Saloon at the Edge of Everywhere is gathering momentum like an asteroid shooting around a sun.

The United States Space Ship Obama has just landed its Marines on the alien space station to rescue the hundreds of tourists that have been taken hostage by the space pirates. Too bad the Marines are all 19 or 20 years old, and are led by an inexperienced 2nd Lt. And too bad the pirates are really just hormone-saturated teenagers who were kicked off of their home world by a society that doesn’t want the responsibility of dealing with them… (Don’t judge them too harshly. If we could get away with shipping our 15 and 16-year-old boys off to another world, I bet some of us would be okay with that plan, especially those of us that have daughters)…

On the other hand, the pirate Captain did just gun down three of Rufus’s friends with an alien weapon in cold blood… (maybe)… but he was under a little stress because Rufus’s friends called his mom and put her voice over the loud-speaker system on the space station, so he was a little angry. Having your mom yell at you while you are busy pirating and looting and taking hostages is bound to stress a pirate Captain out.

Meanwhile, the new Warlord, who looks like a 15 foot-tall, two-ended, green sea anemone, has just thrown himself into the battle. Which is strange, because he was only born about 45 minutes ago… (When I say born, that might be a little deceptive. His sire, the old Warlord, split himself down the middle in a manner similar to amoebas on Earth.

On top of all this, Rufus still smells like poop… because you may recall that he fell into a huge pile of it, and he is unarmed and stuck to the floor in a huge puddle of alien saliva, which explains why he had to helplessly watch his friends get shot. And I would expect that he is still in pain after getting kicked in the nuts by that young girl, and being thrown around through the air all those times. And did I mention that all of this was being broadcast live to the universe by alien Reporters? Even the bizarre projectile-vomiting thing. Talk about a ratings booster.

And since this might all be part of some much larger plot by still as yet unknown forces, it is bound to get more strange.

If any of this interests you, the novel… so far… can be found right above you in the handy header. I have also included some character pictures I did, and also the race and character notes, which I am updating as we go. These will help you keep all the strange aliens straight in your mind if you forget who is who.

Thank you.