A Hunter of Stories

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Studying Humans The human automotive traffic flowing at a steady pace along Frontier Drive at its back, the Cooper’s hawk sits on its perch between road and parking lot. The immature raptor shows no signs of fear or any other discomfort as it eyes the humans traveling to and from the Sheetz convenience store in [...]

With over ten years experience writing interactive Star Trek fiction with others in both alt-starfleet-rpg and Star Trek: Frontiers, I have always wanted to field characters in story that had some substance to them. Sometimes they were plan old humans. Other times they tapped other canon Trek races. But occasionally, I would introduce a new [...]

Story Note — This story introduces the future captain of the U.S.S. Pathfinder as it will exist within the Star Trek Online universe. It reinvents my original command character I first started writing wit many years ago and looks at her life and what it might have been in this new reality. – – – [...]

Considering I come from a PBeM RP background *and* am a photojournalist, it stands to reason that I love creating background for my ships and characters. So let me begin with the U.S.S. Andúril. In reality, the Andúril was born in the stories of Star Trek: Frontiers‘ “Foundations” series as a personal fan fiction of [...]

The new year is coming as tomorrow is New Year’s Eve! … and I have to say that I haven’t been this excited to see a new year in quite some time. Why am I so excited? … Because I finally get to run off and join Star Fleet … err … play in a [...]

Over a decade ago, I made some really really good and lifelong friends by writing RP / interactive fiction set in one of the possible futures of Star Trek. At first it was alt-starfleet-rpg and later Star Trek: Frontiers. I have friends within and from both of these two games and even now am proud [...]

A participant in the John Lewis Society, Delaney Powers, 14, of Greenville carries baskets, hoops and other items up the path to the Bowman House on the American farm at the Frontier Culture Museum on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009.  The John Lewis Society is a junior interpreter program at the museum. — Mike Tripp, photojournalist [...]

In the forums of the People of the Four Winds, a friend started a thread that asked about what colors speak to us from the natural world. How does this colors affect us? I began by saying, “The white of the snow causes me to reflect on purity of spirit. It also brings a sense [...]

One of the thoughts I have been exploring the last few days is … What path of starship am I wanting to follow for the U.S.S. Andúril? In the universe of Star Trek Online, they have three different paths of ships within the game: Cruisers, Escorts, and Science. Now it is a given that if [...]

The first character I created in the universe of Lord of the Rings online was a dwarf named Thorshea. As a Guardian this dwarf has anything but a heart of stone. He is quick to leap into the fray to help others even if it cost him his life … well, sends him back to [...]