The Case of the Discontented Husband
Reginald Wade goes to Parker Pyne when he learns his wife has decided to leave him for another man. Reggie’s only hope is that his wife has declared a six-month grace period. If she still feels the same at the end, she wants a divorce. Pyne decides that dark, glamorous Madeline de Sara is just what Reggie needs to console him – but will Mrs Wade think this is such a good idea?
This story was first published in 1932. In the USA it was published in Cosmopolitan as The Husband Who Wanted to Keep His Wife and in the UK it appeared in Woman’s Pictorial under the title His Lady’s Affair. It appeared in book form in the 1934 collection of short stories, Parker Pyne Investigates.
It has never been adapted.
The Case of the Discontented Soldier
A solider returned to England after his service of the Empire in East Africa has retired and now knows nothing but boredom. It is up to Parker Pyne to instil some excitement back into the man’s life. Again Parker Pyne uses his trademark double-bluff, resolving the situation without any party knowing he did so.
This story briefly features novelist Ariadne Oliver, who is more regularly seen alongside Poirot and considered a parallel of Agatha Christie herself. The story was published in the 1934 collection Parker Pyne Investigates.
Adapted for TV in 1982 as part of the BBC’s Agatha Christie Hour, Parker Pyne was played by Maurice Denham, Miss Lemon by Angela Easterling and Ariadne Oliver by Lally Bowers.
Source: agathachristie.com
Have you read these short stories?
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Next week: The Case of the Distressed Lady and The Pearl of Price
Howdy! Welcome to Day 25 of the r/indieheads Album of the Year 2021 Write-Up Series, our annual event where we showcase pieces from some of our favorite writers on the subreddit talking about their favorite records of the year! Today, we have u/danitykane on Lingua Ignota's SINNER GET READY.
August 6th, 2021 - Sargent House
Listen:
Background by /u/danitykane:
Lingua Ignota is the American singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist Kristin Hayter. Her music draws from varied sources, including extreme metal and classical, striking a noisy balance between the harsh and the serene, mostly the former. Her first two albums were self-released in 2017: LET THE EVIL OF HIS OWN LIPS COVER HIM and ALL BITCHES DIE. The waves they made were enough to earn the latter a rerelease on an indie label, making the way for 2019’s CALIGULA. That album truly broke ground, Hayter’s vocals only giving you enough beauty to take a breath before dragging you into the fires of hell. Guttural, grating, and, in Hayter’s own words - “ugly”, the album depicts the cycle of abuse in a way that many might consider gratuitous. They’re wrong, though: in its extreme, it is refreshing and honest. The best thing about her music is that it doesn’t “shine a light” on issues surrounding abuse and violence; it grabs you by the face and forces you to see the stories as they are and how they affect people. It’s not easy music to listen to, and I’ll admit to some of it testing my personal taste level. Even so, it is impossible to not respect the craftsmanship and power on display here.
In 2021, Hayter announced the followup to CALIGULA, the confrontationally-named SINNER GET READY with the release of the self-produced video for “PENNSYLVANIA FURNACE”. Much of the metal influences from her previous work were turned down in favor of an Appalachian folk sound, but the trademark intensity remained. It arrived on August 6 to rave reviews, including a rare perfect 10 from Anthony Fantano, setting off a wave of discourse and introducing Lingua Ignota to n
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Another story? Are you mad? - I hear you asking my dear reader.
And answering your question: YES
But - not as mad as u might think.
Sadly I must announce that Ironheart story will be on hold - probably to the end of days.
Why? - Cuz this project would be to similar to others!
And I wanted something - NEW - to be added to our growing pile of fan fiction stories.
Unbreakable is very much - something - new.
What exactly? - Well you gonna read thru it to find out. It's gonna be fun - I promise.
To those who enjoyed Ironheart - I send my apologies, and ask you to give this story a try. You might be pleasantly surprised by the end.
I must give thanks to HollowShell (Author of the: Cultural Exchange) again– who helped me with corrections of this chapter. Give his story some love.
And as always – this is fan fiction set in SSB universe created by BlueFishcake.
So if you enjoy this or his original story – go support him on Patreon or simply buy his book at Amazon. You will live to regret it, but you will also live to enjoy it.
Now... come closer dear reader - and I shall tell you a story.
A story about a little spec of dust flying in circles around little star.
_______
Aleien Ha'xus hated the task assigned to her.
She should be proud.
Her first official mission, as the leader of a small squadron dispatched to search for a pirate base, deep within the Empire's boundaries, amidst unexplored systems.
The Shil'vati sighed heavily and shook her head.
