BIOGRAPHICAL REPORT
Acavar Purillo
Tracker and Counselor for
Advocates for Despondents,
Burselis
1.8 m, 86.2 kg (5'11", 190 lbs).
Born: March 11, 2317 CE Saycom Colony, Burselis.
Graduated: 2325 CE Saycom General Studies School, Burselis; 2331 CE MACP (Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology) Saycom Institute of Higher Learning, Burselis.
- 2331 CE Mental Health Advocate certificate.
- 2332 CE CACREP license (Council of Adolescent Counseling & Related Educational Programs).
Married: Emarela Kistric 2338-2349 CE Saycom, Burselis.
- Divorced 2349 CE.
Career: 2331-2352 CE Advocates for Despondents
- Terminated allegiance to Burselis and employment with Advocates for Despondents in favor of joining the Point Destination colonization program in Osa Chu Riga, Gar Don Kin.
Significant Details: Right next to the Corsivant Divide, at the edge of established human space, Burselis is rather literally a "last resort," with little to offer or brag about. With low morale more common than not, and Acavar a natural optimist, his calling is a given to their emerging colony. Surrounded by far more neutral, third-party independent worlds and species than humans, a resourceful negotiator can come in handy - and when the call comes in that three missing children have turned up a distance beyond the border, Acavar Purillo makes a great option for a youth-in-custody collection as well as foreign relations.
These inspiring images were provided courtesy of: "Acavar Purillo" by Art by MorganCMorgan, "Korriban Infocard" by Schinyman.
PERSONAL FILE
"Give a man a listening ear, and he'll give you his heart." When it comes to dreams, ideals, wealth, or accomplishments, Acavar's name rarely shows up on VIP lists. But he's convinced that what people really want, he can provide - a helping hand and a caring heart.
Prefers helping people with their personal struggles above any lesser distraction or pastime. If it's important to them, that's what makes things important to Acavar.
Penchant for making a difference in people's lives. Even if not the sharpest tool in the shed, Acavar believes the worst enemy is people's fears and insecurities. By searching out the power and potential within themselves, they can often solve their own problems.
Deeply cares for anybody who allows him to connect with their heart. The pains of life, growth, society, and stress leave us all beggars. Even if you don't know the best options for the best solutions, (who does?), just sharing the struggle with a trusted friend can keep lamps burning through the darkest nights.
Princess Seleata's power fires Acavar's creativity like little else could. With her army of pet-servants on-call, he knows it's show-time - and he does not disappoint.
A handful of sincerity is worth a library of guile. "Show people who you are and what you're about, and they'll follow - because the proof that follows sells itself, better than any hawker or silver-tongue."
Life is full of problems larger than any one person can handle. Teams are the solution. The trick is to lead with heart more than logic. More people will respond to passion than they ever have to speeches.
"They're just kids. Kids who've wandered off the path and gotten lost in the forest. So what if the ocean throws a wave - teach them how to swim. So what if the shadows growl at them - show them the path back to the city. All they need is a guide, a little warmth, a steady hand to lead them."
Acavar Purillo, at-risk youth counselor, Saycom Colony, Burselis
CONTRIBUTIONS TO A LIFEFORM DETECTED
Book 1:
A Lifeform Detected - Not featured.
Book 2:
Not featured.
Book 3:
Divided We Fall - Not featured.
Book 4:
The Hunter's Shadow - Not featured.
Book 5:
Critical Mass - Protagonist. When Acavar sets out on a routine collection of three missing children apprehended by the dal'lahn police on Setigo 2, he hardly bats an eyelid. But on their way back home to Burselis, when their ship's engines and guidance system fall offline for no clear reason, it's all he and the other counselors can do to land the ship in one piece. On a tropical world that looks like a blast-furnace from orbit, nothing is as it seems. Fighting for survival as well as to find or improvise a comm tower for rescue, it's clear their days are numbered - one way or the other. With far more options than caregivers, they set out in one body only to find themselves scattered to the winds and waves by nightfall. With little more than his wits, charm, and sincerity to work with, Acavar's wild adventure turns into a cut-and-gut adventure to solve a tangled mystery a thousand years overgrown - with branches reaching out as far as Hynor and Earth. On a do-or-die world where the natives are as likely to eat you as greet you, how can a soft-skin like Acavar Purillo turn the tables - for the future of the whole human race?
