Current Status update (Chapter 98)

Except to collect Tashana's research, images and records on Valada, Progenitors and their thralls.

Any update for 99 chapter

No, hasn't happened yet. The scene is set on Valaden. They haven't been down on the planet's surface since Edraele's conversion.

Jedi Khan

Okay, so who remembers the commission of the Twins overlooking the city? Wasn't that suppose to happen sometime in the early 90s chapters? But I don't think it did because the plans changed.

DemonHunterCole

So I wonder how many more addicts we'll have to add to our group before we start crashing the Patreon site with all our refreshes?

DemonHunterCole

Not a math genius, even if I am an engineer with an interest in physics... Yeah, I'll pass on sorting through math equations at this time of night. Really fucking cool video, though. (hums Cantina Song) Maybe I'll watch Star Wars while I wait for TSM.... Wonder where that idea came from...

ETNSosa

Spent the last 12 hours working on a business agreement, still have to shave my head and awaiting the gift of this chapter. Hoping that Tefler is sticking the beginning of Chapter 99 and the end as a gift and he is just dotting the I's and Crossing the T's!

Master Laurent

LOL, Just had a business con call and was pressing refresh the entire time. Thinking that Jedi will be getting a gift for his late shift.

Master Laurent

What, me? Nope... Not addicted... <refresh></refresh>

ETNSosa

And now at work. Tick tock.

Jedi Khan

FYI, Latest Chapter Delivery has been 9:18 EST - 2:18 am Tefler Time

Master Laurent

And time to go to work. Hopefully the new chapter will be up within the hour. It'll be a long shift otherwise.

Jedi Khan

I have been having minor cardiac episodes all day, hoping that I can get through this day and get to the chapter before they become an issue. Going to go and get an aspirin.

Master Laurent

Thinking of all of the refreshes going on right now, LOL

Master Laurent

Or maybe he'll just post it without warning. That'd be fine by me.

Jedi Khan

Tefler is working heads down, I am sure we are going to get a note that states he is finishing up and will post in 10 mins that usually equals 45 mins.

Master Laurent

Okay, I'm no math genius but this seems rather interesting: <a href="http://mashable.com/2018/01/11/cantina-theme-pencil-math-video/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://mashable.com/2018/01/11/cantina-theme-pencil-math-video/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link</a>#H2Imioa5raqw Do we have any math geniuses around? How about you check the math on this and see if it works?

Jedi Khan

Well the 11th came and went and still no chapter. I can picture tefler laughing his ass of looking at us counting the seconds.

If they don't get the Brimorian shields, Dana could have a epiphany while studying old projenator tech while loaded up.

8 minutes

15 minutes of the 11th left :-{, what do I do the jitters are getting out of hand

since I live in Germany we allready have the 12th (00.39am) and I need to go to sleep now because of work tomorrow. :/

Mapstar

I am very concerned about the Brimorian shield tech. I suddenly have the feeling that Dana will discover a fatal flaw in it that can be exploited by the T-Fed...and it is a flaw she knows how to fix. :-)

PLRus--Founding member of the TSM F5 club.

TSM withdrawal shakes increasing. Scratches neck.

I'm presently stuck at the DMV with a client, so I wouldn't object to the chapter being posted right now.

DemonHunterCole

He accidentally deleted it and so it will take another week to finish. :P

DemonHunterCole

Here's to that.

ETNSosa

Seems like 70 new comments in the last 2 hours.

DemonHunterCole

That's the dedication we like

Braw

Like I tell my customers. Promises are made to be broken. Best to have it done late an good then fast an sloppy.

Speaking of that, Tefler, where's the chapter? :P

ETNSosa

Wow... 100+ new comments today... You can tell everyone is jonesing for their fix.

ETNSosa

Tell me, what did the scene look like to you? A bunch of overgrown toddlers running around in circles throwing things? Maybe several Keystone Cops routines all happening at once?

Jedi Khan

Out having dinner with the family and I keep raising my phone to refresh all the while getting the evil eye from some of the family.

(peeks in, looks around, slips out)

strange

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I'm certain it will be released tonight to distract me from my finals prep for tomorrow morning.

Malthe Mørk Mejlby

*Refresh* Arrgh! it STILL says "Current Status update (Chapter 98)" Dangit!

GrandPaM

Not a flashback, per se, but a psychic recording unearthed at the site that Tashana was talking with John about in the previous chapter? The only problem is that I don't see them getting back there that quickly... although they could, to install the new shield technology at Genthalas station, while things go from Bad to Worse back in the Terran Federation, all unbeknownst to John and the crew.

Evan

That is why I Autosave every 2 minutes to my onedrive cloud share. I am sure Tefler has Drop Box or One Drive Office Account, heck, even the free account would provide enough to store the entire story.

Master Laurent

I really hope that Tefler has a backup hard drive... *power cuts* *hard drive deleted*

Dennis Banfield

Chapter 100 Suggestion - 10,000 year flashback to Mael’nerak and the Progenitor life back then before the war?

Master Laurent

Laughing, you know that over 200 comments have been added today, all of which Tefler gets a copy of in his inbox! He has stated on a couple or occasions that when it is the release day he usually does not look at his emails until he has released the chapter, but he is going to have some fun reading tomorrow.

Master Laurent

Switch your browser config, my every refresh is a Naked Alyssa ass! :-

Master Laurent

I am not going to lie but I am starting to hate that chapter 97 post because every time I refresh the page I see that "complete!" and for a moment I think that the new chapter is ready only to find out half a second later that it was Chapter 97 - complete I am looking at.

Stealthq

1 - I'm sure she did. I just posted to Master Laurent (above) an example of what I think she probably did.

Evan

OK, Anybody else wonder the following about Faye’s new body about the gifts that the Grand Engineering Overlord put in place? 1. Did Dana put any runes on Faye’s Crystal Alyssium sub-structure? 2. How Strong / Fast is Faye? I would think that Dana gave her the speed and agility of John as Super Speed along with his strength? 3. Any Embedded weapons? Elbow based beam weapon, fingertip mini-beam weapons? Knee based Quantum Gauss Cannon? These Weapons would be inside the bone structure and undetectable by scanners. 4. Ability to electrocute via pads in fingertips / toes? 5. So waiting for Dana to go over Faye’s’ features next crew meeting.

