Rising Stars

Luna has always wanted to be an Earth Guardian, but she knows it's far too late to have been chosen. It's a fool's dream anyway. The reality of battling monsters every few days to protect the human race is somewhat less 'Saturday morning cartoon' and somewhat more 'child soldier war story.' But that allure of magic always called to her... and one day, she's given an offer to have everything she's ever dreamed of.

She promptly says no, because the offer is from one of the most obviously evil women Luna has ever seen in her life. She's pining, not stupid. Get out of here with that blatant monkey's paw crap.

Unfortunately, it turns out obviously evil women don't take to being told 'no' all that well. The next thing Luna knows, she's waking up in a robotic body, unable to speak and bound to follow the whims of the monster she tried to reject. How can she find freedom when her every thought is bound in servitude? Will any of the Earth Guardians she's now being forced to fight realize she's in need of help, or are all of them far too busy with their own problems—including but very much not limited to saving the world?

And if she does get saved... is there any chance she could keep the robot body?

Adam is no one special. He’s just an accountant standing in line at a bakery one early Saturday morning, because his craving for Jameson’s croissants finally broke him. Unfortunately, fate has other plans for him, as the black cubes show up before he can get his pastries.

The cubes are the heralds and guides of the Trials of Defiance. They’ve decided that Adam, along with every other able-bodied human adult, is to become a Player in their game. Humanity’s future is at stake and it’s all but inevitable that Adam is going to die. After all, he’s no one special.

Despite it all, he overcomes the first Stage. He attains some measure of power and then discovers a way to kill the black cube following him around. The only problem is that killing the cube takes him down with it.

Oh, and it also gives him the power to go back in time when he dies.

What to expect:
- Timeloops (no two loops the same)
- Weak-to-Strong Protagonist
- Clear Progression
- Roguelite-inspired GameLit (meta upgrades, etc.)
- The existential horror inherent to time-travelling
- Huge build variety (Relics, Weapon Types, Divine Boons, etc.)
- Persistent upgrades and recurring characters

Release Schedule for the 1st month: Monday & Friday

Inspired by Korean SysApocs like ‘Master Hunter K’, and by Action Roguelite games such as ‘Hades’ and ‘The Binding of Isaac’

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Every problem has a solution. When the problem’s the apocalypse, the solution might be a big hammer. 

Hal just wanted to go home, listen to the Rolling Stones, and figure out what was wrong with that damn Ford Explorer back at his boss’s garage. He didn’t ask for the world to be destroyed during his subway ride.

Then someone destroyed the world during his subway ride.

Now he’s trapped in a multi-phase System Integration, Chicago’s crawling with monsters, and the subway’s turned into a hardcore tutorial. If he wants to survive, he’ll have to combine magic and technology into a new type of power. But Hal’s solved plenty of problems, and this one? It’s going to regret giving him the power to survive, advance, and thrive. It’s time to engineer his way through the apocalypse.

The universe has plans. It didn’t account for Hal.

10 chapters Day One, 1/day minimum posting speed through Rising Stars. I've got the backlogged chapters for it, and I'm still writing.

Chapters post at 12:17 AM Mountain Standard Time. 

Thanks to everyone who beta-read it and gave me advice. You're all amazing!

Cover Art:  WIP by NK Studios (currently in progress)

An ancient heritage of immense power, a new bloodline with limitless potential.

When you inherit dragon-killing gear, you get assigned to kill dragons. And when you’re the youngest and least experienced of the family, you get sent on the least respectable hunt. That was the case for Tristan; sent to kill a gods-damned fairy dragon. The most cunning and tricky of all of them.

He had almost caught and slain the blasted thing a few times, but it always slipped him. When he finally catches his quarry, she runs away to the Fey Realm. And like a good dragonslayer, he chases her there. But upon arriving, his heritage awakens.

Tristan gains the ancient power of his mother’s bloodline and learns of a vault containing forgotten secrets. But he is not yet strong enough to unlock the door. The very creature Tristan was hunting becomes his mentor and companion as he sets out to obtain the power to claim his birthright.

But he has a shortcut to obtain the might he needs. His family doesn’t just kill dragons because they need to be hunted – they kill those creatures to consume their strength. And there are plenty of dragons out there to eat.

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Benjamin Bishop gets a new lease on life as the new, ground-breaking VR game "Cultivation Online" is released, shattering the world's supposition of what a VR game can accomplish. Join him as he uncovers the secrets of immortality in a virtual world that is far more than it appears.

Author's note: So, recently I was inspired by this story on WebNovel which many of you might have read (called "Cultivation Online"). The idea of combining LitRPG and VR with Xianxia appealed to me and immediately piqued my interest. Unfortunately, while popular and successful, I cannot say that I liked how the author chose to tell their story. Thus, this is my attempt at something similar, but hopefully different.

What to expect:

- A pragmatic and logical male lead

- Virtual reality with a unique twist

- Weak to strong

- Sect politics

- Cultivation

Two classes, one chance to save it all.

Zach thought the notification everyone in the world received was a joke. But when it went live, he quickly realized that the apocalypse would be a fight for survival—a chance to rise above the chaos. 

Joining the Partial Integration didn’t just give him power; it thrust him into a deadly game-show where three races compete for the survival of their worlds.

With divine beings watching and entire planets on the line, Zach must master his dual classes and outwit both human and alien rivals. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and failure is not an option. Zach will do whatever it takes to win—for his planet, for his people, and for himself.

I had finally done it—achieved the ultimate Paladin build. Maxed stats, impenetrable armor, and so many resistances that death itself had given up on me. I was an unkillable tank, an indomitable force. Nothing could stop me.

And then my PC exploded.

I died.

Irony, thou art a cruel mistress.

But instead of the afterlife, I woke up as my Paladin character… in the wrong freaking genre. Instead of castles and dungeons, there were people flying around on swords, shooting qi beams like fantasy laser guns.

“This is definitely the wrong genre,” I muttered, watching a pompous young master sneer at me.

“Kowtow, kiss my foot, and beg for forgiveness!” he declared.

I looked at my imaginary maxed-out health bar, then at his flimsy silk robes.

Oh, this was going to be fun.

The gods don't play dice with the universe; they play Board & Conquest.