Book 6:
Systems Offline - City Planner resource-tracker. Between assignments, he also serves as a youth counselor - particularly to adolescents suffering from PTSD following the Point Destination evacuation on Hynor.
Acavar Purillo
BIOGRAPHICAL REPORT
Abrigo Tansarm
Rogue, thief, loose end, good-
for-nothing - (take your pick)
1.8 m, 581.6 kg (5'11", 180 lbs).
Born: June 4, 2331 CE Deoban Mining Colony, Skyberm.
Graduated: Year 11 at Saycom General Studies School, Burselis, incomplete. Many missing credits on record. Presumed dropped-out.
Married: The Outlaw, 2352 Sepi Te Sa Limet, Gar Don Kin.
Career: N/A. Never completed an honest day's work.
- Lives on the streets, but he never considers himself homeless. He always knows how to find a soft-heart to let him (or he and Cas) stay the night. Or they bounce from motel to motel, depending on how much the fences "trade" him for his wares.
Significant Details: Orphaned at age 4 due to a mining explosion and collapse, he was shuttled from bleeding-heart to bleeding-heart from Skyberm to Hessfeld to Anicrom to Burselis between 2335 and 2345, and every placement a beggarly cover for government-assistance income. From abused to neglected, Abrigo's first 15 years of life convinced him to never expect anything good, reliable, or lasting. Certainly angry, but never connected enough to feel resent for his caregivers, Cas was his first solid reward with trust. Frightened but helplessly eager, he tries not to do anything that might chase her away - but some habits are hard to break.
These inspiring images were provided courtesy of: "AI Art 0034" by Javier Lluesma, "Basalt Planet" by Art of Anrach.
PERSONAL FILE
"Take what you can get - then take off as fast as you can run."
Prefers hiding, running, and stealing to negotiating understanding, respect, or accomplishment in life. There are simply too many things that can go wrong - too many people who can let you down or betray you. Hiding and running are the only way to dodge the bullets and enjoy what you can get.
Penchant for finding hidden treasures - and if its the right pocket, purse, or wallet, all the better. Raised hearing tripe like "things can be replaced, people can't," fine; works for him. So he never kills people he fleeces.
Deeply cares for two things in life: loot, and Cas (though he's still trying to figure out the order on that decision). When they're separated in the city, he finally faces that decision head-on - and is perfectly surprised by the sincerity that that struggle generates.
Completely ignorant of Princess Seleata. He views the whole Point Destination fleet and crew as imminent danger. An embodiment of law and order taken to a whole new level. Still, big people tend to focus on big causes and problems, so as long as they mind their business, he can play nice, too.
Abrigo views the public as livestock on a farm - clueless grazers, abundant resources, with an occasional watchdog or two to watch out for. So long as they don't notice him, fine - he'll just take what he needs and run.
Teams are way to risky for Abrigo. Trust is like ice - it can hold just long enough for you to let down your guard, then you crash into the lake beneath it and flounder for survival. He far prefers keeping his talents fast and fleeting - no commitment means no disappointment.
"What the hell do I owe you? For getting my butt kicked around at the mining colony? For getting tossed into boys-homes and the system's juvie for making my way in this screwed up life? Nobody ever gave me nothing. I've always had to stand on my own. And if you want to take me back to that 'life', one of us is going to wind up eating dirt in an early grave."
Abrigo Tansarm, youth-in-custody, Deoban Mining Colony, Skyberm
CONTRIBUTIONS TO A LIFEFORM DETECTED
Book 1:
A Lifeform Detected - Not featured.
Book 2:
The Tomb of Dur Kaetin - Not featured.
Book 3:
Divided We Fall - Not featured.
Book 4:
The Hunter's Shadow - Not featured.
Book 5:
Critical Mass - Life on the run is a given for Abrigo. The only person he could ever depend on for anything good, he's become a sprint-shadow - either scampering for cover or hiding and waiting until whatever bully catches up to him. When Acavar's team of social twerkers shows up on Setigo 2 to retrieve him from the police station, it's certainly no surprise - and no cause for concern either. Just another hurdle in his obstacle course. When they crash land on Gar Don Kin's living miracle, though, all bets are off. Adventure turns to chaos, and chaos all to quickly explodes into disaster - and opportunity. But finally granted the freedom he's always hoped for, what should he do with it? (Especially this much of it?) When the needles of fate finally pierce he and his girlfriend - and then tug them in opposite directions - how the hell is he supposed to fix a nightmare this far beyond his typical toolkit of tricks and tirades?