Master Laurent

Keep reading

Braw

@Tefler, when you're making the ebooks do you go through the literotica comments on the lit pages? I'm at ch. 57 and you've written that selling 30 tons of tyrenium will net half-a-billion when they've previously sold 10 tons for 250 mil and 20 tons for 600 mil, that's a fall in price of roughly 14,5 mil per ton or 55%!!! compared to the second sale.

Malthe Mørk Mejlby

If it's the rear ramp I can see it

Braw

i'll start: 23:23 tefler time

let's play a little guessing game to pass the time! everyone gets one shot and the one who gets closest to the update time gets eternal glory. :P

I still say there will be an emergency evac and they pull Jade from the water into the loading ramp

PLRus--Founding member of the TSM F5 club.

Only three hours left.

Old Cruiser

Love the Avatar and your comments. You remind me of an old friend that was in his 90's, had a great zeal for life and your attitude.

Master Laurent

*Refresh* Arrgh! it STILL says "Current Status update (Chapter 98)" Dangit!

GrandPaM

Maybe it will get delayed until tomorrow?

DemonHunterCole

hmm any time now.......

Muledrvr

Can you post the link to the wiki? <a href="http://three-square-meals.wikia.com/wiki/Three_Square_Meals_Wiki" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://three-square-meals.wikia.com/wiki/Three_Square_Meals_Wiki</a>

Master Laurent

I haven't checked lately, but does anyone know if the wiki has had any new contributions lately?

DemonHunterCole

I think that the withdrawal from TSM is probably the worst. My Reasoning: 1. We are committed - over 3M Words / 98 Chapters in the story. 2. The community participation furthers our addiction due to the fact that we get mini-fixes by participating in the community. 3. Tefler has created a schedule for us to get our fixes so even being a day off has an effect on the levels serotonin. Based upon the studies that have been conducted on cell phone addiction I would estimated that the chapter release, especially with all of us hitting refresh triggers what they are now calling the Slot Machine Effect that triggers a Major serotonin release followed by positive reinforcement of the Joy of Reading the Chapter. Look at the mental control it has over me in my described reading experience above. Refresh is equal to pulling the handle on the slot machine and then when the story is released we get a Jackpot. Even when people reply to the comments they are like getting little winners.

Master Laurent

So I read a lot. I follow dozens of stories on various sites. Want to know what's worse than a withdrawal of 3SM? Withdrawal from dozens of stories that haven't had a serious chapter update since Christmas. I've had a couple short chapters but nothing of substance. But alas, I guess I'll go in to work now.

DemonHunterCole

Lightwieght

Braw

I find myself checking every 30 min or so, still not there. I WILL keep looking till it is here.

*Refresh* Arrgh! it STILL says "Current Status update (Chapter 98)" Dangit!

GrandPaM

With any luck, the new chapter will be ready in time for my shift tonight, which is about 7 hours away. The chapter should keep me occupied for a few hours at least, so my shift won't be total boredom.

Jedi Khan

Keep in mind that the runes are not simply inscribed onto the objects, but each and every one is maintained by Dana’s own power. Yes, it’s apparently a very efficient and effective way to use her power, but it would be truly wasteful for her to apply it to hundreds or thousands of rounds of ammunition even before they are to be used.

Evan

Teler uses the Ancient Language of 'British English'

Anybody else have the same AWESOME luck when doing a refresh on the website where it positions the post with Alyssa's naked ass front and center?

Master Laurent

I know this isn't really the place to post this but the newest post is always the most active one so here it goes: I've bought both the ebooks then I continued reading onwards from there. I'm currently at chapter 55 and I've seen several errors which are grammatical in nature over the last 35 chapters but I'm sure they will be fixed in the editing for the books. I have however spotted a math/biology error which might not get caught during a normal editing process: In chapter 55, when John and Rachel are discussing ways of fixing Maliri society, this exchange takes place ""Very good," she commended him. "Yes, that's normally correct, but with the Progenitor preoccupation with females, I bet he's tweaked their eggs instead. If I was an evil Progenitor doing it, I'd modify the eggs to block nine out of ten XY sperm instead."" Whether the Maliri birth ratio is 1:20 or it is 1 male in 20 births(1:19), blocking 9 out of 10 XY sperm would with simple math only produce a 1:10(9,0909%) birth ratio or if we assume the egg is still viable after being reached by an XY sperm which was blocked produce 9 males in 100 births (exactly 9,090909 repeating). For a 1:20 birthratio, 19 of 20 XY sperm should be blocked. To achieve 5% male births (1:19 birthratio) only 5,26% of the XY sperm should be accepted by the eggs. Note: This does not account for monozygotic twins.

Malthe Mørk Mejlby

In chapter 97 Dialog : Sakura raised a hand to get the distracted redhead’s attention. “Did you upgrade the Punisher Gatling on the Valkyrie too?” Dana shook her head. “Not yet, sorry. I’ve got something in mind, so once I’ve drawn up the schematics, it shouldn’t take too long to put it together.” Anybody else wonder if what Dana is working on will be revealed in Chapter 98? Also, Anybody else wondering if Dana can just put her hands on the storage lockers for the projectile weapons ammo and rune the projectiles making them so much more effective, especially with a full belly of John’s seed?

Master Laurent

According to the Weapons Load out document from Chapter 75 / April 2017 - The Invictus had 16 Gauss Cannons on the underbelly and then added 16 new Gauss Cannons during the Invictus Expansion Refit. That would make 32 total. My Question is - Are these Batteries of Gauss Cannons or Single Barrel Cannons? - Are this numbers right? and giving Credit to JFL Gauss Cannons: the current Gauss Cannons on the Invictus currently hit twice as hard and Terran equivalents on fast tracking turrets rather than fixed emplacements. After the tacheon energy field and heat sink improvements they will hit a minimum of twice as hard again (more penetration combined with the shaped charge to blast out rather than in) providing for explosive decompression of any ship sections hit by those rounds. The additional heat sink upgrades should also allow for the Gauss Cannons to fire at near gatling gun fire rates per emplacement. The fact that those emplacement hardpoints are now made of Crystal Alyssium will come in handy. As a wild guess I would say they are 2 X 2 X 5 or 20 times more powerful than the Terran originals due to upgrades but more tactically useful due to being on fast tracking mounts.

