The Story Behind Kara. A World Building Info Dump.
The Story Behind Kara. A World Building Info Dump.
Here is a summery of much of the world building that went into the Kara stories
Long before I wrote Renegade on Kara, I wrote a very different story about the universe of Kara, and about a high-tech decadent human society finding it. That story eventually ended up with the title Kara Discovered after I tried quite a few other titles. But during its third draft, I abandoned that project and used it for my world building of my next story. I wrote, over and over and over, the…
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