieutenant, until now comfortably under the additional employ of the Buro Der Marineintelligenz as an informer for activities on Houston, hunts for the truth behind this arrangement after pieces repeatedly fall foul of their places, leading him down a far darker road than he had originally intended. A road covered in blood. Who has he really been working for?
Like Father, Like Son
To look after his family following the death of his father, fourteen year old Joshua Robson must give up the life of an innocent high school student and enter the dark underworld of Houston, filled with opportunities of amassing grand fortunes for those who know how to screw over the right people - enough to survive for those who don't. But the name Robson already has a resounding echo in the underworld. An echo Joshua unwittingly finds himself needing to maintain.
"Get Me Off This Junk Heap!"
For most of the remaining crew of the recently destroyed Junker Salvager Ain't No Scrap Like Your Scrap, the long stay on Beaumont has been a long overdue miracle. For the captain, Daniel Jillian, the nightmare couldn't be worse. Even if it lacked alcohol. Every trick up his sleeve must be brought to bear to acquire himself a new Salvager and get far away from Beaumont. Before his past rolls in and picks a fight.
Texas: A Collection of Stories from Residents - Tomtomrawr - 07-24-2012
The Misty Mask
Chapter 1
Houston was always a dump. Look out the window of your shabby apartment and what do you see? More shabby apartments. There was no upper class, no more pleasant accommodations to look at on a mountainside and dream about. The dream was getting off that rock. Anybody who had the money to watch Houston disappear into a tiny speck as they blasted away on a transport took that option. Houston was born as a dump: more than that, it was designed for that purpose. A place for Manhattanites to wrinkle their noses at and say in bad times "Oh well, at least I don't live on Houston!"
But there are some people who had to be there. Houston, although it's hard to imagine, would be a lot worse without the employment offers available from Deep Space Engineering, the Bounty Hunters Guild and the Liberty Police. The latter two have their local headquarters on the planet, which is very appropriate considering their tasks. To catch the scum, you have to get knee deep in it.
But most go deeper than they should. For the LPI divisions with a total focus on Houston planetside, it's an unspoken truth that most cops are corrupt. Whatever group they are - Liberty Rogues and Xenos mostly, although the Outcasts do maintain connections in the system - they had paid eyes on the inside of every precinct in every district.
Clean cops just had to accept that most of their friends were dirty. They couldn't report it to anyone; the people they would have to report it to were probably dirty themselves. And then they'd call in their paymasters to make you disappear.
For Greg Hudson, the Lieutenant of one of these many dirty stations, he accepted that fact for the wrong reasons. He had his own secrets that he wanted to keep covered up.