Questions so many questions

[Liza Devereaux]

I have some questions as I try to start working on my Swarm story.

The first one is I just came across the term :M.A.I.D. Military Asset Interest Deferred,in the story Endofthewar.Is that term Canon?If so it fits perfectly whatI'm wanting to do in my story. If not can I use it anyway?

Question two:how many stories have been written around someone with a CAP score of 10? Who were they and can I mention them in passing.? The only one I have read about was in the two stories The Perfect Ten prt 1&2. Are there any others? According to the timeline on the Wikki those stories took place in  year six My hero's CAP test was going to be year 4 and have him deferred for pickup (sort of) until year 8 Akarage never says when the General attested only that he's a perfect 10 and going to start a colony. I'm assuming (and we all know what that does) That he was defered too.

Where do I need to send my chapters to get them looked at by the group? Thinking said something about a drop box?

Any way chapter one is almost done and I shouldstart on Chapter twolatertoday.

xoxo

Liza

[Mike Omelanuk]

Holy moly. You are quite the busy bee, and we like that. Generally, the rule is: if it is published,  it is canon. That's why we are so careful in our review. There are exceptions, of course, and we'll try to be gentle as we navigate around them.

That said,  I doubt we can identify all instances of a 10, though you might wish to look at PEARL and PEARL II, and if they're useful, I can send a copy of the draft of III.

Many of us are no longer active, evan deceased. If you are respectful of someone's work, a drafted use of their ideas is fine , and they can assist or gently demure as they wish. We try to create a sandbox for ideas that tend to limit others.  Not all of my own story ideas apply outside my Tu'ull space.

For us to review a draft, upload it here and be sure to have your title and name in it. Too many get lost otherwise.  A reviewer will upload an edited copy with their initals appended. My edited version  tend to ha e a lot of red.

More later. I'm on my phone.

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[Mike Omelanuk]

Liza - Dropbox is messe up for us at present. I'll be fixing it as my next project.  Mike

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 7:23 AM Liza Devereaux <liza.de...@gmail.com> wrote:

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