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9/12/2025 Update

So, just to keep everyone up to date, there will be no updates from the 22nd of Dec to the 3rd of Jan, because of Christmas and recovery stuff.

I will also be out on the last week of January because of family vacation stuff. Wish me luck.

Cloneborne 008 – Disease and Nutrition

The next several hours were… eventful, not the least of which because they had found themselves so near a possibly-armed orbital station it wasn’t so much knife-fighting range as already up against their skin. They moved the ship away as politely as possible, trying not to make it look like they were trying to get out of range of whatever armaments the station used as they engaged the ship’s thrusters to try and get the curve of the planet between them and the station. The… Kaydekeen?...

Cloneborne 007 – Conversation

“We were not aware that this system was inhabited when we chose to approach it,” Trout said.

“Understandable, Captain,” Rain said. “We chose not to advertise ourselves to the wider universe, and left the matter of who would find us first to chance.”

Trout raised an eyebrow. “You were certain you would be found?” While humanity had hoped for centuries that they were not alone in the universe, with people spending whole careers calculating the odds for and against th...

Kaedekin Military Trivia

The Kaedekin Military is divided into 5 Branches, each of which use the same ranks.

These branches are:

• Sky Rangers: This branch specializes in the operation of flying vehicles. They are in charge of of coordinating and controlling air traffic, responding to emergencies in the sky, providing high ground fire support against kaiju and dealing with airborne kaiju. They don't need to do that last very much. It makes them very sad. Branch insignia is a triangle containing a re...

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Cloneborne 006 – Greetings

Trout watched the figure—whether prankster who would be in shit so deep they’d drown, or genuine alien… somehow—as they walked around in the quarantine room, their helmet constantly looking back and forth. There was something… inhuman about their body language and the way their head kept darting around like a bird as every limb seemed to be in constant motion, though that was to be expected, as they were probably not human. The balance of evidence was looking that way, especially co...

Cloneborne 005 – There’s Something On The Hull

“Dropping from quantum jump in one minute,” the watch officer announced over the ship PA. “All hands, secure to drop from quantum jump. All hands, secure to drop from quantum jump.”

Captain Emmanuel Trout—Manny among friends—secured himself at his chair, heart pounding out of learned habit. During the war against the shinkies, dropping from q-jump had even odds of seeing their ship arriving near—by astronomical standards, at least—a pitched battle, especially during the ...

Cloneborne 004 – Briefing

Jenny stood very, very still and hoped no one noticed her. A voice that sounded suspiciously like her mother reminded her that her clothes were probably wrinkled from lying on her bunk for most of the morning, and she did her best to counter that no one ever gave a damn if someone’s clothes were wrinkled, shut up mom!

Andy had messaged them all to tell them they were going to have a briefing about the system they would be surveying. He had neglected to mention that t...

Random Cloneborne Trivia 01

So, just a short, random thing, but here are the names of the star and planetary bodies of the star system the Kaedekin live in. The planets were only named once they were able to make it into space... because they couldn't see past the atmosphere. 

So, in order from the inside outwards:

• Dancer: because who doesn't like wordplay. The system's star.

• Poise:  the planet most introverted planet in the system

• Surcease: the planet the Kaed...

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Cloneborne 003 – Quantum Jump

The Venture left the orbit of Jhalnas—though Jenny had heard some people call it Jhalnasm—the next day, which Jenny found out about when the announcement was made on the ship’s PA system. She also received a notification on her phone, which had finally been authorized to connect to the ship’s phone network, letting her finally exchange contacts with the rest of the survey team and peruse the ship’s library of entertainment once she handed over the scrypt for the subscriptio...

Cloneborne 002 – What Kind Of Music

Sorry this took so long. I'll hopefully be able to get a second one out this week, but we might have to go back to once a week.

The experience of getting pulled along in micro gravity would have probably been fun if the protocols around it hadn’t seemed specifically designed to beat up fun, drag it out to the back, beat it up some more, and then shoot it in the head. Since Jenny was both inexperienced and clearly tired, she’d been guided across, Lieutenant ...

Cloneborne 001 – Venture

“Is this what they call ‘hurry up and wait’?” Jennifer Alta—Jenny to most people, Jen to a few too lazy to say two syllables—said sleepily as she sat on the bench next to the pile of everyone’s luggage to keep an eye on it. Big duffel bags mixed with hard-sided cases and backpacks as they waited for permission to board. “They told us we needed to be here by seven in the morning because otherwise we wouldn’t be allowed in, it’s seven o’clock, and now we’re not being all...

