Welcome to my second fanfic. Please, sit down, relax. Help yourself to a refreshing beverage from the fridge while you read about the ground rules... Most should already be somewhat familiar to you...
a) Ratchet, Clank, their entire universe and everything in it are copyright and trademark by Sony, Insomniac Games and High Impact Games and are used without permission in this story.
b) The term "manifestor" was coined by Hatoshi (a.k.a. Stephen Stryker). I have used the term, and the general concept behind the technology with his permission. Special thanks go out to him once again for getting me to actually write some of this stuff down in electrons rather than letting them decay into /dev/null.
c) Any other characters, constructs, devices, governmental agencies, plant life or social conventions that are in this story that are not the property of Sony, Insomniac Games, Inc. or Hatoshi are my own constructs. Personally, I can't see why anyone would ever really want to reuse them, but if you do you really should ask first. It's polite.
d) This story begins after the conclusion of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and my previous fanfic Ratchet & Clank Future: Homecoming. You should assume that if you read beyond this point, anything in any of the currently published and available Ratchet & Clank games may be used as reference or history, and you WILL be exposed to spoilers if you have not played them before.
Also, you will probably be mighty confused if you have not already read Homecoming. In fact, even if you have read it, you may want to read it again anyway - I have cleaned up a few glitches and the wording in the original text, and the events in Relativity continue from the events in Homecoming. You should check that out first to refresh your memory, just in case...
Required gaming includes Ratchet & Clank (R&C1), Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (R&C2), Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (R&C3), Ratchet: Deadlocked (R:DL), Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (R&C:SM), Secret Agent Clank (SAC), Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools Of Destruction (R&CF:ToD). At the time this story was written (31 July 2008 -> 15 August 2008), Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest For Booty had not yet been released.
e) If the spoiler issue means anything to you, then you should go out, buy, play and enjoy all of the games listed above. I highly recommended them! (Shameless plug for IG and HIG)
f) This is NOT how I think the next episode of Ratchet & Clank Future will play out, nor do I think there are any real game playing possibilities in this plotline.
g) I strongly suspect that Quest For Booty will change the canon of the Ratchet & Clank Future series away from what I use in these stories. We will both have to live with it unfortunately; I am not going to go back and change the stories. (Han shot first!!)
h) I am not a professional writer, and I do not claim to be able to write either well or coherently. It is merely a minor amusement, a side story to while away the time... But I still reserve the right to continually tweak the text as I find errors or wrong words. You are hereby warned.
i) Enjoy!!