This is my first compilation with a brief story explanation, if this is good I will continue with the rest of the Chrons but if I am putting too much detail in let me know and I can ret-con it.
[spoiler]Issue 1
- Exchange Rate
A story about a brand new capsuleer and their brutal introduction to the double standards and cruel world of EVE and how human lives have an exchange rate in hard currency.
- Legionnaire
A Mordus Legion commando operation hot-dropped to retrieve intelligence from a Serpentis base runs into heavy resistance over seemingly trivial intel grinds on the CO. interesting details include the method of the drop (Empty probe)
- Are you clonesome tonight?
A story about a medical orderly who works in the cloning chambers for Capsuleers and how his unrequited love for an unborn clone is torn away from him when the pilot is killed in combat. interesting detail is the fact that after we are born we usually feint and that the orderly's clean us up and move us to comfortable rooms. (could be an isolated example)
- Bedtime Story
A story about a group of Pre-Terran wormhole collapse settlers who had lived inside a gigantic hollowed out Dark ochre asteroid and had been floating towards the "new civilasation" when a small fleet of miners spots it and gets greedy.
Issue 2
- The Eighth Plague
A story about a University professor who has a fascination with Rogue Drones, taking his small glass on their final examination into a Rogue Drone Hive, and the terrors within. Features our own Mebrithiel Ju'wien! (ORPHYX)
- Counting Stones
A story about a Caldari family and the "requirement" for the children to go fight for the State, a fatal and tragic requirement and how the star child becomes a Capsuleer and the huge choices that lay within.
- Anima Obscura
A short story of a Pilot gone mad is abandoned by her crew and sabotaged so as to be unable to escape as the slow work of gravity does the rest. (Interesting to note that in here the Capsuleer can enter and exit the Capsule from inside the ship)
Issue 3
- Procession
A story of a terrorist attack on an Imperial Armaments station where the family of an Imperial Navy Commander's family lives at the time of an Ambassador's visit causes chaos and rends the heart-strings
- Mahe Ratu
A story about a Brutor tribe tradition of using a tree with blossoms of intoxicating power for a week long celebration where peace reigns, then the Day of Darkness comes and all changes.
- God's Will
A short story about Gallente drug dealer caught up in the Amarrian underworld and slowly poisened to death over a week while he franticly tries to save himself by blackmail and dodgy deals.
Issue 4
- Biomass
a short story that is part of the same family story from "Counting Stone" and details the short story of one of the other children and their eventual fate in space.
- The Problem Solver
a short story of a business woman caught up in a war of wills and how greed wreaks unparralled destruction.
Issue 5
- My Better Half
A short story about a rich Intaki film star and how when his clone is jacked who goes and steals his wife, forcing the star take the jacking to CONCORD and their unforgiving punishments.
- 200 Rounds
The cover page story of When three salvage pilots stumble across a seemingly abandoned luxury liner the call it pay day and go aboard to start their looting, but the ship isn't really empty at all.
- The Dragon
A story of a Gallente Admiral during the surface bombardment of Caldari Prime and the brutality of the war destroying the will to live, along with the worlds below.
Issue 6
- Cold Noodles and Lab Tubes
A story about the partnership of a Deteis and a Brutor and its slow degredation as the history behind it is layed out, with a pot of cold noodles as solace.
- Addiction
When a new pilot is first cloned he gets an unexpected visit in the shower from another newly cloned pilot, the sizzling encounter leaves him wanting more but the dangers of repeat cloning are slow to dawn.
- Garbage Man
When a down and out salvage pilot stumbles across a myriad of wrecks after a bad week and alot of bad memories, things look up... but other interests are involved.
Issue 7
- Paradigm Shift
When a Pod Pilot has a bad encounter with a dodgy scan he is left without the implants and the status of a Podder, facing the choice of staying normal of returning the the life of a demi-god prooves diffcult, and dangerous.
- A simple matter of economy
When an ISK strapped Repbulic Army is forced to make a tough call and the local force commander isn't happy, sometimes you just need to clear you head with few rounds out in the open.