Book 6:
Systems Offline - Not featured.
Abrigo Tansarm
BIOGRAPHICAL REPORT
Cpl. Bietrichs Haller
Resource Terrain Mapping
Squad, Planetary Surveillance
Company, Hynor Army
1.52 m, 52 kg (5'0", 115 lbs).
Born: July 19, Year 37-Hynor (2330 CE) Overture, Hynor.
Graduated: Year 55-Hynor (2348 CE) GSS-MS (General Studies School-Manufacturing Industrial Sector); immediately applied to the Hynor Army.
Married: Single (recently completed boot camp & preliminary officer training as a corporal).
Career: Applied to the Hynor Army enlistment program in Year 55-Hynor (2348 CE); graduated from boot camp in Year 57-Hynor (2350 CE); immediately applied to the preliminary officer training program; completed the program in Year 59-Hynor (2352 CE)
- Appointed corporal status in the Resource Terrain Mapping Squad of the Planetary Surveillance Company.
Significant Details: When Capt. Emilie Usara met her match on assignment, she opted to use available resources. To meet tafchas fire with fire, Princess Seleata introduced her to Musari Unisa - a "BasketBringer" servant, true, but a most-trusted chief steward at that - with many tafchas powers of her own to turn many tables for friends.
These inspiring images were provided courtesy of: "Special Forces Girl" by Girls of Midjourney, "Desert Planet 06" by Schinyman.
PERSONAL FILE
"Life's tough; sometimes you've got to be tough back." Although little more than a child herself, Bietrichs knows in her heart when things feel right - or off. The challenge is, trusting those feelings without making mistakes.
Prefers offering a supportive shoulder and helping people to competing, dominating, or killing. Concerned that compassion may be a symptom of weakness.
Penchant for adventure, interesting surprises, and surprising people who still see her a child tripping over her own feet.
Deeply cares for her family and the Hynor military - to the point that it digs her heart and gut deeply when claws of betrayal gash her - from those she's loved and helped so faithfully.
Completely ignorant of Princess Seleata, when she's finally brought face-to-face with this icon of "capital threats to Overture", she's splayed raw and open to the soul as she reconsiders everything she thought she knew.
Eager to please to gain favor and respect, but still young and learning, she hates stumbling over her own feet - and is ripely embarrassed about how often she does it.
She counts on the strength of her teams, having witnessed how weak or at least vulnerable people can be without solid reinforcement. The rude awakening there is, while this interdependence builds confidence, its betrayals can wound all the deeper - and with a numbing stupor that leaves her more vulnerable than ever.
"'They're not like us.' 'They're different - even strange.' 'They might hurt us.' 'We need to stand at full alert, just in case they become a threat.' The whispers turned into grumbling, then the grumbling turned into growls. Now the whole city is erupting like a volcano - causing the very problems they feared all along. I used to be able to keep it cool, keep my distance. But now they're hot on my heels - with assault rifles."
Cpl. Bietrichs Haller, Hynor Army, Resource Terrain Mapping Squad
CONTRIBUTIONS TO A LIFEFORM DETECTED
Book 1:
A Lifeform Detected - Not featured.
Book 2:
The Tomb of Dur Kaetin - Not featured.
Book 3:
Divided We Fall - Not featured.
Book 4:
The Hunter's Shadow - Not featured.
Book 5:
Critical Mass - With new leadership and new political agendas in play, Cpl. Haller is reassigned as a surveillance operative against her own brothers and sisters in arms. The moral conflict between her duty and her conscience (and which reeks of institutional discrimination) twists and tightens as she learns not only what the Armed Escort Company was hiding - but why. When her brother and sister are brought to challenge her beliefs and her loyalties, the knot in her stomach grows relentless. When what amounts to a miraculous healing for her parents follows, and her younger brother betrays the family - and lands her in jail - "Trixie" finally has to face her fears, and her convictions, to decide whose side she's really willing to defend. Her choice, ultimately, surprises all of them - including the tafchas Princess Seleata herself.
