From The Frontier

Finding the time to take a few more editing sweeps at this story and turn it into something that I wouldn’t lose sleep over was more than difficult, but it’s done. Just in time for Rise of Iron, it seems!

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That’s it, folks! Officially the end of this project. On to the next.

I’d like to thank everyone who made this possible, including…

Frontier – Act02 Chapter07 – Coda

Chapter 7: Coda Earth Old Italy, Western Sicily The sun was shining. It was the first thing the guardians and refugees noticed. The sun cast its warmth as if it was a normal summer afternoon. No rain. No clouds. No wind. The second thing they all noticed was that they were lying upon the faint remains of the chapel. A ring of splinters and sticks was all that was left of the quaint structure. A…

Frontier – Act02 Chapter04 – Should You Choose To Accept It

Chapter 4: Should You Choose To Accept It Earth The Last City, Caucasus Mountains The Tower While the common understanding of The Tower by citizens of The City is that it was a giant military installation, to the guardians who dwelt within it was much more. Over the centuries since its construction and the legitimization of the Vanguard Command, guardians had formed their own culture centered…

Frontier – Act01 Chapter02 – Telemica

Chapter 2: Telemica Mars Elysium Planitia West of the Elysium Mons volcano The sinister powder brought to bare by a Martian sandstorm could be considered far more dangerous than any Cabal rocket round. Fine enough to get into everything and coarse enough to do a lot of damage once it’s there. When whipped about by super-high winds, the sand overloads barriers and clogs up almost every armour…

Frontier – Act01 Chapter01 – Solas

Chapter 1: Solas Venus Aphrodite Terra, Ovda Regio The sound of distant active volcanoes seemed almost artificially muted so deep in the vast Venusian rainforest. The boom and rumble bounced and distorted off the thick trunks of the local flora so much so that to the uninitiated, it was as if the canopy itself was voicing its displeasure at the foreign presence of a guardian. However, Solas-3 was…

Frontier Update #18: Get LOUD, Guardians!

I’ll make this brief.

If you’re reading this and you’ve enjoyed Frontier,  you need to let Bungie know. Your mission is to make enough noise that they finally take notice of Frontier.  Tell them exactly what you’ve been telling me on the forums and comments and Reddit.

Your tweet-targets are:

DeeJ

Cozmo

Bungie (official)

If Twitter isn’t your weapon, take to the livestreams, or let other Destiny…

Frontier Update #17: Sights, Sounds and Delays

First, an update. Life is… complicated. Work is really ramping up for Vasily and I so the work is taking far longer than we thought. Still, we’re working on it. At this point we’ve got about a third of the story re-edited. I’d rather get this done slow and right than fast and crappy. You deserve better. I deserve better. I really appreciate the patience.

Now, on to another thought.

There was a…

Frontier Update #16: Taking Time

While responding to readers on social media and forums, I would often have to admit that I am a horrible editor of my own work. Even after Vasily came aboard to edit, I still managed to screw things up.

Now that we’re working on offline versions of Frontier, I’d rather not rush the edits and put out something that I’m not happy with. I’m sure you can understand that. You’ve given me license to…

Frontier Update #15: Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning…

It’s Saturday. I’m sitting here in my office watching my cat sleep soundly amid a beam of sunlight on the carpet floor. The desk is littered with paperwork from the two business that I run. I’m downing a protein shake. It’s unseasonably warm in the suburb north of Toronto, Canada where I live with my mother and little brother and I have the window cracked open. The latest season of House of Cards…

Frontier – Act11 Chapter51 – Forward

Earth The Last City Years later…

“It has taken years for us to rebuild this City. Our home. Years to heal from our wounds, mourn the dead and reforge our bonds. Hard time full of blood, sweat and tears. First the Vex came to take away The Traveler, but were denied them their prize. Then the Fallen house of Kings came to our walls to strike at us while we were wounded, but they too were turned…

Frontier – Act10 Chapter50 – Warden

Angela awoke atop The Traveler’s zenith. The world’s curvature was almost noticeable from this altitude, but Angela had no trouble breathing or discomfort of any kind. Being this close to The Traveler, its essence must support life regardless of the surrounding environment, she deduced.

The last thing she recalled was getting pulled into the infection stream and the feeling of her life being…

Frontier – Act10 Chapter49 – Brave

Telemica lifted a slab of debris away from the corner Solas was buried in.

“Are you alright?” the titan asked with concern.

“For the most part. Vatyr?”

“Up here.” Vatyr answered over comms, high above the now demolished tower watch and coming in to land near his comrades. “The Speaker’s ship just detonated on contact. Vapourized. Pretty much no significant debris from the ship itself. The effect…

Frontier – Act10 Chapter48 – Sacrifice

The clock ticked, and the world became darker.

Telemica and Vatyr continued to engage Virulion, The Infecting Mind. At least, they attempted to engage him. Virulion’s focus remained solely on The Traveler. The Vex monster refused to acknowledge the guardians or their attacks.

Solas hung back and applied himself to the puzzle before him. He poked and pulled at Virulion’s being from every angle and…

  The final chapters of Frontier have been completed and are in the process of being edited.

Cheers. 

Frontier – Act10 Chapter47 – Infection

The petrified ash that moments ago was the body of The Companion Mind known as Arrenn Gee quickly became airborne as the sky above the City became angrier. Rasputin was perhaps minutes away from deploying The Black Sun protocol, a gravitational annihilation beam weapon that would reduce its target into 4D holographic data in much the same way that quantum singularities did. Its existence was only…

Frontier – Act10 Chapter46 – Annihilating

Earth The Last City Ground Zero

Ikora felt his presence before she saw the shimmer indicative of a higher-dimensional transmat insertion. How could she ever forget the telltale tingle in the air caused by her mentor, friend and closest confidant? She could only spare the effort to open her eyes for a single moment and witness him standing there. The others were far more surprised.

“Warlock Solas!…