The Speedwell Colony, Sigma Draconis
A starship leaves Earth in our near future. It makes a multigenerational journey to arrive at a potential colony world in the Sigma Draconis star system. As they settle into their new home they find the ruins of a former civilization. While exploring those ruins they discover magic. The ruins are not ruins at all, but the edges of a world spanning structure that hosts a real life game.
Many of the colony ship’s landing generation settle into the structure, where they work to build a new future for their people. It is a life that uses magic to bridge the gap between human abilities and the dangers of the structure.
It isn’t long before the old sins of humanity arise; addiction, greed, domination, prejudice.
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Irene was a sixteen year old apprentice engineer on the colony ship when it landed. Now, nine years later, she is a tier three wizard, torn between her duty to the colony and her desire for a life of her own. Journey with her through the structure as she navigates this new world as a woman, wizard and engineer.
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This story is a lot darker than previous novels in this series. It contains sex, rape, bigotry, robbery, assault, addiction, deception, betrayal and murder. Some of which occurs just off the edge of the page while others are directly on it. This story does not contain a happy ending. It is a story of loss and survival. These events are the pivot point in one woman’s life that shadow all her decisions and actions thereafter. If you are looking for a happy uplifting story, this isn’t it. Do not feel pressured to read this work. Comments and recollections in previous volumes have already given the basic outline of the events that occur within, so there is no requirement to read this book in order to follow the greater story. It is presented here to give a deeper understanding of characters' roots, reasoning and motivations.
This is a story of war.