The research probes didn’t return from the region of stars they now traversed. Of course, as these probes tended to examine several systems one after the other until their memory banks were full, it was only known at first that a few probes didn’t return to base. Nothing fancy: crashes and collisions with meteorites happen all the time. Probes are also slower than most ships, but cheap to build and losing a few of them is not a problem for the Empire's treasury.
Why send valuable research ships with staff that would need some sort of escort if you can send a cheap AI-guided vessel? It will perform the same task at a slower pace but for a fra
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
In 2012, Elzbieta Plackowska lived with her husband Artur and their son in Naperville, Illinois, a DuPage County town 25 miles west of Chicago. Born and raised in Poland, Elzbieta had come to the United States twelve years earlier on a vacation visa.
Elzbieta's father, in October 2012, passed away and she wanted to return to Poland for the funeral. Artur was against her leaving the country, and the two of them argued over this. Their marriage was already strained over the fact that as a long-haul truck driver, he was seldom home. Elzbieta resented having to raise their 7-year-old son without out his help. (Their oldest boy was in his late teens and lived with a family friend.) The 40-year-old discontented wife was also angry that she had to work as a housemaid, a job she felt was beneath her. Elzbieta Plackowska was an angry, frustrated, and profoundly unhappy woman.
In September 2012, about a month before her father died, Elzbieta met Marta Dworakowski on an online Polish networking site. Marta, the mother of a 5-year-old girl named Olivia, worked nights as a nurse at a dialysis center, and was looking for a babysitter. Marta lived just five miles from Elzbieta in a townhouse in Naperville's upscale Brookdale Manor subdivision. The two mothers came to an agreement, and on certain nights, Elzbieta brought her 7-year-old son Justin to Dworakowski's home.
On October 30, 2012, while spending an evening with Justin and Olivia at Dworakowski's townhouse, Elzbieta decided to murder her son. She grabbed a steak knife from the kitchen and entered Olivia's room where the children were playing. She told Justin that this was the night he was going to heaven. After making him kneel in prayer, Elzbieta repeatedly stabbed him as he pleaded for his life. She plunged the knife into the boy 100 times, then slashed his throat.
After killing her son, and cutting her own hand in the process (common in stabbing cases), the babysitter used the knife on Olivia, stabbing her 50 times before slashing her throat. She had killed the 5-year-old because the girl had witnessed Justin's murder.
After she had slaughtered her son and the girl she was babysitting, Plackowska drove to her Catholic church. It was ten o'clock at night and the place was closed, so she called the church and left a message to the effect she had done something bad and needed help. About this time, Marta Dworakowski arrived at her townhouse to find the dwelling locked and the babysitter's car missing. She cal
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On January 20, 2020, more than 20,000 armed protesters, militia members, neo-Nazis, and other right-wing extremists descended on the Virginia Capitol and occupied the Capitol grounds. The FBI detained and charged a small cell who planned specific acts of violence. Outside my legislative office in Richmond’s Pocahontas building, a heavily armed group deliberately conflated armed occupation of the Capitol grounds with peaceful protest. The scene was simultaneously foreign and familiar: familiar in that I’ve seen it before overseas during service in Iraq and Afghanistan; foreign in that I had hoped never to see such sites at home. A small group of unarmed and peaceful youth protesters camped out at my office overnight to ensure their voices could be heard in spite of the armed intimidation.
The 2020 occupation of the Virginia Capitol Grounds was a dress rehearsal for the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. Exactly a year ago, a violent mob encouraged by President Trump sought to prevent the peaceful transition of power to a duly elected President. For a brief moment on January 6, 2021, many on both sides of the aisle united in fear, revulsion, and condemnation. I had hoped that would turn us back from the brink. Those hopes were almost immediately shattered as Fox News’ Laura Ingraham theorized that evening that the attack was secretly the work of left-wing extremists. Since then, the true Big Lie of American politics has been that the insurrection was not an attempted coup, was not an affront to decency and our democratic values, and was not a serious blow to our Republic.
The normalization of political violence, the imposition of restrictions on voting, the removal of basic protections on election integrity, and the promulgation of the Big Lie that the 2020 election was somehow stolen have further eroded our democracy. Severe partisan gerrymandering that encourages incumbents to adopt extreme positions and powerful moneyed interests that push our government to serve the few instead of the many fuel the flames of discontent that would burn our Constitution and pave the way for division and dictatorship.