Book 6:
Systems Offline - Not featured.
Cpl. Bietrichs "Trixie" Haller
BIOGRAPHICAL REPORT
Herald Jiset Yewku
Herald of the Valkyries of
Night Howl, Gar Don Kin
1.52 m, 38 kg (5'0", 85 lbs) (flight-capable).
Born: N/A (radically different calendaring system; age: 23, circa 2329 CE) Osa Chu Riga, Gar Don Kin.
Graduated: N/A (tribal mentoring).
- A quick study in gymnastics and acrobatics, she was quickly selected as one of the Chosen for Sepi Te Sa Limet. Awarded herald status for the Valkyries of Night Howl at age 15 (circa 2321).
Married: Single (but always open to prospects).
Career: N/A. One of the Chosen for the Grand Stage of Shorelines, Sepi Te Sa Limet, she's since been exiled to Night Howl with the rest of the Valkyries.
- She continues her service as herald, calling all public meetings or celebrations in their city, and often leading excursions into the wilds to find lost or injured travelers.
Significant Details: Though remarkably lightweight for blade-wielding warriors, the Valkyries have unusual strength of bone and sinew to allow them fighting advantages on the ground or in the air. Coupled with meticulous swords, axes, halberds, spears, and javelins, they can be a surprise force to be reckoned with. With the thick tropical forest environment surrounding Night Howl, many of their sentries are posted to watch in silence from the treetops, or when called as escorts through known dangerous areas.
These inspiring images were provided courtesy of: "Character 0673" by Grimwald's AI Fantasy, "Basalt Planet" by Art of Anrach.
PERSONAL FILE
"True nobility is an ageless trait - but only proven through action." Claims are but blown wind. Deeds - and better yet motives behind deeds - determine whether any action is justifiable, let alone admirable.
Prefers surveillance roles during battle over actual engagement. As one of the smaller-framed Valkyries, she is rather vulnerable by nature. But she's adapted her size and strength for agility and dexterity, and if a challenger picks a fight, they may very well not know what hit them.
Penchant for rescues, both to meet and anchor new friends and for the peace and conviction of her own conscience. Life in exile can weigh heavily on her spirits in the quiet of certain nights; but a good rescue or safe escort patrol is every bit as satisfying as an evening of mead and campfires with her friends.
Deeply cares for her fellow Chosen, as well as close friends. Truth be told, she's a very caring person in general, and views even perfect strangers as admirers to be won.
Completely ignorant of Princess Seleata. When she witnesses the Point Destination fleet and crew, she's perfectly dumbfounded. Are they gods? From what heavens? Though certainly a fan of their charismatic nobility, they are so vastly disconnected from any hero, legend, or mythology she's ever heard of that she can't quite trust her senses about them. Unfortunately, this creates a bit of distance - but of respect, not fear.
Jiset just adores being a highlight in a crowd - not necessarily the limelight (that would be vain) - but certainly a life of the party. On a world as marvelous as Gar Don Kin, after all, why not celebrate its abundance of life with those you love and enjoy?
Teams are a given in her books. No life lives in isolation - but rather, in communities, entire ecosystems, with every part contributing to the whole. Why should it be any different for the Valkyries?
"Such storytellers, these humans! People traveling on ships between the stars? Entire civilizations bustling about on other worlds? At first I thought they were jesting, perhaps desperate for an audience. But they're willing to risk life and limb, no matter the cost, to return home. Well, they won't do it alone if we have anything to say about it."
Herald Jiset Yewku, Valkyries of Nighthowl, Gar Don Kin
CONTRIBUTIONS TO A LIFEFORM DETECTED
Book 1:
A Lifeform Detected - Not featured.
Book 2:
The Tomb of Dur Kaetin - Not featured.
Book 3:
Divided We Fall - Not featured.
Book 4:
The Hunter's Shadow - Not featured.
Book 5:
Critical Mass - In Night Howl, the shadows of the ancient ruins still chant their endless legends. The power, the grace, the courage, the valor of the past lives, breathes - and now even flies. As a Valkyrie of Night Howl, one of the Chosen selected from the masses across the assembly, she was not only invited as a guest, but hailed as Jiset, the very Herald of the defenders of the mystical forest. Trained, sculpted, perfected as a fierce and fearless sky-knight, as well as the charming voice of their calls to arms as well as to triumphant feasts, Jiset is quite literally a living legend. But what's this strolling up the path? Wingless wafers of man and boy, with not a scrap of armor or blade to defend them? And they intend to reach salvation in civilization? Can she believe a word they speak? And far more daunting still, can she answer their call and their quest, to escort them safely to the forbidden city - and risk all she's earned and become?
