Release! (Patreon)

If you supported me last month, check your emails for the new book! Everyone at $5+ who joined this month will get their copy in a few days.  

Also remember that if you joined this month at the $5 or $10 level, be sure to PM me which anthology reward(s) you want. 

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As always, I recommend re-reading the preview chapters if you care about lore minutiae because there are always some tweaks. :) I settled on a few things:

Space Travel

Most ships use a hyperdrive, but unlike Star Wars it doesn't shift vessels into an alternate dimension thing. The drive tunnels out a "corridor" through real space where FTL movement is possible, kind of like a warp bubble in Star Trek. Ships without a hyperdrive - like a lot of merchant and convoy ships - use pre-tunneled "jump corridors that take them on a set destination. (If you ever played the old PC game Freelancer, imagine those tunnel things you would use to quickly move from one place to another). 

The class of a hyperdrive represents how many light-years it can travel in an hour, typically from 1-10. 

Raxyl and Cole

Originally, the two of them had only known each other for about 4-5 years, but in the final version they have been friends for longer. They were both part of the Red Ring pirates until Raxyl built the Wild Gazack  and escaped. Cole stowed away on the ship. (Notably, this also means that Raxyl was never in a Vec labor camp).

Aliens

I'll eventually put together an appendix thing with the different races that will show up in the inevitable anthology version and maybe before. I just don't want to bog folks down with extraneous info in the first book.