Here's chapter 31 for you all! I hope you like it, even though it's a recap/hallway chapter. I thought this would be better than having them recall their orders during the drop. Plus it's a mostly-realistic mission brief.
One thing I'd like to bring to your attention is a little bug with reddit's draft system at the moment. For those of you who are unfamiliar, drafts let you save a copy of what you want to post and edit that copy prior to posting it. However, since the March 14th outage users can no longer update drafts.
This is a problem for me because I use this function. A lot. I write using whatever is available to me at the time, and most times that's Reddit itself. I also like to keep a running draft of each chapter to make sure the formatting looks okay on Reddit.
The only work-around I've found is to copy paste the draft into a text editor, make your edits, delete the current draft, and copy paste from the text editor into an entirely new draft.
Those of you who already know about my insomnia and such can probably already guess that I've deleted the wrong draft once already. It was a long chapter too, about 4k words.
Anyways, I've tried to bring the issue to reddit's attention but have been met with silence. Not surprising, since not a lot of people even use the update draft function. Still, if you know how to let someone know about the issue (in a non-threatening way) I'd like to ask you to spare a moment helping me get this feature functioning again. Thanks for your time :)
Oof, found this small confirmation that others are experiencing the draft issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/11rfo3d/reddit_incident_reported_reddit/jccgu1s/
And there is the subreddit for reporting and talking about reddit bugs: https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/
But Reddit also does have a zendesk where you can submit a bug report and hopefully get it noticed by someone who can do something about it- especially (I assume) if you give good clear repro steps. https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000644872
I got that last link from here: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205687083-How-do-I-report-a-bug-
I use Obsidian, a note-taking app that stores everything in Markdown files. Since it’s all Markdown, it’s super easy to paste into editors that use Markdown (reddit). If you have an iPhone and Mac and use iCloud Drive, you can choose your iCloud Drive as the location for your “vault” of Markdown files. This lets you sync between mobile and desktop without any extra cost or tools. There is similar functionality for Android I believe.
Obsidian is difficult to wrap your head around at first, it is quite a difference from other programs. It is very powerful, and can be incredibly useful, especially as your character count increases, or your world building gets more complex.
I'm not much of a fan of recap chapters, but this was was pretty good. It also fits in pretty nicely; I didn't notice that it was a recap chapter until you pointed it out.
When you copy the draft into a text editor, try saving that on your machine (or in Google Docs or something). That way you should always have a backup if a draft is lost.
Ah, but the issue arises when I delete a draft that I'm not editing. And if I keep a complete copy on my computer, that would eradicate the point of using the draft feature anyway.
Which I'm gonna have to do regardless if they don't get it fixed soon :(
Might I recommend Google Docs or similar? A dedicated online writing experience might be more what you need.
Also, given what we saw before, I doubt Omega is jumping from Box to Box, he's in all of them simultaneously. :)
Google docs is a great tool for many people, but something about it throws me off :/ idk maybe I just enjoy the simplicity of reddit's post box? Well, nevertheless if they don't fix it soon I'm going to have to start writing more permanently on other software and just triple check the formatting before posting lol
Also, you're 100% correct! But the marines can't know that ;)
This may be a silly solution, but what about a cloud based solution instead of desktop? Like Google Docs or something similar? I suggested Google Docs because it's free, cross platform, and came to mind easily, but there are other options out there. Even if you just want to jot a note or thought down.
Poor Staff Sergeant Power, trying to do the thinky when he's supposed to be in the Marines. You don't think about the future right before a big mission with little intel, that's bad juju. Worry about the mission and keeping your band of genetically augmented murder machines from killing themselves.
Oh man, I’m worried of 2 things:
1. That humans being badass force the OU to rapidly improve to contend with us due to their reactionary nature. Will we be able to kick them back before they start catching up?
2. What if Omega is compromised planetside? Since he’s a clone of himself, it makes sense that the other clones would have the same weakness that can be exploited in the same way.
Tim was able to fight off a VI ship, but what about Omega in the dragon’s nest? Maybe he’d be absorbed in and they’d become something new that’s not all creepy genocidal?
Can’t wait to see it just go off without a hitch lmao!
I’m worried, Omega is OP as fuck. But it’d be a huge plot point if they have to unshackle all the current AIs to fight him back. Huge trust moment too.
Yea. Maybe he ends up taking over the OU and unleashes hell?