Wepwawet, young god of wolves and scouts, is given a task to prove himself worthy of becoming a major god: form a new pantheon with other junior deities, manage a young civilization on a newborn world, and train mortal Champions to resist an inevitable Titan Incursion. 

Being saddled with an ice-covered barbarian village besieged from all sides isn’t ideal, but it's now his duty to transform this ragtag bunch of misfits into the most formidable force the world of Elphion has ever seen. It doesn’t matter how many of his fellow gods want his head on a spike, how many Miracles cards he has to collect, or how many uppity dragons and minions with attitude he has to manage; Wepwawet has never backed from a challenge and he isn’t starting now. 

He was already a god; now, he’ll have to become the god. 

Art cover by Dinovoila and SelkieMyth.

Updates twice a week (2500/3000 words chapters) on Tuesday, Thursday, and occasionally on Saturday. Contains deckbuilding LitRPG elements and a tactical-oriented System, a god who knows what he's doing (sometimes), base-building, and a colorful cast of mortal champions.

Layton just wanted a weekend alone in the wilderness. Instead, he woke up in a nightmare.

Earth has been inducted into a multiversal system, and survival is no longer guaranteed. Forced into a brutal wave dungeon with no warning, no tutorial, and no gear, Layton accidentally locks himself into the weakest class—Healer.

That’s when things start feeling… off.

He’s leveling way too fast. His so-called “support” class? Feels anything but weak. And his only ally? A too-intelligent, bloodthirsty predator that might be more than just an animal.

Something is wrong with this system. Layton just has to survive long enough to figure out what.

Business magnate Willem dies at age 87, entirely alone. Populists around the world generally cheer for such a sad fate, but his reincarnation into a world of fantasy would surely put a damper on their enthusiasm. Sword and sorcery, grand adventure, life-threatening monsters and calamities... Willem stands poised to enjoy a life of splendor.

Only, our protagonist doesn't care one whit about all of that. To him, there's only one magic: correcting an inefficient market. He long ago mastered that sorcery, and he's certainly not about to try and learn another when the old tricks work just as well in the new world. No matter how fantastical the world, one thing never changes.

Money makes the world go round.

Schedule: 5/week, weekdays.

When the sword awakens, its slept so long that it has forgotten everything except but hunger. It is a weapon made to feast on death and blood, and the more bodies that it leaves in its wake, the stronger it gets. Bloodstained Blade is a fantasy gamelit, where the main character is the blade, and not the person wielding it. So, expect the wielder of the blade to die occasionally and be replaced with another man or monster as the Ebon Blade pursues its own goals no matter the cost. 

Expect: Daily updates, new powers and abilities, numbers to go up, violence, and revenge.

Zamian is getting used to talking to the White Dot hovering in the corner of his vision.

Does the blighted thing talk back? Never.
Does this make him insane? Maybe.

As the son of two of the Sanctuary’s most powerful cultivators, Zamian’s life should have been easy. Instead, he’s stuck caring for his tea-obsessed father, dodging political schemes, and figuring out why his blighted companion keeps issuing quests!

Follow Zamian as he struggles with his ever-growing cultivation and does everything he can to save his family and friends!

Also, please, could you not tell him that a certain God messed with everyone’s mind and is about to unleash a Divine Calamity?

Pinky promise?

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What to Expect:

- Weak to strong, anti-hero, smart MC
- Unique system, inspired by 'power combos' of RI and some aspects of LOTM
- Xianxia & High Fantasy fusion (expect weird things)
- First book lacks some tropes (no daily sect life, clans, jade beauties, devils, pills—yet)
- No Harem
- Gruesome fights

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Chapter Size: 2,500–3,000 words
Schedule: Monday–Friday @ 4:16 PM EST

He Brought a Gun to a Sword Fight.

A life was tempered in the forge of struggle—an orphan fighting to survive, a soldier battling an alien plague, a protector who gave his life for those too weak to defend themselves.

But death wasn’t the end of his war.

Reborn in a world of immortal cultivators and ancient secrets, Jin Shu finds himself as the eldest son of the Jin family, masters of runesmithing. Armed with his modern military knowledge and an arsenal of runic-enhanced weapons, he’s ready to take on anyone who dares threaten his new life.

This second life offers more than just battles. It’s an opportunity to experience parts of existence he never thought possible: the warmth of family, the joy of raising an adorable tiger cub who sees him as her father, even love.

Now that he has felt the warmth of love, nothing in heaven or earth will stand in his way. Be it God, Buddha, or Demon, all will come to know the wrath behind the smoking barrel of his gun.

What to Expect:

Xianxia Meets Modern Weaponry (Powered by runic magic!)

High-Octane Action and Hilarious Moments

A Tiger Cub So Cute, She’ll Steal Your Heart

Guns, Guns, and More Guns! (Did I mention sound effects? Bang! Boom!)

An OP MC with a Purpose (Because pulling the trigger isn’t always enough)

The First 100k+ is Written & Posted to Patreon.

If you love explosive battles, heartfelt moments, and a touch of the absurd, this story is for you.

7 Chapters a week (1 a day) Until 3/3 when I switch to 5/week (M-F)

Thank you for reading—or even just clicking!

When the day of the apocalypse comes, Ashtoreth betrays Hell to fight for humanity.

After all, she never fit in with the other archfiends. She was always too optimistic, too energetic, too... nice.

She was supposed to study humanity to help her learn to destroy it. Instead, she fell in love with it. She knows that Earth is where she really belongs.

But as she tears her way through the tutorial, recruiting allies to her cause, she quickly realizes something strange: the humans don’t trust her.

Sure, her main ability is [Consume Heart]. But that doesn’t make her evil—it just means that every enemy drops an extra health potion!

Yes, her [Vampiric Archfiend] race and [Bloodfire Annihilator] class sound a little intimidating, but surely even the purehearted can agree that some things should be purged by fire!

And [Demonic Summoning] can’t be all that evil if the ancient demonic entity that you summon takes the form of a cute, sassy cat!

It may take her a little work, but Ashtoreth is optimistic: eventually, the humans will see that she’s here to help. After all, she has an important secret to tell them:

Hell is afraid of humanity.