Master Laurent

OK, who is keeping track, how many of the new Quantum Gauss Cannons will the Invictus be equipped with? We really need the TSM Wiki!

Master Laurent

FYI. Patreon is on about a 6-10 minute delay for notifications via email, they are usually about 20-30 seconds. They changed something in their infrastructure over the last three weeks and email notifications have been being delayed a bunch.

Master Laurent

Tin foil is better than peat fiber, Laurent :P I will usually read through once, then wait for the "some edits" or final version to read it again. I think after this chapter, I'm probably going to binge read the two e-books again, then start working my way through posted chapters 21-current.

ETNSosa

Hello Everybody, My Name is Laurent and I am addicted to TSM! I Posted something similar in the past, however, that was 20 chapters ago so I am going to put it out to the new members of the community. What is your experience while you read the latest TSM Chapter? I break this down into two components, Physical and then Mental. Physically, I download the chapter, Convert it to the font and size I like and save it as a web page so I can open it in FireFox. close down all my other apps, shut everything off and draw my black out blinds on my windows, get two glasses of water, take an allergy med(homeopathic) and administer eye drops. I have a peat fiber hat for RF/EMI Protection. Mentally - I hate the scroll bar on the side of the screen. It is like the sands of an hour glass running out on this chapter. I will usually read the chapter straight through, my anxiety growing as the sands run out, wondering what open issues will be addressed, what new story arcs will be introduced. Always on the lookout for the Great Tefler Curve Ball, which he throws with such wicked precision when he chooses. Not to mention looking for potential “Golden Eggs” where he has incorporated something from the community either directly (Rarely Happens) or he posts something from the community with his "Tefler Twist", and his twist is usually 100x better than the community speculation. I also consider it a “Golden Egg” when he answers questions that have been debated in the community over many chapters - IE The formally know as Enhanced Shield Penetrating Projectiles now Quantum Guns upgrades. Then I reread either all or parts of the chapter to pick up on any subtleties that I may have missed during my panicked first reading. It is funny how my tastes have evolved, for a while I was skimming the Sex Scenes so I could find out what was going on with the story line and now Tefler is putting important story information in the Sex Scenes. The Battle in the Astral Plane was a little long for me on my first read through, why, Because I wanted so many answers on the other things going on, ie. Jehanna, The Battles, The Admiralty, and so many more. Once I finished the chapter and realized that I was not going to get the answers I was looking for, I went back and reread the Astral Plane battle and really enjoyed it. OK, so I have just provided some insight into the mind of an OCD TSM Junkie, anybody else want to share?

Master Laurent

My Algorithm shows this will be a late release today, if it happens today. Tefler stated that yesterday late afternoon he was @ 25K. That would mean that he would have to have a 6K Day between last night and today, including his 1st Read through for Typos. What every it is, I will be grateful, Today, Tomorrow, the 2K from Chapter 99 thrown in at the end because we are not going to get another chapter until February. *Puppy Dog Eyes* Feeling the All Mighty Nerf Bat being aimed for the bullseye right between my eyes. *LOL*

Master Laurent

Is he gonna let us suffer until the last hours again? 😓

ChrisW

I think the wait has broken him.

Huh?

Braw

I got first!

DemonHunterCole

Having taken near prescription levels of ibuprofen (800-1000mg, 3-4 times per day) to try to cope with pain, I will also tell you that it can make you pop positive for cannabis on a drug test. The VA had a field day with that one. I now take a different NSAID, that doesn't manage pain, and a separate med for pain (when necessary). I hate taking the damned things, and do so as little as possible. Good luck with the depression, I'm fighting with it too.

ETNSosa

TJ. First I like the Name, second, the avatar photo rocks. Yeah, something special for Chapter 100 would be awesome. Maybe Faye getting her Cherry popped? or your ideas are pretty solid.

Master Laurent

I know my comments are just one of hundreds but I'm thinking for chapter 100 Tefler should do something special. Something against a negative character like a Major A-hole resolution (Kintark emperor death, secret base commander death, Dr that experiments on the Lenarran's) or something positive like an Edraele impregnation, etc. Tefler has been good about plot arc's so it's gutsy to suggest something but I'll go for it anyways.

Dennis Aston

Because this section will be ignored as soon as Chapter 98 is released, I am going to take a moment and share something about real life. For Most of my life I have been a Tree Hugger and Have ran from Modern Medicine because I could never trust it. It almost killed me in my early 20’s. Last year I started to take Ibuprofen for a number of reasons. I was taking one to three 200mg tablet a day. The Last Year has been some of the most stressful times of my life and the last 3 months has been over the top. I have been “Mostly” Sober for the last 10 months, None of my Colorado Love in that time and have had a love/ hate relationship with Drinking where I am good for a couple of weeks then I get a six pack and drink it until it is gone, feel like shit for two days and be good for another three to four weeks. I have been dealing with Depression for the last 36 years of my life for many reasons, Mostly one or two Manic episodes a year lasting about a week, mostly around the anniversary of my parents death. This year the Depression has been in overdrive and debilitating and very self destructive. ( Suicide by Sugar - I have put on 80 LBS / 36Kgs in the last 120 days and I was already 100lbs/45 kgs overweight) By Dumb Luck I decided to stop taking Ibuprofen Last Saturday and on Monday it came out that Ibuprofen does a lot of bad things to the body. One of the Big Items is DEPRESSION!! Today is the first day in 12 Plus Months my head does not feel like I am swimming in a storm of shit and I look back at the Depression I experienced, unlike anything I have ever experienced before, this blows my mind. Question Everything and everyone. do not Accept the lies that we are being fed so the People in Power can keep making money. The Scary thing is that I am willing to bet that the Ibuprofen Manufactures knew about this for years and kept it quiet like Big Tobacco did about Smoking. Thanks for letting me share!