It would be easy to lose faith and to accept as inevitable the shattering of bonds that have borne our nation through many crises. I cannot and will not lose faith. I am proud of the work we have done to fight back against gerrymandering and to protect and expand access to the ballot box. I am hopeful that my co
... keep reading on reddit ➡Yesterday I left work and got on the subway as per usual. I didn't get a seat (rush hour) but I was too happy to care. You see, my amateur pasta making club meets on Fridays. It's super fun. We all get together and make various types of pasta from scratch. None of the women there have agreed to be my girlfriend yet but I feel like once I start making really good pasta things will be different.
Anyway, I was eagerly anticipating today's pasta meeting as my shipment of fresh sicilian basil arrived after only 3 weeks and I just knew it would blow everybody away, when I saw a really attractive latina woman with a stroller. I immediately began hyperventilating and sweating profusely. "My God," I thought, "her ass is huge, it's absolutely huge." So huge, in fact, that something had to be done. I felt an undeniable truth emanating from the depths of my heart, growing stronger with each second, a Godly warmth unlike anything I've ever felt. What was this feeling? It was as if I was drowning, water entering my lungs, choking me, smothering my breath, my life. And yet... and yet it felt so fecund, so beautiful. I stole glances at her ass for two stops. For two stops I stole glances, and each time I felt a cascade of love, of shimmering, shattered glass pouring over me, over my soul, so warm, so...
After the second stop I couldn't take it any more. I mustered the entirety of my strength and approached her, shaking, lacking an opener or any foresight at all. Suddenly I was standing in front of her, in front of the gaping maw of entropy, of formless possibility, hope, fear, knowledge, unknowledge, the register of my conception of relationships, to other people, to the world, to myself, utterly annihilated in the reflection of this moment. I could only say one thing. It wasn't up to me, it wasn't up to some higher force, it wasn't up to anything, it simply was.
"Damn ma! That ass is fat as shit, let me get at you."
The seconds hand on my watched boomed. Tick, tick, tick, and then... she blushed. I think she blushed! Holy shit it worked! I saw stars, I saw fireworks, I saw a future with a wife with a massive ass, a happy future in massive house. Fuck those sluts at the pasta club. They can go to fucking hell. Fuck them. I'm a winner, a cosmic winner, the celestial bodies dance for me, they crisscross and waltz just to please me, they leave traces of heavenly dust in the vast vacuum of space to soothe my discontent and please me, just me. I always knew, always,
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Royal Family Instagram https://www.instagram.com/detdanskekongehus/?hl=en
Queen Margrethe II (b. 1940)
Margrethe is the Queen of Denmark, the supreme authority of the Church of Denmark, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Danish Defense. She takes no part in party politics and does not express any political opinions. She has the right to vote however chooses not to exercise that privilege.
She became heir presumptive to her father in 1953 when a constitutional amendment allowed women to inherit the throne. When it became clear that Queen Ingrid would have no more children (they had 3 girls), her father capitalized on his popularity to begin the constitutional change in 1947. She became Queen when her father, King Frederick IX, died in 1972. She is the first female monarch of Denmark since Margrethe I (1375-1412).
Interesting Facts:
- Her nickname is “Daisy”
- She is an accomplished artist, painter, and seamstress.
- Created the illustrations, under pseudonym Inahild Grathmer, for the Danish editions of The Lord of the Rings.
- Loves costume design and designs costumes for the Royal Danish Ballet as well as Danish movies.
- Often designs her own clothes and is known for her colorful and at times eccentric clothing choices.
- She is publicly known as a chain smoker, however has chosen not to smoke in public since 2006.
- She is a gifted linguist, fluent in Danish, Swedish, French, German, and English.
Lord of the Rings Illustrations
Check out the [latest official portrait](https://royalcentral.co.uk/europe/denmark/queen-margrethe-shines-in-new-of
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I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Context: I lost over 60lbs in 2020 and gained about 10 back in early 2021, but have been maintaining at that weight for a year now. I was very strict with my diet in 2020, but I think I went a bit overboard when I started relaxing it after I came very close to my goal weight.
Anyway, fast forward to now, I've been eating a lot of junk lately, maybe not so many extra calories but definitely food that's taking away from the amount of healthy stuff I can eat.
Since it was just 2 servings of chips at lunch, some extra cookies and hot cocoa at night etc. I didn't really think it was emotional eating/binge.
But... I've also been growing discontent with my life and where I'm at, in a field I'm not very passionate about. I would LOVE to be more creative, write more, sing more etc. but life got in the way. I have had this crazy fan-fiction idea ever since I watched the movie Encanto, but I didn't pursue it because I'm a grown ass woman with kids, and I shouldn't be crushing on animated characters and wanting to write romantic back stories for them lol.