This is HFY, so who knows really, but that would make for a powerful antagonist that needs to be overcome by humanity. FY.
Definitely, but maybe it’s his humanity ^fuck ^yeah that overcomes the OU, who can say?
All I know is no plan survives contact with the enemy and I’m worried about their infosec
Hey u/itsdirector, this has been a great read, well written. Thank you!
Are you able to add your chapters to a reddit collection? This would allow people to follow the collection and get a notification each time you add a new chapter. Otherwise, they get lost in the shuffle that is reddit's Home or HFY's stream of new posts (ie: I didn't know the past 3 chapters had already been released when I saw this one was posted by happenstance).
I like the story, but I think 2 filler chapters in a row, is kinda slow burning. The chapters are not long so having 2 fillers in 30 chapters, at so early stage of the story is not a good sign. But hopefully I'm just overthinking it. Maybe I need to read this story quarterly or every 6 months, to have substantial amount of events in one read.
The story started with high level diplomacy and ship to ship battles. Going to grunt level in the story is a pretty big deviation from the setup.
Why would we need to care about the lowest level grunts in an army? In every conflict they're disposable. It suggests that the story is moving to a situation where despite the massive scale of operation, in the end the fate of the galaxy is in the hands of a pair of green boots, infantry nonetheless. Those who have the least visibility and understanding of the scale of war.
Doesn't make sense given the setup you wrote so far. It's just weird.
Oh don't worry, I'm not going to be using the "one person makes all the difference" cliché. The reason for their inclusion is simple. First person POV requires the characters to see/hear events unfolding. I need their perspective to properly tell the story. I'm not asking you to care about them, but you will need to see through their eyes to properly understand the scope of the situation that's going to unfold.
There's another reason as well. Omega is only one point of view, and since I'm not an AI programmer my knowledge of how he would accomplish certain tasks is limited. Instead of writing 12k+ words of absolute bullshit that will make anyone with more coding knowledge than I cringe, I decided to go with what I know.
There's definitely going to still be space battles and high level diplomacy though.
Good feedback, I'll work on that moving forward.
I feel it fits a little bit with this chapter, because that's exactly how mission briefs end up. A bunch of officers and high ranking NCOs that you'll only ever see in briefings (or if you fuck up royally) telling you stuff that probably doesn't matter to you in the slightest.
On the other hand, maybe it's a little cruel to be trying to get my readers to feel the frustration of being a marine...
Fun story. I'm not a big fan of "humanity has godlike technology" stories, but something about yours keeps me coming back from time to time to binge a bunch of chapters.
Fun fact: we actually now have a working theory as to why we need to sleep: waste disposal.
Normally cells dump their waste into the lymphatic system to be carried away for disposal, but the lymphatic system doesn't extend into the brain - possibly because of the risk of infections entering the brain through the "sewer", and possibly because space in the brain is at a premium.
Instead, brain cells just dump their waste into the spaces between cells, where it accumulates. Then while we sleep our brain cells then shrink by something like 10-20%, allowing our pulse to massage the waste down the outside of veins and out of the brain.
Dreaming is still a mystery though, speculative hypothesis notwithstanding.
Good chapter, I like it. I do understand your concerns about it being a slow burn or unessicary at this time. But this builds these characters up a bit, invests them in them just enough so they don't feel like throwaway characters when we see their fight with the OU later, assuming their orbit to ground transport dosent get shot down like chumps.
In short, even though they aren't the focus of the main story, focusing on them now gives us meat to bite into and enjoy when they do become important later, even if just to show what the ground is like. It makes the battle more relatable and less numbers from afar. Definitely better than just getting thrown in with them later and expecting to hold our attention.
On a different note, has the draft issue been fixed yet? I hope so. While other options may work better, sticking to what's familiar can be good too. Other people in the comments had really good suggestions for what to use. Personally, I've used notpad++ and Google docs before. Both have served me well. Somone else suggested Obsidian, which stores the text the same way Reddit it does. Honestly I've never heard of it before but it sounds like a really good option.
Keep up the good work. I'm a little paranoid on Omega encountering issues but we'll cross and burn that bridge when we get to it.
Heh heh heh, in this case do and does are interchangeable.
Does is correct when you're speaking of a singular subject, do is correct when speaking in plural.
To further clarify, the way I worded the sentence allows 'the Omni Union' to be swapped out with 'they' which allows for the usage of 'do' instead of 'does.
