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Pretty simple idea, this. If you've got a setting you love to work on but aren't ready to unveil it as a whole--or if you just came up with a great new detail or quirk that really ties the setting together--feel free to post about it here. This is for snippets about whatever creation you've got on your mind today. To start, today I solidifed how interstellar travel will work in my original setting. Humans and other races of the universe will use a form of Alcubierre drive, essentially like the warp drive seen on Star Trek; it operates by folding space around a vessel and moving the craft to a destination in less time than a beam of light could travel over the same distance. One theoretical problem with this device is that as the vessel warps through the space between worlds, microscopic particles may become caught in the spatial bubble formed by the warp drive. These particles could become "supercharged" by the experience, so when the ship slows to a stop, it would release a pulse of deadly gamma rays and high-energy particles powerful enough to obliterate the destination. Not good for colonization or peaceful space exploration. What I decided is purely speculative, and may not actually be feasible--in my setting, starships will actually turn this obstacle into an advantage. Instead of allowing these particles to form a lethal death pulse around the ship, vessels utilizing this form of faster-than-light travel will absorb the particles and use them to power the ship's internal mechanisms. Essentially, these ships will pick up their own fuel as they travel through interstellar space, both removing the threat of destination destruction and making faster-than-light travel much cheaper and more attainable for the average galactic citizen. (The destructive capabilities of the Alcubierre drive are not left untapped, however--the infamous voidrenders of the Risu Empire deliberately accumulate interstellar death-particles for use against unprotected planets.) So that's what I've been thinking about today. What's changed in your setting today?

Well the release date is just over a month away now but we've run out of free previews and so the only solution is to honor the noble cryptics and create our own. I've been posting a few of my own in the comments under the 'official' previews on Tor.com but I've also noticed a few being added on the chatbox here over the last few days. These poor orphaned snippets of dubious canonicity need an official home and here it shall be. Warning - Outrageously suspect spoilers lie within ---------------------------------- How about that assassination attempt with the spandagger fabrial in chapter 26, there Kaladin was inspecting knives in the armory when one of them leapt off the rack straight for his eye. Luckily he was saved by a nearby (hidden) King's Wit who managed to steel push it off course, the assassin hidden at the back of the room getting yanked into the open by his conjoined weapon. -------- Also try not to get too attached to Teft cause that bit where he dies at the end is heartbreaking - "Teft!" Jasnah screamed, holding his bloody body in her arms "Why?" He didn't respond. He just stared into the air, eyes glazed over, his spirit gone. She shivered, pulling him close as his body cooled. "You can't die, you can't. Please." It was no use. Teft was dead. Really dead. As dead as a corpse with burnt out eyes. So very, very dead. "But you had so much more to teach me about the Radiants" She felt at his pulse, just in case. There was nothing. "Oh cruel world" she said sobbing. She poked him in the ribs, it could have been a bad joke. But there was no reaction, seeing as how Teft was completely and utterly dead.