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Commander Bob
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 Posted: 06 Jan, 2010
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Review your books, get em published so I can buy them!
/slap. 
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johnmyates
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Posted: 06 Jan, 2010
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Location: N 29° 24' 53.04" W 90° 17' 50.74"
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dotswarlock wrote: I’m considering either a short story to pass the time (maybe revisiting a past element or a character’s history) or maybe taking the time to completely review all previous books. Like it or not, book 1 is kind of like the “opening” one and well… let’s just say my writing has improved since then and it could use a tune up  So at any rate, my answer is: I’m not sure  (Feel free to throw suggestions though such as past characters which were interesting and such) Feel free to give us some back story on Bagby. That's always entertaining.
Marc
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DeadMG
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Posted: 07 Jan, 2010
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I'd definitely like to know more about Mather. He's a pretty critical character, but I'm not entirely sure how much depth he got.
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EkarN
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Posted: 07 Jan, 2010
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A suggestion is writing a book about a historical event in the Supreme Commander Universe, like the beginning of the Infinite War or something.
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Mooilo
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Posted: 07 Jan, 2010
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Review your previous books to bring them up to the same quality as the current ones, I'd say.
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scotchtape622
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Posted: 07 Jan, 2010
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Quote: A suggestion is writing a book about a historical event in the Supreme Commander Universe, like the beginning of the Infinite War or something. I disagree. Dots has so many amazing characters, and if he wrote that he could only use Brackman. Not only that, but any military stuff would have to all be redone because they used totally different units at the time.
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patton5219
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Posted: 07 Jan, 2010
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scotchtape622 wrote: Quote: A suggestion is writing a book about a historical event in the Supreme Commander Universe, like the beginning of the Infinite War or something. I disagree. Dots has so many amazing characters, and if he wrote that he could only use Brackman. Not only that, but any military stuff would have to all be redone because they used totally different units at the time. you could supplement the current books with more details about the characters and other events about them but not as related to the main story. like you could flesh out the whole dostya + queren thing or something.
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Plasma_Wolf
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Posted: 07 Jan, 2010
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Review the previous books. I noticed that there are quite some errors in it 
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Commander Bob
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Posted: 07 Jan, 2010
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scotchtape622 wrote: you could supplement the current books with more details about the characters and other events about them but not as related to the main story. like you could flesh out the whole dostya + queren thing or something.
I think that was always supposed to be secretive and mysterious. 
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patton5219
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Posted: 07 Jan, 2010
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Commander Bob wrote: patton5219 wrote: you could supplement the current books with more details about the characters and other events about them but not as related to the main story. like you could flesh out the whole dostya + queren thing or something. I think that was always supposed to be secretive and mysterious. yea but if dots has finishes setting the scene for supcom 2 and there are still 2 months till release, its as good a time as any to fill in some of the vague background material
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Lamordeyni
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Posted: 07 Jan, 2010
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Review your previous books. Epic literature is always a pleasure to read if it has perfect grammar.
However if you do consider writing a new book while we wait for SC2, I´d like the new generation of commanders to go to Alpha Seven from your third book and face whatever is waiting there.
It has always annoyed me that you gave us such a cliffhanger. 
Quote: “They tried to kill us but they did not know…
They tried to kill us but they did not know…
They tried to kill us but they did not know…”
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Commander Bob
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Posted: 07 Jan, 2010
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ooo yeah! be nice to flesh that out too.
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dotswarlock
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Posted: 08 Jan, 2010
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I think I've settled my mind on a little of both; a mini-book until Supcom 2 comes out accompanied by corrections to the original books. Now what could possibly fit in a mini book? You guys will have to wait to find out
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johnmyates
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Posted: 08 Jan, 2010
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dotswarlock wrote: what could possibly fit in a mini book?
Maybe something about Brackman's escape from Earth? That's not something we've heard a lot about. Would make for some interesting reading.
Marc
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Plasma_Wolf
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Posted: 09 Jan, 2010
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I'd like to find out how Stephen Clarke became a legend.
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dotswarlock
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Posted: 09 Jan, 2010
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Chapter 22 Divine Justice and the Epilogue are now online!
And I just caught you guys with your pants down, didn't I? One day early and all . Let's see who will post first
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Judge-Mental-One
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Posted: 09 Jan, 2010
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scotchtape622
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Posted: 09 Jan, 2010
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Dang! I was eating a sandwich /goes to read
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That was awesome! I was laughing quite a bit during the dinner
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Mooilo
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Posted: 09 Jan, 2010
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Badass! I'm not sure what you're going to do now, but I'll probably buy SupCom 2 just what you write about it.
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johnmyates
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Posted: 09 Jan, 2010
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Applause! Very nice wrap up. It leaves things so...open ended. Congrats on another masterpiece dots. The timing couldn't have been better, either. I'm leaving for Costa Rica in the morning and was wondering how I was going to get my fix. Thanks a lot.
Until next time,
Marc
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scotchtape622
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Posted: 09 Jan, 2010
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Now I wait for the Epilogue #2
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Commander Bob
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Posted: 09 Jan, 2010
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ROFL at the meal, I had to really struggle to keep track of all the plate switching, Bagby's mere presence causing something like that so fit with the story.
Loved the tension between the Redfogs as well, really fit with their nature of the apprentice killing the master and so on. I think you've wrapped that up brilliantly dots, preserving ya best characters, and pointing the story in the right direction while still leaving it open ended.
Absolutely amazing work, can't wait till yer next ones.
Would suggest you go back and fully revitalise the older books into full publishable standard, then get working on that. Then in the meantime if ya have any spare time and wish to, throw us a few side stories, anything about backstories or what the characters are doing in the meantime, and also any about the few lose ends like that wierd planet with the Sephy ghosts would be awesome.
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Lt_hawkeye
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Posted: 09 Jan, 2010
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just win....epic win...
the dinner scene, absolutely hilarious; and Redfog, i can honestly say i don't think i've ever seen such a badass character, can't wait to see what the future has in store.
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EkarN
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Posted: 10 Jan, 2010
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Lamordeyni wrote: Review your previous books. Epic literature is always a pleasure to read if it has perfect grammar. However if you do consider writing a new book while we wait for SC2, I´d like the new generation of commanders to go to Alpha Seven from your third book and face whatever is waiting there. It has always annoyed me that you gave us such a cliffhanger. Quote: “They tried to kill us but they did not know…
They tried to kill us but they did not know…
They tried to kill us but they did not know…” Wasn't that some sick seraphim experiment altogether?
Any way, I think Brackmans excape would be an interesting mini-book story aswell.
Nice chapter and epilogue Dots, nice implications at the end!
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Lord of Nothing
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Posted: 10 Jan, 2010
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Excellent. I know I use that word every time, but that's because it's true.
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