For some wizards, Intelligence is just a dump stat.

Joseph Sullivan is at an all-time low. He lost his job, his fiancée dumped him, he moved back to the Midwest and currently lives in his parent’s basement—oh, and his workout was just interrupted with the arrival of the System.

Earth has become a playing field in a contest amongst the gods, where mortals are the pawns. The winning god gets the glory, and their chosen champion gets a single wish. The first stage of this game: Tutorial – Class Selection.

Provided the ideal stat array for a physical, combat-focused class, the choice for Joe is obvious. Until he fat thumbs the selection screen and ends up selecting Spellcaster. His starting Intelligence stat? 1.

With a useless class selection and only his raw testosterone-fueled strength to back him up, Joe decides class optimization is for dummies. Pumping all stat points in Strength, he hopes to not only survive the contest of the gods, but to win the whole damned thing.

After all, a real wizard should be measured by how much they can bench!

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What to expect:

- A slower-paced beginning 

- A System Integration story that will shift into a System Apocalypse story

- GameLit / LitRPG elements weaved into detailed character arcs

- Party dynamics 

- Average Chapter Length: 2,500 words (though beginning chapters are a little longer)

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RELEASE SCHEDULE: Wednesdays and Fridays.

RISING STARS: Bonus chapters available for hitting certain milestones!

A succession crisis consumed the Kingdom of Dovhain following the death of Edgar the Great. In the treacherous royal court, Princess Isabella had endured every indignity, overcame countless injustices, and fought against the most vicious of enemies. At first it had been for survival, but in time, it became for hope of a better future. She became the queen, only to be betrayed by those she trusted most. 

Somehow, Isabella woke up eight years in the past, one week after her father’s death. Though she’s once again found herself in the tempest of misery that is the royal court, she hasn’t lost everything. The experience and knowledge that she gained in the struggle for the throne might help her steer fate in the direction that she wishes. 

But the question she naturally poses to herself is a difficult one. Should she pursue her own happiness, or attempt to better the realm? She might pursue paths long denied to her-- exploring the depths of magic, forging lasting bonds with people she can trust, and gaining fulfillment she once thought an impossibility. 

Or... will she dare reach for it all?

Schedule: Sundays/Saturdays

Jamie is a criminal genius. At twenty years old, he is one of the best arms and drug dealers in the world.
His own set of rules brought him thousands of enemies, but it took a divine mistake to make Jamie leave this world—literally.


One of the gods of Kjarnheim has disappeared, and the gods need the best humans to find him.
They just didn’t expect that the summoning magic would have its flaws and would bring a true villain to save the world.

Jamie will prove that sometimes a hero can't complete what is, at its core, a villain's mission.

What to Expect:
- The lead will be an anti-hero and sometimes a villain;
- He has a clear set of rules;
- Progression will be slow, but he will use his intellect to solve problems;
- Economics and World Domination (From a Villain / Gangster PoV)
- High Fantasy;

What not to expect: Harem or Smut.

Schedule: Weekdays

Tantra always wanted to be a merchant. Her father had other plans.

Sent to the Serpent's Fang because of the dreams of a dying man, Tantra is forced to train and acclimate to the cultivators ways if she ever wants to make it back home.

Unfortunately for her, the journey is never so simple.

Release:M-W-F

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Art is AI generated, I'll pay an artist when I have money :P

Get Portaled. Get Magicked. Get Stranded. GET CRAFTING.

Shawn was an emerging engineer before a portal pulled him and his cousin from Earth. He was told by the person who summoned him that they would save the world with their technical skills. He's up for the challenge...

But he discovers that his sister, presumed dead for ten years, was likely brought here by the same magic that brought him to this hollow world, fractured by an ancient calamity. Facing imminent attack from his summoner's conquest-obsessed brother, he strikes a deal to defend this world and the people under her care, in exchange for launching a rescue mission.

But the power he imbues comes with a price.

Now armed with the powers of fire, ice, and force, plus his engineering knowledge, he'll equip his friends with cutting-edge weapons and equipment to give them the advantage they need, and jump-start a magitech revolution. The path to finding his sister on this fractured world will not be easy, and their sinister foe won't sit idle as they delve ever deeper toward confronting him in the core world...

Take flight into the depths of Remaria!

Currently Releasing: M-W-F at 7:08 am MST. 

What to expect:

* A fantasy adventure into a fractured world, with detailed worldbuilding and complex characters. The main POV is Shawn for 80-90% of the story.

* Weak to Strong. Progression elements are more than numbers--allies will bond, powers will grow, and tech will advance.

* Violence and danger are lurking elements in Remaria, as are mysteries and secrets buried within the depths of the world.

* Rating: PG-13. There's violence, the heroes have old wounds in their past, and some language. Expect some sensual content of a non-explicit kind down the line.

* This story is a somewhat slow burn. The characters will keep progressing, as will the dangers they face.

Feed your inner beast.

Sabo is the survivor of two desolations - one at the hands of the Maldrath horde and the other by the very empire that swore to protect him and his people. Now, a political prisoner, he has resigned himself to a life of forced labor.

That is, until a rogue Paladin of the state-backed church, the Morduin Order, comes crashing onto the government airship transporting Sabo and the other condemned to their final destination. The dying Paladin carries with him a Celestial Treasure he stole from the church - a Divine Mark called God-Eater.

The maul was designed with a single purpose: to feed.

Freed and set on a war path, Sabo will [Devour] church and state in his quest for vengeance.

DEVOUR is a fast-paced action-packed LitRPG progression fantasy set in an epic fantasy world.

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What to expect:

- Epic scale in worldbuilding: detailed, diverse, and a world larger than the MC’s perspective!

- Average chapter length: 1,700 words

- Male MC

- Fast-paced, action filled progression

- Hammer/maul-wielding MC

- Tower-climbing

- No harems or murder hobos, but there will be violence

- The story will get dark at moments but won’t be stuck there

- My personal take on an ability-stealing powers

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RELEASE SCHEDULE: Mondays and Wednesdays.

What if money was power?

What if capital was magical?

What if income was cultivation?

What if a young man decided to destroy this unjust world of inequality and build a better one?

