Story Concepts (Patreon)

Hello ! Since you, my patrons, are, more or less by definition, my most loyal readers, I wanted to run by you some story concepts which I totally haven't written outlines for whole novel series for, or even outright started writing, to learn which ones you prefer. I only have so much time and if hypothetically I needed a break to write something else for a bit so I can recuperate and go back to writing The Fallen World, I'd like your feedback on what you'd like to see. Note that this is purely informative, I'm just genuinely curious which concepts would speak the most to you, call it market research if you will, although note that concept 1 is too close to The Fallen World for me to write in parralel, I'm fairly sure.

Beware some spoilers for the beginning of those stories (not much more than a blurb would have though).

Concept 1 "The Hidden World" : A dungeon core analogue story, where the emergency escape pod of a space carrier crashes onto a fantasy world. The MC AI onboard still has access to her fabricator, but her complex materials refinery is destroyed, stopping her from jumping straight to high tech devices and forcing her to build an old fashioned factory. The only issue is that people are coming to check on the star that fell from the sky...and she's in the middle of a giant war zone.

Concept 2 "The Archangel of Death" : A slave is about to be killed by her cruel master alongside the other unsold trash, when something awakens within her, turning her into an avatar of death itself. After the other slaves swear their undying loyalty to her, she sets out on a crusade of revenge, to punish all those who have wronged her.

Note : Concept 2 is heavily inspired by Roll Over and Die, and is linked to The Dragon Realm directly in several ways, although it doesn't take place on the same world.

Concept 3 "The Riftmaker Saga" : An adventurer finds out in the heat of combat that she is a riftmaker, a rare type of mage that can open rifts between the real world and some kind of paralel dimension called the nexus. As the Empire she lives in implodes, and the civil war spirals out of control, she makes a terrifying discovery : the nexus just doesn't link with her world, but with other universes as well, as strange constructs of a so called 'Terran Federation' begin to invade it.

Concept 4 "The Immortal Legion" : The world died ten thousand years ago. A great federation, with the knowledge and might of Gods, created a weapon so powerful it overwhelmed them. In despairation, they created the Immortal Legion, a group of super soldiers who no matter what or how they were killed, would eventually come back, even if it took centuries. Their objective ? To end the abomination that had destroyed their civilization. And they succeeded. But now they are the undying ghosts of the old world, as life and humanity have returned, and their once united force has shattered into factions, some trying to rebuild the federation, while others try to make themselves the new gods of this nascent world, plunging it into an unceasing shadow war of immortal beings. But something terrifying is coming, as the weapon that they all thought destroyed begins to reactivate, and robotic legions from another era rise...The story follows one of those immortal soldiers as she tries to stop her comrades from rending the world apart.

Concept 5 "The Shattered Worlds" : A simple mage is sent on a quest that leads her to a strange excavation site, and what looks like a sphere of pure adamantium. There she uses her unique talent of being able to see magic and the 'code' of enchantments to open it, and find a container secured beyond reason. She opens it...and gets killed for her trouble by a group of mercenaries. But the device within the container activates, and she comes back to life, with a sapient magical amplifier from an era long past...who thinks her a high inquisitor, one of the highest authoritites of the long dead Solar Empire. As the mage attempts to find out what happened to her, and what she has gotten herself into, the organization who brought down the Empire prepares the next stage of their plan...and accidentally reactivate the Blight, the grey goo style nano weapon that devoured almost all of humanity millenia ago.

Note : Concept 5 is interesting in that it has a far softer magic system than the other fantasy stories, more along the lines of Starship's Mage (which is a major inspiration for it, for anyone who has read it and knows what Rune Wrights are) than my other stories like The Fallen World or The Dragon Realm.

Concept 6 "The Aurellian Saga" : A mercenary admiral stumbles upon a job involving another mercenary company. As she and her fleet follow the trail to bring them down, they accidentally stumble onto a conspiracy that could rend the entire universe asunder. Set in The Eternal Saga Universe, in the Weiter Stern galaxy, and would need more of a rewrite than actually being written (it was the story I wrote before I started The Fallen World).

Concept 7 "The Assembly Chronicles" : A massive AI nation called the Assembly has been trying to rebuild interstellar civilization since the fall of the Terran Empire, annexing human worlds that have fallen into barbarity along the way. A new copy of the Arcadia AI line is created, and given a sub light exploration and gate building fleet, and sent on a decades long journey to a star system to build a gate to enable interstellar travel once more. However, the system is not as it seems, and fleets of ships which can only have come from the Terran Empire swarm out of the cosmic void to destroy her.

Concept 8 "The Solar War" : In a futuristic cyberpunk-esque world, an exiled Terran soldier working as a mercenary on Mars discovers that a group is attempting to draw the Terran Federation and the Colonial Coalition into another full scale war, and races to stop them. In the process, she stumbles into a much greater plot than she thought, and a menace greater than humanity has ever faced before.