Starting in the year 2154, the city of Aljabara was gearing up for another
election. They expected to elect Sekundas Drumpf for a third term, but there
was no guarantee of that, and there were plenty of hopefuls who sought to
unseat him. He had no interest in seeing this happen, so he made an argument
for cancelling the election altogether. He was already in charge, and things
were going great, so why mess with a good thing? According to reports, the war
against the Thicket terrorists couldn’t be going any better. The truth was
that he had made little to no progress on this front, but the people didn’t
need to know that. He inflated numbers, and reframed narratives, and spun the
truth, and also just made up flat-out lies. He made himself look like the best
thing that had ever happened to this planet. He made it seem like people
barely survived before him, and that they wouldn’t survive the future without
him. He claimed to have a mage remnant seer in his pocket, who regularly
warned him of oncoming events, and that only he knew what to do to protect his
constituents. He swayed a lot of people using these tactics, but he couldn’t
convince everyone. That was okay, because he didn’t need everyone. He really
only needed the military. He had no legal authority to get rid of the election
ballots, but get rid of them he did. He declared himself the autonomous
authority over the entire planet, and challenged anyone to disagree with him
on this matter. There were a few takers, but they were swiftly removed from
their mortal coil, and no one dared push him towards the edge again. It didn’t
bother him at all that his actions meant that they were no longer living under
a republic, but a dictatorship. He wanted more power, and the only way to get
it was to hold onto what he already had. Democracy could go take a hike for
all he cared. He insisted they continue to call it The Republic, however, to
make him look good, and to make the city look good, in case Earth ever found
out about them. The history books didn’t even acknowledge a change in
governmental type when looking back at this period of time, for all the
official documentation suggested that nothing had been altered. The Durune
were now living in a totalitarian state, and it didn’t feel like anything
could make it the least bit better.
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Now that the lineup has been irreversibly established, and their reliance upon the direction of any external force removed from the equation, Team Matic must decide for themselves what missions to take. As they approach the year that changes everything, they may find themselves on a long detour.
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My name is Nick Fisherman III. It's not my real name, but that's not because I'm trying to hide from my former agency, or something. I named myself after someone I've known for most of my life, and he chose it in honor of his late best friend. I took up writing when I found myself failing 8th grade science, and realized I might never reach my dream of becoming a biochemist, a meteorologist, and a quantum physicist. I started developing my canon after a scouting trip to an island inspired what I thought would be my first novel. I founded this website upon the advice of many people, who told me I needed to get my work out there, and not wait for an agent to accept my manuscript. You can expect one new story every day. Weekdays are for microstories, which are one or two paragraphs long. They're usually only thematically linked, so you won't have to read one to understand another, but they do sometimes tell a combined story. Sundays are for my continuous longer story, The Advancement of Mateo Matic, which I started in the beginning, and won't end until 2066. Saturdays are for long series, most of which take place in the same universe as Mateo, and add to the larger mythology.
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