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What Do We Know - Titan Spires by Cooper3, literature

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What Do We Know - Titan Spires

December 25, 2012. Christmas. An annual Terra Firma holiday before the new year. But this was not for celebration, religious contemplation, and gifts under a green, twinkling tree in someone’s house. Humans, however, were recovering from the Wave’s devastating, life-altering effects that could get worse by the minute. Terrans appeared all over, demonized as living weapons and studied in hopes for a cure. The United States gathered the bodies of the enthralled and plan to refill government offices to retain national security. The European Union races to prevent widespread hysteria against magic. Remote towns and villages were cut

What Do We Know - Slipspace Transportation by Cooper3, literature

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What Do We Know - Slipspace Transportation

Any sentient species in the galaxy can sum up the major transportation systems by one word: resourceful. When you can’t use one method for space travel, others are available, for a price. Simpler species, like the humans of Terra Firma, could assume there is one method just by calculating the vast distances between worlds, their current physics mathematics, their technology, and scores of science fiction stories most species fall asleep over. And stick with it. Such narrow-minded reality thinking is not tolerated. It’s best to remind them what’s available, starting with the cheapest. Cryogenics is still active, as intrave

What Do We Know - Slipspace Communication and UTs by Cooper3, literature

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What Do We Know - Slipspace Communication and UTs

Throughout the Galactic Republic, Slipspace is rudimentary to the government’s power, the lifeblood to the Milky Way galaxy. But the technology is not a permanent stream; this universe is bound to its limitations. Being simple in design, an artificially grown crystal with a specific ion matrix is used as a fuel source and the true representation of hybrid tech. It is hard to manufacture but incredibly self-reliant for all communications. But what is Slipspace? This alternate dimension does not mimic our dimension as one would theorize and what not scientists and wizards could explain. It is a dimension made entirely of energy—ch

What Do We Know - The Galactic Republic by Cooper3, literature

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What Do We Know - The Galactic Republic

The Milky Way galaxy; quiet from afar but busy from within. Humans on Terra Firma still conflict with each other whether life exists outside the Sol system, or their planet is the universe’s center to be that naive, while fighting over who’s religion is right or wrong. But it’s no secret. The galaxy is full of life, and far more established than what humans could comprehend. Multitudes of species, races, cultures, technology, and magic, among seventeen billion worlds. Many forms of flesh, elemental, energy, cosmic, autonomous, and synthetic. Species that want to explore, trade, communicate, conquer, and perhaps kill, all

Mana Pool - The Ghost Factor - Chapter 1 Sample by Cooper3, literature

What Do We Know - Containment Protocol and After by Cooper3, literature

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What Do We Know - Containment Protocol and After

On New Year’s Day morning, the White House was still under lockdown since the nation-wide massacre. Bodies were still being picked up across the capitol by the truckload, cars and infrastructure damaged to untold sums of repair costs, and people had their faces to the live news of the Oval Office. Sarah Winchester, Secretary of the Interior who worked and educated herself out of Los Angeles’ Skid Row when she was a child, survived the massacre in Capitol Hill after hiding in a closet with three others with a fire axe in her hand. Scores of red-eyed humans that were employees and civilians slaughtered people, each one chanting, &#

What Do We Know - The Wave by Cooper3, literature

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What Do We Know - The Wave

This is the first in a series of Mana Pool draft notes—facts, history, characters, species, politics, locations, etc.—and are subject to change for the final result. Enjoy the readings. ***** One week after popular media became infatuated with Jaruka Teal’s presence, report the damage of the controversial containment protocol, and debate the “terran threat,” a small fishing vessel dubbed the Brigadier docked in Skagway, Alaska. It was not their regular port of call: it was an emergency. It’s hull was dented by a Wave Crystal. Holes were noticed and had to be patched, but the cabin it leaked into had to be

What Do We Know - Asteroid Helen by Cooper3, literature

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What Do We Know - Asteroid Helen

This is the first in a series of Mana Pool draft notes—facts, history, characters, species, politics, locations, etc.—and are subject to change for the final result. Enjoy the readings. ***** On December 21, 2012 at 12:37PM PST, asteroid K2-5387 commonly known as Asteroid Helen, crashed into the North Pacific Ocean. It was dubbed Ground Zero afterwards, located under three hundred miles from Alaska’s coastline at location 55°41'08.8"N 144°25'29.2”W, just short of the tectonic shelf, and east of Kodiak, AK. This is never forgotten, even when it changed the earth and its dominant species forever. At least, tha

Walls and Cracks by Cooper3, literature

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Walls and Cracks

With every wall you come across, it is either made of bricks and mortar, solid concrete, plywood, or anything your imagination makes it to be. Walls in life exist, either by the mind or in reality, always there or self-created, and they always come with fear and doubt in an uncertain future. But there exists cracks. These cracks are hope. They can be small as a micrometer, a pin hole, a pipe, a tunnel, or as large as a canyon. Sometimes you feel them, see them, but most of all, they are hidden from you, in plain sight. It takes skill, luck, hard work, perseverance, and mentorship to find these cracks because no matter what, you strive to su

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What Do We Know - Asteroid Helen

This is the first in a series of Mana Pool draft notes—facts, history, characters, species, politics, locations, etc.—and are subject to change for the final result. Enjoy the readings. ***** On December 21, 2012 at 12:37PM PST, asteroid K2-5387 commonly known as Asteroid Helen, crashed into the North Pacific Ocean. It was dubbed Ground Zero afterwards, located under three hundred miles from Alaska’s coastline at location 55°41'08.8"N 144°25'29.2”W, just short of the tectonic shelf, and east of Kodiak, AK. This is never forgotten, even when it changed the earth and its dominant species forever. At least, tha

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Artist // Hobbyist // Literature

June 10
United States
Deviant for 15 years
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Science Fiction/Fantasy Author and Cybersecurity major
Lives in Tustin, California

Personal Quote: Life is precious. Live it to its fullest.

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If for music and art, Linkin Park

Favourite Movies

Blood Into Wine, Cloverfield, Blues Brothers, Transformers (2006), Caddyshack, Serenity, Tears of the Sun, 21

Favourite TV Shows

No Reservations, Tosh.0, Discovery Channel, Sleepy Hollow

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Linkin Park, The Petebox

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Jim Butcher books, Dan Brown books, Scott Sigler books

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Jim Butcher

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Halo, Counter Strike

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Pen, Pencil, Macbook, Coffee, Tea, Pandora

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Writing, Macs, Android, Moleskine notebooks, craft beer

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Nov 21, 2021

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Nov 13, 2021

Done with DA and My Future

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Hello, all. Yes. I know how long it’s been since I posted anything on DA. An actual journal post than a blog link. Or any story post. And I have reasons. Eclipse is terrible. The moment it went live, it turned me off so much it wasn’t workable to me. The top issue: search. Not only is the search bar so downgraded, even searching by tag is horrible when I want to look up new stories. Browsing through Categories is what I miss the most. To see how one category is changing is gone. Eclipse’s Topics are too broad for me, and I can’t filter them to the sub-topics. But what’s worse for me is how the stories are formatted. Bringing the modern blog editor is helpful for some people, and I can see a benefit when adding images. Still, the reader experience from the previous theme was great. Able to resize the text and add indents. And the interrelations with watchers is bad. My Watch page has more emphasis on the deviations than the journal updates. The notification system is basic, like