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Legacy An alternate universe story. What if Lois and Clark Kent had a daughter, a young woman raised in the 21st century, her heritage that of both her father and her surrogate mother, Princess Diana of the Amazons. But also very much Lois Lane's daughter. The Amazons have arisen, determined to take over Earth. Kara has a choice... follow her birthmother's imperative and bring peace to all mankind -- Amazon style. Or stand on the side of mankind, and lose her father and friends forever.
First Protector Starting with the discovery of the deadly GAR weapon, and the suspected Arion plot to remove Velorian interference from their expanding Empire, First Protector tells the story of how one courageous and determined Companion convinces Velor to create the mighty Protectors, founding the Hall of Protectors with a Galen named Aphro'dite, and then becoming Velor's very first Protector. First Protector ties into Brantley's Homecoming stories which can be found on the Bright Empire. From the age of Companions to the age of Protectors, Velorian society and the human and Supremis universe are forever changed as the roots of the Supremis war are seeded. First Protector - Parts 1 thru 4
Kara Returns A Tribute with a Twist What if the original Kara Zor-El of Krypton was revived from the dead after twenty-one years, her body preserved all this time by hard vacuum, absolute zero, the invigorating radiation of Sol and her natural invulnerability? Now healed, the shattered parts of her body regenerated, her only weakness is some mild memory loss as she returns to the Earth of 2005, a world where Superman and other characters of the DC Universe still live. This is my retelling of an old tale, the story distinctly R-rated and lavishly illustrated, but with my personal spin on the legend. I've taken many, many liberties with Kryptonian history and DC Comics lore, yet you will see many hooks into the stories and characters I fondly remember from the 70' and 80's. But that's what makes it fun for me, and hopefully for you. Kara_Returns_Book01 (HTML) Kara_Returns_Book02 (HTML) Kara Returns, Book03 (HTML) Kara Returns, Book04 (PDF) Kara Returns, Book04 (HTML) Kara Returns, Book05 (HTML) This is not a Velorian tale. Nor is it faithful to DC Comics legacy. This is uniquely my vision.
History of the AU -- a working, living, illustrated document of lore and history.
Ordinary Velorians The wide-ranging Velorian Enlightenment is not only made up of their premier warriors, the Protectors, or their supporting Scribes and Messengers, there are many ordinary Velorians who have spread out from the golden planet to live among the less genetically privileged. They live openly and interact with various races, humans being the most common. This series of stories, some of which are this page, some on Brantley's Bright Empire, tell the tale of the lesser Velorians. The Matras and Bravas and their children as they seek to live lives more ordinary. Of course, given that even the least powerful Velorian would be a match in any way you could measure for the long-fabled Kryptonians, ordinary isn't ordinary as we know it. Hopefully you will find these stories as fascinating to read as they have been for Brantley and I to write. And with Andy adding his fine pen to the story arc, its only going to get better. The stories below are listed in rough chronological order. Some links are on Brantley's Bright Empire, some here on the AUOW. See Brantley's site for more stories. Chronology - An ever updated timeline of events and their stories that chronicle them. (by Brantley) Ordinary Velorians (by Shadar and Brantley):
High Cruel Years Part One (by Shadar and Brantley) A lounge singer on the lower class deck of a cruise ship and a retired intelligence agent, both of whom are supposedly dead after their ship sinks, team up to oppose the growing threat of the Aryans and Diaboli on Riegel Five. A civil war is threatening, but this lounge singer who secretly hails from Velor and our Terran hero might be the ones to stop it before it starts.
Alisa Liddel has advanced degrees in Astro Physics and her passion is exploring wormholes as a member of a Kelsorian survey ship. But she's also secretly a superhuman. A goddess in some people's eyes, an Angel even, yet she's just a girl inside the golden body of a Velorian. A girl who wishes only to be human. Unfortunately, the universe seems to have other ideas, and she
finds herself increasingly drawn into the conflict between Arion and Velorian,
the age old war of the Supremis. Alisa's Story - Introductions HTML with pictures (by Shadar) A short story about her arrival on survey ship Ander's Flame, and a rather unique meeting with her new Captain. Shore Leave, Episode One - The Gwyndylyn (by Shadar) (PDF version - 4800K bytes) - includes pictures (HTML version - 557K bytes) - includes thumbnails and links A novella-length story about Alisa's encounter with a hidden and dangerous world named Rostran, located on the distant end of an unexplored and anomalous wormhole. She finds that pretending to be human is difficult on a world where no one else is... human. Shore Leave, Episode Two - Primal War (by Shadar) (HTML version - 550K bytes) - includes pictures The story continues with some fearsome battles between Durgin's Marines, their bodies augmented by the latest in exoskeletons, as they face off against two Primes. We learn more about Lara, and Alisa and Durgin undergo a true change of life. McCloud's Daughters (by Shadar) A new saga in the Ordinary Velorians series that Brantley and I are writing. Ben Smith, a man from Earth who was educated on Velor, wakes up after a battle in space to find himself on a hidden world named Sanctuary. There he meets Ann McCloud and her four daughters. Ann was born an Arion Prime, yet amazingly, she has undergone the Velorian Rites to become a Protector. Her four daughters, three by a Kryp'terran father, and one by an Arion Prime, are intent on continuing their unique genetic legacy, cut off from the rest of the universe. In a surprising twist at the end, we find that the world of Sanctuary and the world of Rostran (Shore Leave) are interconnected in ways no one could have predicted. Part One (PDF -174K bytes) Part Two (PDF -99K bytes) Author's Imagery (PDF -852K bytes)
