Gloveer Sibjaan (53), one of the Salt Barons of Vara has been having trouble this past year. ... more>>

Matters at home are chaotic. Isbrun, Gloveer’s eldest isn’t shaping up as the heir he should have been and Gloveer’s other 3 children have issues of their own their father has to deal with.

Even worse, dark clouds cover the horizon, and the abnormal rains are a damper on the salt trade. Shipments are irregular these days and there isn’t much sympathy for a salt baron without money.

Even at the best of times, the hawks were never friends to the mercantile barons and naval faction. They become bolder and ruder as Vara’s ally and neighbour Aaljau gears up for war against the So Empire once more. The front looks desperate this time, even Gloveer has to admit, as the So buy the full support of the recently formed Princips United to the North to support their campaign.

But even occupation of the Diostejan Peninsula by its historic foe might not be the true threat. As the skies change in Vara, so do the animals in the woods. Tales of leviathans surfacing in the seas reach Vara from far ranging fisherman. Worse, reports of Princips soldiers flinging fire from their hands lower the morale of the Varan council.

As Gloveer wonders how to keep his mercantile interests afloat until his second son can come of age, a letter arrives for him with a cryptic warning from a familiar name: his own. <<less

Into the world of one piece we meet Jam a pirate exploring the world while also trying to remember who he was.

Entry to The Second Tempest Contest. Category: Exploration of Space (Genre: Sci-fi)... more>>

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Space. A scary frontier. Yet, it is a frontier full of promise.

Ancient wrecks, asteroids with rich potential, expansive debris of old battles, and ruins full of wonder. Space is waiting for those who are willing to risk their lives to plunder its riches. And space has many surprises for those who dare brave the risks.

It is a tough job, yes. It is a dangerous job, definitely. It is also a lucrative job, of course! That's why only the toughest, the meanest, the best men and women step forward to be the first to brave the frontier and plunder its untouched resources.

They are the Space Wreckers! Join now!

Sign up with your team and receive a grant of H$50,000 to build your own ship to your specifications! Wrecker Administration Authority Group of Holdings (WAAGH) will provide all you need to start your very own exploration business. The first 100 applicants will get six exploration suits of your choice for free! What are you waiting for? Sign up now!

*Exploration suits are not given permanently but are rented to wreckers at a fee of H$500 a week each. Loans are available at a 28% interest rate.

Disclaimer: By signing up, wreckers agree to waive WAAGH of all indemnity and liability whether actual or imagined and that any risks taken 'on the job' are strictly the wreckers' own. Any injuries or conflicts 'off the job' is not the business of WAAGH and WAAGH will not be held responsible or accountable for any crime the wreckers commit whether on or off the job. Wreckers also agree that in the event of unpaid loans, WAAGH has the right to collect anything of value from the wrecker's ship, body, or corpse, if necessary.

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Cover attribution
Space image is 'free for commercial use' image from https://pixabay.com/photos/earth-moon-ache-sunrise-space-1388003/
Space ship is 'free for commercial use' image from https://pixabay.com/photos/space-ship-model-moon-base-alpha-1-2923803/
Photoshopped together by Ai-chan.
Cover image made on canva by Ai-chan.
Full size image at https://i.postimg.cc/vZ4MgKXm/Space-Wreckers.png <<less

Cross over between the two animes

A collection of Fantasy genre short stories focusing on the misadventures of a legendary thief and treasure hunter, known far and wide as The Lizard.... more>> Stories to include a healthy dose of graphic smut and possibly an occasional dash of violence. Set in the same fantasy world as my Wyrm's Curse story. <<less

After the death of her father, Reeva becomes captain of the Silver Lady. But an old enemy is threatening the peace on the free Islands.... more>> To protect her tribe she'll have to call upon the dead and use the dangerous and forgotten power of her ancestors <<less

The void of space has always been a point of intrigue for humanity. It's driven us to go to great lengths to reach out to it. After many centuries, we finally touched it. Humanity expanded into the open, endless expanse of first the Sol System and then into the Milky Way galaxy itself. Other species were encountered and Humanity answered the lingering question of whether or not we were alone. After first contact, Humanity and the various Races created the Council. A central government to bring the civilizations together and forge peace across the Milky Way.... more>>

A peace that did not last and was shattered by rebellions, war, instability, distrust, and greed. The Council collapsed and factions formed. In the battles leading to its isolation, several systems were destroyed and entire races were wiped out. With no central police force, the galaxy became a festering pit of violence, deceit, and piracy.

The war was known as the 'Galactic Fracture' by many. After the war as the Council's influence crumbled, many people struggled for work. Some became mercenaries, corporate traders, pirates, or basic laborers to support themselves and their families. Due to the dangers of space, the average individual looked for safety within their system and refused to look elsewhere.

However, where there were cowards, there were several brave souls who dared risk the challenge of the void. Merchants, Transporters, Couriers, Escorts, Miners. For every scared soul there were four more willing to race outwards into the nothing, chasing dreams, wishes, hopes, and the impossibility of something more than the boring life stuck on some random planet.