Master Laurent

He already said tomorrow most likely

Tef has 1:34 to meet his 10th deadline, so no pressure

Joshua, I'm not so inclined, although I won't object in any way if that's the case. However, Tefler's character development sections are extraordinary in their own right, and deserve just as much (or more) textual space as the combat sequences. In fact, I'd argue that they do deserve more, since they're far more involved and contribute far more to the story. The combat sequences are, in comparison, short, climactic scenes that serve as punctuation to specific story arcs, in my opinion. Not that Tefler doesn't do those well, of course, but I think I prefer his long story arcs and universe development.

Evan

Considering that the chapter is almost complete, I doubt we'll get a preview today, and then full release tomorrow. We're almost there though :)

Dennis Banfield

Anyone for a Part 1 preview?

John Jameson

Hope Tefler takes this time to write about something getting blown up, or a nice hand to hand combat scene.

Now that’s bad luck buddy.

Jim lynch

I am sooooo addicted and need a CHAPTER FIX badly!!! That being said....thanks for taking the time to "get it right"...instead of just cranking it out!!!

Arrowglass

I suspect that Mañana has two meanings just like the comparable word Amanhã in Portuguese and Tomorrow in English - "the day after today" and "future". The default meaning in English is "Day after today", but it can be used as future like in this example "The kids of today will be the adults of tomorrow." It could be that those that told you used the "future" definition by default. I also found a third definition for Mañana - morning.

What really sucks is that I have an all day meeting tomorrow starting @ 2:30 pm Tefler Time.

Master Laurent

That’s a really nasty twist on a cliffhanger. Telling us you wrote a fun/great scene but decided to move it into next chapter - cruel simply cruel!

Kim Biel-Nielsen

Mañana :-)

Master Laurent

Hey everyone, Unfortunately I don't think I'll be finished with chapter 98 today. I wrote 2k words for a fun scene last night, but I've decided to chop it from this chapter and push it into chapter 99 instead. That means I have more to do for chapter 98 before I'm finished. At least I've made a 2k start on chapter 99! :-)

Tefler

Master Laurent, there were three negative reviews on TSM that I saw, on the first book... at least one of which was written by someone who wrote that only 23% had been read (of the first 10 chapters) before writing the negative review. Needless to say, I was not impressed by any of the negative reviews. I hope you do get a chance to get the books. They're worth reading and have some additional added content for us as well. I have enjoyed them both and look forward to the upcoming books. Congratulations on kicking the caffeine (I just get mine from Chocolate, but I'm cutting back), and I hear you regarding ibuprofen. For a while, I was on a lo-dose aspirin regimen, but I stopped that over a year ago. Feel better, enjoy the next chapter, and best wishes to you for a happier and healthier new year.

Evan

With Deepest Respect to Tefler, I feel like the pace of the action has picked up dramatically in the last couple of chapters, almost like we are rushing to the end. I know that a bunch of you will argue with me about how many of the chapters are only a day and many of them provide amazing backstory and character development. Teller’s writing has so improved and I so appreciate all of the nuances that are now so prevalent in his works. What I am talking about is this seems like a big buildup is on the way to a final battle that will cause this part of the series to be over soon. (I say soon and I would guess between 20-40 chapters or another year or two in Real Time.) This seems like the final battle scene being setup for many chapters of Twists, Fighting, Discovery, etc. It is hard for me to keep my mind straight with everything going on in my personal life, but I would really think that John would have another 10-15 chapters of discovery and growth before we start to get to the end of this era of the storyline and start the battle that is about to unfold. Just my musing on the day of a chapter release. Speaking of Chapter Release, my algorithm has two predictions currently - because this is day 11, it will come by afternoon Tefler Time. Because Tefler is working on the Next ebook, he wants to give us a longer chapter and avoid the enticement of a Chapter 99 Preview at the end of the month so it will be @ Midnight Tefler Time. Or He decides that his work is not ready to be released and we get a note that it will be Mañana - which I was corrected during my trips through New Mexico, does not mean Tomorrow, It means “NOT TODAY!” Have a blessed Day and may your refresh buttons be quick and the soreness in your fingers from the repetitive motions be minimal ML Patreon Deleted this already once. SSecond Try

Master Laurent

Happy Wednesday to the Community. Over the Holidays I revisited my Caffeine addiction that I am now on day 3 with no Caffeine and really happy. Even Happier about the news about Ibuprofen - I have avoided it like the plague for 30 years and in the last year became a daily user - and yesterday they announce all of the issues with Ibuprofen - most of which I experienced - So I am really happy! I went to Amazon and Read the negative review on TSM. Wondering if it was from a “Fanboy” of a certain author from another site whose name is not spoken? I have not read the ebooks, life has been really shitty and I am lucky to be breathing and make it to this chapter and the days is still young, (In all Seriousness! ) I will admit that, in my opinion, the first 10-20 chapters do have some sophomoric moments. That being said, they were still captivating and motivated me to read the first 72 chapters over a long weekend. I finally decided to check out TSM when chapter 72 was published on Lit and read one of the comments so I started at Chapter one on a Thursday night and buy late Sunday Night I was a member of Patreon, Downloading Chapter 73 and two and a half hours later early in the morning I was looking for a TSM Support group to address my withdrawal. I am grateful that Tefler has been able to commit full time to his passion and it appears that he is going strong for at least another 20-100 chapters before we get to “Part 2” of John &amp; Crew’s Adventures. The Universe is such a small space and raising children, running an empire of space stations, Hospitals, and becoming the basis for a Progenitor inspired industrial complex that will have demand through out the universe. I will post my next comment in a separate post because I am sure that I am going to get my ass handed to me. With Deepest Respect to the Almighty Tefler, Bravo for all of the Joy you have brought into my life. Thank YOU! Master Laurent!

Master Laurent

No, but it is the modern digital equivalent.

