“Eventually, everyone fails you. Whether through betrayal or weakness, they cannot take the next step with you. It is the nature of being more that others must be less. It is the nature of se...
2025-10-29 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Premonition is, at its core, a flawed form of magic that can never be successful. There are simply too many factors for it to ever work as intended. Time is not linear but branching, with ev...
2025-10-27 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“One aspect of mana that remains outside of mortal reach is chaos. We often see eidolons manifest with it as their defining characteristic, but no mortal has ever been able to access it. We a...
2025-10-24 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Trust is a fool’s invitation. Ultimately, the only living creature in the universe that you can be entirely certain of the intentions of is yourself. When you trust, you put a knife in a t...
2025-10-22 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Completing your mission is of the utmost importance. It is essentially impossible to get past the inherent cowardice encoded into every life form, the survival instinct that says that living...
2025-10-20 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Sometimes I have to do the right thing. I hate doing the right thing. It always ends up costing me more than I’m willing to pay. I still do it, because otherwise I can’t sleep at night o...
2025-10-17 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Proposal Three: The shikari are the cause of the Aion’s downfall. A predator that the magic-reliant Aions had never encountered before, and which could dispatch their defenders faster than...
2025-10-15 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Proposal Two: The shikari are the watchdogs of the Aions. Knowing that they would no longer have a physical presence upon this plane of existence, the Aions recognized that they would still ...
2025-10-13 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Proposal One: The shikari are the Aions. Faced with their inevitable decline, the Aion people instead chose to divorce themselves from magic and their higher brain functions, leaving behind ...
2025-10-10 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“The problem with Aion defenses is that they’re always an outside context problem. They’re never straightforward or easy to navigate. They always have to be approached with a novel soluti...
2025-10-08 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Happy Tuesday!
I am here with a non-Starbreaker post to announce that my latest new series – Aetherforged is available now! Co-written with the awesome Harmon Cooper, this boo...
2025-10-07 15:21:10 +0000 UTC View Post“What we know about the Aions fills up only a very tiny corner of what they were. We lack almost every piece of the puzzle, and much of our attempts to understand them come not from examining...
2025-10-06 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Eidolon incursions are the most common cause of a planet’s death. Second is necromancy. Third, shikari outbreaks. From there, we have a massive drop-off in percentages until we reach natur...
2025-10-03 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post“While one might consider a creature without magic to be ill-equipped to face a world in which magic exists, one would be grossly underestimating the limitations of the physical. Magic allows...
2025-10-01 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“The shikari have a hive-like social structure with a single queen that lays eggs, reproducing through partial parthenogenesis. Some of the shikari seem to have special adaptations that are c...
2025-09-29 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“The way that mages are taught to fight is multi-faceted, but it lends itself equally well to inter-ship combat as it does to direct interpersonal confrontations. The problem that most mages ...
2025-09-26 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Some mana is inaccessible. While our affinities grant us access to a broad spread of the mana in the universe, some floes of it are untouched and untouchable. Beyond even our ability to sens...
2025-09-24 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Your squad will become your friends, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. Even if you start off loathing every single one of them, hating everything they do and wishing they’d all drop ...
2025-09-22 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Standard operating procedure for any clandestine organization is to go in soft, make your presence invisible, don’t let anyone know that you’re there until you’re done, and, for prefer...
2025-09-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“This universe is composed of infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Whatever collection of celestial bodies the mind can imagine can be found somewhere out there in the expanse of spac...
2025-09-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“For the duplication of the self produces ethical dilemmas as yet unthought of. Whatever is created is you, but only at the moment of its conception. After that moment, all that it perceives ...
2025-09-15 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“This troth I forge, with no expectation
Of reciprocation nor love returned
No promise I beg
But asking only this
Live until hammers no longer ring
Until the forge fires of the...
“While humanity was still divided into nation states in the cradle of its homeworld, the dwarves had spread beyond their own system to begin prospecting and mining the asteroids contained in ...
2025-09-10 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Of the myriad and varied species that make up the Empyrean Alliance, none are more stalwart in their support of its ideals than the dwarves. While there have been isolationist factions among...
2025-09-08 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Those who study the eidolon in its natural habitat are few and far between, primarily because its natural habitat is a chaotic dimension filled with eidolons that want nothing more than to k...
2025-09-05 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe vault is the most sought-after of all the remnants of the Aion civilization, not because it has any greater value than those things discovered outside of the vaults, but because of the degr...
2025-09-03 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Null-space is something of a misnomer because it implies that it is a place. A place with nothing in it, but still a place. Rather, null-space is the absence of all things, including all law...
2025-09-01 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Digging through the ruins of dead civilizations is the prerogative of those species that have survived, and nowhere is that truer than in the case of the Aions, from whom so much of our mode...
2025-08-29 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Violence is never the answer.”
—Lies the Elves Told Me, Fal’Vaelith
The blow hit him in the jaw, which, through the power of his embodiment, currently had the...
2025-08-27 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“There is no such thing as a criminal. There is a person who has been pushed beyond the limits of the law by their circumstances or who has made bad choices so that they can survive and thriv...
2025-08-25 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post