The below is an outline of the conflicts and plotline that the main body of work in the Terraverse revolves around, at least initially. The Labour Princes is a prologue to The Void War, which escalates into The Invasion, which precedes The Crood Wars.
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In my spare time at the office, I’ve taken to writing some short poetry, largely in the form of limericks (haikus mostly infuriate me, and limericks feel like a way of fulfilling my Irish heritage)
This is just another bit of lore for the fictional universe I’m working on.
This very short little piece was originally written while I was on a coach traveling from Austria to Prague during my adventures in Europe.
So the main conflict in my science fiction story The Terraverse is known as the Void War. This war is set off by a general strike in The Gliding Isles, a mining community aspiring to socialism in the faux-feudalism that the universe is dictated by.
These island states are nominally represented by union bosses forced into aristocratic pretenses, as “the Labour Princes”. The history of how this situation came to be is what follows, which will serve as the prelude to the novella I’m trying to write about the General Strike.
Following the early primitive attempts at adaptation in Shadowfax and Journey to Rivendell, a game was released that actually told the story of the first published Middle Earth book: 1982’s The Hobbit from Melbourne House.
So a few years ago I bought this laptop cheap on Trademe: a 2000 iBook G3 (Indigo), which had been used by a school for years before being retired. I bought the laptop, and after failing to install a burnt copy of Os X 10.3, I formatted it and reinstalled Mac os 9.2.1. This little machine has been a project of mine recently, as I’ve been trying some of my favorite PC games from the period that were ported to Mac and reliving them on contemporary tech.
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