A brief note as I have gotten e-mails asking me questions about where my story fits in to the timeline of the Riddick trilogy. I've done some selective cutting and pasting of certain topics so I'll list in order of movies what parts I kept and then I'll add an explanation just so you lovely readers aren't stuck wondering what the heck is going on or what I've been smoking.
Pitch Black – Basically the entire movie happened. I haven't changed much of this as there isn't much to change that would affect my storyline. So, aliens, disciples getting eaten, a lot of people dying, etc, etc. They all happened and I'll reference them every now and again.
Dark Fury – Not a whole lot of change for this either. I have a few Merc secondary characters that were on that ship and while I don't want to tell you all this right away one of those frozen figures will be reanimating and making an appearance. Fear. Jack still killed somebody and Riddick still dropped everyone off at Helion Prime. Life is good, happy happy.
Chronicles of Riddick – This is where it gets pretty tricky as I did pretty much all of my selecting here. Here's what did happen: Everyone who died in that movie is dead, Riddick was imprisoned and did meet Thrash the hellhound (that's a bit from the book for those of you who are like 'wha?'). He escaped with the people from the prison, got his Furyan mark, went to go and get Kyra, she died he mourns. Now here's my added bits: the Necromongers ended up disbanding seeing as Riddick wasn't exactly the best leader for them in his morose state of mind, they were all eventually and hunted down by the remaining dregs of the people they had conquered, Riddick went into self exile back on the same planet he had exiled himself to before as a form of punishment for not being able to save Kyra, everything comes full circle.
Now here's where Executioner stands.
Basically it goes like this starting a few years before Pitch Black: Elite group of Mercs is like 'hey, that guy is worth a lot…lets hunt him down and get the money.' They look around and see that they don't have anything that will work so some weird creepy guy (aka the younger man) comes up with an idea and is like "yo dudes, lets get us another Furyan and teach it to kill him". Everyone thinks it's a great idea and the search begins. They find three people, an old man, a blind/mute baby, and Zasha. They take Zasha and rearrange her name so it's Fathia, which is actually her middle name. They train, they make her better, stronger, faster and then our story begins.
There you have it in laments terms. Feel free to e-mail me with any questions you have as I'm happy to answer them. And now…on with the story.