One of those people is an man named John. A man who likes to remain hidden and who takes pride in his small, low threat jobs. Well, usually. His last job turned out to be bigger than he was told. After exiting a jump, he was ambushed and his ship was damaged heavily, leaving him stranded on the planet Louxier Seven. A desolate forging world with a pitiful shipyard that would take months to get the repairs done for him, and would leave him in crippling debt afterwards.

John had accepted his fate and elected to work part-time locally while waiting for the repairs when he finds himself visited by a strange woman. A woman with a job.

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This book is a side-project. Updates will be irregular. If it gains traction, I'll give it more focus. <<less

This is a revenge story of a woman who was traumatized by pirates, expect pain and failure all who read. This isn’t a story of peace or love but one for those seeking to understand motives and narratives. Sincerely yours. ... more>>

Aurorealis <<less

What if the great war never ended? For 70 years, the major powers have fought across the Earth. The United Allies, The Kingdom Alliance, The Central Empire, the big three nations. They destroyed our homeworld with their bombs, their gas, their nuclear fire. Now we've pushed out into the stars, beyond our planet and then our solar system. The year is 1991, and the Great War rages ever more fiercely in the asteroid belts, on the moons, deep in the labyrinthine halls of industrial orbitals, and in the strange mud of distant planets. For every colony and station destroyed in the war, two more take their place, full of desperate people trying to survive. That's... more>> life for many an unfortunate, slaving away in mines, factories, Agri-stations, or onboard merchant ships desperately trying to stave off starvation for one more day in some far flung system.

There are others too. Outlaws, exiles, secessionists and rebels. They live in the fringes, on the edge of the jump gate system. They're either hidden from the major powers, or ignored for lack of strategic value. Space stations that were forgotten long ago, failed colonies, asteroid mines that ran dry. This is the type of place where Marauders are born. Pirates, terrorists, free men and women, what they are is up for debate, but it can be said with certainty that their numbers are growing. This is the story of one of those Marauders, his first foray into the wide world of stealing from and shooting it out with the major powers. Hero? Villain? It doesn't mean much at the edge of nowhere, Guppy just wants an apartment and a cheese burger. <<less

A boy named Almighty Creator is living through his normal life, but when his talents are shown to others, people worship him, not only that,... more>> but then Space Pirates get into the fray, he has to please his followers while also trying to protect earth from Space Pirates using what little knowledge of science he has. Will he even be able to survive just 1 month? <<less

In an sand filled world, water is but a luxury and the land is dying together with its people, the last barrier towards the imminent... more>> extinction are the Explorers, sailing on the sea of sand, towards unknown sands, unknown enemies, many to never be seen again.
Ra is a boy who came upon this world, his fate sure to change it, for better or for worse. <<less

When a man inherits a sailboat in Oman, he is tricked into using it to help a mysterious woman escape from pirates.

P.B. is a True AI - a human who has been successfully converted to a synthetic intelligence. This story follows her journey from administrative AI trapped on a corporate slave labor mining installation, to heart - in more ways than one - of a space pirate ship. ... more>>

Chapters may jump around her timeline. <<less

[WARNING]
Contain Mature and Disturbing content (Gor*, R*pe, etc) to give Reality vibe to Novel. Please read with precaution or you can keep out of it. Beware of 3rd rate English, I'm not a native English speaker.
I don't own One Piece or any Game Character mentioned in this story. Lastly this story started before the beginning of Great Age Pirates.... more>>

A pro gamer reborn on One Piece world as an extinct race that was wanted by World Goverment.

Now with new Mother and Twin Sister, along with Ultimate Gaming System that was activated when he was feeling depressed and sorrowful.

How will he turned the world upside down so he could live and playing game peacefully?
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Also posted in Webnovel. <<less

Luke, a office worker whose pleasure in life was reading One Piece, is transported to the One Piece world, one year before the start of the story. He wasn't gifted with a system, but in the One Piece world, with hard work, the limits of humans are completely different.
Join Luke as he meets the characters, make friends, enemies, and even lovers.... more>>

This is an adventure story, and I will try to write a fun and interesting adventure, mostly for my own pleasure. <<less

Indentured servant Brogan Walsh has concluded that his choices are death or a lifetime of servitude. When Sir Cartwright, his exacting master, takes him aboard a galleon bound through the strait of Messina, he sees a chance for one last adventure before resigning to his fate.... more>>

However, the dashing Captain Zechariah made an enemy of Sir Cartwright long ago. Though no one knows the reason for their enmity, it becomes clear that his master has no intention of letting the captain and his crew survive their journey.

When all seems lost, Brogan stumbles across the veil and discovers another world, woven into the fabric of his own. With the aid of the guides of the dead, he discovers that the powers of creation are his to command, and may just be a path to freedom.