Well, last weekend I installed Jotterpad on my phone and started writing that novella. It almost felt like all the food I ate came out as words on the page, I wrote so much. And after that, I kid you not, I felt incredible! Appetite for junk completely disappeared. I have been sticking to mostly healthy, whole foods and had no issues breaking my nightly chocolate habit or the chips at lunch habit.
So, my suggestion: if you're struggling with junk cravings, and you're not having any overt emotional issues, consider whether you might be suppressing any hidden wishes or creative urges. Maybe they are too embarrassing (like mine, I would die if my husband read my fan-fic) or maybe you haven't found the time. But perhaps your body knows and is literally hungry for that activity, rather than any food related craving.
Did anyone else experience this?
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
They were cooked in Greece.
A play on words.
Stuff
Putting this here so the mods let me post:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/887654340993642516/892240535539052574/Screenshot_125.png
Anyways this is my first Declass, and it s about SCP-6373 which I highly recommend you read before reading this declass otherwise you won't understand a thing.
Or you could watch TheVolgun's video on it (which, fun fact: was actually requested by me).
The Declass
I won't be going over the entire story, since not all of it matters to what I'm trying to say in the Declass, just going to put the details that matter to the Declass.
>SCP-6373 emit a strong rotting odor, causing visceral nausea
This is a detail that I want you to remember because it will become relevant later.
>This effect will not occur if SCP-6373 are contained in a location other than the Goffard Theater, located in Reading, Pennsylvania
Another detail you should remember. The connection to the Goffard theatre.
>An audience of at least one individual must be present at the theater to observe the performance, otherwise SCP-6373 will undergo decomposition.
Another one. Clearly from all of these we see themes of death and decay, this will become apparent a little while later.
>The Goffard Theater was opened in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1860 by French immigrant and entrepreneur Timothée Goffard. The theater was host to stage plays, musical performances, and in-house puppet shows that featured SCP-6373. The puppets were personally designed by Goffard, who maintained an intensive interest in puppeteering and often participated in the show’s production. These shows were massively profitable and popular among Reading’s children. It is unknown if SCP-6373 held any anomalous significance during the theater’s operation, but written evidence detailing pay-rolls of puppeteers and printed copies of scripts intended to be performed by SCP-6373 suggests they were ordinary puppets.
>
>In 1884, the theater closed due to embezzlement committed by Goffard’s wife, Cynthia Cordier. Cordier’s actions were presumably in retaliation to Goffard's unfaithfulness in their marriage. This resulted in a divorce and subsequent legal battle, which Goffard lost.
I want you to remember this for later. Particularly the "ordinary puppets" part and the "Cynth
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Pilot on me!!
I have been pondering marriage in CK3 recently, and my discontents with it. Here are some ideas I've had, which might be interesting. I don't know how they would work in terms of game balance and that sort of thing, but I would love to discuss if people are into it.
The first thing is that I really hate the common player behavior of marrying a) lowborn nobodies or b) siblings or parents etc for traits and so-called "eugenics". This is wildly ahistorical to the point of inanity, but people do it because the mechanics incentivize them to (disregarding the meme reasons, which are fine.) The DNA system and all that, though, is so ingrained in the game that getting rid of it is a non-starter. So how would I fix it?
I am thinking something like there being a family veto. Marrying this way should be a massive hit on Renown/Splendor. Your whole family should hate you for it. Maybe it could work like changing inheritance laws, where you need all your powerful vassals to approve, and every family member has a weighted vote, the Dynasty and House heads having the most power -- although of course the player is usually in those roles, which might make it not work as I mean it to. (I would love it if it was harder for the player to be Dynasty, House, and Cultural heads...) But anyway you should have a serious struggle to get your family to accept your lowborn wife or son-husband, and if they don't accept them -- they should consider the marriage morganatic and your heirs illegitimate, or maybe you should be disinherited and cut off from the family -- losing all Splendor and all Dynasty perks and maybe having to fight your former family members to keep your own domains. Like, it should be possible, but very difficult, to do these crazy marriages.
Number two, it might be interesting to have dowries (or bride-price, depending on your culture/religion etc?) Some kind of give and take between you and the parents of the people you marry -- this might work well with the artifacts that are coming. But a dowry of land could be fascinating, and make an Eleanor of Aquitaine more feasible.
Lastly, so these two might make marriage even more transactional, where's the romance? Well, I would like it if your spouse's "assistance" in the council screen was weighted by their opinion of you, kind of like the bishop works now. Incentives to be nice to your spouse and treat them respectfully. The rest of the council, ok, you can order them around whether they like you
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Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
Please, critique me.
