1. Welcome to Meridian


    Date: 2/13/2024, Categories: Celebrities & Fan Fiction, Author: bymeatcute

    "Look at these skies." Ryder whispered, her big brown eyes looking up and over.
    
    Blues and greens, contrasted and cut through with the white and sleek of the ships. Space battles against nature, or in actuality - science battles against military. It is a tale as old as time. The old galaxy's main conflict was Biological VS Synthetic. Milky Way; Machine or Man, who do we prefer to be at the end of the day? More importantly - why must we choose? And the same question arises here, six hundred years away in Andromeda. Science, or military? Why must we insist upon choosing? If we only got a few beautiful places to look at inside the Milky Way, Andromeda more than makes up for the nightmare fuel that is the newly found race, the Angaran. Or better yet, the Kett. The Kett scared Ryder, but she would never admit it. Wouldn't dare.
    
    Sara was outside with her friends. Vetra Nyx, her twin brother Scott. And of course, Cora. They had slept together a few months ago on the first planet founded. The first planet they marked as safe. She wondered about that night. Wondered if Cora thought about it. A small smile was shared between the two highly contrasted women. Sara Ryder looked up at the sky once more. "Meridian." She breathed out, like it was part of her now.
    
    "You know, some people would give their entire left leg to see a sight like this." Gil Brodie spoke up. Her gay mechanic. She gave him a laugh and a nudge. She remembered just two weeks back in the engine core of the ...
    ... spaceship. Sara caught her twin brother and Gil Brodie. They were...well, needless to say. If they were playing Poker, then Gil was definitely winning.
    
    "I'd give my right leg. My left leg is stronger." Vetra spoke up, her voice seeming to echo within itself. Sara let out a laugh at this, shaking her head. A high and tight ponytail swaying as she shook a 'no'.
    
    "No way. Take one of the arms, that way you are still able to run around these mountains. Are they looping in on themselves?"
    
    The squad of the Tempest all looked up at the mountains mentioned. Sure enough, like a scene from the old movie Inception, the mountains seemed to swing up and over, looping in on themselves. Like a mirrored image.
    
    Sara began to jog on from the crashed Ark site. It was home now. But not for her. Never for her crew. The Tempest was her home. Cora and Vetra, they were her home. Her brother, her brother's fuck buddy Gil, even the damned Krogan they had on board. They were her home.
    
    She danced across the rocks, not realizing some of her squadmates had followed her until she nearly fell into a big puddle of water.
    
    At first, they were scared for her. She fell and plopped into the bright seafoam blue water. Sara freaked out briefly, worried it was toxic. Before she realized it was fine.
    
    The monoliths had already been activated. The weather had already been fixed. Sara took off her outer plate of armor to reveal her white Alliance tank top underneath, now soaked clean through. Similar to any ...
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