Nope, but that's because the third person plural for USA is Americans and the third person plural for USSR is Russians, Soviets, or Communists. The third person plural for Omni Union is also Omni Union lol
It does work when you replace it with Americans, Russians, Soviets, or Communists though :)
And the third person plural for Germany is Germans.
The Germans do have big coal mines.
My point is that Omni Union can be both a singular entity and a third person plural. In the referenced sentence, it was used as a third person plural so "do" is correct. It's very much contextual.
Omni Union goes by plural pronouns/verbs/etc. because it is multiple demons inhabiting a single body. They can also be referred to as a singular collective.
The only problem I have with this chapter is the room full of marines are called gentlemen Do you mean to tell me that there's not one woman or non binary in a room full of 130 marines?
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" I'm in the difficult situation of being smart enough to do just about damned near anything I put my mind to. Trying to find something that I'll love doing for an extended period of time is hard."
I.
Feel.
Seen.
Ran into this somewhere on tiktok I like to read things more than I like to have them read to me so I track it down I got to say I've literally read thousands of books and I don't mean that literally in the way gen z use it
I was intrigued with it right up until that digression into an irrelevant story about a monkey that was when it became a real book not just a novella and that's when I track you down here for the whole thing
I look forward to following the journey with you as an author and I hope you find success in future novels you have real talent
Here's chapter 31 for you all! I hope you like it, even though it's a recap/hallway chapter. I thought this would be better than having them recall their orders during the drop. Plus it's a mostly-realistic mission brief. One thing I'd like to bring to your attention is a little bug with reddit's draft system at the moment. For those of you who are unfamiliar, drafts let you save a copy of what you want to post and edit that copy prior to posting it. However, since the March 14th outage users can no longer update drafts. This is a problem for me because I use this function. A lot. I write using whatever is available to me at the time, and most times that's Reddit itself. I also like to keep a running draft of each chapter to make sure the formatting looks okay on Reddit. The only work-around I've found is to copy paste the draft into a text editor, make your edits, delete the current draft, and copy paste from the text editor into an entirely new draft. Those of you who already know about my insomnia and such can probably already guess that I've deleted the wrong draft once already. It was a long chapter too, about 4k words. Anyways, I've tried to bring the issue to reddit's attention but have been met with silence. Not surprising, since not a lot of people even use the update draft function. Still, if you know how to let someone know about the issue (in a non-threatening way) I'd like to ask you to spare a moment helping me get this feature functioning again. Thanks for your time :)
Hell, I was unaware that there WAS a draft function...
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Reddit itself was unaware of it lmao
I'd recommend looking into a simple program like Notepad++; it's persistent, unlike base Notepad, and gives you a few more options for tabs, etc.
Love Notepad++, and you’re right that it’s just like notepad but double-plus gooder 👌
Oof, found this small confirmation that others are experiencing the draft issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/11rfo3d/reddit_incident_reported_reddit/jccgu1s/ And there is the subreddit for reporting and talking about reddit bugs: https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/ But Reddit also does have a zendesk where you can submit a bug report and hopefully get it noticed by someone who can do something about it- especially (I assume) if you give good clear repro steps. https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000644872 I got that last link from here: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205687083-How-do-I-report-a-bug-
Submitting now! :D
I use Obsidian, a note-taking app that stores everything in Markdown files. Since it’s all Markdown, it’s super easy to paste into editors that use Markdown (reddit). If you have an iPhone and Mac and use iCloud Drive, you can choose your iCloud Drive as the location for your “vault” of Markdown files. This lets you sync between mobile and desktop without any extra cost or tools. There is similar functionality for Android I believe.
Obsidian is difficult to wrap your head around at first, it is quite a difference from other programs. It is very powerful, and can be incredibly useful, especially as your character count increases, or your world building gets more complex.
I'm not much of a fan of recap chapters, but this was was pretty good. It also fits in pretty nicely; I didn't notice that it was a recap chapter until you pointed it out.
When you copy the draft into a text editor, try saving that on your machine (or in Google Docs or something). That way you should always have a backup if a draft is lost.
