Dark Energy
Author's Note
I had planned a much grander Author's note to be put here, but given that it's almost as long as Chapter 1, I'll instead simply put my basic thoughts and assumptions here, until I can improve my intro once I get feedback from the people who already have the completed story in their hands right now.
Starting from the top, I made this story as a What if Sega let me do the story for a Phantasy Star V?
I hit writer's block at a turning point, and since I don't have the technical knowledge to build a game, I decided to convert the script into a novel. There is actually a deeper reason, but it's closely related with how my twisted mind works, so I won't mention it until I complete the real author's note.
I assume that the Ashley family tree doesn't have a healthy amount of branches, and that Seed would consider his project as a partial failure if he could analyze what happened after PS IV.
I also assume that Piata Academy globalized, renaming itself as Motavia University to reflect this, but kept the Piata campus as its flagship.
I consider the sketches in the Phantasy Star Compendium, bottom of page 55, as valid for my purposes, despite the claims that they are just sketches.
I think that Hahn became a tenured professor, and while PS IV suggested that he is most experienced in materials sciences, I decided his experiences made him branch into almost every aspect of human knowledge. To help further civilization, he created a directive, agreed upon by every town in Motavia, that acts as a basic framework to standardize laws, and to legitimatize bounty hunting beyond jurisdictional limitations.
For some reason, I think there's more that I forgot about, but I can't think of any more off the top of my head. I still feel skittish about releasing this story into the wild, but I just can't justify destroying it without giving it a shot.
Special thanks to Tanith, Tara C, and Jack N for volunteering to proofread the full version prior to its release- I just got impatient waiting for feedback, so I decided to release whole thing now, and correct what errors you guys find later. Given that you're reading this now, I have to thank BenoitRen for dealing with the extremely shoddy coding I put into this thing (You should've seen me when I first spotted the errors in my template file's head- 30 chapters down the road). Also, Black Sword quickly managed to replace the names for my characters, no questions asked. (I was a little shocked when he gave me the name for the main protagonist, but I'm sure he never saw the manuscript prior to this release...) There is one more person I would like to thank, but I choose to keep the name under wraps for now, since for some reason, I can't help but feel the person may no longer be active here...
Chapters
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 36
- Chapter 37
- Chapter 38
- Chapter 39
- Chapter 40
- Chapter 41
- Chapter 42
- Chapter 43
- Chapter 44
- Chapter 45
- Chapter 46
- Chapter 47
- Chapter 48
- Chapter 49
- Chapter 50
- Chapter 51
- Chapter 52
- Chapter 53
- Chapter 54
- Chapter 55
- Chapter 56
- Chapter 57
- Chapter 58
- Chapter 59
