Hi! This chapter is pure housekeeping, so feel free to skip if you’d like.

What is The Europa Station Chronicles?

The Europa Station Chronicles is a near-future sci-fi series that follows the stories of members of the Global Space Corps, a fictional paramilitary agency created to stand at the forefront humanity's first steps into the cosmos. Each book has its own main character and its own unique storyline, although there's significant overlap between them. All of the characters are featured in all of the books, but the protagonist in one may be just a background character in another.

This series focuses just as much on the politics of space exploration as it does on the actual science. Since it takes place a mere few decades in the future, there's no interstellar travel, no space battles, and nothing that can't be explained by our current understanding of science. They aren't fighting galactic monsters - they've barely figured out how to mine an asteroid. That being said, this doesn't mean there won't be room for the dark and mysterious. In fact, unexplained natural phenomena may just be a central plot point of book 2 :)

Oh, and remember - the biggest threat to humans has always been other people. Just putting that out there.

Volume I: Delights of Eden explores the story of General Harlow during the war and includes flashbacks to his time as a cadet, providing further context to the action taking place in the present. This volume functions as a sort of prequel to the main series, and is light on the worldbuilding and sci-fi elements, instead focusing on plot development and character-specific lore.

Volume II includes more hard sci-fi elements and has a new main character. Details will be announced closer to release.

A few things to know before you get started:

Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.

* I've been writing these books since around 2020-ish, although I've had the idea for over a decade.

* All of my work is pre-written so I can maintain a consistent upload schedule and keep putting out content regularly. I pre-schedule the chapter releases, and while that’s going, I'm working on the next volume.

* My current upload schedule is 2X per week. Right now I've got a chapters going up on Tuesday and Friday evenings. I may also take a hiatus in between volumes to work on developmental edits, but I've got plans for additional content in the meantime such as bonus chapters and character art. I usually take a break during the month of December due to holidays, work, and family commitments, and also to give myself time to reset for the new year and refresh my creativity. Writers are human, after all.

* Everything I post here has been thoroughly proofread and professionally edited. Is that a bit overkill? Yes. Am I still going to do it because I’m a perfectionist? Absolutely. I have a very high commitment to quality.

* I’m not a professional writer, and I don’t do this for a living. For me, writing is a hobby. While I try to maintain a consistent schedule, there may be unforeseen delays.

* The Royal Road version of this story is an adaptation of the full work. While it's as complete as I can make it, some content has been rearranged, revised, or censored to suit a serialized medium. This is the SFW version – the full text will be available elsewhere. These changes are minor, and probably about 98% of the text is unaffected.

* If you'd like more updates and further info, please consider following me on Instagram (@chris.writes.books). That’s my primary form of outreach. You can listen to me ramble ad nauseum!

* Eventually, I plan to release print and eBook versions of this series. These will be published under the name on my profile (which is a pen name) in select online stores. Please report any bootleg or suspicious versions of this story if you see them elsewhere. The online stores I've chosen to use (including Amazon) can be found through the link in my bio.

* This story is not stubbing and never will. I have no plans to put it on KU, ever. There will always be a free version of my work available, and I plan to keep it that way for the indefinite future.

* This story is entirely AI-free. It was written by a human, edited by a human, and any art or illustrations you see were drawn by a human. No part of this work may be used to train generative AI models.

This is my own original, copyrighted work. First upload date on Royal Road was January 1st, 2024.

Now, without further ado, on to the story.