"Chronicles from Mandalore"
(Link from FF.net) About a year or two after "Order 66", on Mandalore...
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Mandalorians!
Characters: Bardan "Gotab" Jusik, Fi, Parja, Ordo, Kal Skirata, OC's
Timeline: Rise of the Empire (roughly 2 years after Order 66)
Summary: Two siblings are thrown off their comfortable ordinary lives to follow their father's heritage in the Mandalorian culture, and team up with a guy named Gotab who offers to help them getting used to their new lifestyle but instead gets them into deep trouble with the Empire.
Feedback: appreciated if you have some
Distribution: encouraged!
Disclaimer: only borrowing Karen's left over work and not making any profit from this production, G. Lucas is sitting on it.
I've been writing Star Wars fanfics for over 10 years now but this is the first serious project that I've given birth to around 3 months ago. It's pretentiously entitled Chronicles from Mandalore because it centers around Mandalorians and I just lack the creativity for titles.
Chronicles... is long, rather slow and I tried to make it interesting. It sure will be if you liked the Mandalorian aspects from Republic Commando novels and the short A Practical Man but personally I don't like using the Mando'a language too often in my writing since it doesn't sound real enough to my "mind's ears".
The main character is Bardan Jusik, first reason because he's a Jedi turned Mando (oh, ha ha - cliché already) and I wanted to work on real character development based on him. I think Karen Traviss kind of slacked a bit on that side while she could have shown a little more. Secondly, he always appears conveniently neutral in Republic Commando, eager to please Skirata and friends, and more or less devoid of a backbone until the end of Triple Zero. But he's actually a "mando sandbox", good at everything he does so, being lazy with action descriptions it takes a chunk of work off my hands.
There are original characters that I created for the sake of writing a plot, humor and some drama (I'm honestly not a big fan of the "clone drama"), to see the mando universe from an ordinary person's perspective. A few cameo appearances from the Skirata clan (a few clones, Kal himself, etc) and, because I love young men wearing plasteel armor, some Stormtrooper action as well. Who doesn't love those guys?
I'm currently writing the second part of that series and I'm facing a slight author's block... hopefully getting new readers will boost my productivity a bit. If not well, tough shit! ;-)
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Mandalorians!
Characters: Bardan "Gotab" Jusik, Fi, Parja, Ordo, Kal Skirata, OC's
Timeline: Rise of the Empire (roughly 2 years after Order 66)
Summary: Two siblings are thrown off their comfortable ordinary lives to follow their father's heritage in the Mandalorian culture, and team up with a guy named Gotab who offers to help them getting used to their new lifestyle but instead gets them into deep trouble with the Empire.
Feedback: appreciated if you have some
Distribution: encouraged!
Disclaimer: only borrowing Karen's left over work and not making any profit from this production, G. Lucas is sitting on it.
I've been writing Star Wars fanfics for over 10 years now but this is the first serious project that I've given birth to around 3 months ago. It's pretentiously entitled Chronicles from Mandalore because it centers around Mandalorians and I just lack the creativity for titles.
Chronicles... is long, rather slow and I tried to make it interesting. It sure will be if you liked the Mandalorian aspects from Republic Commando novels and the short A Practical Man but personally I don't like using the Mando'a language too often in my writing since it doesn't sound real enough to my "mind's ears".
The main character is Bardan Jusik, first reason because he's a Jedi turned Mando (oh, ha ha - cliché already) and I wanted to work on real character development based on him. I think Karen Traviss kind of slacked a bit on that side while she could have shown a little more. Secondly, he always appears conveniently neutral in Republic Commando, eager to please Skirata and friends, and more or less devoid of a backbone until the end of Triple Zero. But he's actually a "mando sandbox", good at everything he does so, being lazy with action descriptions it takes a chunk of work off my hands.
There are original characters that I created for the sake of writing a plot, humor and some drama (I'm honestly not a big fan of the "clone drama"), to see the mando universe from an ordinary person's perspective. A few cameo appearances from the Skirata clan (a few clones, Kal himself, etc) and, because I love young men wearing plasteel armor, some Stormtrooper action as well. Who doesn't love those guys?
I'm currently writing the second part of that series and I'm facing a slight author's block... hopefully getting new readers will boost my productivity a bit. If not well, tough shit! ;-)