ARKS HELICES #1 PRELAUNCH IS LIVE
The Helices is no ordinary refuge—it’s a Dyson-class space station, a mega-structure so vast it can only exist in the orbit of a dead star. Within its colossal O’Neill cylinders, the last of humanity clings to survival, hiding from an unknowable enemy. An enemy that doesn’t hunt them physically, but hunts their very pattern in the quantum field. If it can find you, it can become you.
In Arks Helices #1, the thrilling first instalment of a three-part series, we follow Moxy—a 23,000-year-old immortal, time-traveling, bio-punk-noir detective—sent down from the Helices to investigate missing Arks in the colony below. But this time, the enemy has sent one of its own: an evil unlike anything she has ever faced before. An evil that doesn’t simply want to kill you… but to become you.
Arks Helices #1 is a bio-punk-noir detective story, blending eldritch horror with high-concept science-faction* storytelling. Prepare to enter a universe where humanity’s last sanctuary might also be its tomb.
*Based on real science
The prelaunch page for Arks Helices #1 is up. This will be our next Kickstarter, launching sometime around November this year. It’s written by me—Rory Collins—and is being lined and coloured by the incredible Gustaffo Vargas.
As a tiny, piss-pant publisher, joining the prelaunch helps us immensely. It gets us hyped when we see more people following, and it helps us have a good opening weekend when we launch.
So click the prelaunch button, yeah ;v)
Cover Art by A Morris. Title: The Morph and the Ark
WAR OF LIGHT ROADMAP
The fight against lore-bloat starts now!
I bloody hate it when publishers and studios endlessly mint sequels, keeping characters in place so brands remain recognisable, making each subsequent book or film bigger and badder to stand in for actual development. You feel it when you read it—familiarity without momentum. Repetition disguised as escalation.
All thoughtfully plotted stories start with an end in mind. Worlds should expand because the story demands it, not because the market wants more of it. So I have done something brilliant or mad. I am a legend or a bastard… you decide.
I have plotted out the full Arks storyline and made this roadmap. You can see where Helices fits into the storyline. Some of you will be thinking, ‘Jesus, finish Issue 6 before you hit me with this!’ You are, of course, absolutely right. But the reason Issue 6 will be fantastic is because I have done the hard work and plotted out the story in its entirety.
Arks ‘War of Light’ Roadmap (9000AD - 46259AD)
I have been alive for 16,072 days, and there is an excellent chance it’ll take me approximately 32,000 days to complete all these books. It will be my life’s work.
But I’m up for it.
More soon.
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