Omniverse One

Cosmoxenia and the character of Cascadia What forces drew the Cascadian Freeworlds together? From a long tradition of military coordination arising from maintaining effective defenses and offensives against the Pyrrhons, one can argue. From the joint economic ventures and logistical integration nec...

The Parable of the Middle Brother Across the Cascade, there's a set of broad cultural archetypes reflecting three of its major species, distinguishing them by their response to the external threats they all face (mostly the Pyrrhons, but also the Earthreign in the bad old days). There are different...

If the bones of the Laurentian industrial economy is what the original colonial syndicates built, the moon-gouging mines and sprawling finishing factories and farms and vast Lagrangian docks to service gigantic hyperfreighters and freeze-arks alike, all bound up in company towns and boutique economi...

I wonder, in a conversation with Vic, how many peers does Sidney Hank have in both the USS and the general human-influenced zones? My initial comparison was actually between him (and the other first-hand architects of the First Bragulan War and the founding of the USS) and the Liefs , the founder-f...

For some time now I've though of Sidney as someone who was around during the Earthreign, and possibly even played a role in its establishment. It makes sense to me: he was already biologically immortal with a few centuries under his belt and an ego the size of the sun, he thought he knew what was b...

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! One exiled Aurigan noble in fact made a deal to b...

It strikes me that the Lord Byrons of Auriga are perfect foils for Myrran conquistadores, whose hands-off management style works perfectly well for human worlds within their hierarchy, until some musical asshole drops in from orbit and starts inciting rebellion for little more than strange romantic...

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 he...

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? For familiars and other such sub-sapient servitors to said line? I can see it. For ret...

In the transhuman Grandeur of Auriga, the inherent value of craft as an expression of human potential ranks alongside more traditional honor-based virtues that you would expect from its quasi-feudal hierarchy. As such, in lieu of medals or entry into prestigious orders of knighthood, individuals of ...

Last time on ADVENT REY 2... And Kai, the last shreds of his consciousness being torn away by the trauma, manages to catch a glimpse of the white-haired girl in the Silberengel's open cockpit whom he has never seen before, but nevertheless seems to find familiar. Theresa Neusternberg is basically th...

A sudden new idea I had that plays into the conflicts in the Cascade, because in the present worldbuilding it seems to be sliding into perpetual and polarized civil war fueled by most of known space buying into either side and I don't want that, is a trans-Cascade law enforcement agency: something I...

I think that in the quasi-Hindu inspired Satykarma system, the Paragons fill a missing piece - the actual gods who stand above all mortal castes and serve as living objects of veneration and emulation. Of course, in actual implementation they're a bottom-up, constructed pantheon defendant on the dem...

EGOSYSTEM - a term describing the technological support system around an individual in a properly advanced and materially abundant space opera society. A Solarian and his personal hardlight effector drones, iBrain cloud, peripheral nanoswarms, drug glands, etc. An Aurigan noble and his all-purpose ...

One idea was for a culture that has a kind of symbiotic relationship with these semi-domesticated giant saltwater crocodiles. The crocodiles go out into the seas of the Caldera Archipelago and snack on Bashmu, known as Hydropteres in the Daedalean Empire (renamed Hydrazoans, 'cause I didn't like th...

On the other hand, I see certain hedonist ALHAROUN or even radical CANTERNOSTER development factions of the Ministry backing the displaced, now pseudo-barbarian Anethgan clades as a force of creative destruction - WOLVES OF THE FOLD who can counter-balance the Urba polities and be strengthened enoug...

Lots of good ideas here, if I were to actually write this thing. Some of the characters you mentioned I already would be using: The O.K. Kid has been working as Rey Quirino's official sidekick, the newfound fame and adulation from the common people makes her more powerful than ever before, and her t...

Let's take a short interlude to talk about John Baylor's role as the plot progresses. Baylor is not really analogous to his character equivalent in Evangelion in a variety of ways. He's doesn't have a history with the Deutschlandland crew, he doesn't serve as a surrogate father figure to a protagoni...

Oh yeah, the Erlengel's name was originally the Erzengel ("Archangel"), but I changed it to match what Ludwig Schroedinger called Darkness prime in the epilogue of Advent Rey - his Erlkönig . The Silberengel is, correspondingly, a more prosaic reference to the Silbervogel , probably Nazi G...

Something I *have* specifically planned out is what I call the TRIPLE DARKNESS Arc, where the monsters of the week in question don't immediately gun for their primogenitor in Castle Neusternberg's basement, but actually wait until three of them have manifested before planning and springing a joint a...

I can't say I have planned out any specific chapters or episodes for the first half of the plot, but I can catalogue the progression of several major narrative threads: There is a kind of see-saw tension between the strength and confidence of MANGS and the looming menace of the demon threat. The dem...

I... can't even remember what caused the demon incursions! Well, several ideas were floated. It's probably useful to recap the background behind the Angel attacks in neon Genesis Evangelion (or my understanding thereof without doing wiki a refresher course first): Adam, the First Angel and progenit...

The ruling council of the Eirenic Inheritances of Anethgaea is called the GEOARBITRAGE and its members, who are the planetary governors, are called INHERATRIXES. It's consensus based but like each INHERATRIX presides over the complex planetary ecology of their systems and such. Continental MONOCULT...

“Telegnostic matrix stabilized. The pilot has direct control.” The reactor breathed. In his skin trembled the bones of titans. “Schroedinger horizon established. Primary Goetic array operational. Test scan completed. Guard radius set.” Impressions descended like lightning. The amniotic murk gave wa...

How do the Baylor Corps factor into the breakdown? I forgot what the breakdown entailed and why we threw in THE LAST BRAGULAN there... At this point, not quite yet. The really metafictional stuff comes out to the protagonists (and the readers) at the endgame of the hypothetical plot. Fortunately, t...