Jedi Khan

"I saw that too" whilst at an armchair stroking his cat imperiously.

Forbsey

Chapter 97 is on now on Literotica so maybe it will be any minute.... Muahahaha

DemonHunterCole

I know exactly what you mean. I'm located in Okinawa, Japan.

Cody Strong

use this url and change the .com into your local amazon (i.e. .co.uk) <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078LMJLY5" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078LMJLY5</a>

Kin Asdi

I think that the term "Populated the moon" might refer to having several dozen cities scattered across and below it's surface. For the most part the moon would retain the same appearance it has now with the biggest difference being some specks of light scattered on the portions of it's surface that aren't lit.

And a new one called Tempus Fugit on literotica, only has one chapter but has a lot of potential.

Forbsey

Got a list of stories that had been listed by me and others in the past. It'll keep us busy until it comes. Endangered on literotica, the kineticist on literotica, powers on literotica (scifi genre one, multiple stories with the same name).

Forbsey

I can't even read the ebook 2 to tide me over since there is some issue with my country's amazon store. Its only showing book 1 for some reason :(

Sid1712

I'm in no rush to read the next chapter anyways as Tefler's stated Chapter 99 will have a delay due to next ebook. So I'll try and extend my current withdrawal to decrease my future withdrawal.

DemonHunterCole

He probably meant the end of the day of January 10th. So it will be another 12-16 hours.

DemonHunterCole

Well, hurry up then George, the rest of us are waiting

Rob

I am 100% sure he will post it as soon as I go to bed, and fall asleep...

George41

Crazy we have a problem with Dennis, he’s loosing it - you need to prepare for a quick lobotomy! Only hope to cope with withdrawal symptoms as bad as these.

Kim Biel-Nielsen

*refresh...* *refresh...* *refres - ominous snap* *stab stab* *stab* Whelp there goes my refresh key *grabs mouse* *click...* *click...*

Dennis Banfield

If only Tef lived on a picific island somewhere just the right side of the date line so that his idea of the 10th was a bit earlier. I'm in Australia and keep having to tell myself that the 11th my time is more realistic.

Rob

its the 10th ???? tef !!!! lol

*refresh...* *refresh...* *refresh...* *refresh...*

Dennis Banfield

The withdrawal is severe

Mark Hall

same here, im just hoping sometime in the next 23 hours

The T-Fed behavior really is a slap in John’s face. He gives them infinitely valuable tech and they imprison his friends. To get the friends back he gas to fight his isn tech! Calara, our resident T-Fed advocate is going to have some words about this. And John has already warned them. Wow. This will provide an explosion or two for sure.

DCM

i think the same tech that the kintark use resulted in the different skin

keen_FlattendHedgeHog

don't we all...

Honestly all I want is something to explode and someone to catch a beat down. Everything else is a bonus at that point

I think Devereaux is going to turn on Buckingham and ask John to step-in. I also think the thrall Jade found on Brimor is BSPs, and he's poaching on John's turf. Finally, I think John is going to focus on the Kirrix before rescuing the TFed, then rescue Jehenna and Talarians (sp?) before rescuing the Admiralty (who will put up more of a fight than we think, due to the fleet upgrades Charles is overseeing ). Actually, I'm aching to be proven wrong, Tefler...hint, hint...

CJ Mora

Tefler, not to be a pest, but just a reminder that you might want to update your overview again. Perhaps tomorrow, after you release the first drop of Chapter 98? The last update was December 24th, but at least it mentions the 2nd ebook! :-)

Evan

Agree - I am on GMT and not expecting anything until this time tomorrow.

John Jameson

Are you not a wee early - Tefler wrote he was on track for the 10th - so it could be up to another 24-27 hours to go still. So don’t get blisters on the refresh finger😎

Kim Biel-Nielsen

02-00 I think will be time to rejoice.

Jim lynch

Is refreshing the screen the adult version of 'Are we there yet'?

Braw

Only 7 hrs to go

Braw

Anyone else getting a blister yet?

Braw

re: speculation... I'm not sure which distress calls will reach John first - the Kirrix border worlds' calls for help or those from the Kintark border, which have also been stripped of fleet forces. Alternately, it could be neither of those as Jehenna's boss might just be able to reach out to John (by searching through her personal contacts info) first once he realizes she's missing (again?). If the Ashanath are in the habit of monitoring TFed communications networks, then they may be the route for first alerting John as they have their telepathic command network which could alert Alyssa, should she ping them again for any reason. Any way it gets sliced, it would be more likely that the Krrix border worlds raise their alarms first, since the TFed Admiralty is doing their level best to keep the lid on Kintark invasion news. So depending upon the timing of things, John could quickly find that he needs to be in 2 or 3 places at one time! He'd be hard-pressed to de-prioritize Jehenna's needs over the other TFed colony/invasion needs. So it'd be an interesting point to force him into confronting his internal "Evil John" Progenitor Guide persona at the same juncture (as he will suddenly NEED to unlock the wormhole technology within himself to have any hope of meeting all the needs thrust upon him simultaneously).

GrandPaM

Happy Birthday to you.

Evan

Hey Tefler, it's my birthday today; how about a slightly early release tonight?

How long till you ease our suffering tefler, please it hurts so

Jim lynch

Yes their shielding must have a frequency that enables a small window to fire into destroying whichever kintark vessel it’s protecting and after a few are blown to pieces the rest should run away with their tail between their legs especially if John shares the frequency with the TFED vessels still in the fight.

Jim lynch

Perhaps the Brimorians built a fail safe into the shield systems they sold to the Kintark. Maybe Irrilith will find she can transmit a kill code and wipe out all the Kintark shields.

Cody Strong

I find it interesting that Terra populated the moon and never found the Quantum Annihilator. They must have built right over the top of it and not detected it.