28/10/2025 Update

The next chapter will be a bit delayed (well, more delayed than usual) as I'm having trouble starting the chapter. A chapter will come out this week, but I hope to have two.

At worse, I'll have to scrap my plan of showing 1st contact from the perspective of the aliens and just have it from the perspective of the Kaedekin.

We apologize for the delay.

Edit: Poot it. Forget trying to be realistic about this, let's make like an episode of Galaxy Quest.

Cloneborne - Prologue 08 – Magical Girls Legacy Kaede Is About to Start!

Two Years Later…

“Late?” Lorelei repeated, frowning at the air in front of her. “Why?”

Rain’s voice spoke in her ear, formed by vibrating vennfog and Domain was still not mature enough to do more Another year or two, though… “My ship got rerouted to Nox Valley because there was a kaiju emergence from the Void breach in Gloomdell. It adds a half hour to my flight. Sorry, bestie.”

Lorelei let out a sigh. “Nothing you can do. I’ll tell everyone yo...

Cloneborne - Prologue 07 – Letters To Kaede

For the last phase of their journey, their buses joined a convoy of Void Rangers heading for Yomawari Outpost. The T-type mecha escorting them were currently in tank mode, their treads eating up ground as they kept a watch for Void kaiju. While the adult, sensible part of Reiko fervently hoped they didn’t encounter any… a childish part of her kinda wanted to see what would happen to one if it was shot by the hybrid cannon’s plasma.

That would be immature, of course. And very silly...

21/10/2025 Update

The next chapter will be slightly delayed, as I am having trouble physically writing it. Of course, this delay has happened so often it might actually count as 'on schedule'. Sorry. But don't worry, there will be two chapter incoming this week... or possibly this week and a little bit into Monday, because apparently I'm now crap at keeping to schedule.

Sorry, and thank you for reading my stuff still!

Cloneborne - Prologue 06 – Road Trip

Dressed in her best pink dress, best pink tights, best dress shirt with lace cuffs, best hat, and new best sword that her big sisters got her as a decanting day present, Meiya landed lightly outside of the Quiet Rise train station, the green venecite that had been wrapped around her for lift dissipating as she terminated her flight spell.

“Hey, Meiya,” Rain greeted, waving at her. “Did you remember your letter?”

Meiya reached down into the satchel hanging from her sheath h...

Cloneborne - Prologue 05 – Lorelei’s Chapter

The daylamps high above slowly turned pink and orange as the day came to an end, dimming to a pale cool glow that Lorelei now recognized was meant to emulate moonlight. Light began to come to life on the outsides of buildings, signifying the arrival of night. In the park, glowing vennlights in different colors illuminated the areas where the crèche-sisters were camped to help them see as they cooked, sang songs, or simply just lay back and relaxed as they waited for the cooking to get done.&...

Cloneborne - Prologue 04 – Star Blaster!

Mitsuki found that Tomoko’s spirits—and her own, she was willing to admit—had mostly returned to normal as they accompanied Chloe while she installed her long-awaited higher caliber weaponry to the assault rifle/sniper rifle that as Glass Heart’s rig, then took it out to the firing range just outside of the town’s walls to test it. A kilometer-wide, fenced-off area surrounded by thriving rustwoods, alumbarks, and patinatrees, the latter quarter of the range was an artificial lake in...

Cloneborne - Prologue 03 – An Adult Now

“—moko? Tomoko?”

Someone was gently nudging her.

Tomoko found herself blinking her eyes, instinctively trying to raise her hand to rub the sleep sand from them only to find that her arms were stick in something heavy. Her thought were disoriented, vivid dreams of fighting a girl with sad eyes mixing with memories of talking to a big sister with sad eyes…

Gentle hands helped pull her upright even as Tomoko remembered taking pictures with some kind of oblong black and ...

Cloneborne - Prologue 02 - Testimony

At eight-o-clock, an hour before their assigned time, a big sister came out of the cloning crèche carrying a megaphone and paused to talk to big sis Chisame for a bit. Chloe wondered what they were talking about. “Stop doing this, please, what is wrong with you, did we not hug you enough when we were young?” “Look, those memories are really emotional and full of traumatizing memories that will poot them up!” “Look, we did it at their age and we turned out fin—”

No, they w...

