The Swarm Cycle is a collection of stories written around a concept introduced by the Thinking Horndog about an alien invasion and Earth's reaction to it. The intent is for it to be a public, multi-author universe after the fashion of the popular Naked in School stories.
The Sa'arm, a tripedal race with some physical resemblance to a cross between a mushroom and a lizard but with a hive mind, is sweeping across this galactic arm toward the center. They communicate by some sort of ESP, and ignore any race that does not. In their path is the Confederacy, a Galactic civilization that universally practices nonviolence -- and Earth...
Interested authors should visit our wiki at: https://swarmwiki.tampaad.net/index.php?title=Main_Page This describes canon for the Cycle -- the rules, if you will. We have an author support group, but are suffering issues over the email list. Contact Thinking Horndog or Zen Master.
Set in Thinking Horndog's Swarm Cycle universe. At his extraction, a young volunteer requests that his unborn, dependent child be picked up with him, and the mother wants to go. Minor detail: he has three unborn dependents at the extraction site, and this volunteer is authorized only two concubines. The AI refuses to make a decision, and it falls to Sub-Decurion Barry Manilow Smith (Remember Signifer BMS from 'Don't Blame Me!') to straighten out the mess - or does it?
A Swarm Cycle Story - Some side effects of an Infinite Improbability Drive may actually turn out to be useful, but, then, such technology cannot nullify the TANSTAAFL rule.