Book 6:
Systems Offline - Not featured.
Herald Jiset Yewku
BIOGRAPHICAL REPORT
Asitwa Siku
ShadowFlare to Princess Seleata
1.55 m, 47.6kg (5'1", 105 lbs).
Born: classified. (Age: undisclosed; estimated age: 36, circa 2316 CE).
Graduated: N/A (royal tutelage).
Married: Single (prospects are just as likely to die on their first date).
Career: classified.
- Rescued from cyber-enhanced enslavement, Princess Seleata devoted her bio-power, technology, and tireless therapy to her rehabilitation. Still a fine-tuned tool for infiltration, espionage, and point-target executions, Asitwa Siku has now been assigned as Seleata's ShadowFlare for just such emergency roles.
Significant Details: Nearly killed during a skirmish on Castis Majestic, the Armed Escort Company contingent weren't sure just what they'd found in the aftermath. Emergency-transferred to Princess Seleata for assessment, the princess learned that Asitwa Siku had not only been attuned, but nearly reprogrammed, hardly able to make a conscientious decision on her own. Taking her under her wing as a bit of an experiment as well as a personal conviction to retain her moral decency, she has since trained and rehabilitated the beleaguered victim into an intelligent, compassionate, near-sentient lifeform again. Asitwa Siku, on the other hand, now endears Princess Seleata as her dawning sun following every dark-night, tafchas-style PTSD relapse.
These inspiring images were provided courtesy of: "Witness the Awe-Inspiring Presence" by DeviousToc, "The Anomaly" by Art by MorganCMorgan.
PERSONAL FILE
"There is no escape." Surrounded by a thousand faces - and a death for every one of them. No matter where she turns, Asitwa Siku faces threats of certain harm. The only way to prevent it is to outwit or defeat them first.
Prefers swift, clean pounce-kills to violence that spreads collateral damage. The last thing anybody needs is another mess to clean up - let alone evidence to track her.
Penchant for successful missions. The instant an action-prompt triggers in her cerebroplex, it's all she can do to endure its call, its pull, its energy, until she can confirm mission accomplished.
Deeply cares for the Hynor military, for reasons she can't understand. She also feels a profound, inexplicable sensitivity to civilian bystanders who might get caught up on the wrong side of a bio-field discharge. In a universe of chaos and corruption, she feels that she and her Mistress are two potent anchors in the storm.
Princess Seleata is everything to her. Firm but never abusive, direct yet also considerate, creative beyond innovative, and an artist of unprecedented beauty even while hidden, alone, and hunted, Asitwa Siku feels an almost sisterly affection for her - yet could never compare herself to a Mistress of Seleata's stature and legacy.
As a royal chief ally more than servant, she's independent enough to avoid the public whenever possible, yet won't hesitate to defend her Mistress' honor, person, property, or causes. While it's possible, even recommended to present a laudable face around town, Asitwa Siku would rather tend to the princess' foyer than face the quibbling inanity of the masses and trigger a reflex.
Teamwork has its place, and its valued members - but they rarely involve Asitwa Siku. While known to be compassionate, even sympathetic to wounded underdogs fighting for sense in all the insanity, Asitwa Siku always prefers to settle scores her own way - with or without any outside assistance.
"Life can be such a fragile construct. So dynamic. So versatile. In many cases, so elegant. Yet with the touch of a blade, muscle can cleave. With a sudden shift in pressure, bones can break. With the right electrical charge, nerves can choke, hearts can stop, and brains can die. How comforting to know that those with the power to kill so easily can restore life - and to whatever degree they see appropriate to the occasion."
Asitwa Siku, ShadowFlare for Princess Seleata
CONTRIBUTIONS TO A LIFEFORM DETECTED
Book 1:
A Lifeform Detected - Not featured.
Book 2:
The Tomb of Dur Kaetin - Not featured.