Cignal

The moon idea is a good one aside from the fact the quantum annilator on the moon was destroyed when nexus server ship crashed onto it

Forbsey

I have another suggestion. On the moon is a weapon that the Nexus server was about to activate. The TFed is against AI so they have no clue. So if Irillith activates it against the Kintark... I still think John visits Kinta and creates havoc as the Kintark sent their whole fleet. A plot twist is John receives the message from Charles and on the way to Kinta John broadcasts to the emperor he's coming to visit. He transmits the battle of his single handed destruction of the male dragon. The emperor gets scared and then the fun begins.

Big Dude

Dana still has some tech to upgrade and create. She needs to upgrade the Nova Lances, beam weapons to the Progenitary versions. Design the smaller version of the Progen ship, quantum flux cannons, wormhole generator, etc. Lots of chapters of development yet. I don't think she will stop with Progen weapons, I think she will think of creative ways to upgrade those to enhance them also beyond standard Progenitary weapons. I think the BSP hit Santini's dreadnought in the battle of Alpha Leonis with a Progenitary Nova Lance. It took out the shields and blew apart the top deck and singularity drivers. Right now the Invictus has two at .75% or 1.5% overall, so any dreadnaught will be left with a 100 meter hole through it if it gets hit by the Invictus, or any other ship even with the increased shields. Worst case would be to wipe out the shields with one hit and have to use te singularity drivers to demolish it. A quick thought which I think was already answered in chapter 68. What happens when the Nova Lance take out the Power Core? Does it explode or just vaporize? In the battle of Alpha Leonis the Invictus took out battleship Kratos, it appears as the power core vaporized and there wasn't any explosions noted then. Should there have been?

Cignal

Still seems cheap for all the hard work tefler does I mean 2.5 chapters a month let’s all donate more per chapter and tefler might keep it going for a few months more lol.

Jim lynch

Per Tefler's originally posted schedule, probably not until February.

Evan

Definitely a possibility, yes.

Evan

Erectile dysfunction? In this story? Not likely. Would be the worst though.

Forbsey

Twists that I do not want: (1) time travel; (2) death of crew; (3) John unconscious (beyond PJ); (4) children or animals tortured; or (5) erectile dysfunction. Much else is fair game.

Benj

A twist idea. The high command could surrender to the Kintark (to save them from John's wrath) and collaborate with the Brimorian and Kirrix. This would be a massive battle.

Benj

So, does anyone else see Irililith finding out about the shield tech sale/transfer/whatever to the Kintark, and then being able to see their fleet attacking Iota Leonis, starting John and company going to save Terra? I definitely see that happening.

ETNSosa

With Calara's foresight that is possible but it might also just veer off and hit something else.

Ummm....I just thought of something. The main weapon of the BSP's ship is a Quantum beam. Such a beam would react equally against mass or energy since, at the quantum level, there is no real difference between the two forms. That beam also has a 'tell' of lightening like eruptions just before it fires. If Rachel hits the aperture of the Quantum weapon with the Nova Lance just as it is beginning to fire, the energy of the Quantum weapon would be released at the muzzle as it hit the energy of the Nova Lance. This would be even more effective if the Nova Lance beam width was narrowed using the anti-grav barrel extention I mentioned many chapters ago. It could easily be done with a 10 meter extension to focus the beam into a 10 meter diameter impact at optimal range rather than the 100 meter diameter it currently has. This would effectively hit the BSP's ship with the combined energy of his Quantum weapon AND the Nova Lance at the same time...Now THAT would be one hellava shot and one hellava lot of energy released right against the hull of the BSP's ship. If anything is going to hurt that ship....that would.

PLRus--Founding member of the TSM F5 club.

Devereux is going for two reasons: To advise Charles on getting what refits he can done ASAP due to the impending attack and to discretely get a message to John.

PLRus--Founding member of the TSM F5 club.

Second that recommendation.

Dennis Aston

Here are the scenarios I can think of. 1.John wanted to visit Jehanna after getting the shields. This would mean heading back to Terra. I would assume he would go to Olympus to use the dry dock to fix the heavy cannon. I think this takes a back burner now that Tefler indicated a side track. 2.Assuming John doesn’t know about the Kintrak invasion yet, John wanted to visit Arcadia to look for his mother. Since they were able to obtain the Brimorian shield tech that Irillith will requisition, and since they are at Brimor which is fairly close to Arcadia (I estimate between 1.47 and 1.73 days away) they decide to go there and upgrade the shield tech on the way. Not knowing exactly where Arcadia is on the map they would either go directly into Kirrix space or go through Terran space near Karron, which we know by now the Kirrix are invading. 3.Tashana wanted to visit the Archaeological site in Maliri space which I presume is near Valaden. This would be a direct route which wouldn’t alert them about the Kintrak invasion. 4.They could take a side track back to Terra to visit the Core Worlds to visit Carla’s mother or Rachaels father as this would be a slight course alteration. 5.It could be something to deal with the teal-skinned humanoid Jade discovered, which is highly likely. 6.Assuming they are notified of th Kintrak invasion, I don’t see them heading for Kinta as the distance to Kinta is over two days to get there, which would mean the battle is already under way by the time they get there. Also it is only one day to Terra so they could get there before the Kintrak fleet arrived. Strategically heading to Kinta would make sense but there isn’t time for that one. I could see John diverting either one or both Maliri fleets to Terra to suppress the Kintrak invasion. Since they have upgraded FTL drives they should be able to make it within two days. Hmmm how would that turn out for the Admirals once John was back at Terra with a couple hundred Cruiser class ships or larger, all faster and more powerful than anything the Terrans have and they have to answer to what they are doing to Jehanna and the Nymphs. Interesting scenario. I see a change in Terran high command coming. Anyone see other options? On another topic, any ideas why Devereux is visiting Olympus ship yard? Has she thrown in with the rest of the Admiralty and is gunning for Charles knowing he is a friend of Johns? I don’t see this as there hasn’t been any indication of it. If anything she has shown that she does things strictly for her own benefit. She knows secrets about John and Alyssa’s physic abilities and Carla tactical abilities and as far we have seen hasn’t released that knowledge to the Admiralty. I suspect she is using the visit to inspect Olympus as a ruse to allow her to visit Charles to let him know about the invasion and see if Charles somehow can get word to John about the invasion and ask for help. By John (again) coming to the rescue she thinks she can ride on John’s coat tails and maybe undermine Buckingham. I don’t see John addressing Progenitor John yet as he doesn’t think he is strong enough. Alyssa gave him six months to address BSP. At current Earth chapters, I see a couple years before we get to the six months time.

