A Jedi in Azeroth

It’s been a while since I made an update, so I figured I would take a few minutes to share some news. First off, as you might be aware I stopped working on Whispers from the Shadows and began working on a new project. I did this for two reasons. First is that the Legion expac took a totally different direction than I anticipated making the entire second half of Whispers irrelevant. I may return to it once that storyline in WoW is concluded, all depends on what I have been able to accomplish with my other project. Which brings me to the second reason...

As you also may have noticed, about a year ago I started playing with DAZ3D and creating scenes from the books that I couldn’t by using screen grabs from the two games, swtor and WoW. As I made more of these I starting dabbling with characters that I thought might exist in the Firefly universe. I started calling these Intergalactic Bounty Hunters because it just seemed like a quick and easy name for a series of pics that I didn’t think would go anywhere...I was wrong. As I made more of them I started thinking of a completely original story concept for these characters, so I removed them from the Firefly universe and started creating my own for them to have their adventures. That grew and grew until I had a new world/universe with complete backgrounds, history, and plan for a trilogy.

So, I started writing the first book, Intergalactic Bounty Hunters: Edge of Extinction, back in February and shared a few of the conceptual pics here but mostly on my DeviantArt page. I am happy to say that I have completed that book at over 127K words and at present actively seeking an agent/publisher to take it to a broader audience. This was not something I could do with the Jedi in Azeroth books because I didn’t own the IP where those characters lived. IGBH is entirely my own so here’s to hoping I can find and agent/publisher.

IGBH Long Shuttle Ride by RagingCyc0ne

A Clandestine Meeting by RagingCyc0ne

Negotiating with Jixl by RagingCyc0ne

Intergalactic Bounty Hunters: Edge of Extinction by RagingCyc0ne

Eavesdropping by RagingCyc0ne

F.I.A.'s Secret is Revealed by RagingCyc0ne

Logan's Pride by RagingCyc0ne

From a new story I am writing with original characters and plotline:

Intergalactic Bounty Hunters

Ship ID: I.S.S. Antares (500 meter long cargo vessel, fourteen decks, four fighter bays, standard defense armament with six plasma cannons and two particle beam turrets, crew compliment 250, current crew 12)

Current Assignment: Decommissioned after war between the Hegemony and Outer Rim Colony Worlds

Year: 1847 of the New Hegemonic Calendar

Intergalactic Bounty Hunters Recast by RagingCyc0ne

first half of the cast of characters from a new story I started writing:

Intergalactic Bounty Hunters

   Ivana Petrovich ran through one of the starboard corridors of her scavenged starship, Logan’s Pride. During the war it was designated a different name that was still painted on the hull, I.S.S. Antares. Currently it was parked in low orbit around one of the lifeless moons of the second gas giant of the Caldera system. Should anyone flying by discover the vessel, it would appear as a floating hulk in a decaying orbit just as Ivana planned. Once a soldier ten years ago during the war fighting with other colonists against the tyranny of the Imperial Hegemony located in the core worlds of the galaxy, the thirty-five year old woman now lived on the fringes of civilization working as a mercenary and bounty hunter. With her crew of twelve, they barely survived from one job to the next but that was better than living life under the thumb of the Hegemony. Out here on the outer rim their patrols were scarce and each star system was ruled by some unscrupulous figure or another trying to avoid the ire of the core worlds. Mercs and bounty hunters were always in demand as they fought each other for control of scarce resources left behind after the war.

From left to right:

Cordovan

Amy Rodgers

Celeste Ersong

Galen Tremaine (Alternate ID Scott Daniels after his bounty was turned in by Ivana)

Ivana Petrovich

F.I.A. (Fully Integrated Automaton)

Maktai

(Cordovan and Celeste are the creations of

Meeting Kyoko by RagingCyc0ne

Celeste VS Celeste by RagingCyc0ne

The Smuggler and the Elf by RagingCyc0ne

Alora the Cathar Jedi by RagingCyc0ne

Jacen Faces His Shadow by RagingCyc0ne

Celeste VS Okus by RagingCyc0ne

From A Jedi in Azeroth: The Past Returns, Part Sixteen: The Light at the End of the Tunnel...Celeste faces Okus on the battlefield...

   Celeste bounded back a few steps after her lightsaber clashed with that of the green skinned demon. He never spoke and she wasn’t sure that he even could, but his mastery of the lightsaber forms surpassed even Master Dorak. She swung her blade before her like a saw as she advanced with each step, and each time he deflected her attack. Ataru, Soresu, Niman, and any form she attempted he countered perfectly. He looked like a sith according to all of the holo images she had seen, but he did not feel natural through the Force. She sidestepped for another round when he countered with a swing to her midsection. The saberstaff tilted in her hands to block his attack, and at the last second he raised the blade slicing through the hilt and destroying the crystal of the lower blade. In shock she leapt back several feet and held the remaining half of her weapon in her right hand.

   “You’re advantage is gone, little one,” the man scoffed at her. “Now you will meet your end.”

Born of Two Worlds Book Cover by RagingCyc0ne