I’m not sure if anyone here was actually reading my Strikeforce story. If you were, you’ll know that I’ve struggled to maintain a regular update schedule over the last year or so.
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After a long delay, I have added the first chapter of the Egyptian story. Supporting it, I have the set of articles covering important people, places, dates, and things featured in the story. The links are all in the sidebar on the Egyptian index page.
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I know it’s not at all obvious why a modern-day super-hero saga has a chapter set in ancient Egypt.
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It started when I went back to the lost civilization of Atlantis, to tell a story that gave the origins of several things that played a big part in the Strikeforce story. A prequel, if you like.
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Once I had done that, I realised I could trace these elements through the next 12,000 years of history, and interweave other elements that didn’t stretch back as far Atlantis but still had origins in different historical eras.
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The first of these new eras was ancient Egypt. I’m not going to list all the elements that link this era to Atlantis and/or modern times, that would be spoilers. It should become clearer in subsequent chapters and/or background articles.
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This first chapter is a short introduction to the setting and the characters who will be your guides as these elements reveal themselves. And if I’ve written it well enough, I hope the story will be interesting in its own right even if you don’t see the big picture. And if you’re not interested in ancient Egypt, you can skip this entire section without affecting your understanding of the main Strikeforce story in any way.
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If you haven’t been reading it, none of the above will have made made any sense to you. If it’s made you interested, you should probably start on the home page, or maybe look at the first blog post which explained what the site was all about and what I was trying to do.
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If you’re thinking of diving in to it, though, I feel I ought to warn you that there are almost 300 pages and over 300,000 words on the site 
(and that’s just story pages, it’s not counting the 151 blog posts of behind-the-scenes waffle).
The Strikeforce Story
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It’s all based on my RPG. Heroes is a direct sequel to Strikeforce, but I’m writing them in parallel just to be confusing. I enjoy the challenge of providing hints of the Strikeforce history without too many direct spoilers!
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After several years of the Strikeforce game I decided the universe had grown far too complex so ended it with a “crisis”, then restarted it as Heroes, set 20 years later in the same universe. The break was supposed simplify everything but inevitably it just got more complicated as bits of old continuity crept in. (Does this remind you of anything?
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I do find it interesting writing it as a fake comic script, it lets me be lazy about descriptions but at the same time puts artificial restrictions on me (in pacing, etc.) that I wouldn’t get in prose. But I know not everybody like reading “raw” scripts, and with hindsight I wish I had done the whole thing in prose format. Though now I think I should adopt a completely different style for each “era” of the story. When I get to the Strikeforce of 1588 I might write it as a Shakespearean play.
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Anyway, thanks for reading, I wasn’t sure if anybody actually was :) -
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All will be revealed next chapter… though I don’t know why I’m being coy, you’ve already figured out the answer
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