by Daecrist
Updates M-W-F. Books 1 and 2 complete! Life was good. I was captain of a cruiser in the Combined Corporate Fleets. Master of my own destiny. As much as you can be master of your own destiny living under the Terran Corps. Then it all came crashing down. A simple mission to roust a livisk invasion fleet from a planet human colonists had rightly stolen went bad. Long story short I sort of got captured by the alien hottie I kinda disgraced at that aforementioned colony world battle and taken back to her world as her prisoner. Only I didn’t get thrown into the reclamation mines with the rest of my crew. No, for some reason I’ve intrigued my alien captor. For some reason she’s keeping me close by in her luxurious skyscraper surrounded by her personal army. For some reason I kinda like it. Especially after I discover her species has warrior pairs who psychically bond, and we accidentally pulled the whole permanent mind meld thing. Which shouldn’t be possible between human and livisk. Oops. Now I have a new mission in life. Free my crew from the mines and figure out what’s going on with me and my alluring alien captor. The only problem? It turns out her love language is conquest! It won’t be easy. There’s a mad empress trying to kill us, nobles plotting around us, a crew to rescue, an empire to overthrow, and maybe if I play my cards right a wedding to plan. On a world where wedding planners think trial by single combat is a perfectly reasonable way to deal with a bridezilla! Who knew it would take getting captured by humanity’s mortal enemies to find true love? What to expect: -A strong HFY theme with humanity kicking ass -A story that's a loving and sometimes tongue-in-cheek homage to old pulp novels with a hero who's constantly doing improbably over the top heroic stuff that always seems to work out -A strong nearly instalove romance between a human and alien -Fighting injustice against a galactic empire, sometimes using morally questionable means -A slow burn fight against a sprawling cruel galactic empire that involves changing lots of hearts and minds. Sometimes at the barrel of a gun WARNING: This is set in a far future, but there are references to modern sci-fi and stuff from twentieth century monoculture thrown in. The idea being that if Shakespeare contributed so much to our language, I figure pop culture from the monoculture is going to persist. Especially sci-fi stuff that gets incorporated into space exploration. Some people love it. Some people hate it. If you're the kind of person who hates that kind of thing, or you can't invoke the MST3K mantra while reading a story that doesn't take itself too seriously, look elsewhere. Seriously. Patrons get to read up to ten weeks (30 chapters) ahead!
