Okay, so here's the scenario. In the story, The Star Trader, Tycho Station has been devastaed The big battle is over and the survivors are picking up the pieces. Bane Sollar is on his way home after delivering young baby Morgan to his grandparents on TS9329P3. His job now is to get the surviving Tycho Star Traders together, protect the remaining assests, rebuild the family. Oh, yeah, find the people responsible for the attack and destroy them, knowing that most of the Trade and all the Planet Corps are against them.
Meanwhile, running parallel to The Star Trader is Dragon Summer. In this story, we find out that Morgan did not make it safely to his grandparents. The robot carrying him to the monitoring team was intercepted by a local cop and has disappeared into "the system." His grandparents and the rest of the team don't know anything about the Tycho Massacre or their now missing grandson. It is not until Sollar sends them a message, explaining his actions, that they realize something has gone terribly wrong.
Dragon Summer picks up 15 years later, when Morgan successfully escapes from the school orphanage and starts out on his own to find out who he is and what happened to his family.
By the time Morgan finds his way to his grandparents, the Star Trader Galaxy is five seasons into a war that has united Star Traders, Planet Corps and the Frontier Council into a new Alliance. Their goal is to destroy the Hoards of Horath, a warring race from a neighboring galaxy that has set out to conquer the Star Trader Galaxy and in particular, the Star Traders. In the Star Trader, Sollar has had to postpone his hunt for the people who murdered his brother's family as the Tycho Star Traders join with the Trade to battle the Horath. And over in Dragon Summer, the time has come for Morgan to travel to Gaanard to establish his presence in the Trade and start on the long journey to claim his Family.
So you see, we have three stories running at the same time, The Star Trader featuring Bane Sollar, Dragon Summer featuring teenaged Morgan Elias Hawkes and Heritage, The Horath War, featuring a cast of thousand. About half way the the war, The Star Trader and Dragon Summer come together to blend in to a fourth story, Gaanard Station, which takes us out to the end of the war, the rise of the Alliance and a bunch of other stuff as Morgan becomes a Star Trader, and eventually, the StarHawke Tycho, the Elder of the Tycho Star Traders.
So I am going to blend Dragon Summer and The Star Trader together then finish up with Gaanard Station, with the war coming along for the ride. Instead of four different novels, I'll end up with two.
The first one will contain Dragon Summer, The Star Trader, and the first half of Heritage, the Horath War.
The second one will contain the merged ends of Dragon Summer and The Star Trader, Gaanard Station, and the second half of the Horath War.
I need to update some diagrams, so I will end for now. I'll try to make a flow chart that shows all of this. In the meantime, don't worry. Its all clear in my brain...
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