Akkenbosch

Just a small update.
          
          The Next Installment Of Struggle for Olympus, "Children of Ash" is still in the works. I'm roughly 16 chapters in. This is going to be long one. I don't expect to start publishing It until sometime in mid to late 2027. 
          
          One major reason for this.... Politics. 
          Not RL politics but destroying a complex social order... or rather two complex social orders and trying to have characters build institutions to fix those problems without just time jumping or wizarding them away, is... a task. Where Guardsmen was action. This one might be more Politics. There will be action! and its going to be good. But It's not going to be a massive conflict. Small scale but still serious.  Or, that's what I keep telling myself.  I'll update once I have more. 
          
          Oh, by the way. Spectre-Killer Part-II will be releasing in December. That was the plan. I did that also to give me some more time on this project. So enjoy.

Important News about the Story ME: Forgotten Soul.
          
          Since I've finished writing the last of my Spectre-killer projects for this year. (They are all scheduled and coming out week by week.) I've been slowly working out the story outline for the Next Struggle for Olympus story. 
          
          Because of the lack of writing I had gone back and re-read Forgotten Soul on my off time and had a compulsion to fix it. 
          
          Forgotten Soul was the first ever attempt at writing a full novel-like story.  The plot was all over the place, characters just kind of happened to move the plot when I got stuck, and looking back now... It needed fixing.
          
          Re-reading made me realize I had really good elements there, but it was purely sloppy execution. Which is understandable because I didn't know anything about writing then. 
          
          The biggest issue was simply that it had originally been planned as two smaller stories. One involving  Martin waking then going to Omega and the main antagonist being Dallas; and the second story revolving around Elysium and Project Titan. 
          
          Of course after I got through the Omega half, I realized it was very very short. So naturally I staple gunned them together and just tried to hand-wave the plot holes away and the second half became a mess of resurrection and general funny business. 
          
          The plot in the second half was a mess of convoluted events that just happened without any rhyme or reason, and the ending felt a bit forced to set up a plot contrivance for the sequel. 
          
          So. I've spent the last month or so. Poking at the story. I've added about six new chapters and completely reworked the 2nd half of the story. 
          
          I was going to list out every major change but I hit a character maximum. So I just wasted about 40 minutes.. so yeah.
          

Over the last... while, I've been working on two small additions to what I'm calling the Spectre-Killer Series. The first one is Part 1 which takes place on Omega. Which this has started posting. I've give you Three chapters to start you. The rest of the chapters are scheduled out.
          
          Part 2 will take place on Illium. Both are about 20 chapters long. They are kind of short, I did that on purpose. 
          
          Both of these will be releasing back to back. I did this to so give me time to recharge for the next large project I will be trying to conquer, which is a sequel to the Struggle for Olympus series. Which I've attempted to start but its a lot of post war politics.  
          
          Spectre-Killer Part I: Omega (22 chapters), and Part II: Illium (28 chapters) chapters are all scheduled out, so they will complete. I promise. All the chapters have been upload and will release on a regular schedule.

Hi! Just followed you! You have some great books here. I will make sure to check them out!

I have released a Bible or a Codex for the Struggle for Olympus Series. This just has a lot of background lore and information I thought would flavor the universe a bit and give you the scale of where Terran space is at that point. 
          
          I will adding to it as I continue to write the sequel to Guardsmen but I will keep things labeled as so to limit spoilers.

So, I had a bit of a writing spurt. The last few chapters Of Struggle for Olympus: Guardmen have been posted. 
          
          Now, I have to figure out a new project.

Took a break to play Battlefield. BUT Spent the week Editing ME: Titan in my downtime. Noticed some errors so I spent about 10 hours fixing issues. Also Changed last chapter Epilogue, I think it fit just a bit better.  That will be my last Edit for that story. 
          
          Now to return to Struggle for Olympus.

Battlefield 6 launch, writing break. Brb.

Struggle for Olympus is a project I have been working on Since 2010. It was an idea I started on 16 years ago. Its a dark Sci-Fi setting taking place in 2457, detailing a humanity more grounded in reality in tone than most Science fictions.  Where there are no clear cut "Good" or "Bad" guys, where "right" and "wrong" depended on perspective and ideology.  
          
           The Idea started out as back drop for a mod for a game called Decent: FreeSpace. Me and my a friend of mine started modding project for shits and giggles.  I wrote most of the background writing, and in game mission writing. 
          
          However like most projects, we became disinterested part of the way through.  And I ended up with documents full of background fluff and nothing to do with it. A year after we abandoned the project, I started writing short stories from the setting, which I've never posted anywhere, and eventually forgot about it... at least until about 4 months ago. 
          
           I've put aside most of the shorts and figured it was time to make an actual story out of all this stuff I had laying around.  I might still post some of the shorts later, or use them for something else. But Struggle for Olympus: Guardsmen is the child of those old documents I had, and I'm glad to now have the chance to share this with everyone.  I'm hoping to have this completed by New Years 2026, but who knows.  
          
          I hope you all enjoy.

Thanks for the follow, my friend!
          
          I'mma make three books of Mass Effect soon.
          
          I'm gonna make the first one inspired by yours and the others who is a young karate soldier in the galaxy.