Paracosmos & End Of Bionicle
Hey, for those fans of my fanfic series, the Bionicle Paracosmos, I figure it's about time I let you know what my plans for the future are, since I haven't finished the series yet, and obviously the end of official Bionicle and subsequent lessening of BZP activity matter to it.
I still plan to continue it, but to shorten the number of stories I had in mind. Basically, I now plan to have only three main Sagas, each with roughly the same number of episodes.
And really, even had Bionicle not ended, I now believe this would have been the right course of action anyways. A big part of the reason I even started this was I always felt 2001's huge story potential was wasted on very little story officially (that plus I wanted to make my own parallel dimension mystery to center it on). I've been kind of dreading entering the later years because I've never been certain how much I should condense or how long I should drag it out to be consistent with the previous pacing when compared to canon story.
This way I think I'll actually be pleasing fans of 2001 more than spending long, tedious amounts of time in the later years. I will instead focus only on the best of the best from those years from the canon.
All the stories currently published up till Twisted Island (not counting the Bonus Series) are the first Saga. It's known as the "Hidden Enemy" Saga (or insert the secret name of that enemy if you've read the stories ). That seriously expanded on 2001, and includes a bit of 2002. (Plus it was beefed up with things from other years we later learned in the canon like Metru Nui, the BOM, etc.)
The next Saga's name has been long announced; the Kuambu Saga. Basically I plan to seriously condense the official timeline into this, including everything from mid-2002 up till 2007. The Kuambu are an enemy about which pretty much only their name is known originally, except that also they are enemies of the surface of the planet, not the underground domes. 2004-2005 as flashbacks I intend to seriously condense and tell alongside present-day story taking place on the surface, and then of course 2006 went right back to the surface.
My original plans would have ended the Kuambu Saga sometime in 2003, and then basically I would have stuffed in a few filler Saga Enemies that I really wasn't all that eager to tell anyways.
Instead, I will go right to the final Saga, the main enemies of which I absolutely love and have been bursting at the seams to get to. That will encompass 2008 to the end of Bionicle, probably focusing more on the MU than the canon did in 2009, although it will be involved.
Plus, I do plan to (hopefully) finish the existing plans for the Bonus Series, which takes place roughly during 2006-2007, and involves many of the domes and story elements related to Metru Nui. So there's already good reason not to drag out the 04-06 stories in the main series anyways.
As for Tales of the Ri-Rali, I do still hope to make short story versions of that sometime, but no idea when.
And I hope to at least finish the Altacosmos Chronicle story I have currently started. What I'll do with the series from then, end or continue and if so how much, I really have no idea at this point.
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