A Brief On the Distant Destinies Origins

The self journal On Location at Pine Hill began in 1984, but so did Space the Final Frontier, a Star Trek like space opera with a very low budget and no expectations. Young Adam Browne began this with some of his school friends in that same year.

Adam and his nephew David, who was near to his age due to an older half brother, created much of it based upon their play acting stories, gaming stories, and what could have been called role playing. The other stories had similar characters and cross referenced them, including teachers, friends, enemies, relatives and anyone. Michael Slater, Angie Tyson and Tim Cantrell appeared in these segments also.

Then in 1986, during the role playing stories of the Silly Trek, a Star Trek parody at Pine Hill, the On Location, (nonfiction), and the space story, the name was changed to Plantcom and then Planetcom. A young Jon Yeager is credited with one of the changes. Neither boy was aware of a similar name in a book called Rama. Henry Brister appeared also in both Silly Trek and in Planetcom.

David lost interest in about 1987 and left the stories, some of the games, and other elements, most of which were recycled into the stories. The last thing he did was to create the rogues, the Dementia aliens, and the Clemens, a guy who carried a spike and was a vigilante.

Jon continued with the series. Adam began training at Jung SuWon and was inspired with some of their characters, which may have been some of the background people of later Planetcom stories.

Adam graduated from Pine Hill in January 1989 and went o to college at Evergreen where he called the journals there On Location II.  Also with Jon, Jim and Tim he created a science fiction fan film called Star Crackers, 1992, and began to learn writing workshops and classes.

By 1993 to 1995 the stories of the science fiction version had been renamed Distant Cousins, Distant Planets, and Distant Journeys. Contributors to these included Jung SuWon people but they didn't want Adam using their names.

The Flyer school paper inspired some of the characters and at least one person gave permission to use her name, just her first name. Others followed suit with the same caveat.

In 1995, the name was changed yet again, one copyrights and such were now newly known. The whole thing became Distant Cousins, but a short time later they became aware of a cheesy film that used the name, so unofficially it was Distant Destinies. Adam attended San Jose State at the time, with Jon, and there was a journal about that also.

Adam and Jon went on to continue with Star Crackers and Distant Destinies. The stories continued on into 2000, amassing 7 complete 'seasons' or books.

Concurrent with all of that, a journal called First Press was also produced whereas Adam also used names, mentioned people, and included his friends from church in the stories. They found out and much of those names were later changed. 

Then in 2006, during a second run of San Jose State, Adam and Jon returned to the fold to make the first novel of the series, which became the 2008 novel 'The Cohnirri Redemption'. Five other novels remained not published. Enough material for a sixth remained also.

This was during the Star Trek Chimera and Star Crackers revivals, and the role playing, stories, and unpublished works of the time. 

In 2007, Adam broke from Jung SuWon after 17 years. None of their names were to be used anywhere, which is why we cannot list those sources.

In 2001 to 2011, Valley Stories was the current self journal. 

Then in 2015, some years later, they completed work on a extended sixth book, which became book 6 and book 7. Adam completed the series as 7 books. Now Distant Destinies is to return once more. Now there will be 6 more books! (They have 7 in all).

That is the brief history of the books.

Copyrights and Disclaimers

Distant Destinies is the intellectual property of Adam Mayer Browne. The book and series are his and any content and material his.

Under the pseudonym Kal Kat, he produces content also for the blogs and for the free channels.

(c) 2008, 2015

Google and YouTube do not own the rights to this content. 

Key Events in Distant Destinies Book 1

 This data is extremely subject to revision. It contains spoilers.

Key Events in Distant Destinies 2015 Updates

The First Lettomak War

The First Lettomak War, 2482-2486, is an interstellar conflict originally started at the planets of the Gamma Pavonis system with the rise of Harrsal as queen and the diminishment of the authority of the council of Percaak on the planet Cahlat during an election that had been rigged and contested. It spread to the whole alliance by the 2486 period and even involved the planets of the Sol system.

The autocratic council of the Lettomak take power over the Cahlat planet and the government, and then the space in orbit of the planet. By late 2482, the Dohtal are tired of the coup and try to break off from the war, as they had been forced into it.

