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THE ROMAN STARS Volume 2- Caesar's Conquest of the Galaxy

Created by Team Deathray

Defying orders, Caesar crosses the Rubicon and returns with his armada to the planet Rome

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Today is the Ides of March, the day Caesar was killed.
8 months ago – Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:30:53 AM

Today is The Ides of March, the day Caesar was killed. I wrote a little bit about it at my newsletter. Here's a snippet. 
 

Today is the 2,068 anniversary of the death of Julius Caesar

 

I’m not gonna talk too much about Caesar here in that I’ve spent the last few years working on a book about him, and I think that book says it better than I could here, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t connect the release of the book with the date in question.

 

Caesar was a complicated man who I initially found compelling in part because his story was familiar: a leader hated by the government around him who nonetheless found success charming the populace and forcing the senate to take his hand and smile through their teeth. I also liked the idea that Caesar was very rarely in Rome and that good and bad, most people’s perceptions of the man were likely based on his actions absorbed in snippets at a distance. People who’ve read my work for a while know I’m obsessed with the idea of the weight of the abstraction of culture and reputation on the humans who inspire both. How from a big enough stage you’d at odds be at odds with rivals, sure, but also competing with your own portrait on the wall.

And how perception of that avatar might bring repercussions the real figure might not see til they were in his guts.

You can read the rest here. If we reach 15k there'll be a 2nd guest variant cover. Raising a piece of death-day cake to all of you.

-i.
 

FUNDED IN 24 HOURS! First Stretch Goal Unlocked!
8 months ago – Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 08:50:06 AM

Great Caesar's Ghost!

We've reached our funding goal in the first 24 hours and are absolutely blown away by the support and the flood of responses we've gotten. 

We're trying to keep it simple and not bombard you with emails so let me just say THANK YOU. There are really no words for how overwhelmed we all have been by day one. 

We've got some stretch goals planned and you've unlocked the first one: A variant cover by genius artist Gigi Cavenago. 

It's available as a pledge, an add on and an upgrade. 

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

75% funded! New cover unlocked at 100%
8 months ago – Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 03:53:54 PM

We’ve blown past 70% in just a few hours and on behalf of Team Caesar and Team Deathray we’d like to thank everyone who has pledged and promoted the campaign. I know it sounds like fluff, but we’re trying to bring you something really special and unique here, but more than anything we want to build a readership that wants to be surprised by their stories. We put an absurd amount of care into these books and that’s the thing we hope to get across.

As we approach our funding goal maybe it’s a good time to announce something so beautiful it almost made us all cry, a gorgeous variant cover by a monster talent we’ll present one day to the aliens as a peace offering: Gigi Cavenago

The limited cover will be added as a tier, an add-on and an upgrade and will become one of the prints in a set we’ll unlock if we get to our next threshold.

We can’t wait to share the art (hopefully) soon!

THANK YOU ALL!