"There once was a beautiful princess who lived a what her fairy godmother proclaims that the either she or her sister will live ‘quote on quote’ the ‘fairytale life’
Since she is the beautiful, kind one, everyone assumes it is she that will do so, and she does. The four dukes of the compass courted her, she is kidnapped by the horrible shadow beast only to be saved and she married the prince of the friendly, neighboring kingdom.
However, after her marriage, she found herself discontent.
As she got older, and could not have babies, her handsome husband took other lovers who had children. She eventually was put away in a tower and caught a sickness and fell ill, only to die young.
On her deathbed, her fairy godmother appears, and she asks her wasn’t her life supposed to be a fairy tale.
Asking if she’d like another chance, the princess goes back in time, and this time, she is reborn as her sister, the not-so-beautiful princess.
No longer beautiful, nor innocent, and kind, she can not hide from the world.
Wait! Her sister has gone back with her, and now she is the beautiful one!?!?!
How will their lives change this time?"
I won't be doing that today!
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Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
I finally was brave enough to sit down with my husband and ask him to go to marriage counseling. He hates that I want to go. He’s willing to go but I hurt his feelings by asking/saying it was necessary. He agreed because “if I think things are that broken that we need it, then I guess what choice do I have?” He’s not a huge fan of counseling or therapy to begin with. I really appreciate that he was able to set that aside enough to give it a try.
So our first appointment is set for next week, but in the meantime things are tense. I told him that we weren’t planning to separate or divorce and we didn’t have to walk around each other like we were. We’re going to make our marriage better. But he sees the fact that we’re going at all is an overall negative.
So what am I supposed to do? Resign myself to an unhappy marriage? He’s told me that as long as I am good, he is good, so I am pretty sure he, at least subconsciously, is viewing this as my problem being discontent, not our problem to work on together.
For at least five years in this marriage, I have felt my needs have not been met. Circumstances made things difficult for us, which I definitely understand, but even when I begged and pleaded for some romantic attention, for a break from the kids, for some connection, for some time alone with just the two of us, I would ask for a mile and I’d get an inch. He was only ever willing to give me less than half of the bare minimum of what I felt I needed to stay sane. So over this time, underlying resentment has started to grow.
My husband is a wonderful father, caretaker of our home, and provider. He’s a great co-parent, usually, a fantastic roommate, maybe even platonic life partner. But as a husband and a romantic partner, he’s fallen short. And the thing is, I feel like it wouldn’t take much for him to meet the mark, here. I just want to be higher up on his list of priorities. I feel like I and our marriage are set around number 6 (after things like work, oh hell, almighty freaking work, our kids, the house, his exercise routine, etc.). I’m so sick of having the come to Jesus talk with him like I’ve had every few months for at least two years. I’m so tired of his promising to do better and then nothing really changing. I’m so tired of always being the one to look for ways for us to connect only to have them rejected.
I am relieved that we’re finally going to marriage counseling, but I’m wondering if I am romantically checked out of this marriage already.
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Another story? Are you mad? - I hear you asking my dear reader.
And answering your question: YES
But - not as mad as u might think.
Sadly I must announce that Ironheart story will be on hold - probably to the end of days.
Why? - Cuz this project would be to similar to others!
And I wanted something - NEW - to be added to our growing pile of fan fiction stories.
Unbreakable is very much - something - new.
What exactly? - Well you gonna read thru it to find out. It's gonna be fun - I promise.
To those who enjoyed Ironheart - I send my apologies, and ask you to give this story a try. You might be pleasantly surprised by the end.
I must give thanks to HollowShell (Author of the: Cultural Exchange) again– who helped me with corrections of this chapter. Give his story some love.
And as always – this is fan fiction set in SSB universe created by BlueFishcake.
So if you enjoy this or his original story – go support him on Patreon or simply buy his book at Amazon. You will live to regret it, but you will also live to enjoy it.
Now... come closer dear reader - and I shall tell you a story.
A story about a little spec of dust flying in circles around little star.
_______
Aleien He'xus hated the task assigned to her.
She should be proud.
Her first official mission, as the leader of a small squadron dispatched to search for a pirate base, deep within the Empire's boundaries, amidst unexplored systems.
The Shil'vati sighed heavily and shook her head.
The research probes didn’t return from the region of stars they now traversed. Of course, as these probes tended to examine several systems one after the other until their memory banks were full, it was only known at first that a few probes didn’t return to base. Nothing fancy: crashes and collisions with meteorites happen all the time. Probes are also slower than most ships, but cheap to build and losing a few of them is not a problem for the Empire's treasury.
Why send valuable research ships with staff that would need some sort of escort if you can send a cheap AI-guided vessel? It will perform the same task at a slower pace but for a fraction of th
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