Recent content by Merian Sere

Raxus. They’d come for Raxus. A move so deranged as to be unexpected. Slugs were never known for their intelligence, that was true, but the fact that they threw the bulk of their fleet at the Imperial capital without first whittling down the Imperial war machine or capturing perimeter worlds...

Theme For someone who’d offered her hand, Merian was almost surprised that he took it. Kellan’s hand was warm, warmer than hers, and as she held it and held his eyes Merian felt these butterflies rise up in her, like those first few times after she’d fallen for Maros. She felt guilty for each...

“Half a dozen locations at once,” Merian added. “The captain’s right. And all else hasn’t failed.” Not yet, anyway. Time was running out. “Captain Solari can fight. I need you with me for the blueprints, the doors,” she told the lieutenant. “ISB matters. It’s true, they’ll be looking for...

“Rowan,” she said, slowly, in that same empty voice. She’d have forgotten in an hour. “Thank you.” Too early to tell if really she meant it, but for now, it felt like the right thing to say. Then Merian passed out again. @Nefieslab @Sreeya

On the Wildcard The cold hit her before the relief, and for a moment Merian was elsewhere. “No, no,” she protested, barely above a whisper. Her limbs tightened. “I need my drysuit. I hate cold water.” Her incoherent speech illustrated the haze the knight was in. But after a few seconds...

On the Wildcard The first attack hadn’t been altogether unexpected. Though her move meant she wasn’t in a position to defend herself perfectly, that at least one of four dark side users saw fit to intervene was a likely outcome. Merian accepted that. But when the second attack came, from...

Team Doctor Merian was by the consoles searching for survivors when she felt the commotion a second before she heard it. Impotent, performative rage. Her own stomach dropped as she tried to turn away, like she was the one being choked. And then came the voice. “Dare to disrespect me again...

Team Doctor Though Merian was no scholar, she felt the dark side as much as the others, viscerally, like concentrated in this nearing void with the mass of a thousand stars. The Doctor’s rambling about grotesque rituals made short work of whatever respect she may have held for the man. If he...

It had to be a hallway. As if the odds weren’t stacked enough already, their team wouldn’t make any progress until they reached the entrenched shooters all too ready for them across a claustrophobic trap mercilessly void of the slightest hint of cover. At least fifty meters. Like ten times...

Team Doctor Not so long ago, the Empire would have had as many delegates as the Jedi and Sith present. Merian knew the war had spread her faction thinner than they’d like, too thin to commit more than a token delegation to an exploratory trip that at first glance didn’t threaten its territory...

Merian half-frowned, like noncommittally vexed. “Well, there’s catching the repulsive grey bugs,” she pointed out. “Some of us still do it by hand, though that’s mostly for tourists. I’m something of an expert. Now I even pull them out of TIEs.” She looked down to his grey tunic with an...

The Nautolan’s eyes were like glued to the footage. He watched it once, twice. But then he sensed something was off, shook his head. “I can sense her here,” he said. “I know what you’re doing to her.” “Then—” “There is no emotion, there is peace. I was always prepared to let my padawan go...

He could reformulate all he wanted, Merian’s expression shifted into a proud, teasing smirk, knowing she’d struck true. Only it didn’t last long before he returned the favor and she was grave again. “Neither did mine, on Iloh,” she admitted. “Except they traded me in. To the Jedi,” she...

Relief washed over the Eclipse in the form of a wave of silence, hearts too jolted to make a sound. Stress had fallen like freezing rain, leaving them wrapped in ice even after it had gone. Only Lieutenant Brinks and Alpha Squadron hadn’t gotten the memo over comms. “Alpha Four, Alpha Six, on...

This was the worst moment to pass. Merian paced the bridge like a caged nexu, a hand restlessly on her hip, as she tried her best to accept there was nothing more productive she could do. The bridge was abuzz, everyone had their role to play, and she waited and did nothing. Victory was out of...