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Ben Roberts

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I'm a daydreamer. It's always gotten me into trouble, but what do you do?

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Ben Roberts
@astrohive May 17, 2023, 2:09 AM UTC

Thirty Nine Light Years: Readings

The Tyrriann forces were nearly completely revived. Most had unplugged and had their consciousnesses restored. Bundled neatly with their minds the tens of millions strong forces had had combat and su…

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Ben Roberts
@astrohive Mar 8, 2023, 10:49 PM UTC

What will the Aliens in 39 Light Years Look Like?

This little tale unfolding, which some of you may be following, actually has its roots in a story I was writing around fifteen years ago. It's premise was thus: Aliens known as Tyrrians own slave shi…

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Ben Roberts
@astrohive Feb 28, 2023, 2:56 AM UTC

Thirty Nine Light Years: False Flag

As Desster quickly rejuvenated from his forty plus years of stasis in a biochemically maintained perch on the utmost precipice of death memories were beginning to reform. Old synapses and pathways we…

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Ben Roberts
@astrohive Feb 14, 2023, 11:02 PM UTC

Thirty Nine Light Years Chapter Three: Surface

As the first drop-ships descended quietly through the clouds, signals were not being received. In the last months, initial scouting forces had been sent to various locations across the planet, settin…

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Ben Roberts
@astrohive Feb 1, 2023, 9:31 PM UTC

Thirty Nine Light Years: Chapter Two: A Dark Variant of Birth

..The target world now lay in view of most of the fleet. For several months the ranks of vessels quietly appearing in the system and concealing themselves behind the planet's satellite had swollen. T…

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Ben Roberts
@astrohive Jan 28, 2023, 7:56 AM UTC

Thirty Nine Light Years

Unforeseen Integration "....The fleet had arrived several weeks earlier, quietly amassing on the dark side of the target planet's only natural satellite. Nearly forty years of preparation had brought…

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Ben Roberts
@astrohive Jan 18, 2023, 10:37 PM UTC

In Uterism

A nod to the legacies of many great artists, Laurie Lipton among them. One thing about AI art: it fosters an interest in art itself and how it works. A significant percentage of AI artists create ama…

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Ben Roberts
@astrohive Oct 12, 2022, 9:57 PM UTC

The First Ones

"..This image, my child, is a rarity of rarities. You will not completely recognise this creature, perhaps.. - - Nephilim? Not quite. One would be forgiven for such a postulate. The Nephilim are almo…

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Ben Roberts
@astrohive Sep 2, 2022, 6:07 AM UTC

The Bones of a Distant Star

"...In the voids outside the shifting masses of our own worlds it has been observed that pieces of the WorldGarden have broken away, and sail the endlessness. How do I know this? Ah, young one, it is…

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Ben Roberts
@astrohive Aug 14, 2022, 12:45 AM UTC

Beyond the Edge

A Prologue of sorts.. "...Almost at the very periphery of all that was known, a young, tiny creature was unable to grasp what it was seeing. It was perched atop a large flat stone, which lay on a dam…

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