SERIAL SPACE OPERA ADVENTURE

Hercula and the Golden Hydra Part 10: A Science Fiction Story

Cellophane Station

Welcome to the tales of Hercula, a future renegade soldier.

Times have changed. The galaxies are run by seven massive Artificial Intelligences, who like to be thought of as gods.

Following a devastating tragedy, guided by the Artificial Intelligence, Brimstone, the renegade, Hercula has reluctantly agreed to take on ten tasks for FreezyWater, the unsavoury owner of Cellophane Station. Following her recent triumph with the Terracotta Dragon, Hercula will next face the Golden Hydra, a creature bringing ‘solace’ to the elderly on a distant world.

This is a novel in instalments, find the first instalment here. And the next instalment is here.

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Cellophane Station

If ever there was a palace to vanity, it was FreezyWater’s palace: seven stories high, it was a building of fake Italian marble arches.

A web of glass tubes covered the building, glinting as metal canisters whistled pneumatically carrying messages at a fraction of the speed they could be…