Book 3:
Divided We Fall - classified
Book 4:
The Hunter's Shadow - Caught in a labyrinth of shadows, with twists and turns compelling her to conflict wherever she goes, Asitwa Siku has died and gone to hell. Search as she might for help, for healing, for the light of day to once again clear the nightmare around (and within) her, she's never imagined herself so alone, so disconnected from hope, promise, and belonging. When the chase turns to combat, and Sgt. Luesa and Similwran Weylanishey arrive on the scene, will their wits and strengths combined secure her release - and even more, her sanity?
Book 5:
Critical Mass - If the similwrans are Princess Seleata's bodyguards, Asitwa Siku now stands as her captain of the guard. Exceeding all competition in hand-to-hand combat, her technical prowess is nearly as impressive - but she is one among many, and limited in her outreach with the princess under constant threat. A mentor and safekeep to many soldiers, like Cpl. Haller, her participation might be small, but her influence is exponential.
Book 6:
Systems Offline - Not featured. Accompanied her Mistress aboard the Evergate.
Asitwa Siku
BIOGRAPHICAL REPORT
The Outlaw
Guide-star of The Outlaw on
the Grand Stage of Shorelines,
Gar Don Kin
1.55 m, 54.4 kg (5'1", 120 lbs).
Born: January 9, 2333 CE, Arugen 4 Mining Colony.
Graduated: Incomplete - reported AWOL in her 11th year at Saycom General Studies School, Burselis, but is missing several academic credits.
Married: 2352, Abrigo Tansarm, Sepi Te Sa Limet, Gar Don Kin. No children.
Career: N/A (lives on the run; no committed employment on record)
- Currently retired to her private resort city, Breakwater, on Gar Don Kin, due to her participation in The Outlaw on the Grand Stage of Shorelines.
Significant Details: Raised in a dysfunctional family on a dead-end mining colony, life has rarely smiled on The Outlaw. Kicked around from planet to planet, "foster-imposter to foster-imposter" (as she calls it), a deep and enduring bitterness lies caged deep in her gut - but not necessarily her soul. Able to see bright horizons even beyond stormy skies thanks to Abrigo Tansarm, many claim they're a do-mess-tic couple, destined to failure, but she doesn't believe so. Not after all they've been through together. While not an anchor of stability, she still finds Abrigo her lifejacket in the typhoon, fixed tightly to her and buoyant to keep her head above water. Come what may, fate has finally smiled on them both, and she's definitely going to enjoy it as long as it lasts.
These inspiring images were provided courtesy of: "Midjourney 6826" by Javier Lluesma, "Basalt Planet" by Art of Anrach.
PERSONAL FILE
"Take what you can get." Why the bad rap with low-hanging fruit? Better than breaking her neck stretching for the canopy. So long as the fruit is sweet, who cares where it came from?
Prefers any opportunity that brings she and Abrigo together in fond warmth. While she believes he loves her and is devoted to her, her heart needs constant reminders that he...well, sometimes offers (or agrees to).
Penchant for adventure, for entertainment, particularly for blunders. Life can be too strict and too stiff far too often; lighthearted comedy is a powerful lifter amid all that deadweight.
Deeply cares for Abrigo, who's been her reliable constant for four years (and a little longer, while they were still getting to know each other). Everybody else is dust in the wind.
Almost completely ignorant of Princess Seleata, she and Abrigo are certainly not Friend of Taska material. Vague allies, perhaps, and duly grateful, but by no means devotees. Such a figure would certainly disgust if not intimidate her, as an authority-figure with godly powers.
Jealous but from a distance, she earned her title as The Outlaw. Always on the outside looking in, she found she could never count on anybody to meet her needs - they were far too preoccupied with their own. While she certainly enjoys a vibrant social life, it's rare for her to "fit in" with anybody but the misfits.
Strongly doubtful about teams. Willing to be a team player, if they'll respect her, but they'll need to approach her - she won't waste her time and emotions searching them out only to be rejected, yet again.
"I've lived my whole life on the run. You have to learn quickly, to survive Arugen 4, Burselis, Setigo 2. And definitely here on Gar Don Kin. But nothing prepared me for the Sky City, Sepi Te Sa Limet. It was supposed to be the stuff of legends, some Shangri-La pipe dream. Until I saw it. Until my life depended on it. And now thousands will never forget it."