Through the Jaws of Messina combines the metaphysical bent of Cloud Atlas and The Man Who Was Thursday with the high seas adventure of Treasure Island and the queer romance of Our Flag Means Death. <<less

This is a standalone, short side story to my main fiction here on Royalroad and Scribblehub, Saga of the Cosmic Heroes.... more>>

Golden Shin tells the tragic tale of a young man ever increasingly down on his luck in a society buckling on the teether of collapse; in a city that cares little for his kind. Acknowledged by none and seen as little more than another face in the crowd—and even less than that.

A man whose name means nothing, whose worthwhile is redundant in the grand scheme of things. Whose dreams are far-flung and little more than pipe dreams. But in these challenging times comes forth a strong man whose name is revered—feared, perhaps.

This is the story of the legendary space pirate that fought back against corrupt police, and even the byzantine Federation itself. But even the mightiest of phoenixes burn intensely into their eventual demise.
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This story is being serialized on Royalroad as well - https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/59154/cosmic-saga-gaiden-golden-shin
Cover art I commissioned by Vertutame - https://twitter.com/Vertutame <<less

For many years, sailors have sought the fabled Northwest Passage, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the frozen waters of North America. I, Captain Sir John Franklin of the British Empire, am one such sailor.... more>>

However, due to ignorance, incompetence and bad luck, my life came to an abrupt end on June morning, and I was never able to reach the Beaufort Sea on the other side of the passage.

But to my luck, the gorgeous goddess Poseidon of the Ocean took interest in my skill, and gave me a second chance at life. The twist? It is not the seas of Earth, but the vast vacuum of space that I'm set to explore! <<less

A Pretender to the Throne gets brain damage and decides to fuck around and possibly find out, meeting several familiar characters in all of the regions during his travels. I suck at descriptions, just read the fic already.... more>>

Crossposted from QQ and FF because why the hell not.

Ignore tags, I'm just fucking around in there. <<less

Bang is transported from Earth into a world where pirates and adventurers rules the land and the seas. They are bestowed power from leaders after swearing fealty to them.... more>>

“Welcome owner, to the world of Mundu”

“What? Are you a system? Did I reincarnate like those characters from novels?”

“Yes owner, I am here to help you”

“YES!!!!!, what cool powers do I have? Do I control gravity? Can I use all the elements here? Oh! Oh! Can you help me master all kinds of powers?!”

“No master, I can only power up your allies”

“What???????”

“Please follow my instructions to assemble your crew.”

This is not your regular power fantasy. Well, it is a power fantasy but not on the main character. The main character completes quests in order to recruit crew members or power them up. This is kind of a slow paced novel because character development will be a big factor in this story. Kind of new to writing so any criticism will be welcome. If you want a reason to read this novel, read the spoiler below.

*****SPOILERS****** the crew doesn’t get powerful with no reason. They get powerful only because of character development so expect some emotional scenes for breakthroughs. See if you could spot the progression of emotions in the crew, and how it affects their powers

Disclaimer : I do not own the pictures I used in creating the cover. <<less

Captain Suro is a 30 year veteran of the humanities best explorers of space. Devoid of any combat he was part of a select few... more>> captains who brought results of the worlds beyond back to humanity. Awaking from his stasis, he comes to see a new view of his current reality. One that has never been seen before in his time. <<less

When Link and Tetra are separated, Link finds himself in unfamiliar seas...... more>>

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Since departing from the Hyrule region of the great sea a year earlier, Link, Tetra, and the crew of The Shrewd Scout have found themselves adrift. Their seemingly simple task of finding a new land for their people to settle had now proved to seem insurmountable.

Circumstances only worsen, as Tetra disappears after boarding a strange ship, and Link fails to save her. Washed ashore on an unfamiliar, Link is now separated from Tetra, the crew, and his family.

But he is no longer the scared young boy of Outset, but a victorious hero, seeking to fulfill a divine mission of the goddesses. To these seas however, he is not the hero of winds.

He is an intruder. <<less

4E 210... more>>

The Empire is collapsing. The Aldmeri Dominion has declared war on the entirety of Tamriel.

A band of prisoners - an ex-legionnaire named Cyrenius, a Breton mage named Aurianna, and a former Argonian pirate captain named Ajul-Jei - end up imprisoned within the Alik'r desert of Hammerfell. However, following a sinkhole event, the trio discover a large Dwemerian mechanism. In hopes of escape, they activate the mechanism and free the Dwemer from their long absence.

As the trio advance onwards, they discover that their course of actions had only unraveled a small portion of an ancient prophecy told by an Elder Scroll.

(This series is based on a theoretical concept following the events of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.) <<less

Greed and ambition. Normally, if you had those in excess, you wouldn't have reliable friends. However, not in Ares' case. He has a strong group... more>> of friends who are willing to help him realize his ambitions and discover his strange past. <<less

Saw a story about a Horsemen of War as a Gamer, so why not Death and complete this Darksiders series as well?... more>>

Introducing the Horseman, or Horsewomen, of Death, Esther. And she will trail a road of bodies in her wake. <<less