Cignal

Also chapter 17 of the bonding chronicles is out now. Give this a read it's brilliant.

Jim lynch

It's a bloke with powers who goes to a powers collage with tournaments and mind powers physical powers and so on give it a shot by chapter 2 you won't put it down well I didn't lol.

Jim lynch

Hi Jim....what category ?always interested in a good story

bigdawguw65

Hi all if anyone is interested I’ve just started to read a new story on literotica which I truely enjoyed and I thought I’d recommend it to you all it’s called powers from an author called Neuro Atypica. give it a try between chapters it’s very good and still being written.

Jim lynch

I don't think that would be possible. If it was me creating those links there would be a passive check mark going off each time one talked to another. To me that just makes sense anyways.

Cody Strong

@Tefler Given the release of book 2, I’d like to reiterate my request to put a DRM-free version of the eBooks up for sale. (And if you’d like help mastering an EPUB version that isn’t encumbered by the EULA of Amazon’s authoring software, I’d be happy to oblige.)

Here's a disturbing thought. What's keeping the BSP from placing spies or even starting his own insurrection among the Maliri? Sure, John has all the Matriarchs, but there's plenty of other Maliri women for the BSP to seduce and enthrall. I imagine it would be very easy to slip in some white haired spies on Gethalas, and Edraele would be none the wiser unless she ran into them herself and realized that they aren't linked to her.

Jedi Khan

Any ETA on when book two will be ready in paperback?

Dennis Banfield

Oh hey, look! We passed 1500 patrons! We're currently at 1502 patrons, for a combined $2670 per chapter. That comes out to roughly $1.78 per person. I think that's the highest per patron average we've had.

Jedi Khan

John will need a few more girls to cover the full twelve months. Or maybe include Edraele and the Young Matriarchs?

Jedi Khan

Oh there's an idea, if you are commissioning artists to do drawings of the "Lioness'" You could do a "Girls of The Invictus" calandar...

Actually, Melkadian's reaction was quite appropriate to a godlike being. He reacted with enormous fear and awe. Why? Something genetically programmed into their species by a Progenitor, or something that simply recognized that here was a much, much greater predator than the Emperor himself? If the latter, precisely how was this recognition achieved? As to that, was this the same recognition that suddenly took place upon Brimor when John started to lose his temper? Again, what was the source of this recognition? Also, insofar as I recall, the Trankarrans are not a warm-blooded species, nor even a carbon-based lifeform, insofar as we know. I believe that this was stated quite a ways back, but I'd have to research to find it.

Evan

2018 (and 2019) Calendar I am planning my 2018 calendar. Can I assume that I should leave time for reading 2.5 new chapters every month in 2018? Will I also need to reserve time in 2019?

Mapper

He only had done some sentence edits on ch97 and I think he did add a scene in 96

Forbsey

Anyone know if any additional scene were added to chapters 96 and 97 from the initial release? Too many comments to read through on those posts.

DemonHunterCole

There has been a lot of posts about using the physic link to find Jehanna but has explained the human girls need 3 feedings . The reason I believe is that the other girls (races) were created by Mael &amp; were very detailed in their creation/DNA ,only the humans were left somewhat alone to evolve on their own as an experiment by Mael with Nexus to watch over them . It's why all other races are so alike in looks,temperment ,etc . Only humans have multiple sub-races (white, black, yellow ,red ) . I believe this is why they need the extra feedings . I don't think that the Brimorians or Kitark are Mael created races . The ones we know of are warm blooded , humanoid( although Progenitoroid might be more accurate ) like John &amp; BSP seem to be &amp; although BSP is using them to distrupt things I don't think he plans on ruling through them or using them as thralls . Also the Kintark Grand Prelate Melkadian's reaction to BSP in the throne room was anything but worshipful or respectful .

bigdawguw65

Grim...Kirrix were just scouting the outer planets which are days away from Terra &amp; only now amassing their fleet to invade them , also would have no interest in fight between Terra &amp; Kintark . They only seem interested in attacking weak points to gather prisoners to use to lay their eggs . Like lots of insects they thrive on carnage &amp; destruction , would more likely wait until battle is over &amp; come in to ravage the loser .

bigdawguw65

Thanks for the up date , will be looking for it with much anticipation . About Carla's picture , it might just be that I'm a boob man , but so far most of the renditions of the girls ,both your commissioned art &amp; some posted by your fans in community have not been as generous in the bust department as I would have expected from your descriptions . just my fixation I'm sure . ps when it's Dana's turn the "school girl " look she teases John with would be awesome , or just a white lab coat , casually open :-)

bigdawguw65

Instant travel=wormhole generator?

Benj

I see the kintark pushing and engaging the current Terran forces. It doesn't look good. Then the refitted ships come in and tide tilts until the Kirrix arrive and now it turns into a three pronged fight. We see a lot of fighter action from the new wing and as the ground war starts on Terra the new power armor comes into play with heroes rising. As losses amass and total loss looms for the Terran the high Commander admiral guy flees in a stealth ship to the secret base where lenarrans are being expiramented on. Then John's admiral friend calls in for help just as the worm hole tech is complete and shield schematics are in hand. The Invictus jumps with assets from the milari and brimorian resistance jump with them (warp field?) to save Terra. In waves members of John's alliance arrive to save the day. A critical member of the high admirals staff is found and when is being healed a data implant and a bomb implant are found. Bomb goes off... It's close we almost loose our doctor but sparks was there and she touched the Dr at the last moment and created shielding so the bomb only. Takes an arm... That will take time to. Regenerate (hours at this point.) John flips his shit completely awakening to his near full potential all at once. Irillith gives him the data output. And John reshapes the Invictus in one massive reshaping and super armor in of the Invictus pulling the talents from his linked girls into a super armored Invictus. This new link awakens the full potential in all of the girls as they race after the high admiral asshole and what could. Be the last of the lenarrans.

