I decided to go the corny route and do a Kobayashi Maru one. All the characters in it are based on people I know, and I try to keep the details consistent with every other bit of fiction I do.

I must also regretfully inform everybody that I went over the character limit.

Again.

Yep, this one is definitely not easy.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Oh, hey Arachnidus (and anyone else who needs more than one posting):
Don't worry if your story is long. As long as it's well-readable and not just a big clump of text - I'm sure we'll enjoy the story just the same.

I finally managed to muster something together for this challenge. This one follows on from a little after my taking command offering in challenge 2.

Mine is short, but I think it tells the story.

I like the angle you took on the challenge, it gets the story across quite well.

I gotta say, one of the things I like best about this is getting to know other people's characters.

Bring on the next challenge! I can't wait to see what happens.

Being in the middle of getting my house ready to sell (pray for us! In this market, we need it!) and prepping for a cross country move leaves me with zip for time, so I revised a story I wrote a couple months back for a fleet challenge. Hope you like the little twist at the end.

Once we have the house on the market life _might_ settle down a bit, and I hopefully will have more time to provide some decent critiques.