Blind Justice (by Shadar) In a story inspired by the Chronicles of Riddick, Blind Justice pits Naomi Kim'Vallara, Velorian Ambassador to Reigel Five against an escaped convict from a penal mining colony. Given that he's human and she's a Velorian Matra, you'd think this would be an easy fight. Instead, the story depicts one of the worst moments of her life. A time when she could not save the humans in her charge from the most evil of creatures. Tales of the Golden Planet - Scrumbles (by Shadar) Ben Shaffer is the luckiest guy in the universe. Ben Shaffer is the most frustrated, out-of-luck guy in the universe. He's an ordinary guy from Earth who's been enhanced by Xara and transported to Velor where he's attending a high school along with three hundred P-class Velorian girls. He's got a huge crush on his math teacher, Ms. Quiv'an, who has taken a special interest in him. She's also a top Scrumbles player and the most beautiful woman he's ever seen, which given his classmates, is saying something. Unfortunately, he's failing her class, and she's never had anyone fail her class before. She's condemned him to Mandatory Tutoring, studying day and night, and threatening to wipe out his long planned climbing trip in the Valken Mountains. Even worse, his stunning classmates think he's second cousin to a slime mold, being an enhanced Terran and all. He came to Velor to fulfill his wildest fantasies, but so far, his eyeballs are the only thing that's gotten any action. Fortunately, Ms. Quiv'an has a solution, and she arranges a trip to one of the moons in the Velorian system, a place where Protectors are trained in full-contact combat exercises. He's going there as a reporter from his school paper, but he's really looking for a Tanzrobian girl who Ms. Quiv'an thinks might be just his type. She's an Aggressor... she takes on fully-empowered Protectors as part of their training. But she's lonely like he is, given her black skin and lack of pheromones. Neither of them give off the right scent or vibe to be invited to participate in the Velor game of ex'tosy. What Ben finds instead is that ordinary Velorians are a lot more fascinating than he'd given credit. Falling in with some 'moon trash', a waitress in an espresso shop and her girlfriend, he finds that they change his life. And they teach him that all that glitters isn't gold. Scrumbles (500Kbyte HTML, pictures embedded) Corrididor (by Shadar) This is my first complete novella, and it's distinctly differently than my other work, in that it has both a beginning and an ending. Twenty-nine chapters in eight parts to make it easier to read, and illustrated with my visioning of my characters as per usual. This is the story of the most ordinary of Velorians, a B-class maintenance technician working a dead-end job on Velor, a girl who used to ride with a flitter-bike gang, outlaws who dealt drugs and wandered aimlessly about Velor. But Vera has one unique talent, and because of that she gets her big shot: a chance to go off-world. To escape the gold field of Velor to repair the dying reactor on a distant mining asteroid named Corrididor. She arrives to find that Corrididor is both her worst nightmare and her fondest dream. Obstacles lie in her way, not the least an Arion who's intent on destroying her and a reactor that threatens to go super-critical, but the story ends with Vera finding that thing we are all searching for: That one true place in the universe where we belong. Part One (HTML 31K bytes) Part Two (HTML 28K bytes) Part Three (HTML 103K bytes) Part Four (HTML 65K bytes) Part Five (HTML 86K bytes) Part Six (HTML 82K bytes) Part Seven (HTML 15K bytes) Part Eight (HTML 45K bytes) End of Ordinary Velorians... so far
Encounter on Westfold Dr. David Morrison is a genetic researcher on a isolated, seeded world of humans named Westfold, their genetic stock coming from both Africa and Great Britain. He's also the mentor for a very special young woman, a child who was found unharmed in the crash of an Arion spaceship when she was two, but who has grown up to be the most remarkable of women. Kyreen has no idea of her heritage, for only a few scraps of information have reached Westfold to tell of the Arion Empire. But anyone can see that she was born a Prime. They are wrong. Lieutenant Alisa Liddell and her husband, Senior Lieutenant Andre Kalik are lost in space after their research ship, the Flame, was sucked down a perpendicular branch of the Cygnius 275 wormhole they were researching. This branch of the wormhole has apparently introduced either a temporal or dimensional shift in their reality. They find but a single populated world where they pop out into normal space. Westfold. Arriving there, they find themselves facing a deadly Tset'lar named Kyreen. A Tset'lar who proves that it is nurture, not nature, that makes them the monsters they are. Or does she? Encounter on Westfold - Genesis (PDF) Author's imagery (Thumbnails, HTM)
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The story of a young Velorian, born P1 and destined to be a
Protector, who runs away from the Enlightenment world of Riegel Five to find a new life among the
ordinary humans on Kelsor 7. 