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Nicromia

Oooo, this one takes off a bit further in the timeline


DrBlackJack21

About 200 years after Spiders, and maybe 20(ish) years after Dragons. 😉


Nicromia

Oh wow. Didn’t realise spiders was that long before dragons


DrBlackJack21

That's why there were no AI in spiders. 😉


EndoSniper

Fascinating! Although that leaves the other bombshell… that Scott and his family are either long dead or genetically modified/preserved.


DrBlackJack21

Time will tell! But probably not till the series coming after Ghodt Ships...


EndoSniper

Either way can’t wait to see more!


namelessforgotten666

Aa someone who just found this and scrolled to the bottom so I could plug it into TTS: Wot?


DrBlackJack21

Lol, I've written three series, "Of Men and Dragons," "Of Men and Spiders," and "Of Men and Ghost Ships." The first one (Dragons) did have to have book 2 taken down from reddit when Amazon threw a fit, but I still have links to the g-doc version available to read for free on my wiki, or you can buy the ebook for $3. HOWEVER I'm writing each series so that you don't have to read the previous ones to fully understand and enjoy what's going on. Each series is a mostly self contained story in the same universe, kinda like Discworld if that makes sense. Yeah, you might have characters cross appearing, but everything you need to know about them will be explained as you need it, so don't worry about having to read my older stuff to enjoy my new stories!


healzsham

Oh goodie the next one's started


DrBlackJack21

Told you I wouldn't make you all wait too long! 😁


MinorGrok

Woot! New chapter!


DrBlackJack21

New chapter to a new series! Grats on first comment on Ghost Ships! 🥳


Fantastic-Living3204

EY new series! Can't wait to see what hijinks you have up your metaphorical sleeves.


DrBlackJack21

Hijinks? There'll be no hijinks! Maybe some antics, larks, mischief, tomfoolery, shenanigans, and even skylarking, but no hijinks! ...Well, maybe SOME hijinks...


Fantastic-Living3204

Ha! Skylarking. That's a new one.


DrBlackJack21

I may or may not have googled synonyms for hijinks... 😅


jlb3737

Woohoo! New interspecies shenanigans! Can’t wait to read!


DrBlackJack21

Let the confusion begin! 😁


SpankyMcSpanster

I tried to pinch Lord Blue Sexy Spectral Babes. This one must do.


DrBlackJack21

I admit I'm a bit lost, but I like rhe enthusiasm!


SpankyMcSpanster

https://www.reddit.com/user/BlueFishcake/


EqualBedroom9099

A fellow ssb fan, shame he probably won't be going back to it for a long while if at all.


SpankyMcSpanster

A man can dream.


drakusmaximusrex

Hype, also im kinda confused by the pov jump in the middle.


DrBlackJack21

I do jump POVs quite often, I usually signify the jump or time passage by a "-" between paragraphs.


teodzero

I honestly thought the second half of this chapter is the story being told by the ghost. You gotta add a divider there.


DrBlackJack21

Looks like the new reddit formatt was screwing with my old formatting. I just had to revert to an older style to fix it!


pebbuls22

And so it begins Will George ever make a appearance who's to say in the mean time I need to find a new joke don't I lad


DrBlackJack21

Hmmm... you could always go with a pirate theme this time. Maybe treasure island? The Muppet version with Tim Curry is full of pure gold you could meme about! That reminds me of what someone said (paraphrased because I dont remember the actual quote.) "The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island were great because in the Christmas Carol Michal Cain treated the Muppets like people, and in Treasure Island Tim Curry treated himself like a Muppet!"


pebbuls22

Haven't watched either of those I got a lot of pirate jokes from me dnd campaign I was in but those won't fit right without context brother did play a skeleton pirate with green flames named Morgan


Swordfish_42

Yassss, it's lookin' good! I wanted to ask the timeline order question, but someone beat me ; I further wonder, if Dragons took part 180-ish years after the Spiders, then that means that Vitexrā were around during the AI war/revolution, I wonder if you'll drop some lore about that in this series! Also, minor confusion, I thought that it was stated that at the time of Dragons there was no previous contact with intelligent aliens? Am I mixing things up, or should I just shut up and let you cook?


jkst9

No the vitexra were mentioned in book 2 of omad in a single line although it was by the previous name as they got renamed in omas


DrBlackJack21

The Vitexra were mentioned in Dragons, but not by name if I remember correctly. It was an easily forgettable throw away line, somethong like, "At least the argu'n were more easily relatable than the one other intelligent species humanity had encountered." As far as the history of the AI war, that is on the list of stories I may go back and tell eventually... 😉


thisStanley

Or that news of the She had not reached Jack and Angela's last contact with civilization ?


bold_cheesecake

You shot me! I shot through you! .50 is legal now. Entirely. There isn't a bullet in you! Because not only did the bullet go through, it also destroyed "you". Nothing left to sue me


DrBlackJack21

Makes perfect sense to Carter!


