User blog:Bluethunder213/My big new announcment!

Hey everyone, it's BT and this is my blog post. Now that the obvious is out of the way, I can get to telling you about my big news. Some of you may know about my postponed novel, Star Wars: Red Talon, well I'm here to tell you that the novel is currently being written, well re-written, actually. After almost two years of wondering what to do, I decided a major overhaul was needed. Out with the old, mercenary Red Talon, and in with the new Red Talon, a group of freedom fighters battling for supremacy on their planet, Maynus. Many other changes have been made, mostly to characters, so I would like to take this time to introduce you to the new Red Talon.

Synopsis
Rem Drat’n crash lands on the forgotten planet, Maynus. There he is met by Red Talon, a group of freedom fighters whose sole purpose is to overthrow the government in power. Along the way, Rem and these freedom fighters encounter many road blocks along the way, The Wizard of Welish and his Maynian tribes, Algouls are just the start of their troubles...

Rem Drat'n
Rem Drat'n is a young Corellian pilot who crash lands on Maynus. He had earned the nickname, “Muta” early on in his military career due to the mistakes he would constantly make.

In the first draft of the story, Rem was still a Corellian pilot, but he was much younger and was annoyingly sarcastic. In the first rewrite, I tried to tone his sarcasm down to make him a more down to earth character. He was still a pilot and was still really young. So now in this latest version, I’ve tried to make Rem a much more likable character who is thrust in this strange world unlike any other.

Krist Grohl
Krist Grohl is the second-in-command of Red Talon, and has been for over twenty years. His master, Tarvis, received a potentially life threatening blow before the events of the story. Krist is one of the few to know of the outside world due to that fact that he is not from Maynus and the only man that knows the full extent of his past is Tarvis.

Krist has always been fun to write about, he’s strong, wise and really becomes a mentor to Rem. Well at least he was in the previous rewrites. I don’t want to delve too much into this story before anyone’s been able to read it.

Vayla
Vayla is a young, female warrior who is stationed on the outskirts of Red Talon’s base camp. She is in command of the base camp and usually is the one who investigates any suspicious occurrences that happen.

The Vayla in this story is a mix between the Vayla in the first draft and the Vayla in the rewrite that followed it. In the first draft, Vayla was a shy bookworm who joins Red Talon for a reason I can’t even remember (it was probably stupid ). Her appearance matches that of the one I give in this new draft. The Vayla that succeeded her was a green Twi’lek who was a master in hand-to hand combat. Big difference, eh?

Nor
Nor is the son of Red Talon's only medical professional. He trained to become a soldier at a young age, though his father forbade him to enter the rebellion, citing his age as a concern. He and his father have a strained relationship.

From what I can recall, Nor did not appear in the first draft of the story. In the rewrite, however, he was a prominent character. While he will still be among the main characters, he will most likely take a back seat due to the fact that the other characters are all equally as interesting. I now don't need to focus on two or three members.

Twitch
Twitch is a heavily muscled soldier who serves under Vayla. He is sarcastic, yet caring, and is trained in sword combat.

Twitch is another character that has changed with every new development with this story. First a Rodian, Twitch was a big jerk. In the rewrite he was a Human jerk and now with this new story he is a heavily muscled man with an actual back story. I feel that this new Twitch can be seen as likeable, if not just a tad bit annoying.

Doc
Doc is Red Talon's only doctor and father of Nor. He is old friends with Krist, though their relationship has been rocky for a few years. He has voiced his desire to have his son take over as camp doctor, but his son declined.

Doc has always been a character in Red Talon and he's always been old, too. Though it seems that as time goes on, I make him years younger. It does pain me to say, however, that Doc's role will probably not be as prominent than in the previous incarnation.

Red Talon
Well Red Talon has seemed to change at every new version of the story, what was first a failed mercenary group who were among Talon Company, to a dying mercenary group (Talon Company was axed), to the main group of the rebellion on Maynus. I’ve always enjoyed Red Talon, but previous versions of the story just didn’t feel right. After writing Star Wars: Darkness Falls, I knew I needed to write a novel that featured all the good and bad that Maynus has to offer a reader. I felt strongly that making Red Talon what they are now enriches their history and is just awesome.

Maynus
Maynus, my greatest creation, is unchanged from any of my drafts, it’s still mainly forest, still suffering from their lack of pure water and still my favorite location to write about. This being my most well known article (at least I think it is), I don’t need to talk too much about it...but I will. Maynus was created because I needed a planet to destroy and I felt that bringing on the destruction of a planet of my creation would be easier. Boy was I wrong, what started out as a planet being destroyed ended up as a planet suffering from poisonous water, plants and insects, but still trying to push forward. Governments have been driven out, destroyed or just plain attacked, an aspect that seems like it will never change.


 * Red Talon Camp is hidden deep within one of the forests of Maynus. They are well hidden from their enemies yet they have dealt with the occasional attack by an opposing force.


 * Part of the story will be taking place in Belaham, but I don’t want to delve too much into that right now.


 * Other locations will be given at a later time.

Release date
Now you guys are probably wondering when you can get your hands on the first chapter, well fear not! It will be soon...real soon. So soon, actually, that by the time you scroll down to the end of this blog post, you will find it. The rest of the novel will be released chapter by chapter, with chapter two being released soon.

Closing thoughts
I’d like to thank you for reading this and I hope you are intrigued enough to click the link below. Red Talon has been the story I wanted to tell, and I just hope I can make it the best it can possibly be. If you have any comments or questions, please be sure to post them below. Lastly, if the synopsis seems cryptic at all, I apologize. Thanks again.

Chapter 1
Well, here you go: Chapter one of Red Talon!

One last thing
I plan to release a similar, most likely smaller, blog post about the many villain that Rem and company will encounter along the way. OK, now that was seriously the last thing.

Until next time,

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