Omniverse One

File 40: Avatars
Subject: Samurai

With the advent of advanced cyberization technology and the increasing balkanization of settlements post war and post-Sundering, many factions have adopted a practice pioneered by the Imperial Service Board: highly trained, dangerous, and competent agents vested ...

File 39: New Edits
Subject: The Old Familiar


The mess of the Old Familiar was a standard affair, reassuring Ethier after passing through corridor after corridor decked with expensive paintings and clearly demarcated defense choke points. Comparatively, the grub hall resembled the sort of ...

File 38: The Best and the Worst of Us
Subject: The Atlean Republic

Isolated physically from the other Lagrange points – exactly opposite Luna, the third point held a massive collection of Life Ore that proved attractive during early settlement of the Fracture belt. Before the invention of proper ...

File 37: Tour of the City
Subject: The One Small Step Bar

The more Ethier worked with the Editor known as Raeneth, the more he disliked the man. He could never tell if it was the man’s own personality or the Author taking control personally, but between the tacky suits, the permanent cocky smirk ...

File 36: Echoes in the Machine
Subject: Keeper Communiques

Light filtered through his eyelids, the sudden intensity pulling him into the realm of the living. Blinking and rolling out of his bunk, Ethier looked across his cabin to see that the small screen built into the far wall had come alive ...

File 35: Freshly Ground Hope
Subject: The Libra Republic

If there is a rough frontier along the colonial circuit, is that the form of the governed-in-name only Libra Republic. With neither a Keeper force or a strong Constellation presence to provide an impetus for business to funnel money into ...

File 34: New World Order
Subject: Aftermath

Pilots scurried across the hangar of the To All Things , performing triage on flesh and metal alike as the experienced mechanics of the Chandelier flagship when to work on the survivors of the Battle of the Chasm.

“I always thought the name was a bit ...

File 33: The End of the Beginning
Subject: Battle of the Chasm V

The Godhands had been built – grown - on a mountain of bodies. Dozens of men had tried and failed to master the predictive system of an uncaged cortex, falling prey to the barrage of future possibilities and losing their insanity in ...

File 32: Majesty of God
Subject: Battle of the Chasm, IV

When he had given chase to the fleeing Hornet, Ethier had not expect the true scale of the battle when he took a closer look at the chaos. Exchanges of particle fire lit the space above the lunar valley, giving the appearance of a fireworks ...

A lot of the character posts come the battle were completely rewritten and repurposed - partly because they were paragraph-long snippets, and partly because the original board this was on was lost (similar to the OZ to O1 switch) and web archive didn't catch much if at anything of the old board ...

File 31: Titan Breaker
Subject: Battle of the Chasm, III

Comet-04 lowered his rifle, the barrel already sagging as it began to overheat. He reached for another replacement gun – it’d be faster to swap the entire gun that go through the time-consuming effort of exchanging barrels – only to come up ...

File 30: Old Grudges
Subject: The Battle of the Chasm, II

“You do know what we’re transporting, right?” Solomon asked as he ducked another BAV, pulverizing it with custom piledriver hilt of his imploder lance. Twirling the grip of the slab of metal in his hands, he ran the Marrow frame through ...

I've read up to File 04.

Cool stuff, though as Siege says a lot of the terms are familiar. I only know enough gundam to figure life matter = minovsky particles

And remembering a terrible joke from my child hood I can only assume McCracken's first name is Phil.

Yeah, there's a lot of direct ...

File 29: Great Man Theory
Subject: Dramatis Personae

Aegir DuPont: Masked leader of the original Backstop empire. The Horseman of Conquest is obsessed with cultural control through societal memes and engineering. May or may not be a mask wearing the man instead of the other way around. Questing ...

File 28: In the Thick of It
Subject: The Battle of the Chasm

The Apollo Kingdom he had expected, even planned for. Chandelier’s recruits he could handle.

The addition of a third faction gunning for his head would make things… interesting. Lively. There’d never be a dull moment, to say the least ...

File 27: The Means of War
Subject: Tempest Frame Terminology

With Tempest frame – and Godhand – production just now entering the fourth generation of models, most existing faction-used frames rely on a wide variety of customization to adapt to battlefield roles. Most pilots, for shorthand, group ...

File 26: Closing the Noose
Subject: Solomon Vo

The battereshd refugee ISV hung in high orbit above Luna, Tempest frames buzzing about in every direction as a forward assault party began to assembled in the ship’s massive belly hangar. In the center of the chaos strode a tall, regal figure ...

File 25: ARClight’s Last Stand
Subject: Carnifex

The air was so thick with Black Andras that he had no room to maneuver. It would be a killing field, but with these numbers even the Marrow soldiers were testing his ability to handle multiple pilots.

The demi-Godhands didn’t help either.

There’d ...

File 24: Midnight on the Firing Line
Subject: The First Convergence

History cares little of the wars fought in the shadows, of entire campaigns conducted without the knowledge of the public, never to be recorded for posterity, never to be known to the descendants of the survivors.

Hundreds of ...

File 23: Rules of Nature
Subject: Teague v Karras, Instance One

“I figured we deserved a little privacy.”

Teague glared up at Karras out of the open hatch of the cockpit sphere, blood sheeting over half of his face, a dozen shrapnel slashes perforating his flight suit. Karras stared back, down ...

File 22: Tempest Black
Subject: Sunder Mode

A bright red star shot from the open mouth of the Chasm’s Spine like a tracer from a gun, wide red LO particle wings unfurling at the comet zipped into the night.

“High energy signature detected!” a pilot could be heard to scream, as the crimson rocket ...

File 20: Pilot Safety Disregarded
Subject: Tainted Cortex

Sprinting into the main control room of the Chasm base, Karras fired his pistol into the air before addressing the room at large. “Looky here, folks! I’m not in the business of killing those who are hindering me, but you guys think of ...

File 20: Ghost in the Machine
Subject: Cybernetics

The rigors of life in space wore immensely on the human body, with bone degradation unavoidable and bulky exoskeletons required for any sort of EVA or frame activity. Humanity turned towards the advancements in cybernetic implants in the early ...

File 19: The Sky is Falling
Subject: The Washington Colony Drop

The Gungnir network, constructed to curtail terrestrial impacts caused by the decaying orbits of Fracture belt asteroids, was one of mankind’s greatest constructions. Blanketing the entire planet with a multitude of circular railgun ...

File 18: The Ark
Subject: The Sydney Airlift

With millions of refugees pouring towards the Australian Mass Drive, one of the most famed holding actions in the weeks following the emergence of the Horde was fought north of the city of Sydney. Noted Imperial Knight Solomon Vo, given the base ...