The series has been in the planning since the 1960’s. First actual writing on the project took place in 1979. Before that it existed mainly as several reels of tape, on which various Progressive Rock tracks had been spliced together into a makeshift demo for a series of Rock Operas that would have dwarfed The Ring Of The Nebelung. Such ambitions were never to be realized, and the project was eventually shifted to a novel series.
Since the late 70’s, work on the project has proceeded sporadically, until the idea of presenting it as an internet serial was proposed. This site now houses as much of the project as is currently available in electronic format. We are currently working our tails off trying to get new episodes out on a regular basis, but this isn’t a paying job, and real life does tend to slow us down quite a bit.
The saga concerns the exploits of intelligent animals with time travel capabilities. It is very much inspired by the traditions of Doctor Who and Star Wars, with a good bit of Watership Down and Jonathan Livingston Seagull thrown in for contrast, and a bit of Spellsinger and Xanth to provide balance.
Whereas George Lukas used Old Time Movie Serials for the formatting of Star Wars, we use the formatting of Old Time Radio Serials. This works well, as it is a very dialogue driven series, containing many cerebral oddities and conundrums. What you might call a thinking person’s adventure serial.
It’s something that, by all logic, should not work. But it most often does work, if just through the sheer tenacity of the creators to make something ridiculously impossible seem like a logical course of events.
Though it’s no longer planned to be made into a rock opera, the Progressive Rock and 70’s era metaphysical philosophies that originally inspired the series tend to remain, perhaps bringing back ideas that haven’t been seen in this type of fantasy for quite some time. We hope this will enable us to leave the readers with the feeling of having been on a journey that has left them at least slightly more illuminated than when they started, or at least with the impression of having taken a tour of a radically different kind of universe.
Also of note is that this is a Furry series, in the works since long before Furry stories written for upper age groups were common. Many of the concepts may therefore seem odd, even in the context of what has become expected in The Furry Fandom. To be honest, we never expected there would be a regular market for this sort of thing. We thought we were always going to be out there on a limb by ourselves trying to sell the idea of animal character dominated sci-fi to a skeptical science fiction community.
Even now the series is extremely resistive of pigeon holing. The series just does not seem to accept that any such thing as genre barriers exist. And while there may be many aspects of the series where you can say, “I’ve seen this before,” you will probably then say, “But I never expected to see it sitting next to that.”
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