That was exactly what Cæ (Cash) sought to do amid grief, anger, and hatred when he lost everything in an accident. Having come from nothing in the slums, his only goal had been to live a good life. By the age of twenty-two, he had finally managed to pull himself out of poverty with a decent job and romance.

And then he lost everything he had ever built in an accident that left him in a coma for half a year.

The world deprived him of the only person he had truly come to love. The predatory healthcare system burdened him with debt. The corrupt justice system deprived him of justice. The financial system robbed him of everything he owned.

For the second time in his life, Cæ had been left with nothing.

Well, almost nothing.

The accident and the ensuing coma had altered his brain and mind, giving him an extraordinary talent for cultivating and mastering magic. He had been blessed with Acquired Savant Syndrome, a medical condition so rare that there were very few instances of it ever having occurred in history.

It gave him endless potential and remarkable power.

It gave him the power to destroy the world that he hated from the bottom of his heart.

It gave him the power to destroy it and build a better one.

And that was exactly what Cæ set out to do.

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This is my second novel, albeit my first time trying my hand at Royal Road. This story is centered around my desire to explore a story with a magical system centered around macroeconomics and politics. As the title suggests, this story will be centered around kingdom-building and progression fantasy. Romance is a coin flip. No smut. No harem. No systems.

Hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy writing it.

Daily chapters with 2k word length.

Torn from a life of mediocrity, Shawn needs to assume his new role as caretaker of a druidic grove in a fantasy world. He dons his new name, Rud, and gets to work!

Being a cog in the machine of an uncaring corporation has dulled Shawn's desire to see his dreams come true. He has accepted that he will never be a park ranger, fire watch, or anything fun. Instead, he works his keyboard to clean up other people's messes.

Working late one night, Shawn is visited by a strange woman... With wolf ears and samurai armor. She says his soul belongs to her, but the last time he checked, his company didn't have a LARPing department. He watches the clock as the time of his prescribed death draws sooner. Turns out, she was right.

Shawn is thrust into a strange ritual with a bunch of weird forest creatures. "Plant the seed!" they chant. And plant the seed he did. Now he finds himself in a fantasy world with druidic powers and a new name and body. Rud is now the caretaker of a sapient tree and the grove it encompasses. As if interacting with the local 'mortals' wasn't hard enough, he'll need to recruit help from intelligent forest creatures to make this work.

What to expect:

*Druid MC who is not overpowered.

*Sapient tree that generates production buildings and grows with the MC.

*MC helps others fight, but does not engage in combat himself.

*Low-stakes, cozy, forgcore vibes.

*Lots of talking animals, healing nature, and helping people.

*Tea. Lots and lots of growing, brewing, and selling tea.

*A house made from a mushroom. (A really big mushroom).

Schedule is: Weekdays until we burn through Book 1.

Coast Guard Captain Jesse Watkins is killed in action. Instead of moving on to the afterlife, Watkins wakes up as something different. He has been installed as the core of a derelict starship and must work to repair his vessel if he wants to find his way home.

Threats to his new existence abound, both in the darkness of space, and lurking aboard the ruined hulk of the ship he now commands. Despite the danger, Captain Watkins has a lifetime of naval service experience to call upon. With the help of his system adjunct, they must rebuild and prepare their vessel for the battles to come.

Captain Watkins must become something more than he was before. He must become a vessel powerful enough to survive the journey home. He must become…a Gunboat.


New chapters posted every M-W-F. 

The art of runesmithing died long ago. Once legendary runeswords have been reduced to mere decorations, their powers made irrelevant by the discovery of ethereal spirits. Techniques were forgotten, and any remaining runesmiths were ridiculed and shunned.

Vivian is one such runesmith. Born as an orphan and adopted into a smithy, she and her adoptive Grandpa persist with a dream. They wish to prove that runeswords are once again worthy of fighting monsters in the lands below.

What Vivian never expected was for herself to be the one fighting. Alone in the underground with a crazed spirit that seeks to profit and grow from every monster in their wake. Below the earth awaits a subterranean labyrinth of monsters and demons, where ethereal storms ensure nothing stays dead for long…

Author's own words:

The Ethersmith started as a fun runesmithing and dungeon exploration story that quickly grew into faction wars and prison breakouts. Expect vast world building and harsh situations that the MC has to overcome with limited tools. Kingdom building elements will be introduced later on.

Act 0: Introduction

Act 1: Prison of Zand (ongoing)

Cover art by iBoobee

Schedule: 5 chapters a week Mon-Fri

Bonus chapter milestones:

- 1682/2500 followers

- 195/250 ratings

In the dying moments of their universe, a team of researchers launched the artificial lifeform Seraphina into the interplanar void, hoping to spare other universes their fate.

Eighteen years later, as most of Earth is coming to grips with the calamitous arrival of a mysterious System, a young woman begins having vague impressions of her life in that now-dead universe. The reborn Seraphina doesn't remember much, but one thought keeps forcing itself to the forefront of her mind: the System is sapient and purposeful.

Unfortunately, she has no idea what the System wants.

Now she's in a race against time. Granted new powers as [Planetouched Mechanist] by the System itself, Seraphina needs to learn how to blend magic and technology, awaken her sealed memories, and above all else, figure out the System's purpose.

If only she could be sure that her meddling will save her new home and not doom it.

Daily Updates @ 6:05 AM Central Time (UTC-6, UTC-5 during Daylight Savings) until further notice.

What to expect:

Project Seraphina will gradually shift from an urban fantasy setting to a sci-fi one over the course of the story.

Two best friends (and maybe more) taking on the System-Integrated World!

Somewhere in-between the Korean 'Dungeons & Hunters' genre and full-collapse of contemporary society.  The old social order will bend and change in response to the System's arrival.  But it will endure, at least in some capacity.  Hence, 'Soft-Apocalypse.'

