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End of Grass Eaters Book 1
🕑 Added 2024-05-15 16:49:00 +0000 UTCAs Book 1 of Grass Eaters draws to a close, I want to take a moment to thank all of you for helping make this possible and share my plans for the future of Grass Eaters.
Thank you all for your support. Your decision to subscribe not only fuels my passion for writing but also validates the hours I've spent researching, drafting, and editing Grass Eaters. It's thrilling to know that there are amazing people like you who enjoy what I create and are willing to support my journey as a writer. Please know that your support is cherished, and I am immensely grateful for all of it.
In the long term, I'll use the money I've made here to work with an artist for my book cover...etc and get started on the process to eventually launch my book onto Amazon after I finish publishing the entire story online. I'll keep you updated on that, and to show my appreciation of your support, I promise to put your names in my acknowledgement chapter (unless you don't want to and opt-out).
But for now:
The story of Grass Eaters is not over.
When I first started planning out this story, I knew it would be a story with a beginning and an end, specifically in 3 parts (though the last part might need to be split into a fourth; we'll see). Each was to have a strong arc/theme that could stand on its own, though each should build up its concept from the previous.
On Friday, I will begin posting the first chapters of Book 2 without interruption. Again, I want to thank everyone who have stuck with this story, and I hope to see you all in the next one!
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Grass Eaters 2: Orbital Shift
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Recap: The Story So Far
As humanity reached out into the stars, the nations of the world joined the newly formed Terran Republic, with the exception of some criminal elements that resisted the reach of its authority around Saturn. Through discreet interstellar exploration, the Republic found the neighboring galaxy a place of wonder and prosperity, filled with peaceful civilizations like the Malgeir Federation, the Schprissian Confederacy, the Granti Alliance…etc. Perfectly ripe for the taking for the uniquely bloodthirsty herbivore species, the Znosian Dominion, known to all other species in the region as Grass Eaters.
Motivated by a religious and psychological need to expand, the rabbit-like Znosians invaded the bear-like Granti. Despite the peaceful Granti species receiving direct military assistance from their old friends, the canine-like Malgeir, they were overwhelmed and forced to evacuate their entire territory, including their homeworld of Grantor. The Znosians then turned their sights to the Malgeir, who they proceeded to also dominate on the battlefield due to their superior understanding of interstellar war and logistics. In the course of the brutal invasion, the Znosians colonized, then efficiently exterminated any predators remaining on the occupied planets.
Still hidden and insulated from the war due to its grasp of stealth technology and the legacy of the Prime Directive, a cornerstone law that prohibited revelation of Terran presence to aliens, the people of the Terran Republic watched the ongoing war and xenocide with a mix of horror and indifference… until one of its reconnaissance fleets was forced to act to prevent its own discovery. The presence of one of its recon ships was observed during the act by the Malgeir and Znosian ships present, and the Terran Republic finally decided to join the war covertly on the Malgeir side.
With centuries of experience with constant war, excellent logistics, computing technology, and wild underestimation from the Znosian enemy, the Terrans helped the sworn-to-secrecy and retrained Malgeir Sixth Fleet beat back an invasion of the Malgeir core world of Datsot, capitalizing on enemy missteps to push them all the way back to the occupied Malgeir system of Gruccud, finally trapping and forcing the surrender of the invasion fleet with technological deception.
But the threat was not over. The vast Znosian Dominion still outweighed the alliance of the predators by more than ten to one in tonnage, particularly the Terran Republic which was still practically a single-system species. The Znosian leadership had its suspicions of the recent, unexplained losses. And they still occupied the worlds of the entire Granti civilization and most of the periphery of the Malgeir Federation.
The known galaxy held its breath to see what the two sides would do next…
Comments
M
Congratulations. I loved every moment:)
Valdis Trautmanis
Breath held for Book 2! Keep up the excellent work!
Krzychu0304
The issue of galactic geography is puzzling, so far we have only seen the lower left corner of the Znosian Dominion, we know nothing about the space directly to the left or below the Dominion, not to mention other directions... It seems to me that there should be worlds of other clumsy predators there. Malgier, by putting up more effective resistance than other directions, could cause the Znosians to abandon this direction and focus their expansion on other easier and more profitable territories. Although there is a certain probability that the Znosians will decide to quickly eliminate the problematic Malgiers before they can dig in better and draw forces from the remaining fronts, but this seems to me to be contrary to the Znosian military doctrine and it does not seem very likely to me. It seems most likely to me that the Znosians will do what they usually do, i.e. press in all directions with the same force, and if they notice a slowdown in expansion in some direction, these are only temporary difficulties that will pass by themselves once their fleet gets used to the new conditions of conflict, right? There is also the issue of Humans/Malgiers expanding into unknown regions of space in search of resources/potential allies.
EclipseDragon96
And with that we are done! Can't wait to see what book two has to offer.
Mari
Loved Book One and I can’t wait for it to become available on Amazon!
AnAbsoluteVillain
Congratulations on Book One! Looking forward to more Buns and Woofers in space.
