It's been thirteen years since Dravis was defeated at his stronghold in Venus and the alien virus has been deactivated. For thirteen years, the solar system has been a peaceful place. The PTMC is now headed by the late Suzuki's son, Shin, along with his right hand woman, Karl Sweitzer's daughter, Alice Sweitzer, Vice-President of PTMC and Chairwoman of the Mining Robot Division. With the CED policing the solar system and keeping it safe from looting space pirates, all has been pretty peaceful. Several extra terrestrial colonies have since been salvaged and converted out of old blown PTMC mines. Some could not be recovered because of dangerously high levels of radiation when the mine blew and had to be sealed. Some of the remaining mine conversions are space hotels, resorts, shopping malls for the space tourists, speedways and sporting venues, restaurants and cafes, refueling stations, storage facilities, space ship assembly lines, museums, space academies, CED military bases and some are prisons.The CED converted Neptune Storage Depot into a prison. That's where all the space pirates who try to disrupt the peace are sent. That's where I come in. For the past thirteen years, I've been working with the CED, patrolling the black skies of the solar system, putting away dirt bag space pirates for stealing remnant weapon powerups from blown mines. For the most part, the looting is over, thank goodness, but every now and then, I'll get a call that a renegade is trying to disrupt the peace. There's a CED base on Pluto, where the old Pluto Military Base is. They call it Area 26. Go Figure. They have a few other military bases scattered throughout the solar system. The biggest base of theirs is in the Asteroid Belt at the Asteroid Secret Base. That's where all the space pirate action takes place because those dirt bag space pirates think they can take over the weapons storage facility there.Here is a full list of the old PTMC mines from my first stint at being contracted with the PTMC to rid the infected robots and what they have been converted to today:01: Lunar Outpost - PTMC Energy Depot (a lunar refueling station)02: Lunar Sci-Lab - PTMC Robot Museum (a replica of all robots from Descent on display)03: Lunar Military Base - CED Space Academy, The Moon (space cadet training from the CED and CED first line military base defense)04: Venus Atmospheric Lab - Same (restored, conducts and monitors atmospheric experiments on weather changes and greenhouse effects)05: Venus Nickel-Iron Mine - Nickel-Iron Raceway (an anti-gravity spacecraft racing circuit)06: Venus Solar Research Lab - Same (restored, conducts tests on solar flares and solar storms. Ran by ISAA [Interplanetary Space Atmospheric Association] )07: Mercury Core - closed and sealed due to excess amounts of radiation from Super Hulk destruction08: Mars Processing Station - Israeli Manufacturing, Co. (assembly line for the Pyro line of spacecrafts)09: Mars Military Dig - CED Station, Mars10: Mars Orbital Station - Spaceball Park (hosts several arenas including the venue "spaceball" where the sport you know as baseball is taken to all new anti-gravity heights. Also hosts various Monsterball events, Capture the Flag, Laser Tag, and much more. A total of 7 arenas built from the old Mars Orbital Station, now grounded on Mars surface)11: Io Sulpher Mine - Io Geological Research Lab (conducts research on planetary core changes)12: Callisto Tower Colony - Grande Luxe, Callisto (a space hotel)13: Europa Mining Colony - closed and sealed, excess radiation from mineblast14: Europa CO2 Mine - Europa Venture (a habitat with a self-sustaining ecosystem, such as plant life, farms, living quarters, etc.)15: Titan Mine - Titan Mall (contains theaters, shops, cafes, rock climbing, etc.)16: Hyperion Methane Mine - Level 16 Energy (a methane refinery and distribution center, because of the depths of the old Hyperion mine, this mine was an excellent candidate to salvage as a refinery. With it's new construction, it is now 30 times deeper than the old Hyperion Methane Mine)17: Tethys H2O Mine - Tethys Magnetics Research Lab (it's circular shape is perfect for conducting research on free spinning magnetic technology and the effects water has on gravity and magnetics)18: Miranda Mine - Miranda Speedway (home of the largest interior spacecraft speedway in the solar system)19: Oberon Mine - Grand Luxe, Oberon (a space hotel/resort)20: Oberon Iron Mine - Oberon Mall (contains theaters, shops, cafes, rock climbing, etc.)21: Oberon Platinum Mine - PTMC Robot Museum, Oberon (a replica of all robots from Descent on display. Also features a target practice shooting range!)22: Neptune Storage Depot - CED Maximum Security Penitentiary (where rogue space pirates and offenders of outer space crime land)23: Triton Storage Depot - PTMC Storage Depot, Triton (restored as a storage depot for various things for travelers of deep space)24: Nereid Volatile Mine - CED Deep Space Academy, Nereid (a larger facility than the CED Space Academy, it acts as "graduate school" to cadets who graduate from the CED Space Academy on the moon equipped with facilities that will prepare them for deep space ventures. Features a magnetics research facility similar to the one on Tethys, a self sustaining ecosystem wing, research labs, anti-gravity research, etc.)25: Pluto Outpost - Pluto Plasma, Co. (a private business)26: Pluto Military Base - CED Station, Pluto27: Charon Volatile Mine - closed and sealed due to excess radiation from Ultra Hulk destructionAs good as this looks from the outside, there is a sense of tension in the air. I have a feeling that this peace cannot last much longer.To Be Continued. . .
Hehe, but can you top 70,000 words for a story?
Except that a lot of those works are not yet complete, or already published another way ... And writers are notorious for not wanting to share their works before it's finished.
Yes, I've long-past topped 70,000 words on a novel that's about... one-third done. Oh, and it's the third in the trilogy.
I had an english prof a couple of years ago, who told the entire class that the act of writing could never be fun and was always torturous no matter who the author was. I almost quit the class (w)right then because she was so wrong
I think I can only tell people what my story is about, but the actual typing out chapters, heh, not my strong point at all.
Quote from: Vanguard on October 28, 2011, 06:19:12 AMI think I can only tell people what my story is about, but the actual typing out chapters, heh, not my strong point at all.I had the same issue in the past, but what I'm doing this time, I'm going by an outline, and the rest of the story/drama/conversation is all filler to get to the next point in the outline.