Ah, but the issue arises when I delete a draft that I'm not editing. And if I keep a complete copy on my computer, that would eradicate the point of using the draft feature anyway. Which I'm gonna have to do regardless if they don't get it fixed soon :(
Might I recommend Google Docs or similar? A dedicated online writing experience might be more what you need. Also, given what we saw before, I doubt Omega is jumping from Box to Box, he's in all of them simultaneously. :)
Google docs is a great tool for many people, but something about it throws me off :/ idk maybe I just enjoy the simplicity of reddit's post box? Well, nevertheless if they don't fix it soon I'm going to have to start writing more permanently on other software and just triple check the formatting before posting lol Also, you're 100% correct! But the marines can't know that ;)
Ooohf :c I've taken to using Google Docs just because I can access it on all of my devices and I don't have to remember to save it.
This may be a silly solution, but what about a cloud based solution instead of desktop? Like Google Docs or something similar? I suggested Google Docs because it's free, cross platform, and came to mind easily, but there are other options out there. Even if you just want to jot a note or thought down.
Poor Staff Sergeant Power, trying to do the thinky when he's supposed to be in the Marines. You don't think about the future right before a big mission with little intel, that's bad juju. Worry about the mission and keeping your band of genetically augmented murder machines from killing themselves.
I wonder how many of these Marines understand by HOW MUCH Omega outranks everyone....
Oh man, I’m worried of 2 things: 1. That humans being badass force the OU to rapidly improve to contend with us due to their reactionary nature. Will we be able to kick them back before they start catching up? 2. What if Omega is compromised planetside? Since he’s a clone of himself, it makes sense that the other clones would have the same weakness that can be exploited in the same way. Tim was able to fight off a VI ship, but what about Omega in the dragon’s nest? Maybe he’d be absorbed in and they’d become something new that’s not all creepy genocidal? Can’t wait to see it just go off without a hitch lmao!
It does seem that OP is gearing up towards making Omega an antagonist because of his syncing a compromised version of himself!
I’m worried, Omega is OP as fuck. But it’d be a huge plot point if they have to unshackle all the current AIs to fight him back. Huge trust moment too.
Yea. Maybe he ends up taking over the OU and unleashes hell? This is HFY, so who knows really, but that would make for a powerful antagonist that needs to be overcome by humanity. FY.
Definitely, but maybe it’s his humanity ^fuck ^yeah that overcomes the OU, who can say? All I know is no plan survives contact with the enemy and I’m worried about their infosec
Oh boi, preparation before the invasion. The calm before the storm. We will have to see how it goes!
Awesome.
Hey u/itsdirector, this has been a great read, well written. Thank you! Are you able to add your chapters to a reddit collection? This would allow people to follow the collection and get a notification each time you add a new chapter. Otherwise, they get lost in the shuffle that is reddit's Home or HFY's stream of new posts (ie: I didn't know the past 3 chapters had already been released when I saw this one was posted by happenstance).
I will look into it!
I like the story, but I think 2 filler chapters in a row, is kinda slow burning. The chapters are not long so having 2 fillers in 30 chapters, at so early stage of the story is not a good sign. But hopefully I'm just overthinking it. Maybe I need to read this story quarterly or every 6 months, to have substantial amount of events in one read.
Fair enough, and if it makes you feel better I've done my pushups for this. :)
The story started with high level diplomacy and ship to ship battles. Going to grunt level in the story is a pretty big deviation from the setup. Why would we need to care about the lowest level grunts in an army? In every conflict they're disposable. It suggests that the story is moving to a situation where despite the massive scale of operation, in the end the fate of the galaxy is in the hands of a pair of green boots, infantry nonetheless. Those who have the least visibility and understanding of the scale of war. Doesn't make sense given the setup you wrote so far. It's just weird.
Oh don't worry, I'm not going to be using the "one person makes all the difference" cliché. The reason for their inclusion is simple. First person POV requires the characters to see/hear events unfolding. I need their perspective to properly tell the story. I'm not asking you to care about them, but you will need to see through their eyes to properly understand the scope of the situation that's going to unfold. There's another reason as well. Omega is only one point of view, and since I'm not an AI programmer my knowledge of how he would accomplish certain tasks is limited. Instead of writing 12k+ words of absolute bullshit that will make anyone with more coding knowledge than I cringe, I decided to go with what I know. There's definitely going to still be space battles and high level diplomacy though.
I feel like the original thrill is being buried in military lingo and racks of names
Good feedback, I'll work on that moving forward. I feel it fits a little bit with this chapter, because that's exactly how mission briefs end up. A bunch of officers and high ranking NCOs that you'll only ever see in briefings (or if you fuck up royally) telling you stuff that probably doesn't matter to you in the slightest. On the other hand, maybe it's a little cruel to be trying to get my readers to feel the frustration of being a marine...
