Chương 71: Afterword

Systema Delenda Est was pretty fun for me. I've always wanted to do something with the ideas for posthuman, postbiological societies and technologies I've had knocking around in my head, and I've been chewing on a destroying-the-system style story for years. Patrons of mine might remember the very first pass at such a story opening, back during Blue Core.

Thing is, it got really big. I knew it would in the abstract, of course, but trying to convey that things were happening over hundreds of thousands of planets is not easy. Not sure how well I conveyed the scope in the end, though the various incarnations of Cato and the sisters helped compromise between known characters and zillions of people we'd have met only in passing. Still, I'm pretty satisfied with the story beats for our principal characters, especially Dyen.

My next story will be Objects in Motion, a street-level superhero story with a bit of progression, because I seem constitutionally incapable of sticking to a theme. The basic idea for that was "give a thinker type person a brawler type power." In complete contrast with SDE, OIM is mostly going to focus on one guy and one city. While the original plan was a little bit paranoid-mage-ish, the protagonist is a bit less set in his ways so it's got a different flavor.

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I know that's going to disappoint some people, but do not fret. The entire scope of OIM is planned out and will be three books, after which I will be diving into big things again with Leviathan. OIM has started over on Patreon, but it'll still be a couple months before it shows up on RR.

(Related: I'm looking to do comic book style covers for the OIM books. Anyone have any suggestions for artists?) I'll see you all in a few months when OIM drops, and I hope you'll give it a shot! In the meantime, if you have any questions about SDE, I'll try and answer them here.

As always, thank you all for reading!