Three Square Meals Ch. 176
🕑 Added 2025-06-01 02:55:23 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
Unfortunately I've been sick with a flu bug and lost a few weeks where I was unable to make any real progress on the next chapter.
I've uploaded what I've written so far, and will try to wrap up chapter 176 by the end of the week.
Best wishes,
Tefler
Comments
ThunderBird Two
At the very worst they could recycle the black metal, rescue the crews and strip out the weapons, powerplants, shields etc... for putting in new ships
David
Well, I'm out. I can always return if Tef ever makes it to 196, pay another $1, and get caught up. Great story, but there are plenty of others. Peace.
20 ton
Plenty of time for speculation so here goes. What to do with the 10 fleets in the Gally armada. I’m a don’t waste kinda guy. I’d contact the glowing queen and make plans to repair the 16/17 fleets. At worst the metals used by the T normally wouldn’t react with the black metal. Even with Dana modifying the T engines, the mass to weight ratio would be poor but in frictionless space would move the ships when not using Tachyon drives. Still deadly weapons platforms. Use the good fleets to start to tractor beam the wrecks to the star forges. Ten fleets of good ships would be closer to the hyper warp gate if needed. Jumping quickly to investigate the star forges would allow Dana to come up with a better replacement if possible. Having 22k white haired thralls should keep them in line and they could protect the Trank from anything short of a major invasion.
Achromicbethel
I have been so worried the last two years about ever being able to visit England due to its obvious lack of up to date medical care until I realized that it was not a super virus but simply a f**k literary undertaking bug
Michael56Smith
Humm, he won't get paid for any chapters for a while, and if he wants to skip asking for an advance then he doesn't need to get a placeholder in by the EOM, ... ;-) ttfn
Michael56Smith
-- Poor Faye, the Invictus gang is not going to get around to restoring her for a while yet, .... I bet her 'little one' daughter comes to her rescue, .... ;-) ttfn
Erotic Poetic
Since everyone seems vented out on the delays and placeholders, can we all agree that Tefler will post on the last hour of the last day like he does every month??😅 Now can we restrict comments to talking about the actual story and possibilities for upcoming chapters?
Michael Cummings
Just to clarify he never said which week did he???
Damion Cocchi
So how many times this month will he catch the Flu? He's got to be the only person who gets the flu 2-3×'s a month
20 ton
Tonight are you a pickin or a grinnin
Michael56Smith
... where, oh where are you tonight? why did you leave us here all alone? I searched the bookshelves all over, .... but you stuck to EOM and left us hanging.... ... and phfft! you was gone!!! ....;-) ttfn
Kevin
18 placeholders??? I'm new here but, come on. He's making $6.5K each release. That's a pretty good full time job where I live. This took a couple of days, at best, to write. It's a great story. I hope he continues, and with great success. I am not willing to fund this s#!+$#0w any further. I'm unsubscribing until 26. I will check back then. Good luck to the rest of you all.
Don Garnett
So disappointing