“Two Clusters” is a universe I’ve created decades ago. There are many short stories based on this universe with most of them not being long enough to be created into a novel. It was meant to be that way because each short story would eventually become intertwined with each other. Alas, such a format is not suitable for the general audience. It is a fantasy sci-fi world. It is “fantasy” because the starting year of this universe is A.D. 9599, which is about 7,500 years into the future. The laws of this universe are based on realism, but things had to be created. The primary examples are subspace portal, spaceship shielding, advanced ion engine that could speed up to ⅔ of light speed and so forth. How those work cannot scientifically be explained, thus I’ve added “fantasy” to its genre. “A Two Clusters story” means that this story is bound to the lore of the universe I’ve created. It won’t mean anything to you most likely but, for me, it means I am able to use assets I’ve created under Two Clusters universe, such as spaceships you are going to see. Any spaceships you are going to see are my own creations via Blender 3D application. They are NOT AI generated. This is also true for space stations as well. Company names, spaceships / stations, political situations and whatnot remain the same for all Two Clusters stories.

This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

Now, as for why it is called Two Clusters is that the stories are happening predominantly in two places. One is our own Solar system. The other is the Podlezl system. Two Systems didn’t sound right to me, so I replaced it with clusters. This story “Rocksea” occurs in the outskirts of this Podlezl system, thus you won’t hear much about events of the Solar system other than distant gossip about politics and major events. I honestly do not know how long this story will be. What I do know is that it won’t be long, two volumes maximum most likely.