The Light Odyssey...

T A L E S O F T H E D E S T A R A

Book I: The Light Odyssey

The Story...

The great empires of the galaxy have fallen... crushed under the foot of the invincible Destara Imperium and it's legions of cybernetic warriors. None have ever defied the Destara for long and lived to tell the tale. The Imperium has ruled countless star systems for millennia, it's power undeniable. All living to serve it's mysterious dark master, the being Deceptar...
But on a distant world, one of their own number will begin to question everything he's been taught and challenge the establishment in which he's believed in for so long. As he embarks on a journey of light, nothing will ever be the same again...

Originally created in 1993, The Light Odyssey ran throughout the first ten issues of the fanzine Trans-Scrypt (94-96). I had always hoped to restart the fanzine at some point and get the further stories in this universe that I had intended to write published. Inspired by the Star Wars special editions, in 1998 I rewrote the prologue of the story completely and decided to rewrite the entire story later on, publishing it in collected form as I'd always wanted to do. It took far longer then planned to finish--I rewrote about three chapters and lost them in a computer crash a few weeks later. A combination of real life responsibilities and a lack of inspiration delayed my getting back to work on the project until 2004. Finally, it's done!

There's now several different places to order the book from!
Cafe Press (paperback)
eBooks-Online.com . (ebook--only $5!)
Lulu.com! (They have a paperback version *and* an ebook version!)
Now available on Amazon.com too! (paperback)

Check out a sample of the novella here: sample one, sample two.

The book in question...

Character Profiles

The Renegades

Magma	Pathfinder	Apachi
Thunderbolt	Fury	Firewind
Firestrike	Lift Off	Earthquake
Patch Up	Venom	Rock n' Roll

Destara

Straxus	Deceptar	Switchblade
Draxx Starr	Bishop	Stryfe
Windstar

Miscellaneous (still under construction)

Ironhawk	Stormhawk mecha

Instrument of Destruction. A story that continued the initial TLO story (originally published in Trans-Scrypt #11). This is the original version of this story--I hope one day to rewrite parts of it and put into a sequel novella to The Light Odyssey. (Story is in .pdf format--which can be viewed with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader program).

Check back here in the future as more Light Odyssey tales are posted.