Nobody likes the tax collector, not even intergalactic AIs. So when they show up and draft 4 billion people, I get caught in the crossfire. Now dumped onto an inhospitable world, where the air itself wants to give me cancer I must figure out how to fight an alien war. Good thing I'm a macro-god in SC2. Armed with Nanofactories and biopools that can spawn anything my mind imagines, so why not stick with the familiar and innovate from there? 
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What to expect, 
1st person POV
Solitary to Civilization
Momentum gathering, once that first marine pops in, the next fifty come easy
Starcraft References both obscure and obtuse
Number go up every FEW chapters
Romantic undertones that take 50-100 chapters to play out. 
Slower Burn with occasional breakthroughs and sprints
What do I mean by 'slower burn'? Glad you asked, I considered not giving the supply depot til chapter 21 cause it takes 21 seconds to build in SC2. Buuuuttttttt that was too slow, so we went double proxy racks with tech labs before depot. Guess that makes Thena a bronze league hero. 

Ash Aldrich thought life couldn’t get any more dangerous than scavenging monsters to keep his family’s forge alive—until he bonded with a bloodthirsty soul weapon that just wouldn’t shut up.

Decades after the rifts appeared, the humans of Noros have finally managed to fight the monster incursions to a standstill, building protective settlements around each new rift. Beyond the rifts lies Riftside, a world filled with monsters, valuable resources, and the rare gems used to turn humans into classed adventurers.

Ash has given years of his life to being a scavenger, fighting monsters and hauling their carcasses, , and supporting those stronger than him, all while saving up mind gems that would one day make him a classed adventurer. But the world doesn’t wait, and neither do the monsters.

The rifts have begun changing and evolving, just like the monsters on the other side,   and the fragile balance between survival and annihilation has never been closer to shattering. Armed with a murderous, self-destructive soul hammer, Ash will finally join the fight along his newfound friends and fight to call a piece of this new world his. It’s time to make the monsters fear humanity.

If you like Ultimate Level 1, Primal Hunter, or He Who Fights with Monsters, then you’ll love Riftside.

No mercy. No second chances. Just strength, steel, and survival.

Head Riftside today.

Co-written by Cassius Lange and Henrik Saetre

[2 chapters M/T/W/T/F/S/S until 4th March, then 5 chapters per week]

A new hero with the deck stacked against her...

All Lexie wanted was to go to an elite college. But life deals her a bad hand and she's transported to a new world instead, where she's the ten-year-old daughter of a once-beloved hero turned supervillain. The system wants Lexie to be a hero, but she's only focused on finding a way home.

Lexie’s not hero material; she’s not particularly brave or strong. Not to mention, her deck-building powers are too weak for hero work. But as an overachiever with a passion for studying, she’s confident she can ace this problem-set.

After all, there’s nothing empirical research and a number two pencil can’t solve. 

As unstable dungeons spawn and new villains arise, Lexie needs to be more than just book-smart to survive. So, she digs deeper into her power mechanics and reverse-engineers a winning hand, one that may not be entirely legal. 

Maybe Lexie will be a hero after all.  

But it won’t be like any of them expect. 

What to Expect

- Superhero Origin Story

- Slowburn progression

- Slice-of-Life Moments

- Father-Daughter Shenanigans

- School Life

- Deck-building and Card Crafting

- Complex Worldbuilding (Multiple Dimensions & Planets)

- Superpowered Bureaucracy

- A Tapestry of Characters (Focus on MC)

- Weak to Strong (Maximizing a Weak Powerset)

- A Competent MC 

- [STATS]

Daily Uploads with 3000 to 5000-word chapters

The Soulweald is no ordinary forest. Its monolithic Towers of Mourning hold the memories of ancient ArchFey—alongside the budding potential of new Fey yet to bloom. When a desperate wizard arrives to mend his fractured soul, he sets off a chain of events that ensnares Dahlia, a fairy caretaker sworn to protect the Towers. 

Caught in a wager between Lady Nyxaria, Mistress of the Soulweald, and Vaelmir the Eternal, Dahlia is exiled to the mortal world of Nantes. Her only hope of returning home is to outmatch her bitter rival, Deborah, in mastering the Gloam—a twilight magic bridging life and death. The winner reclaims their place in the Fey Realms as the greatest necromancer Nantes has ever known, while the loser faces permanent banishment.

Thrown into a realm of fragile mortals, vengeful spirits, and relentless ambition, Dahlia must wield powers that threaten to consume her. Will she rise, her Tower of Mourning eclipsing all others, or fade into a forgotten footnote beneath the forest floor?

Cover: Kart Studios

System: D&D/Pathfinder based. There be Spell Slots Ahead.

Release Days: Monday-Thursday

In a world where magic and lineage dominate the arts of politics and war, Vlad is the dispossessed heir of a fallen house whose powers have been locked away. In the Sultanate, he and his brother Radu are little more than pawns, hostages whose original reason for survival died with their father, the Dragon, when their cousin usurped their father’s throne.

When the newly crowned Sultan Allaedin puts his princely rivals and steam-powered mechs at the vanguard of his army, Vlad is swept into the action by his brother’s foolish desire to be accepted by the Turks as one of their own. With danger comes the opportunity to prove himself a useful pawn. Useful pawns can earn a little freedom and favor.

Yet that battle is only the beginning. And favor and freedom is not the same as loyalty. Vlad may be the sultan’s soldier for now, but he will always be the Dragon’s son.

Reborn into a world shaped by ashen storms, brutal blizzards, and sword-wielding sorcerers, Arilyn must forge his own path.

Magic is abundant, spread far and wide by the realm-spanning Grand Spell. Even in the frail body of a newborn, Arilyn is rewarded with attributes, points, and power simply for stubborn hard work. 

Yet not everything is as bright as it seems. Legends walk the land, and the Blight Lords are hell-bent on resurrecting the Old God.

None of this should have mattered to him, living on the fringe of the empire—until strange rumblings rise from the heart of the Candor Mountains.

What to Expect: 

•  [Reincarnation, but the MC does not retain any memory of his past in the beginning.]

•  [Slice of Life, Crafting, Spellcrafting, Training, Slow burn, Weak to Strong, and silly things] 

•  [LitRPG elements, Detailed Magic system, Greek/Roman Empire-esque settings]

•  [Magic Academy, Eventually]

•  [Beast Companion?] 

•  [No harem]

Current Schedule: M-F (5 chapters per week)

Orange-crest is a monkey with simple desires. He likes warm summer days lazing about with his brothers and sisters, sampling the variety of fruit and grubs Mount Yuelu provides it's simian inhabitants. He does not like tigers, or that one green fruit that makes one's shits white and runny. Unlike his brothers though, orange-crest is endlessly curious. And no subject arouses that curiosity more than the many mysteries of fermentation. One fateful night, he finds himself enjoying an experimental brew a little more potent than his usual work.

