This thread is a workshop for all the Extended Universe (EU) spin-off stories from the Never-ending Story thread (NeS). To find out more about the NeS itself, please see the NeS workshop thread.
List of NeS EU stories (in alphabetical order):
Clear and The Hopeless
Hero Force One
"NeS 1888" or "This Also Needs a Better Name"
NeShattered
Pantheons of the NeSiverse
Tales of the Imperium
Also, for reference, here is the Timeline of the NeSiverse.
The original contents of this first post, when this thread was created at first for just Hero Force One, are found below.
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Perhaps this is too grandiose a thread for a fledgling story like Hero Force One, but I figured it gives Britt and me (and Geb, plus anyone else who may at any point be interested) a place to discuss HFO, without having to dig through emails or whatever.
Britt and I have already discussed this, but as a reminder to myself, the 'name' that Azariel gives to Hermes Trismegistus is that of Highemperor, who is separate from his inhibited alter-ego Al Ciao now, and rules a powerful empire beyond the NeSiverse now, ruling from the Stronghold of Powerplayers. Eventually he is going to be returning to the NeSiverse in the pages of HFO.
R.I.T.E. is dedicated to preparing for Highemp's return, to defend against him. The 'visitor' to Mega Jonestown Prime was Highemp, and the 12 God-Monarchs removed themselves and the space city from the timestream to escape to a secure location where they could begin utilizing all their powers to preparing the defense of the NeSiverse for Highemp's return.
So these 12 God-Monarchs are the founders and leaders of R.I.T.E. The Dragonlord Riaken is one of them, or perhaps the son of one of them.
The Cosmic Customs House is benignly run, save for greedy and corrupt customs agents, but a few customs agents, such as "Fruit" (actually a future version of Chronos, aka Apple), are planted by R.I.T.E., and send certain travelers to Mega Jonestown Prime outside the timestream, where their abilities can be marshaled to further R.I.T.E.'s cause.
That's my thinking anyway.
Yes, yes, I know it's insanely high-scaled and 'epic', but that's how I roll. Gloves off in HFO XD