The universe is a vast place. Not to sound too “Carl Sagan-y”, but it’s true. To imagine any significance to the human-scale events we call epic is really missing the big picture. In Galaxy number 87,314,013,708 of the 100,000,000,000 out there (in the visible universe – in what may be just one of an infinite number of universes) a super-massive star has just gone supernova in such a way that the complete annihilation of life on a dozen habited planets is all but guaranteed. Those people are way more screwed than we’ll ever be. Our drama is nothing compared to theirs. Moreover, in that same galaxy thousands of other worlds won’t be killed but certainly have troubles of their own. Catastrophe, of the sort we like to tell stories about, is, truly, everywhere. Much of it worse than we’ll ever see.
It’s a bit arrogant, then, for us to get all serious about our issues, or to make our fiction out to be more epic than it really is. “It’s the end of the world!”
Hardly.
However, being dramatic with full understanding and appreciation of our place in the cosmos can also be fun. We can laugh, and we can cry – and we should, for life is precious, on every scale – and this is an epic existence we play at. No matter its perspective it’s ours. Kind of like throwing yourself into a football game and being in the moment, painted face and all, even though it means nothing on a global scale and there are far more important things to be done. We can, nevertheless, for those three hours, make that game the center of our universe.
And so we can with Star Angel.
The story only gets larger in scale as it goes, more fantastic, and there’s more yet to come, and to that end we've created a Companion that lays the groundwork for all books existing and those yet to be, and though much of the stuff in the Companion never makes it directly into the story it’s important, very important, world-building for the story’s overall foundation.
It’s also cool to have little tidbits of info to fill in the gaps.
Lord of the Rings had The Silmarillion. The Companion for Star Angel is nothing on that level. But it does give a few little hooks on which to hang our hat, and brings with it a bit more understanding of the events in the saga.
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