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Blog Post Number 18 Written: 06-04-2021 Uploaded: 05-20-2022 Captain Lydia Litvak is not a happy story, but she’s not a sad story either. Her father was a hardcore career military man, and her mother passed due to cancer in her early teens. As such, her teenage years were hard and lonely. She spent much ofContinue reading “Character backstory for Captain Lydia Litvak”

Blog post Number 17 Written: 06-02-2021 Uploaded: 05-13-2022 I have a list of topics to write about for these blog posts I have been spamming out, and on that list, one of them is “significant historical events” I’m sure at the time when I wrote the list, that meant something profound, but now I haveContinue reading “Significant Historical Events”

Blog post Number 16 Written: 06-01-2021 Uploaded: 05-06-2022 For a long time, I called the Balaur “dragons”. It wasn’t until after the contract was signed and the book was less than a month from publication that the name was changed from Dragon to Balaur. This was the last significant change to the book that constitutedContinue reading “Backstory and lore of the Balaur”

Blog post Number 15 Written:05-30-2021 Uploaded 04-29-2022 I know I am bad at math, but bear with me, I have actually done some of the astrodynamic calculations for my books, but really only the second book with… we’ll you’ll see. Anyway, I was trying to figure out orbital velocity, because I needed to know howContinue reading “Math for Ship Orbits”

Blog Post Number 14 Written 05-28-2021 Posted 04-22-2022 I’ve got a couple of high school friends, one of which is the owner/driver of an off-road racing team that participates in the Ultra4 league, another of which also serves as the marketing and media coordinator for the team. I like to think of myself as pitContinue reading “The King of Hammers”

Blog Post Number 13 Written: 05-27-2021 Uploaded: 04-16-2022 Like most self proclaimed nerds, I play video games. I started seriously playing when Halo 2 was released. That was my first game, after that I played Call of duty religiously. Starting with all three Modern Warfare’s and World at War. But I kept playing into Ghosts,Continue reading “Playing Video Games”

Blog post Number 12 Written: 05-26-2021 Uploaded 04-11-2022 Note: I’m sorry I missed my regular upload date last Friday, I had some vehicle trouble and that messed up the whole weekend and I just never got around to it. So here it is, Monday, and I’m finally copy pasting my word doc. Also, notice theContinue reading “Lore Timeline”

Blog Post Number 11 Written 05-25-2021 Uploaded: 04-01-2022 I have learned a bunch, lots of self-taught skills since the book publishing process started. I came from a small town, living under a rock. I liked it that way, maybe I still prefer it that way in some regards.  As I was writing, I learned howContinue reading “Things I have learned”

Blog Post Number 10 Written: 05-24-2021 Uploaded:03-28-2022 (Sorry this wasn’t uploaded on 03-25-2022 Like it should have been, life happens.) I know I said I am bad at math, but that doesn’t stop me from trying. I’d rather try, be wrong, and get corrected than have never tried at all and been even more wrong.Continue reading “The Math Behind Rail Guns”

Blog Post Number 9 Written: 05-23-2021 Uploaded” 03-19-2022 To be clear, this is not my idea, this is a real scientific theory, developed by serious people with far more qualifications than me, and has nothing to do with the halo franchise of video games and novels. This is a real-world proposal for interstellar travel. AsContinue reading “The Halo Drive”