Daoist Scouring Medicine is a man disgraced. Caught between the pressures of a vision for pill refining he will not compromise, and the politics of a world that discards its ideals the moment they stand in the way of profit; his once rising star has long since stagnated. After a disciple from a prestigious and wealthy family cripples himself by misusing the daoist's work, he finds himself wandering the slopes of an unfamiliar mountain, hitting the gourd a little harder than any self-respecting daoist should, cursing the Heavens and the Zhang family alike.

From a pair of poorly considered drunken decisions, a sequence of events are set into motion that will one day shake the very heavens.

Updates once a week on Sundays.

Atlas stumbled upon a game called World Weaver, a simulator that let him craft an entire world in his own universe. What he didn’t expect was to wake up the next morning, floating above the very world he had brought to life.

"In a world where knowledge is literally power, how far will what you've learned on Earth take you?"

Stefan Dawson was enjoying your typical college life when a visit to his local library turned into an unforgettable- and unwelcome- adventure. One moment he’s browsing the shelves, the next he’s thrust into a strange new world, full of bizarre creatures like lizardmen and magic he never could have even dreamt of.

Tragically, there’s no explanation offered to him when this happens. No goddess offering answers, no grand monologue from some deity, and sadly- no cheat skills or convenient system to help him navigate this strange world. Not only is he powerless, but he also lacks any skills or talents that could nab him gainful employment in this new world.

Lost, alone, and homeless; Stefan spends days wandering the streets of this world, until he stumbles upon the world’s magic system: Liberomancy, a form of magic fueled by magical texts called grimoires. Using his knowledge from Earth, Stefan begins creating his own grimoires- and finally finds a way to gain power and move up in this new world. 

To return home, Stefan must master the art of Liberomancy and uncover the dark secrets hidden beneath the surface of this world- secrets that may not only change his fate but also the future of both worlds forever. 

In this story you'll find:

- A unique magic and leveling system based on magical texts called grimoires

- A main character who starts from the bottom and slowly makes his way to the top

- A main character without any cheat skills or a system

- No harem (there will be a dedicated romance but it will be much later on in the story, and will be between the main lead and one woman)

- New chapters every weekday at 6:03 A.M. EST

“If I had just one wish, I would wish to lie in my bed, eat as many donuts as I wanted to, and read romance novels all day!”

Sophia Elise the Eighth is everything a royal should be—demure, intelligent, and utterly terrifying. The world sees her as the next great schemer of the Ensolian Imperium, a princess so cunning that her mere existence could shake nations. So when she is sent to marry Zai Tianci, the last Prince of a dying Dominion, the whispers of war begin to stir.

And Zai knows what she is: a monster wrapped in beauty. The Fourth Daughter of a ruthless empire, raised to kill, to conquer, to tear apart his homeland from the inside. He knows this. He is certain of this.

…Then why is she spending all day in bed, buried under blankets, stuffing her face with donuts?

What if she actually just wants to rot?

To live her dream life, Sophia must gaslight the greatest minds of the Dominion, gatekeep her own dangerous reputation, and girlboss her way past every scheming noble, suspicious investigator, and even her own growing feelings for the prince she was forced to marry.

Just so she can rot in bed all day!

"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you might get squished" -Goblin Wisdom

Daggat was born different, a variant, a monster with a random gift to shape his fate. After faking his death, he sets out on a relentless quest for freedom, power, and a place to call his own.

With a mind sharper than steel, a gaze that bends wills, and a tyrant’s instinct for control, he gathers a band of outcasts to carve their names into history. His siblings, a savage warrior and cunning rogue. The spider from the attic, cursed and forgotten. A worm with the soul of a dragon. And the last ogre of a shattered family. Each has their own scars to contend with. Be they physical, spiritual, or emotional.

Together, they will claw, scheme, and fight their way through a world that wants them dead, forging an adventuring party like no other! One that doesn’t just seek riches and glory, but the power to decide their own fates.

[You are invited to read story: Goblin Teeth. Would you like to accept? Yes or no?]

What to Expect:

  Slow burn, the characters are not going to be powerful for a while, and a lot of the story could be better described as slice of life.

  Detailed world building and morally dark-gray characters.

  A robust universal system with many interlocking layers that drives forward the story and shapes the world.

  Goblin humor and visceral violence.

  A lot of misery, but a lot of heart.

  No Romance/Harem.

  Not an isekei. (Reincarnation tag is there because of its importance in the story.)

Schedule:
   I will post chapters as I write and edit them. Usually one every other day or so, with the occasional lull between chapters as life events happen.

--WARNING--

This story is bleak, at times. There are hints and themes of suicide, cannibalism, and tragic death. Some chapters are more horrific than others. The first 8 or so chapters are a lot lighter than the rest.

Warhammer Inspired. Kingdom Building - Politics - War and Military - Orc Slaying!

Adrian decapitated the first thing he met. An orc. Then was a vital part in the cleaving of a second. The rest were either slaughtered, most brutally, or cut down during retreat. All under his command. He knew instinctively that murdering anything remotely green was not right. But it felt holy in some odd dystopian way.

Plus, there were endless numbers of them. So a few thousand that went missing wouldn't be a problem. Right?

Stuck as a noble son within the frontiers of a distant colony of the motherland. Faced with endless hordes, political scheming, and an angry neighborly baron who was dead set on conquering them. Knights answer his call for war. The powers that be above them stay lackadaisical and unwilling to help. Famine. Disease.

Did he mention ancient abominations planning world domination? Yeah. That too.

What to expect -

* Tue/Fri Schedule (Sometimes Sunday)

* Litrpg Numbers (Light)

* Kingdom Building/Politics/Military

* Character Interaction

* Tons of fighting

      * Blood splattering!

      * Brain matter showering!

      * Viscera explosions!

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The artwork above is a placeholder. The final book art has been commissioned by Duchess Celestia.

If you'd like to audition for a narration role, please see the Casting Call Club page.

