Empire is done with some bits with the Editors. I have separated out the Universes and put the old books in a separate Universe. The Universe is now public.
Jason finally gets to the Empire. He has a really rocky start before he can get on with life. Book 3 is largely an exploration of life for Jason at an advanced University.
Books 1 and 2 are about warfare at a distance. Now a lot of the problems are in his face.
I have kept names reasonably easy. Empire standard sounds like French but names are really long. For the sake of my readers, I have truncated them. Names in Charassa are really a series of clicks and even with my experience, I find them hard to put on paper. In societies with trillions of beings three names doesn't do it but for our purposes, I have stuck to two for convenience.
Jason is not into the sociology or politics so he can miss the analysis of the society. It is there in the background as are the issues of Artificial Intelligence.
Thanks to all of you who wrote some suggestions about AI evolution. It is there constantly and becomes a more prominent theme.
What are concerns in an ancient society? What are Jason's people like, where are they and the issues?
I am open to suggestions. Are they humanoid in origin or insect or a collective intelligence like the Una? Are they a collection of microorganisms that cooperate like I saw in a Star Trek. Which galaxy were they from?
What disaster have they faced? Who is the current enemy and what are they doing? What do they want Jason to do?