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And a cape
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Every single person who ever put a hand on the GN-3 Which when you consider the trade, and how old Matt was, was quite a feat by Rikard. The man was methodical once he learned what had happened.
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I've wanted to explore the concept of Constructs for a long time, going back to the first draft of this story written circa 2006. The GN-2's and the horrors of Phobos were the basis for Queen of Ice (not my best work) and I wanted to get it right.
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He was stolen as a baby from the Phobos lab, much to Rikard's fury. Rikard did find said... creep and visit upon him a biblical level of wrath.
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Yours for the low-low price of a soul. Compliant, obedient, and programmed on request.
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Oh Bokkie, y' don't want his attention. Kief?
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Enarbrem sul'Rikard - GN-1 (Progenitor of the GN-2 Program) Niklaus Rikardsson - GN-2 (Nicholas Denver before being replaced by Rikard, the Construct Prototype) Kathrynn Rikarddottir - GN-2 (Grandmother to Edward GN-3) Sephradon Rikarddottir - GN-2 (First ascended construct) Markus Aquinas - GN-2 (progenitor of the GN-3/Immortal Emperor) Edward VonGrippen/Matt Elias/Ben/Man-in-hat/the BIG IE/Luck(love) God Damnit! - GN-3 Strega - GN-2 batch 2 Duncan - GN-3 (resurrected: Alexander) Lauren - GN-2 (resurrected: Lauren) (there are a lot of others, but this covers the main ones.)
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A fact that boiled Rikard's blood. His precious creations were commodified, sold, and abused like sex dolls. I am leaning into the last name Rikardsson/Rikarddottir for most GN-2 constructs for this reason. He views them as his children, and he is disdainful over what has been done to them.
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Construct has been released on GA this morning. A little more serious in tone than VV has been. Gritty Post Cyberpunk feel to it.
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given what's coming, I needed Darien to step out of Haskal's shadow. Given the utter... insanity of the Crusade as it breaks down from this point... yes. Also Haskal's death saves Khalid, the inquisitors were coming to fulfill Rashid's plan. And now they are also dead. Leaving Rashid with no plan, and that man without a plan is dangerous.
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Eriks, Tripp and Lukas, our bold and intrepid crew of Patrol Unit 032
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Welcome to Volgograd, the capital world of the Outer Colonies. The largest human populace in known space (after the culling of Earth by the Amsus) Where Dimitri was born.
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In a universe where constructs are bought, sold, and wiped clean, a repurposed intimacy model named Lukas discovers he's been many people—soldier, pop star, lab rat, cop. Now he's on a stolen ship, a hacker, a thief, and a clock counting down to neurological collapse. Some ghosts won't stay buried. Some truths won't stay hidden. And some love stories begin with a gun to the chest.
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The air in Maintenance Bay Seven smelled of ozone, recycled coolant, and the faint, sweetish tang of synthetic dermis stabilizer. KW-479 hung from a cradle, a nexus of fiber-optic cabling and diagnostic leads sprouting from its spinal port like a metallic mane. Its body was perfect, a masterwork of bio-engineered mimicry: smooth, poreless skin stretched over a musculature that was eternally seventeen, eternally unblemished, eternally ready. The face was symmetrical, almost aggressively handsome,
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The distress beacon was old. Lukas could tell by the frequency—a crackling, irregular pulse that belonged to a generation of emergency transmitters that had been phased out before he was activated. It was the kind of signal that most patrol officers ignored. The kind that meant salvage, or scavengers, or ghosts. Morozov did not ignore it. They were aboard Unit 032, an older military surplus Amsus Raptor repurposed to function as a police shop and patrol vehicle. Drifting on its
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Haskal teaches Darien something in this moment as well, that he has his own son, Atreus (being raised by Haskal's wife Lady Adele) who needs a Dad, not a distant father, not an absent lord, but a dad.
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It puts Darien in the position of reigning in Radoslav, who (if left to his own devices) will end up getting them all killed. Darien is now his General and leader of the largest fighting force left in the Crusade, and Lord Haskal's shoes are very big. The new Baron Haskal has a long way to go.
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The Lord of the Vanguard has fallen for his King's failure. Now Darien has become a Lord of the Crusade and Warlord of the Vanguard.
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Good morning folks
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The year 1089, eight years and three thousand miles from Antioch. The armor gleamed in the candlelight, a thing of beauty that Darien had been polishing for the better part of an hour. It was Lord Haskal's ceremonial breastplate, the one he wore when the King came to visit, when the lords of the coast gathered to discuss taxes and tithes and the eternal, grinding business of keeping men alive through winter. The steel was etched with the Boar’s head of House Haskal, the silver inlay catchin
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I see it as a wound. That the connection has been strained and needs to heal before it can reverse what has been done. It leads to interesting perspectives, and Darien and Wylan get to sit with each other every two days, and Wylan is cherishing the chance to stare at Darien.
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Gremlin will ride again, I have two projects to finish first though.
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Commander of the Mess Hall, and Chief of Security and Snacks!
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Dimitri is very confused by why everyone calls his Daddy, "Daddy" especially Isaiah
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I mean, he is the Doctor of Sabotage!
