Dearest readers,
Work on the sequel continues apace. We said back when we finished the story and announced that there was a sequel in progress that our hope was to manage one chapter a week. At that point, we already had a handful of chapters... and we have met our goal. We currently have, fully drafted, 20 chapters of Interregnum II, amounting to just about 130,000 out of a projected 200,000 words. That means, if we continue our one chapter a week pace, we're just about four months away from the story being fully drafted.
Sadly, we're not yet quite ready to begin posting chapters, certainly not at a weekly pace. But we're not that far away from it either, I hope. I want to keep the flexibility to make changes to the early chapters (including the very first chapter) a little while longer. At the same time, I hope to be able to bring you the first chapter of Interregnum II sometime in the next two months (so, ideally, by the end of October).
In the meantime, a little sneak peak of what is to come:
Of all the Empire's many tools for the repression of dissent, the Imperial Inquisitorius was the most feared. This was not because they were uniquely lethal or capricious in their use of violence. Rather, it was because the Inquisitorius was mysterious. Some said it had served the Emperor personally; others (who knew better) said that it had been an extension of Darth Vader's will. Those who knew best—and there were scant few—said that most of all, it had served itself.
Since the deaths of the Emperor and Vader at Endor, the Inquisitorius had become even more mysterious. The surviving Inquisitors scattered through the galaxy, finding refuge with warlords who accepted their service, seeing the submission of an Inquisitor as a sure sign of their provenance as the Emperor's true heir. As those warlords fell one by one to the determined efforts of the New Republic the Inquisitors vanished yet again, like smoke thinning in a slight breeze. Diminished, yet still perceptible.
Worse still, no one seemed to know exactly how many were left.
Some of those Inquisitors came to Entralla. There they pledged their lives and service to Ardus Kaine, the last of the Imperial Grand Moffs, whose Oversector Outer was the largest and most prosperous of the fractured Empire's remaining territories. Kaine's fleet was the strongest, his sectors were the most industrious, and his ambitions were said to be boundless.
Those who knew of the Inquisitorius said it had become an extension of Kaine's will.
Reduced as they had been by the Emperor's death, the Inquisitors found themselves faced with a myriad of threats. The Empire was on the verge of collapse. The New Republic was ascendant. And, worst of all, the Jedi were reborn.
But, each in their own way, the Inquisitors were tools of the Dark. The Dark was all consuming. The Dark was patient. And out amidst the millions of stars that glimmered like dust motes, the Dark was awake.
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Interregnum II: The New Order
Coming Soon