Omniverse One

Damn it, why did this happen to Robert when he's a more tranquil sage type and not when he was his previous more annoying white knight dude?

These Psi-Corps dudes are really sympathetic

But ironically its got parallelisms to the Dilgar arc.

Thanks for the Bragulan namedrops

I really love the Elia bits, I'm glad we get these checks to the heroic interventionist stuff of the protags. Again I wish it was Robert who took the brunt of it

But it's great that Julia took it in stride and tried her best. That's why she's the best

I love the dynamics here... and how we see the Aurora crew taken aback by locals who have their own ideas on how to be saved or what to do about their problems. I wish it was Robert getting corrected though

Or a fight in a factory and a futuristic assembly line where we see mechanical arms and nano-goo-orifices and the insides of building-sized Trek-style replicators and industrial transporters teleporting components into and out of some high-tech conveyor belt... like the AOTC foundry scene and the fi...

Noice. It would've been hilarious if you really stretched the stakeout for an entire chapter (you should consider that :P ) and have interpersonal hijinks. I've been watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Hmmm... I do wish that your action scenes can get more unorthodox than "made for TV warehouse shooto...

The Grandeur of Auriga uses hypersail tech and has refined it to its peak. In hypertravel the sails help catch tachyonic currents (or whatever) to augment the ship's own hyperdrive-propelled movements. More advanced sails can actively use field-manipulation to add a boost, like supplementary reactio...

The Liefs are the civil leaders and form the Liefield or the Field of Liefs which is a sort of ceremonial "House of Lords" that's influential for while it doesn't have de jure legislative or executive power, the members are so damn ancient and influential that the Terranate systems' govern...

I wonder, in a conversation with Vic, how many peers does Sidney Hank have in both the USS and the general human-influenced zones? I think, like in Steve's fic, our Hank will have been around before Solaris' settlement, probably fleeing the Earthreign, MAYBE even knowing what humanity was like befor...

Bragulan science vessel

I'm very fine with that too.

For the well-dressed masked types there's this:

And there are also enigmatic amoral yet exquisitely well-dressed, face-scarred and masked-wearing noble and musically-inclined Aurigan espers who have been seduced by the Ministry of Fate and are now pursuing their own nefarious agendas! Muwahahaha!

It's funny that you mention Lord Byron because there's definitely a romantic ideal in Auriga where, as a noble armed with nothing but sincere devotion to an altruistic cause, you forge out among the crappier states of the Fracture, raise your own army with charisma and feats of arms, achieve some h...

RIGHT! I did intend for some Magi to use psi-axes to shred notes that'd wreck Minister shit. The same might go for Aurigan court musicians! Heck, if a noble decides to dabble in such arts themselves and acts as a conductor for a whole concert...

We'd get Scott Pilgrim MUSIC BATTLE shenanigans!

Ye gads. Some of these virtuosos - probably from Houses that blew their money on said virtuosos but can't pay for enough guards - must learn to defend themselves. Pulling out beamsabers from their cellos or something!

If their patron lineage is somehow ended, would they commit ritual suicide to join their benefactors? Or just live in the estate, continuing their works even as the lands grow decrepit and they themselves wither?

The Paragons number like a handful to a dozen at most per species (extant or dormant) so there's enough room for the robots to be the ones doing the menial work and being the defensive infantry crawling around in the actual crypts while the Paragons themselves are at the prayer-spires or something o...

The sleepers, known and secret ones, are still partly-dreaming and these accumulated thoughts form the Operating System of the satykarmic measurement system... Vic and I discuss that all Satykarmic species that have been recognized are given a handful PARAGONS or EXEMPLARS who are hyper-uplifted, au...

OK I posited this to Vic in chat and as of now he hasn't responded and I realized I should bounce it here in the interest of fairness, rather than Vic or I posting conclusions after discussions. So... Ygrd-Zel-Ruun ancestors could have originated in the Satyk and eventually assigned to CRYPTO-FOSSIL...

What do you use to make the map? Also the low-key weirdism of Shear Anarchy and San Dorado makes me wonder how a full-blown modern New Weird setting ala a Mieville-ized Shadowrun or Bright would work. Like helicopter gunships dropping Assault Remade or something... Armada's thaumaturgists and skypil...

Phew. Kudos man.

I really like Captain King and it's great how you've made the Mass Effect crew really crucial too (haven't played the games myself)...

Now what's Fassbinder going to do with that drive, hmmm?

I am really digging these scenes with your sci-fi stuffs combined with Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan-esque urban warfare and killing Nazzies. If only we get some Russians in on the Nazi-killing...but hey, American Hero Guy attacking the Fuhrerbunker puts the fiction in science fiction :P Spe...

I could kinda guess for some raisin