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"How long ago have you lost them?" she finally responded.
This sudden question took Janeway aback, but then it clicked. "We noticed there was a fluctuating temporal variance in--"
"How long?" the other woman pressed, completely serious.
With a blink, Janeway let her know:
"Nine days."
... "Your 'day' is a single rotation of your homeworld on its axis?" she queried solemnly.
"Yes," Janeway answered, feeling a cool dread at the captain's question, and watching her calculate it briefly, almost unwillingly as her eyes turned askance, then closed. "Captain Havetsi?"
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Set in an alternate universe shortly before
season 2's "Alliances," the tale begins with the disappearance of
an away team.
Following them through a temporally unstable
plasma field only to meet a friendly and ancient culture, Janeway's worst
fears are proven, plus some. Her crewpeople had indeed perished--during
a war to free that region of space, and over a century ago.
Feeling Voyager's loss and beholden to her
promises, a dying elder who had been close to the survivors of the shuttle
asks to share her memories of the people who made a great impact on her
society and region. But is that all she desires to repay?
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Chapter 1: Desalia
Rising
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Chapter 6: World
Weaving
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Chapter 2: Acquainting
Opposition
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Chapter 7: Indeterminate
Movements
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Chapter 3: Appraisals
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Chapter 8: Stems
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Chapter 4: Cezian
Ascension
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Chapter 9: The
Ingress
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Chapter 5: Parameters
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Chapter 10: Aspects
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Rated R for language, violence, mature themes/imagery and
sexual situations.
One of my betas suggested I share a few of my notes, so
I've provided a few below.
(NOTE: These pages may spoil the reader--only the maps are
safe)
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2-D
Map of Irllae
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Terms
of Irllae (with pronunciations)
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Map
of Azlre
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Character
Lists
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Feedback is a fanfic writer's only payment.
Please feel free to feed my mailbox.
1st Place, ASC Awards for Best P/T Story,
2000
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My everlasting thanks to my dedicated and uber-patient
beta readers, Annie M. and Susan D., who faithfully bore through my drafts
as I wrote them, and gave me worlds of advice I could not have finished
without. Also, to Ann M., PJ in NH and Tracy S., who bravely set about
looking through the chapters for glitches while I edited.
Star Trek and its characters
belong to Paramount. I merely think too much.
© D'Alaire M. 1998 - 2010
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