[Report This]Date: August 02 2022 4:52 PM Title: The Plunge
Final act already and here I was hoping that this would reach "conquest of earth" levels of potential episodes with other sagas. Since unlike Conquest of Earth I like most if not all side characters in this one and I just wanted to see more of Kurt/Nea and Joey/Telma having to deal with further conflicts or in alien worlds. But I guess all good things must come to an end. I will be looking forward to the final half regardless of what you choose to do with this "franchise" going forward. Godspeed
Author's Response:
Conquest of Earth is more a collection of episodic adventures while this one is a novel style story with one narrative. The ending of this story isn't necessarily closing the book permanently on these characters or settings.
Glad you like it! I put a lot of work into planning the cast of this one, glad to see it was worth it!
Date: August 02 2022 9:47 AM Title: The Plunge
My plot reading sense is telling me the next Empress will be Jolene
Author's Response:
She's going to be asserting some authority sure
Date: August 02 2022 5:18 AM Title: The Plunge
I forgot to mention, does Zeta Forever really think they can replace an Empress by assassinating her and placing another on the throne just like that? Won't others think she's illegitimate or a usurper and see this as a coup?
Author's Response:
You might say Zeta Forever is not only unaware of how much Earth has changed, they're unaware of how much their own society has changed. Before the Cephalos and the invasion of Earth royal coups were common, routine even, so in that political climate yeah crowning Nea and storming the capital might have been effective, for a time. Today though? No way, not a chance in hell does the modern Zetan just shrug and go back to work.
Date: August 02 2022 5:06 AM Title: The Plunge
After Abduction is finished, will you do other stories in this universe? I would like to see a spin-off of Adam and Kira or Tayla, Craig and/or Liana.
Author's Response:
I usually like to take a break on a setting after a long story in it, but there is probably room for more stories in this universe.
Date: August 02 2022 1:28 AM Title: The Plunge
I'm gonna bet Tetra survived the attack and Lenais is fucked, even more fucked than she is anyway given what's pointed at her party right now I mean. Of course that does put Nea in just as bad of a position but it's hard to say she doesn't deserve to get fucked over after her little stunt and she'd probably prefer her mother alive than herself out of the firing line anyway. Still got to wonder how well Telma's just following orders defense is going to work at this point, humans are probably not going to give it much stock even if the Zetan miraculously adhere to that bit of legal shenanigans after all this.
Also typo: "admiring the site of" should be "admiring the sight of".
Author's Response:
The position for everyone is rapidly getting worse, except the Cephalos, those guys are on a roll. As for Telma, the whole thing is that the bodyguards are supposed to have the absolute confidence of the princess they're sworn to, so she probably wouldn't have been punished if things had ended back in Chapter 3. At this point, with terrorists, a coup, and military losses in the picture, Telma is kind of roped to Nea's fate for her part in things, there's a reason Telma's plan is run for the hills and hope for the best, and that's just the Zetan side of things, the humans as you noted probably wouldn't be too sympathetic to any defenses she would offer.
also typo fixed.
[Report This]Date: August 01 2022 11:45 PM Title: The Plunge
Well, the terrorists so immediately dealt with after their assassination, morso if it was unsuccessful, by a human bounty hunter. And then everyone knowing that it happened removing tons of long readability, with anyone coming out of the woodwork being more easily targetable. The lack of leadership is also gong to cause enough chaos for these terrorists.
Author's Response:
Yeah shit's about to hit the fan for all factions, but Zeta Forever is about to have a very uhh... big problem on their hands.