End of Grass Eaters Book 1

As Book 1 of Grass Eaters draws to a close, I want to take a moment to thank all of you for helping make this possible and share my plans for the future of Grass Eaters.

Thank you all for your support. Your decision to subscribe not only fuels my passion for writing but also validates the hours I've spent researching, drafting, and editing Grass Eaters. It's thrilling to know that there are amazing people like you who enjoy what I create and are willing to support my journey as a writer. Please know that your support is cherished, and I am immensely grateful for all of it.

In the long term, I'll use the money I've made here to work with an artist for my book cover...etc and get started on the process to eventually launch my book onto Amazon after I finish publishing the entire story online. I'll keep you updated on that, and to show my appreciation of your support, I promise to put your names in my acknowledgement chapter (unless you don't want to and opt-out).

But for now:

The story of Grass Eaters is not over. 

When I first started planning out this story, I knew it would be a story with a beginning and an end, specifically in 3 parts (though the last part might need to be split into a fourth; we'll see). Each was to have a strong arc/theme that could stand on its own, though each should build up its concept from the previous.

On Friday, I will begin posting the first chapters of Book 2 without interruption. Again, I want to thank everyone who have stuck with this story, and I hope to see you all in the next one!

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Grass Eaters 2: Orbital Shift

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Recap: The Story So Far

As humanity reached out into the stars, the nations of the world joined the newly formed Terran Republic, with the exception of some criminal elements that resisted the reach of its authority around Saturn. Through discreet interstellar exploration, the Republic found the neighboring galaxy a place of wonder and prosperity, filled with peaceful civilizations like the Malgeir Federation, the Schprissian Confederacy, the Granti Alliance…etc. Perfectly ripe for the taking for the uniquely bloodthirsty herbivore species, the Znosian Dominion, known to all other species in the region as Grass Eaters.

Motivated by a religious and psychological need to expand, the rabbit-like Znosians invaded the bear-like Granti. Despite the peaceful Granti species receiving direct military assistance from their old friends, the canine-like Malgeir, they were overwhelmed and forced to evacuate their entire territory, including their homeworld of Grantor. The Znosians then turned their sights to the Malgeir, who they proceeded to also dominate on the battlefield due to their superior understanding of interstellar war and logistics. In the course of the brutal invasion, the Znosians colonized, then efficiently exterminated any predators remaining on the occupied planets.

Still hidden and insulated from the war due to its grasp of stealth technology and the legacy of the Prime Directive, a cornerstone law that prohibited revelation of Terran presence to aliens, the people of the Terran Republic watched the ongoing war and xenocide with a mix of horror and indifference… until one of its reconnaissance fleets was forced to act to prevent its own discovery. The presence of one of its recon ships was observed during the act by the Malgeir and Znosian ships present, and the Terran Republic finally decided to join the war covertly on the Malgeir side.

With centuries of experience with constant war, excellent logistics, computing technology, and wild underestimation from the Znosian enemy, the Terrans helped the sworn-to-secrecy and retrained Malgeir Sixth Fleet beat back an invasion of the Malgeir core world of Datsot, capitalizing on enemy missteps to push them all the way back to the occupied Malgeir system of Gruccud, finally trapping and forcing the surrender of the invasion fleet with technological deception.

But the threat was not over. The vast Znosian Dominion still outweighed the alliance of the predators by more than ten to one in tonnage, particularly the Terran Republic which was still practically a single-system species. The Znosian leadership had its suspicions of the recent, unexplained losses. And they still occupied the worlds of the entire Granti civilization and most of the periphery of the Malgeir Federation.

The known galaxy held its breath to see what the two sides would do next…