The Caylaen and Hammaeriid battle is more of an accident than a battle, as the two ships are caught up in the conflict. The massive pole star vessel and the smaller but dangerous Hammaeriid end up headed toward Centaurus from there.

In 2483, the war reaches the Centauri system, where two alliance member worlds are based. The Litgraa chose the Lettomak side, while the Dargraii choose the Dohtal rebels, which does not go well with young queen Harrsal, who had come to the area.

Hammaeriid is captured, as was the Caylaen, and the Lettomak command staff told to serve the queen and go with them to Sol. This is because during the fight, Earth vessels interfere in their actions and this makes contact important.

The two ships arrive in the Sol system and discover an Earth that is not as advanced as they thought, and yet they are contacted. A rebel group kills one of the human leaders, and then another, to attempt to steal the alien ships, but they fail.

The Cohnirri ship under San Aaceeri and the Lettomak ship under Altisik are forced to return to the Gamma Pavonis system.

Then in 2486, the war returns to Sol space in a more impressive way, as the fledgling space forces fleets are called into action when the Caylaen reappears and is followed by fully armed Hammaeriid. Altisik has been ‘programmed’ to attack the fleet by a rebel faction from Vega, and is out to destroy the resistance. He fires on and destroys a base on Mars and another on Luna, and then on a base on the Earth. Also he damages several space fleet ships on his rampage.

Forces near Mars are able to infiltrate his massive ship and learn that he is unstable and that his major crew is not soldiers, so the crew makes it to the command level and takes the bridge. Altisik is killed.

The Dohtal main fleet is under the command of Purra and headed to Tau Ceti on the way to Sol, and presumably it will go on to the Cohnirri planets from there. They meet the Caylaen and the space forces at the planet Detgrumis before heading out of the system.

At Sol space, the enemy fleet attacks the space forces and there are several days of battle, ending with an eventual landing on the Earth where the landing ships are gunned down and destroyed. Tactically the humans are far advanced of the aliens.

In the end, the victory of the space forces elevates them to a greater status among Cohnirri and Lettomak alike, and they are allowed to keep the captured fleet for several years.

Although the humans are no longer involved in the close of the war, as it is fought elsewhere, their victory is noted. The war ends at some point in 2487 elsewhere. Presumably Harrsal defeats the rest of the Purra line and keeps the fleet around for a reminder.

The First Dargraii War

For the Litgraa this war started a long time ago, but went hot fast when the Lettomak conflict happened also, around 2486.

The Dargraii are aggressive cousins to the Litgraa who share their system, Centauri. They attack some of the Litgraa ships for no reason in that year, using he Kovt Erglal, Harbinger.  The war rages on for little over a decade.

Distant Destinies To Return around 2016

Back in 2008, when we produced the first book, there were more books on the way, but they never got published. That will change. The return of the first book, 'The Cohnirri Redemption' is dependent on getting a new publisher and the means to print the story or go online, or both.

Adam M. Browne has been working on the novels and changed very little of the first book, which is almost a separate epic. The prolog is gone, because it didn't make sense, but the rest is a solid story with a good epic feel.

The six new books in the series will be released after a return of the first, probably at first and e-book. The first will have a new cover and be really cool, as a cover helps to sell the book, and the old cover was kind of iffy.

At first the marketing was way off and it was never marketed correctly. Some called in Christian science fiction, and others,young adult space fiction, and very few called in speculative space war fantasy, which is kind of is.

The story does have a faith theme but is not over wrought wit it, and treats moral characters the same if they're religious or not.

The story does seem like a space war fantasy. It has some fantasy things, like FTL and space battles, strange vessels, and some are small moons or planets, and fantasy looking characters.

It does have science fiction also, and it is very much inspired by the Star Trek series, more so than Star Wars. It also seems  influenced by Japanese anime cartoon series about space wars.

It is not a military government parable though. It does not reflect our times directly. 

The blog will begin exploring aspects of the books, starting with the first.

Also the blog will have connections to the YouTube channel weirdkitty07 where there will be news on the books.