Grimlakin

And the projections above will take between 5 and 15 chapters if you include the classic Tefler Twists and the e-book releases. It will be summer before this is all wrapped up and we are moving on to the Idiots in the unclaimed wastes, Unless those Idiots decide to make an appearance much sooner. It seems like we are doing about .75 days per chapter on the busy chapters.

Master Laurent

Well, I think the Kintark cruiser attacks the Invictus. Jade gets into trouble investigating the Kelp farm hands and has to turn into one of the giant predators to defend herself. The gang have to fight their way back to the Raptor. Members of the Deep Pool then ask for John's help to elimitate BSP factions within the Enclave, they give him the shield tech, Dana improves on it and installs it in a day as they head back to Terran space to see Jehenna. They find out about the kidnappings, and Alyssa has fun after tracking them down until the crew arrives for an epic Momma Bear moment with both Alyssa and Jade while Irilith commandeers all the weapon emplacements. Seeing Alyssa in the flesh after the 'hauntings' has the hardened special ops pissing in their boots. In feeding the Lenarrans and bringing them back to life we find that Jade is now their Matriarch. Jehenna then reports on everything to TFNN and Charles, who has already been in touch about the impending Kintark invasion force, sends the fleet assets over to John for Calara to command in a flanking offensive. The Maliri fleets (the one going to Ashanah and the one going to the Trankarans) are diverted just in time to appear just as the battle is tipping towards the Kintark and the combined fleets mop up the Kintark. Irillith takes control of Norwood's dreadnaught and John takes it as a prize of war...daring the Admiralty to say different with the Maliri fleets standing there to support him. Webber and Buckingham are court martialled and Cartwright gets to retire. The rest of the Admiralty agree to become part of John's alliance. John then pays the Kintark emporer a visit.

PLRus--Founding member of the TSM F5 club.

Tefler, I thought you already had the cover art for eBook 3. It was to be the Black Invictus vs. Drakkar raiders. (picture title vHufDCQLL471yia1lJmskE5Q4re6lUiT802Kg3Q_aZ-dvzGvReOO_AhT1YE_nzfG.jpg).

OK, unexpected turns: 1. Deep Pool has a vault of info on Mael’nerak, including access to the cloning facility. Deep Pool Brimorian’s are Mael’nerak creations. The Rest of the Brimorian citizens were created to worship the deep pool like the Maliri do a Progenitor. Once the Deep Pool Brimorian’s see John they bow like all of Mael’nerak’s other races. 2. Grand Engineering Overlord unlocks Progenitor Instant Travel engine. 3. see my other possibilities above

Master Laurent

Hi Tefler - good for you the ebook success is really well deserved. On the cover art I would suggest that you stick with the artists you used for the first two ebooks - the space images are awesome and Alyssa look really sexy. A consistent look and feel (would I like to feel Alyssa) really adds to the total experience.

Kim Biel-Nielsen

Grins and begins to think about where it is all going.

PLRus--Founding member of the TSM F5 club.

Folks: You know, in Tefler's twisted and sadistic mind, he did this intentionally to mess with us....right? He is sitting back laughing at all the new speculations we are going to have about where the story is going. (Shakes my head....we pay him to entertain him now....and we are happy about it! Sheesh!)

PLRus--Founding member of the TSM F5 club.

@Timbo The cover of a half naked Alyssa on the front cover also probably helped :)

@ Jedi. I tried to post this in reply to your top comment at the head of this new thread, but it wouldn’t take it. So now i’m posting it down here instead.... I found it quite interesting watching the rankings on Amazon for book 1 and book 2 following the launch of bk2. When Bk 1 was launched, it made the top spot in its sub/sub group (Sci Fi/Erotica/.....) for less than 1 day, then hung around at 3 for 4 or so days. Prior to Bk2 coming out it had dropped down to as low as 17 in that sub/sub group IIRC. When Bk2 appeared it rapidly got to the top spot. However, bk1 then had a huge renaissance and ascended to spot 2, and thereafter alternated with Bk2 in holding the top spot for a good 10 days, before both started slipping away. To me this suggests the early purchasers were us lot, which caused book 2 to become visible to the more general amazon sci fi/erotica buying public. They either purchased book 2, rapidly followed by book 1, or did the logical thing and bought 1 first, having now become aware of it. Either way there was some substantial multiplier effect going on. I will watch the launch of book 3 with considerable interest to see if this effect repeats again...

Timbo

Slapping my forehead, WTF, I am now thanking The Great Tefler for Non-Chapter Cliffhangers.

Master Laurent

Twists welcome. The universe is rich making its predictions tantalizingly difficult. What could go wrong? The Brimorian adventure needs a side story as rich as the Trankaran, Malari, and Greys. A mystery lies in the deep pool well beyond shield tech. They were once a small backwards civilization. They may emerge to rival the Malari.

Benj

Laughing @ my predictions that the battle will be between 5 and 10 chapters. a Tefler “Unexpected Twists” and new ebook so we are looking at mid March until we get any good answers on this battle. BSP May finally make an appearance? Anybody see Evil John raising his head? How about the Grand Engineering Overlord having a breakthrough doing her magic on the Brimorian Shield Tech making the Progenitor Version. Anybody seen another Progenitor? How about John’s Mom? Bravo Tefler Hoping for a longer chapter that will only leave 20-40 cliff hangers *Soft Smile* for the rest of the month

Master Laurent

What would really set us on fire is if you said "Yes," Tefler, but didn't name who. We'd practically tie ourselves in knots trying to figure out which one of us addict had the right guess. Of course, saying "No" would have a similar effect, just with us trying to think of any possible turns that haven't already been predicted.

Jedi Khan

A few "unexpected turns," huh? I don't suppose with all the plot predictions and postulating that goes on around here that anyone has come close to guessing at least one of the turns, have they?

Jedi Khan

That's great news... congratulations &amp; thanks for the update :)

Congrats on the book sales! New York Times Bestseller here we come!

Jedi Khan