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In the near future, phones are a thing of the past because brain implants called Nous are all the rage. Your calendar app is an AI that sounds like a snooty librarian. Your wiki app is a posh Londoner. Your general purpose app can remind you of what you were just thinking about, or instruct your personal drone to make you a cup of tea. These Nous AIs make life easier, but at what cost?

Why do you need to speak if Nous Telepathy is faster and more efficient than using your voice? Why even learn a language at all when messages can be interpreted as images and Nous Autotranslate handles the rest?

So -- people spend their days in Nous VR, playing AI generated games, streaming AI suggested content, and trying to ignore the plutocracy that they live in.

It's a society where we're all connected.

In fact, you can't disconnect.

Not even if the AIs hack your Nous.

In Nouscraft Book 1, follow the journey of Mindt and Butterknife as they traverse the hostile takeover of society of one such AI by battling their way through a videogame VR filled with hilarious scenarios, gut-wrenching dilemmas, and lessons of the past.

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Caution: This is a work in progress. 

There will be errors and things that don't make sense. Please, please point any and all of these things out.

Chapters will get edited, and that editing might break earlier chapters. I will attempt to keep readers apprised of all changes.

Updates once a day.

The seal above the world has shattered. The Grand Paths have evolved once more.

Liu Shuren is the arrogant young master of the Liu Clan, one of the most powerful Sword Path factions in the world. Grandson of the deceased previous Patriarch, Shuren is determined to rise as the most renowned swordsman and claim his place as the rightful heir.

Even if he's cursed, unable to wield a sword.

His ascent in the Seven Clouds Sect within Cloud City seems unstoppable. Until a mysterious disciple wielding a ‘System’ of stats and skills challenges his authority.

How dare he court death?!

Shuren is intertwined with the conspiracies of powerful Immortals, irreverent demons, hypocritical cultivators and the origins of the ‘System'.

In the midst of it all, the Unhallowed Monolith that looms over Cloud City threatens to corrupt everything in its way. And on the day of its awakening, Shuren must make a decision that will change the course of history.

Will Shuren pursue the road of a swordsman, or will he stride unfettered, paving his own Grand Path?

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What To Expect:

- 2-3 Daily Chapters for the first month. 1500-2500 words per chapter. Book 1, 150 chapters already written. Entire story outlined, a 10+ book series.

- Relentless and proactive Weak to Strongest MC with high Battle IQ and mediocre talents. He will gain new and upgraded Paths and varied skill sets every book to keep the story fresh. 

- Large and complex world building with entire story planned from beginning to end, with plenty of foreshadowing and mysteries to uncover, and lore reasoning for System Transmigrators and their effects on the world. 

- Focus on the Young Master MC's character development as he leaves his old setting and faces the realities of the true world, understanding the hypocritical facades of the righteous and demonic factions and what it means to be a true cultivator. 

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Upload Schedule


Daily releases for the first month of the story release. On 04:00 am AEDT (09:00 am PST).

If I reach RS Main list, I will be doing double daily releases until I fall off Rising Stars. And if I reach RS Frontpage, I will be doing triple daily releases until I get off the frontpage.

Afterwards, aiming for a Monday-Friday 5 Ch a week upload schedule.

Also, I write with British Spelling, so some common words will have slightly different spelling.

Patreon - Will have 30 chapters ahead, and potentially up to 50 chapters ahead depending on milestones reached.

Discord - Join the community and check out my stash of hidden meme templates!

Lyra Treble thought getting into the Royal Academy of Magical Baking would be the difficult part. It was just the beginning.

In a world where magical professions tend to follow family trees, Lyra is an unusual ingredient. Everyone expected her to become a bard, but Lyra proves her love of baking by gaining entrance to the most exclusive, prestigious magical baking academy in the land.

The academy is everything Lyra dreamed of and more. She loves the rigorous curriculum, the strict but fair professors, and her new friends-turned-family. Still, with a limited number of slots open for next year, her culinary future is not guaranteed — and not everyone believes a musician should be a baker.

Now Lyra must navigate cutthroat competition, betrayal, love triangles, and her own insecurities to find her place in the magical baking world. But with the help of her new family, and a pinch of joy, she might just change that world’s recipe forever.

Does your back ache from reading too many trashy isekais in your cheap Costco chair?

Would you love a comfy sofa that adjusts to your posture?

Look no further!

Follow Brakar and Thadan as they try to go from piss-poor adventurers to Jeff Bezos-level moguls in the bustling city of Ironweave. How? By selling the most ingenious invention the world has ever seen: mimic furniture! That’s right—what’s better than ordinary furniture? Furniture that’s alive and can transform into any piece you need!

Thanks to Brakar’s rare magical accent that lets him control mimics, these shapeshifting creatures can seamlessly morph into the perfect chair, sofa, table—or even an entire set of matching décor. Need a dining table for a feast? Done. Pewdiepie's old $399 chair? Easy (just don’t cross a bridge with it). Mimics are the ultimate adaptable furniture, tailored to your every whim.

But success doesn’t come easy. Their venture is fraught with obstacles—ruthless competitors determined to crush innovation, suspicious customers who question the safety of living furniture, and the ever-present danger of being eaten by their own merchandise.

Can Brakar and Thadan navigate the cutthroat world of Ironweave commerce and prove that mimics really are the future of furniture in this laugh-out-loud tale of ambition, magic, and shapeshifting home décor?

What to Expect:

- Slice of Life

- Comedy

- Drama

- Questionable business decisions

- Friendships and betrayals (more drama)

What not to Expect:

- Ecchi/Hentai

- Traditional hero’s journey tropes

Updates: Wednesday, Friday, Sunday (EST)

A never ending horde of monsters has invaded the world, swarming through cracks in reality itself. Fortunately, the monsters possess the very power needed to defeat them. All you have to do is take that power from them.

Griffin Gunnar has lost everything and has been left to fend for himself in a world full of monsters and magic. He has dreamed of the day when he can wield the power of card magic and make everything in his life better. After he earns his first card, he immediately sets out to find his long lost brother. Instead, he finds trouble. But also a friend. He quickly learns that the only way to find his brother and survive in a world full of monsters is to become a Master of Cards. Can Griffin seize the power he needs, or will he fall victim to a world full of deadly beasts?