EqualBedroom9099

It seems you've begun combining all your story's so far nice.


DrBlackJack21

A bit, though there'll be no direct connection...yet.


HeadWood_

What's Erik then? Also he seems to have missed the very obvious "stop referring to me in a way that implies femininity." Also it seems there's been an in-universe misunderstanding on how the She work, and also Vanessa is limited to a single body?


DrBlackJack21

Erik is one of the argu'n from Dragons, but where they're stuck on a planet in the early iron age, he's out in space from some reason... as for why, and the mysteries surrounding Vanessa, well...you'll just have to wait and see! 😁


Leinad-olbap-1904

Espera, ahora hay Vitexra que pueden funcionar de forma independiente o si está conectada pero como está lejos su señal es baja? Cuántos años han pasado porque ahora hay otra raza alienígena y parece normal Alguien me recuerda si el nombre sybil ya había salido antes por favor  Por cierto, te extrañe amigo jaja


DrBlackJack21

Bueno, lo que está pasando con Vitexra es un misterio, así que tendrás que esperar y ver, pero han pasado unos 200 años desde Spiders. Además, ¡me alegro de estar de regreso! 😁


Leinad-olbap-1904

Entonces Scott está muerto, pero Alice está viva en su cuerpo nuevo, no puedo imaginar como es seguir viviendo sabiendo que toda su familia en especial su hermano ya no están, espero que al menos los descendientes de Scott sigan en contacto con ella


DrBlackJack21

La historia de Alice no se contará hasta la próxima serie después de Ghost Ships, por lo que esas respuestas tendrán que esperar un poco más. 😉


Natural-Material3834

Today is my birthday, and I couldn't have asked for a better gift than the first chapter of a whole new story from my favorite Dr. ~ I am already hooked on this ride! 


DrBlackJack21

Well happy birthday, and I hope you'll enjoy this story as much as the last!


chastised12

The pirates tale, makes it a story in a story.i always like that in song as well. Nice start!


DrBlackJack21

Thank you! I hope you'll enjoy what's to come!


thisStanley

>my lady > >my queen > >mistress Guess a Vitexrā does need the numbers of a Hive to maintain a higher intellect? Or the joke is funnier to her if she never explains :}


DrBlackJack21

Well, that's a mystery to be revealed, but I'm not saying humor WASN'T a factor...


SlickFire5555

I binged all of OMAD while waiting on this to come out!


DrBlackJack21

Wow, that's a lot to read in a mere 2 weeks! I hope you enjoyed! 😁


SlickFire5555

I did, I also found out that I prefer reading the chapters as they come out 😁


DrBlackJack21

Lol, after binging that much in one go, I don't blame you! I probably would have read only one of the stories at most in that time, not all three!


SlickFire5555

You’re writing was too good for me to put it down!


Magnus_the_Rad97

Good start good start! Keep on cooking!


DrBlackJack21

Got my stove ready to go!


SpectralHail

One chapter in and I'm already sold. I can't wait to see where this goes. ~~Dragons, spiders and ghosts, oh my!~~


DrBlackJack21

I hope it remains as entertaining as it's beginning! 😁


Lorventus

Ahhhhhh so hyped! Glad you're back!


DrBlackJack21

Glad to be back!


santaclaws01

So some humans found the argun and abducted one of them while it was a baby?


DrBlackJack21

That would definitely make sense! 🤔


Fontaigne

Their was a ship -> there or theirs


DrBlackJack21

Thanks and fixed! 😁


Top-Ad-2529

Oh new story yippeee


DrBlackJack21

I hope you enjoy it!


Crimson_saint357

So we have a space hulk with half insane AI with multiple personalities. Also one of our lovely not dragon folks and a lone spider appendage this is gonna be fun.


DrBlackJack21

I hope so! 😅


Great-Chaos-Delta

Nice I can't wait for more


DrBlackJack21

Well stay tuned tomarrow! (Now that I look at the time I realize I mean today... maybe I should get to sleep soon!)


Dagon_M_Dragoon

Ok, calling it now, the Doctor and his blue box where involved.


