The Weylan spent the two millennia following the last great war rebuilding their civilization. Arkadia was a binary system, and the other star had a gas torus in orbit thick enough breathe in. There is some speculation that it was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for October, 2017
I have been writing or developing the Jack of Harts universe for years. It started with the characters, and then I began to flesh out the universe around them. What kind of universe would forge someone like the people I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Michael commanded the fighter squadron designated to liaise with my Cowboys. He and his two copilots flew with me throughout the Hyades Campaign, and proved to be valuable allies. We walked through Chinese streets together, meeting the locals and projecting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sarah was the first Weylan I ever got to know. Sunnydale really opened my eyes to a lot of things. But speaking of eyes…Sarah had some amazing ones. You know her people can see a lot more than we can,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fall of Arkadia was the end. Until then, the Albion had been fighting to protect their legacy and their lives. After Arkadia fell, the Albion knew that nothing they had could stop the Ennead from killing them. After Arkadia[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My family had business concerns throughout human-occupied space, so I met many aliens in the century after Contact. Michael was not the first Weylan I met because of this. He was the first one I spent enough time with to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I met Sarah at Sunnydale when her people first arrived to help us. She was the first of her kind I ever met. Yeah, she was pretty as an angel. No, she wasn’t one. Her race is younger than the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Albion of Arkadia were the foremost gengineers in a race famous for their genetic tinkering. The Weylan were their greatest creation, and if there was any system the Weylan defended more than Albion itself, it was Arkadia. They manned[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“I’m picking up active targeting radar,” Jasmine announced as the Hellcats flew inside one lightsecond of them. “Looks like a Technicron Actitrax Mark XII or XIII.” “Wasn’t the Mark X they last one they used?” Jack asked. “In the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our legacy of art influenced how we saw the Weylan after Contact. It also, ironically, influenced how they saw us. And it influenced how they interacted with us, down to the words they chose when it was time to translate[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…