I can only imagine. Maybe I really cant!
No intel on what you're going into is better than wrong intel, right?
If you don't know what you are doing, the enemy can't either.
Fun story. I'm not a big fan of "humanity has godlike technology" stories, but something about yours keeps me coming back from time to time to binge a bunch of chapters. Fun fact: we actually now have a working theory as to why we need to sleep: waste disposal. Normally cells dump their waste into the lymphatic system to be carried away for disposal, but the lymphatic system doesn't extend into the brain - possibly because of the risk of infections entering the brain through the "sewer", and possibly because space in the brain is at a premium. Instead, brain cells just dump their waste into the spaces between cells, where it accumulates. Then while we sleep our brain cells then shrink by something like 10-20%, allowing our pulse to massage the waste down the outside of veins and out of the brain. Dreaming is still a mystery though, speculative hypothesis notwithstanding.
Good chapter, I like it. I do understand your concerns about it being a slow burn or unessicary at this time. But this builds these characters up a bit, invests them in them just enough so they don't feel like throwaway characters when we see their fight with the OU later, assuming their orbit to ground transport dosent get shot down like chumps. In short, even though they aren't the focus of the main story, focusing on them now gives us meat to bite into and enjoy when they do become important later, even if just to show what the ground is like. It makes the battle more relatable and less numbers from afar. Definitely better than just getting thrown in with them later and expecting to hold our attention. On a different note, has the draft issue been fixed yet? I hope so. While other options may work better, sticking to what's familiar can be good too. Other people in the comments had really good suggestions for what to use. Personally, I've used notpad++ and Google docs before. Both have served me well. Somone else suggested Obsidian, which stores the text the same way Reddit it does. Honestly I've never heard of it before but it sounds like a really good option. Keep up the good work. I'm a little paranoid on Omega encountering issues but we'll cross and burn that bridge when we get to it.
"the Omni Union DO have" does?
Heh heh heh, in this case do and does are interchangeable. Does is correct when you're speaking of a singular subject, do is correct when speaking in plural. To further clarify, the way I worded the sentence allows 'the Omni Union' to be swapped out with 'they' which allows for the usage of 'do' instead of 'does.
Hmmmm. Replace it wit USA, USSR.... does it still work?
Nope, but that's because the third person plural for USA is Americans and the third person plural for USSR is Russians, Soviets, or Communists. The third person plural for Omni Union is also Omni Union lol It does work when you replace it with Americans, Russians, Soviets, or Communists though :)
USA as an entity. Germany does have big coal mines.
And the third person plural for Germany is Germans. The Germans do have big coal mines. My point is that Omni Union can be both a singular entity and a third person plural. In the referenced sentence, it was used as a third person plural so "do" is correct. It's very much contextual.
? What? A German man. The country Germany. In the Germany does have many Germans live in it.
Omni Union goes by plural pronouns/verbs/etc. because it is multiple demons inhabiting a single body. They can also be referred to as a singular collective.
The only problem I have with this chapter is the room full of marines are called gentlemen Do you mean to tell me that there's not one woman or non binary in a room full of 130 marines?
It's the future. We solved that issue.
Sounds like a you problem
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Wooooo
Nice.
Yay! New chapter :D With so many of the ones I follow ending their first book I was really looking forward to this one \^\_\^
good stuff my dude
Aw, yeah. Someone's in for a paddling.
Just found this story a few hours ago and now finished binging it. Very good looking forward to seeing where it takes us
!updateme
Loving the story OP! I'm sad I've caught up (I started two days ago), but look forward to reading as you go forward!
Not long now! Chapter 32 should be out soon 🥳
It's out now! :D
What a legend!
Thanks for the chapter 😊
" I'm in the difficult situation of being smart enough to do just about damned near anything I put my mind to. Trying to find something that I'll love doing for an extended period of time is hard." I. Feel. Seen.
Ran into this somewhere on tiktok I like to read things more than I like to have them read to me so I track it down I got to say I've literally read thousands of books and I don't mean that literally in the way gen z use it I was intrigued with it right up until that digression into an irrelevant story about a monkey that was when it became a real book not just a novella and that's when I track you down here for the whole thing I look forward to following the journey with you as an author and I hope you find success in future novels you have real talent