Master of Cards is a deckbuilding LitRPG adventure featuring a progression Card-based magic system. If you enjoy stories like All the Skills, A Summoner Arises, and other card based LitRPG adventures, be sure to check out this epic fantasy adventure.

New chapters will be released daily for the first couple weeks, then we will be releasing three chapters per week. The plan is Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but that could change depending on how writing goes :)

Emrys of White Sands is many things:

A wanderer with empty pockets and an eclectic skillset.

A mage of considerable ability, at least for the ether-poor region that he lives in.

And on the run from the wealthiest group in the world, the Dreki family.

When he finally gets a scholarship to attend one of the world's top mage schools, the Dreki family starts a war in the very same nation that the school is located in. With the family breathing down his neck, will Emrys be able to rise to the challenge and collect enough power to carve out his own space in the world? Or will the Dreki family drag him back to their hellish island?

And what's with the demons ripping through the wastes of the world?

What to expect:

- Magic academy
- Diverse cast of characters
- Competent MC growing to become powerful
- Simple but nuanced magic system

Inspired By:

- Mark of the Fool
- Mana Mirror
- Mother of Learning

Release Schedule is Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday! 

As the perfect sacrifice, it is only natural that Nix be sacrificed to the ancient gods lurking in the depths of the black hole.

But she didn’t die.

Finding herself seven years in the past — to the day of her first cursed mutation — Nix is determined to correct her regrets, enact vengeance on her murderers, and simply live the life that she never got to. But even with this second chance, freedom from the cults remains a pipe dream. To achieve everything she never could in her previous life, there is only one path before her.

Nix will twist the curses that once bound her into the very source of her strength.

The cults will regret sacrificing her… without ever knowing they already succeeded.

What to expect:
- A regressor revenge story with a heavy focus on character.
- Eldritch monsters, gods, and cults.
- Body horror. Mutations. Mouths in tongues, mould instead of hair, bonus limbs; that sort of thing
- Progression.
- LitRPG-lite system focused on the power of names.

[An action progression fantasy with party dynamics, monster invasions, and lots of strategy.]

When a young sailor’s life is torn apart by monsters, there’s only one path left for him: the way of the Revenant.

Davon lost everything to the rising tide of monster attacks. Becoming a near-immortal warrior gives him the chance to enact vengeance. Joined by Kai and Lyla, two other new Revenants, Davon embarks on the mysterious journey of reliquaries, resurrection, and costly power. 

Then a new kind of monster invades the mainland. As humanity scrambles to defend itself, Davon and his new team must quickly learn to master their abilities and navigate the horror of war. With each other to lean on, they just might restore hope to the Revenants — and for themselves.

Expect daily updates for book 1!

John is dropped into the Lands Between and decides to take action to prevent 'bad ends' like the Frenzied Flame. This has unexpected consequences that snowball into John deciding to stake his own claim to be Elden Lord, and he starts gathering his own band to help him achieve this goal! But how will he gain the strength to take the runes of the demigods as a regular guy? The answer to this will have him delving into the deepest, most forbidden mysteries of the Lands Between.

Wayne appeared in the summoning chambers for Chosen Heroes. 

While getting Isekaied was good news, Wayne was 50 years off of the usual cycle for heroes. His body did not become superhuman, and his system access was glitched. He could open menus, but his only clickable option was to view his unimpressive stats. His other option was called Christmas List. None of the scholars in the world found any record of this ability appearing before, and it was greyed out.

Four years into living his second quiet life, he happens upon a strange artifact from Earth: A single page from the 1990 Electronics Boutique Christmas Catalog. His once inactive ability gives him the power to add skills and abilities to his system by ripping them from the games listed in the catalog. 

With a second lease on his second life, Wayne sets out with his best friend and fellow Royal Scholar Fergus to collect more catalog pages. Along the way, they figure out how to combine abilities from wildly different systems–like upgrades from a railroad management simulator complementing a magic sword ability from a classic action RPG–while he does everything he can to not repeat the mistakes of his past life. Thankfully, Fergus loves living to the fullest and is always ready to remind Wayne that life is short, so enjoy that wine.

This lighthearted LitRPG progression fantasy story mashes a wide array of game genres into a single system, forcing Wayne to navigate a strange chimera of skills and buffs and upgrades. Can his build give him the strength to adventure like the Chosen Heroes, or will this be yet another isekai disappointment?

What to expect from this series:

-Power progression from unusual sources

-Very light number crunching with a greater emphasis on ability synergies

-Playful spins on game and isekai tropes

-No retro game knowledge required

-No harem content

Elion will stop at nothing to rescue his sister—even if it means saving the world along the way.

Elion was just a normal teenager, focused on surviving school and keeping his twin sister out of trouble. 

But when she’s kidnapped by alien wizards working for his sinister uncle, Elion is the only one who can help her. 

Now, he must face a dangerous mind-controlling infection, the Father of Cyborgs, and the existential threat of reality-warping monsters—all while being hunted by relentless warlock enforcers determined to stop him at any cost.

Updates Daily (7 chapters a week). Book 1 is finished and available on Patreon. Book 2 starts March 3rd on Patreon.

What to Expect:
- Sci-fi adventure
- Epic action
- Intricate magic systems (litRPG)
- Violence
- Slow reveal of the system
- Slice-of-life moments
- Character-driven storytelling
- Multi-planetary worldbuilding
- Humor (just a tad)
- Heartache
- Slow and steady growth

What Not to Expect:
- Harem
- Power-fantasy MC

Enter the Universe of Stargate just prior to the events of the 1994 movie, but with a twist. Milton Yeager a Science Fiction enthusiast died in a terrible accident only to find himself reborn into one the cult classic universe of Stargate, but as a Goa'uld the doomed empire of parasitic aliens.

Using his limited knowledge of watching occasional reruns of Stargate he will attempt to avoid the fate destined of the Goa'uld and if possible, change it.

*Note* Some minor story changes from the TV series will occur to give the story better stakes.

This is a slow grind action doesn't really happen for a while, but once it does you guys will appreciate a lot of the great callbacks. Once we reach the point of complete divergence from the show I look forward to coming up with some fantastic fanfic additions to one of my favorite sci-fi universes.