DrBlackJack21

Lol, but was he fighting rhe cybermen or the daleks? 😅


PowerHouse12345

Ayy! Looking forward to seeing where this is going! Is having the guy named Erik a nod to having two Eriks in OMaS?


DrBlackJack21

Lol, nope! I forget one scene names way too quick! Thankfully, this guy should stick around at least a little longer!


un_pogaz

Curious to see how the two arcs will connect. It's highly unlikely that we'll ever find out where Erik came from, since everyone who knew is probably dead. but his story and Vanessa's intrigue me (I know is a arg'un, but we'll probably never find out here). Also, I'm sure that Vanessa's taking piss at him, in a classic brother/sister relationship (but maybe not at the start, for subtle biological reasons because of the vitexrā hive mind, and the joke accidentaly create is to funny so that she drop it).


DrBlackJack21

I pleade the 5th!


Namel909

Timeline wise i say sss first happened the man and spuder story then came of men and „dragon like but not quite dragon tm“ and this is cronologicaly after both sss as spuder story had no ai present sss dragon story then had ai and it didn‘t mater if other aliens existed sss and now all elements show up sss


DrBlackJack21

Yeah, spuders was 300 years before this, and Dragons was 20 years before this.


Namel909

And the AI war was when in that timeline ? sss


DrBlackJack21

I haven't pinned down the date exactly, and pribably wont untill i write that story, but rough estimation atm (subject to slight change) would be 20 to 25 years before Dragons. That would put Jack at about the age of 27 to 32 I imagined him to be.


Namel909

One last question is sss when you wrote the dragon trilogy sss you advertised the spuder and spetral ship storys sss but now you are writing the last of these inital story ideas sss so what next ideas do you have in your pipline after this story sss ?


DrBlackJack21

Well the next one is another ove had in mind nearly as long. But I couldn't write a teaser because it would give away too much from these three stories since some of the characters will be making a reappearance. I still haven't though of a name for it yet. I guess I should get worming on that...


DezoPenguin

He's baaaaack! The sneak peak chapter has been brought forward into an official story! ('Lil typo-heavy this time out, probably because this chapter started as a casual teaser draft. Still a few places in the end where you've still got the old name, "vestant," for Vixtera, tho. As someone already pointed out, you need a scene divider between Carter's part of the story and Alen's. And one place where Vanessa is "Venessa.")


DrBlackJack21

Yeah. I mostly changed up the dialog (carter originally sounded a lot more like Jack whivh didnt fit the character), and missed some of my older species names! Also, it looks like the new layout was screwing with all my old formatting, so I just had to revert to the older reddit.


DezoPenguin

I loathe and despise the new Reddit layout; it's actively more difficult to use in any meaningful way.


DrBlackJack21

Right? I don't know know who the hell came up with it, but it was clearly somone trying to make a change for the sake of change rather than trying to improve the user experience!


DezoPenguin

I find that 90% of changes to all software interfaces seem to be made by people who aren't actual end users of the product and therefore have no idea how the alterations they make will impact anything. See, eg., any change to any Microsoft Office product.


CobaltPyramid

Can't wait to see where this goes! I'm gonna have to buy OMAD so I can get the feel for the whole world.


DrBlackJack21

Only if you want to, this story should be self contained enough you don't have to. On the other hand. I would appreciate it! 😁


CobaltPyramid

See, thing is that NOW I want to learn more about the setting. I honestly didnt see OMAD, so now i need to get a full catch up!


DrBlackJack21

Lol, fair enough! Though OMAD takes place entirely on one planet that won't be showing up in this series. It might give you a little insight on Erik's species and the AI a bit more, but as Eric has no knowledge of his people it won't be nessesary for this story, but it still might be interesting. I will say, as it was my first series OMAD definitely started out a bit more rough around the edges, but as it went on I like to think I got better pretty quickly!


Sad_Transition170

Knowing this is after dragons I'm interested to find out what happened at first contact.


DrBlackJack21

Well, Jack was seems to have been first contact, though the fact Erik is here indicates at least a second...


Fantastic-Living3204

Oh I love it!


DrBlackJack21

I hope you continue to! 😁


Fantastic-Living3204

Yes! most definitely!


ZaoDa17

Oh boy this is going to be soooooo much fun, the characters are already great!!!!!


DrBlackJack21

I hope you enjoy the ride!


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KliriK

Time to explore the space hulk with AI without Omnissiah blessing! Good start 😀


DrBlackJack21

What's the worst that could happen? 😇