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Shielding the Issue

Description

When it comes to making sure your ship is safe through a nebula or even a battle that comes from the power and ability of your shields without them a ship would see its demise even quicker than normal.

So the challenge for this story is to write a situation where the shields hold the most importance for your ship and the issue is your shields need to be used in a manner that would not be within normal parameters. Show that engineering prowess of your ship and crew.

Criteria

  • Stories should be submitted directly to the BFMS, and your entry should be a link to the published story. Stories should be at least 1,000 words and no more than 2,500 words.
  • Stories will be graded in accordance with the Bravo Fleet Fiction Rubric, which marks on the following criteria: Language, Style, & Mechanics; Adherence to Canon; Perspective; Characterization; Originality; Use of the Prompt.
  • This story must be created after this competition opens and before it closes, so as not to reuse any existing stories. This will be judged based on the publication date of the story within the BFMS.
  • Your story must be a single-author post, not a joint post.
  • Using generative AI for this competition is forbidden.

Winners

Submissions

User Content Date Entry
David Martel (#3007)

https://bravofleet.com/story/144471/

 2025-02-05 01:55:50
Tiberius Rain (#2087)

https://bravofleet.com/story/143343

 2025-01-30 23:57:27
Olivia Carrillo (#2199)

https://bravofleet.com/story/143861/

 2025-01-28 02:44:29

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