Cloneborne - Mahou Legacy Kuron Uchuu Story! Prologue 01 – Happy Decanting Day!

On the morning of her 13th decanting day, Rain woke up bright and early and excited, eager for someone else’s memories to be copied into her brain. The daylamps outside of the tent were glowing brightly, signifying it was morning as she pushed herself up to sit upright. “I’m an adult!” she cried at the top of her voice.

Other voices soon followed.

“I’m an adult!” Tomoko’s voice echoed happily from the next sleeping bag over, thrusting a fist into the air as she che...

Teaser For Next Story - "Cloneborne" (Tentative)

So, here's a short teaser for my next story, tentatively titled Cloneborne. For those who have missed the updates, it's meant to be about a planet of magical girl clones making first contact with interstellar civilizations. Of course, it's not as simple as that...

On the morning of her 13th decanting day, Rain woke up bright and early and excited, eager for someone else’s memories to be copied into her brain. The daylamps outside of ...

30/8/25 Update

So... there's no getting around it... I'm burned out. My mindset has fallen into 'get chapters out' instead of 'enjoy writing chapters', in hindsight this arc has been hard for me to write. Jumping around to so many POVs, not really feeling it enough to stick with Lori for very long, in hindsight this was definitely me getting fatigued. Right now, the only one I want to right is Karina, and even now I'm not confident I can do it in a way that will be story-relevant.

I'm not ha...

Demesne 512 - Doesn’t That Sound Wonderful?

“—izards are still being a bit slower than you, but Yllian said they’ve been getting used to the work so they’ve gotten faster than before,” Erzebed said as Binder Lori ate. Mikon couldn’t help but think the two of them were much better at eating while other was talking. Rian directed all his attention at Binder Lori or whoever he was talking to when he spoke, which was very respectful, but it also meant a not uncommon way for the Dungeon Binder to tell him that she was d...

Demesne 511 - Fanservice Bath Scene!

Mikon’s mind turned up nothing through the whole afternoon, which wasn’t really surprising. In hindsight, making music with Erzebed had left her feeling in need of her own polish, which had been very distracting when she’d been mostly thinking about Umu all afternoon, with her soft hair and her pale skin and round hips and narrow waist and slim legs and…

Well, she’d found herself distracted, and it was all she could do to spin properly as she went unpolished. Next tim...

Demesne 510 - Completely Unnecessary Interference

Having a full meal in the middle of the day, by explicit order of Binder Lori, was a luxury Mikon had never failed to enjoy or appreciate. Back In their old village, while the weavers were technically allowed to stop working for half an hour at noon, most had worked through the time to make their quota. The fastest ones would collect beads from their friends and buy salt buns so they’d have something to stuff in their mouth at midday, but that was only so many people, and Mikon hadn’t bee...

9/8/25 Update - Edit: Additional Info

So, due to the difficulties with writing I've had this week, the next update might be pushed back to Tuesday or there might only be one chapter put up next week, which would most likely be the Thursday one. I'm hoping for only the former, but I'm afraid it might be the latter. Regardless, I hope to get back to the usual twice a week schedule by the week of the 18th.

We're very sorry for this lapse. Hope you enjoyed the chapter, very belated as it was.

Edit: Yea, we're definitely l...

Demesne 509 - Temporary Rian Again

There weren’t as many people to see the Coldhold off as there used to be. This was the third time they would be going to Covehold Demesne, and the fear that they’d never be coming back because they were sailing on a boat of made of ice that could melt at any moment or get torn apart by rocks or be cracked open in the jaws of a curious dillian… had faded slightly. Mikon knew she’d stopped thinking about it. When Rian left, all she thought about was how much s...

Homework 4!

First off, chapter should hopefully be out soon. Very sorry for the delay.

So, here are some of the answers to last week's homework!

• Novels (preferred are mystery, industrial thriller, and adventure), warm socks, and sweet snacks

• The girls was named Yhalta, the boy was Matoy. Lori gave them paperwork that said they promised to get married, so basically a betrothal.

• Pink. So much pink.

• Mikon's cousins are: Amokat, Koyan...

  2025-08-07 13:18:15 +0000 UTC View Post

7/8/25 Update

Sorry, but it looks like the next chapter will be delayed. Hopefully I can get it out within the next 24 hours.

Again, sorry.