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drew wrote:I'm also a little surprised that nobody seems to have figured out who 'Garew Ward' is. It's not that difficult...
Cheers,
Drew.
Udian's character is a work of genius though, as are the others - I stand on the shoulders of giants etc!ClymAngus wrote:Yup this is officially on my top 5 coolest things ever to happen to me on the internet.
1 character, 2 (all be it the same make) ships and map usage. I feel so included!
A fantastic piece of work Mr D!
Ah.. the origin of species owes itself completely to your input. I rewrote the stuff you sent when we discussed the overall plot to make it feel like part of the story - and Daddyhoggy got to narrate it - originally it was in the prologue. In fact Incursio could be summarised by the line from your website:Selezen wrote:Awesome work, Drew - just finished it (took longer than normal thanks to having to completely rewrite a website in a week) and it was, well, Elite!
"Incursio - if it was registered with the Elite Federation it would automatically get a 'Right On Commander'!!"
I liked the "origin of species" angle and the origin of GalCop... it all sounded very very familiar...
Since it's filled with characters from other fiction, it's given me the kick to start looking at other people's fiction now (especially El Viejo's work).
I haven't read all the way through this thread, so I don't know if my one niggle has been mentioned before or corrected, but the only thing at the moment that makes my "Elite Universe Maintenance" sense tingle is the biography for Coyote - does the concept of "Spanish" exist in the Elite universe in 31xx? After 500 years separated from the origins of Old Earth, would Coyote's Spanish heritage come from a colony world...for example, the continent of New Hispania on Eeszaa or similar...
Just a thought...
'Finis' will deal with the period from 3151-3165 in your timeline, but with the dates compressed - 14 years is too long a period to have an extended adventure within the confines of a single book, so I'll be playing rather 'fast and loose' there I'm afraid!That is entirely correct... I wrote Coyote's back-story ages ago while I was writing Coyote, and this was the (slightly abbreviated) bio I gave to Drew.drew wrote:My sense was it was a sort of 'ex-pat' Spanish community on Zaquesso that retained its identity rather protectively.
, surprising 
and well told 
story Drew. I found the plot fascinating. It also opens up for svefg pbagnpg va tnynkl 9 va Bbyvgr irefvba 2.0. Jvfu V unq gur gnyrag naq gur gvzr gb qb n "svefg pbagnpg bs gur guveq xvaq.bkc". Tenterhooks deployed.Gimi wrote:and consider yourself told off for not apologising for leaving us with such a cliff hanger.
I knew it!drew wrote:Ah.. the origin of species owes itself completely to your input. I rewrote the stuff you sent when we discussed the overall plot to make it feel like part of the story - and Daddyhoggy got to narrate it - originally it was in the prologue. In fact Incursio could be summarised by the line from your website:
3151 Thargoids defeated, presumed eradicated. Bioweapons are thought to have been used.
Cool, glad to see that the ole' timeline is being used still, and that you remember a conversation from what must be over two years ago now, surely?It looks like your story arc is in its own little pocket universe - you're dealing almost exclusively with a narrow cast of characters in one mission, and my stories were looking at the political situation on Lave (and the characters around that) as well as the wider galactic war. Your references to fighting the war in galaxy 1 leaves me the same framework I had before, and I applaud that...and I thank you for it.drew wrote:However, history is written by the winners, so my take is that your timeline may be written by Galcop sympathetic authors...
Hopefully that leaves you free to continue creating your own fiction!
Fair do... Still makes for a fearsome "wild frontier" character though. Fantastic characteristion on both your parts.drew wrote:Bio's for the characters were taken directly from the 'owners' of the characters and I only modified them very slightly for form (you can view the original on userpages in the wiki if you're interested). The scene with Udian reviewing his spies information on the other combateers is not from me, but from other folks bios for their characters (except Rebecca - which I wrote)... so as for Coyote's Spanish... you'll have to ask El Viejo...
My sense was it was a sort of 'ex-pat' Spanish community on Zaquesso that retained its identity rather protectively.
It was my reading of the novel that was slow to get started, not the novel itself, of course! - loved the physical descriptions of the Thargs and the opening with their communications/activities around the wreckage of the Falchion.Pansen wrote:Hey! This is superb Drew - only about half way through - slow to get started
He he, no worries, Pansen. Though I'd be surprised if anyone called the first couple of chapters 'slow'!Pansen wrote:It was my reading of the novel that was slow to get started, not the novel itself, of course! - loved the physical descriptions of the Thargs and the opening with their communications/activities around the wreckage of the Falchion.Pansen wrote:Hey! This is superb Drew - only about half way through - slow to get started