Taking a break from Nova Orbis. Here's why.

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Okay, so.... yesterday, I uploaded chapter thirteen of the current story, "Return of The Toa Miro."

Here's the thing, though. That's not actually the end of this year's story. Not quite. Originally, it was going to include another eight or so chapters that take place primarily in Ba-Koro, showing what becomes of the Toa Novus and where they go from here.

I'm still gonna do that, but not now. I just can't.

Lately, this story has been eating up ALL of my time, time that I NEED to put towards other things, such as getting my own original comic off the ground, and I've barely been working on that, in my efforts to get Return of The Toa Miro wrapped up in its entirety by the end of the year with a neat little bow so it feels like an actual Bionicle year. When I haven't been working on that, I've been catching up on commissions that I owe people, or editing the occasional youtube video so my channel doesn't go through a drought.

I had it all planned out... I was supposed to start working on this year's story late in spring, and kinda split it into two "waves." The one you just saw, and the second half of the year focusing on Ba-Koro. However, Shadow of The Devilman ended up being a lot longer than I thought it was gonna be (not that it wasn't worth it) and I had to keep postponing this arc. And... it hasn't been very good for me. Most of the chapters written for this year's story are much longer than last year's (or at least it feels that way), and it's taken its toll. If I just set everything else aside and focused soley on this, then yes, sure, I could definitely close the book on this one in the next two months.

Thing is, I don't really wanna do that. I'm not going to keep neglecting my other projects any more.

So here's what I'm gonna do instead. Next year, once Return of The Toa Miro was over, I was going to begin 2016's story, a flashback that details the Toa Miro's journey to Caelum, the things they learned about the world, and how they became what they are now. All of this was going to happen after the Toa Novus' final battle with them in Ba-Koro, with a final boss an' everything.

Now though, to make time for other stuff, I'm switching things around a bit. So instead, I'm going to begin that story BEFORE finishing Return of The Toa Miro... the rest of which shall be called "Part 2- Crackdown." On top of that, I'll try to keep that arc fairly short so there may still be enough time to squeeze it into the later part of 2016. This will give the Miro a better background and give their actions more of a context. This way, when we shift our focus back to the present, to the Toa Novus, we'll have gotten to know everybody a little better, and the final confrontation will have more buildup, and feel more epic for it. The stakes will feel higher, we'll simply have a better grasp of just WHAT is at stake in the first place.

So, again, here's how it's gonna go.


2014- Mystery of The Toa Miro, Parts 1+2

2015- Return of The Toa Miro Part 1

2016- Journey to Caelum, followed by Return of The Toa Miro Part 2



Hopefully that won't be overdoing it in 2016.

I hope you guys are okay with this decision. Yesterday's upload could be the last we see of this story for a while, so I went all-out with it to make it as epic as I could, with one hell of a cliffhanger, like a movie based on a book that's so long, it had to be split into two parts, released a year apart. And the crazy thing is, it's going to get EVEN BIGGER. You'll see.

Anyway, leave your thoughts in the comments section. I hope you guys support my decision to shift focus where I feel it needs to be. I still want to make time for this, and I will, once I really get my other project going. And I still have other things I want to do, like a follow-up to my "The Devilman" books, a sequel to Silver Scales, and Metroid Rebirth. I just... it's hard to find time to clean all these things off my plate, you know?

I guess that's it for today. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to finish up some commissions I've kept on the backburner for longer than I should've.


I'll follow this up soon with a journal about my other plans for the future of Nova Orbis, along with a journal about my own property that I hope to publish, and how I'm thinking of going about that.
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wjones215's avatar
Do what's needed to be done because you don't need to get your energy sapped to get chapters posted. As long as these future chapters are awesome like your already posted work, no complaints from me.