LG Gates is a character that spawned a few Ficlets on the old site. Here are a few links if you’re interested.
http://ficlets.ficly.com/stories/3213
http://ficlets.ficly.com/stories/3609
http://ficlets.ficly.com/stories/9530

Fun stuff! This has a Dr. Who a la Buck Rogers sort of feel to it. It read so quickly it left me wanting more. I’ll have to check out the old Ficlets there.

Awesome! Just the kind of space opera we need to celebrate May the 4th.

As a side note, I originally read the penultimate paragraph as “Angry red lips” and it made me think that Ellie was the computer until I went back and reread it ;-)

Yep, more classic sci-fi fun, and I can see why you’d have this character recur a few times. Also great to see this challenge pulling a few people out of the woodwork, and into the…well, spacework.

Wow, I never thought about recurring characters cross from the ficlets.

I like this Gates character already :)

Challenge Critique: I like it! This is another contender for sure. Action and character and everything I was looking for. Thanks for entering this, Tarzan.