Monday, October 28, 2002

Just put up several new fics over at fanfiction.net. Two fics set in the not-too-distant future, and one set immediately after the FC Civil War, involving a character that EVERYBODY loves to hate.

Standing Storm: http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1020766

Warlight: http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1014216

Redemption: http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1034462

Warlight is my setting for the entire mess of crossovers, and I won't be giving too much away when I say that the saga which started in New World Order(or Across the Sea of Stars to be even more exact) would be leading eventually to the warlight setting.

Meanwhile, I had better get back to my spectrographic analysis...

Friday, October 11, 2002

Finally finished the Fed Com Civil War sourcebook. Man, I wish every sourcebook could be that detailed. And I wish that more game universes have the same kind of complexity as Battletech.

Waitaminute, on second thought, no. Better for BT to be as unique and complex as possible. Point in fact: When has ANYONE seen a well written W40K story with well developed characters who are actually people off the battlefield? I haven't seen any yet on fanfiction.net, and the novels I've read are an endless bore of slaughter and killing. If BT is at the midrange level of sci-fi military pulp, then W40K is the dumps.

Speaking of fanfic, I'm starting several paragraphs of another story that would be set in my unique storyline universe. It starts off with the premise.

"If war is hell,
Then welcome to Satan's lava bathtub."

The action will be fast, relentless and utterly brutal. Set in a system with a yellow supergiant, five inhabited worlds, and 40 billion civilians, 4 Grand Fleets of the Enemy have arrived, and they have triggered their apocalypse device which would cause the star to go supernova and collapse into a massive black hole in just a month's time. They would feast upon the fear of the system's inhabitants, and the sacrifice of so many lives will allow them to summon a demon able to control the black hole and boost its properties, including FTL travel. The demon-controlled black hole would be virtually invincible, and could spell the end of all sentient life within its vicinity. The only consolation, if any, is that the black hole would die out in a thousand years.

Therefore, the bulk of the good guys are forced to advance to the world, even though they would be heavily outnumbered almost 6 to 1, with the following objectives:
1. Rescue/evacuate as many civilians as possible.
2. Prevent the black hole collapse, if possible.
3. Prevent the controlling demon from appearing.

Needless to say, losses will be staggering.

Arghh, anyway, I still have plenty of ideas lined up, so I'll just concentrate on SIS and ATSOS.

Monday, October 07, 2002

Well, looks like I finally gave in and succumbed to the lure of blogging. For
now, just an update on my two stories.


Across the Sea of Stars chapter 7 is halfway done, dealing with Des' Trial of
Position. Ain't gonna be anything you guys have seen before. It has to be read
to be believed.


Seekers in Shadow is very much on my mind. I managed to get the Field Manual:
Periphery and the Federated Commonwealth Civil War sourcebook recently, so I'm
updating New World Order first with info from the book. And I have a clear idea
of where to go for Ian Dorlacen.


Schoolwork has been pretty heavy of late, so I might be updating less than
often.