The Outlaw, The Grand Stage of Shorelines, Sepi Te Sa Limet
CONTRIBUTIONS TO A LIFEFORM DETECTED
Book 1:
A Lifeform Detected - Not featured.
Book 2:
The Tomb of Dur Kaetin - Not featured.
Book 3:
Divided We Fall - Not featured.
Book 4:
The Hunter's Shadow - Not featured.
Book 5:
Critical Mass - Stranded on an alien planet following a crash, the last thing she expected was a "brighter tomorrow". Struggling to survive wild bamboo forest, her captors' antics, downpours and typhoons, let alone the clawed and fanged wildlife, she was certain early death had tracked her down and was just playing with its food before her bitter end. When she found the city, though, far from being treated like something a cat dragged in, she was in fact celebrated as a precious prize for the first time in her life. Escorted into the local entertainment lord's palace, she soon found herself tumbling head over heels into an insane opportunity - to tell her story, in its full, living color and emotion - on the Grand Stage of Shorelines in the sky city. Can she do it? Can she face her past, her fears, her insecurities, and not only embody and express them to an audience of thousands, but even tower above them and crush them to robotic powder as The Outlaw?
Book 6:
Systems Offline - Not featured.
The Outlaw
This inspiring image was provided courtesy of: "Sea Stead Farm" by Ka-Pow96,
Buried along the coast between forest and sea, Seagate glistens as a royal crown.
Watching over marine mysteries and woodland wonders, its sleepless towers and bedrock pillars stand sentinel against any intruders - from land, sea, or air.
Terraforming a tropical paradise from a radioactive rock takes time, effort, and coordination. Se Qui Te - the laboratory the Sirens now call Seagate, their manor and home - once stood as a marine monitor for its orgalin designers. Responsible to inject hyperfusions of transmetalitic energy from the radioactive atmosphere into the rocks around the region, vast trains of cometary debris loaded with water ice once channeled from gates perched at hot-spots around the solar system. Once the near-molten heated rocks melted the incoming ice chunks, they flowed to fill the dry basins and formed the planet's broad but fairly shallow oceans.
Once Se Qui Te and its coordinating cities and platforms regulated the hydrosphere, it switched gears to focus on marine life and a healthy ecosystem between the ocean and the emerging forest.
Today, its roles are entirely regulatory, and automated, since the planet can pretty well take care of itself. The sirens have no idea just what legendary significance their home played in the history of the entire planet.
This inspiring image was provided courtesy of: "Conservatory" by Art by Morgan C Morgan.
The beehive of Osa Chu Rega, where every worthy silk, suit, or furnishing is fabricated...
Witness the power, grace, and glory of Mooncrest - home of the Faelights and manor of the Vales of Feasting!
Standing proud and unyielding against age, erosion, and plunder, this ancient orgalin wonder perches on a mesita between the Asi Pi Squ and Ga Laso Rivers.
Designed as a craft-plex beyond the walls of Osa Chu Riga, this breadbasket of resources formed a natural hub for local resources as well as imports, to provide any material comfort the residents of the capital city could desire.
Claimed, cleared, and at least marginally revived by the Faelights following their Graduation and exile, the Assembly gathered in the city ruins still frequent its fields and factories for food, clothing, and furnishings for their homes.
This inspiring image was provided courtesy of: "Vimana" 000 by Low Thunders.
Unforgettable stories in an untouchable venue.
Welcome to Sepi Te Sa Limet, home of the Grand Stage of Shorelines!
Any who wish to visit the grand capital, Osa Chu Rega, must first pass the searching eye of Sepi Te Sa Limet. An opulent city in the sky, and an engineering marvel for cultures of any age or evolution, this gilded community's towers monitor the skies for any object large enough to risk a harmful impact.
Linked to defensive platforms in towers and cities around the globe, the gravimetric pressures and energies created by its gravimetric fields and the planet's natural gravity provide all the power the system needs to create a virtually impenetrable sky-grid shield and automated defense system.
But within this gilded diadem are workshops, where cloths and wares of the finest grades and splendors beckon every guest prominent enough to be invited to come, and see just how incredible life can get - when you literally have it all.
With the Grand Stage of Shorelines at its heart and core, only the finest talents are Chosen to entertain, to teach, to remember the glories - and perils - of life, relations, and ages never to be forgotten.
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