The War for Equestria begins... · 2:30am Sep 1st, 2017
At 4pm Eastern time (9pm Greenwich) on Friday, September 1st with the launch of Into the Storm: The Flight of Firefly.
The initial release will contain the prologue, first chapter, and a bonus chapter with the Gryphon Empire's war declaration. It will also be accompanied by a bonus chapter release in the original Rise of Firefly containing various maps and pointing to the new story, and multiple promotions in multiple groups. After that, expect one new chapter a day for the next three to four days. Note the initial chapters will be shorter than my norm, which is what I do for new story releases--make the early chapters more bite-sized so new readers can ease into the story and the world/characters it introduces.
So what to expect? You're going to dive right into the action during a very busy (and bloody) first day of war, with perspectives shifting in the first few chapters between Firefly, Celestia, Kaval, and Wind Whistler, describing the events at Epsilon, Canterlot, Gryphon HQ, and Fort Spur respectively. Get ready for a wild ride!
An early shout-out goes to my coauthor/prereading cadre of Leo Archon, AJ_Aficionado, SilentWoodFire, ClaytonTheHunter, Denim_Blue and TheGoldCrow for all the time they've put in helping me on this. It's looking good and I think will be enjoyed by new and returning readers alike. And for those of you who have offered to signal-boost, I would be most grateful if you do so. I'm going to put on an all-out push for this story, and I need all the help I can get to raise its heat level. It's true most sequels don't do better than the originals, but I'm sure as hell going to try to make this the exception rather than the rule.
Ready the Macro cannons.... We march to war...
Get hyped fam. This opening salvo is awesome and there's not much lead-in to get to the action. It's not going to be easy watching the ponies get their flanks handed to them in the beginning, but such is war for those who aren't prepared to fight.
Ready to read!