MTCB: Fear The Unknown
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
A group of PER soldiers and their Newfoal teammates encounter one of the most deadliest warriors on earth... a sniper.
Gore
Human
Celestia
OC
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My Thoughts on Spectrum · 7:06am Jul 13th, 2017

So... I don't know if anyone really knew, but I worked on this story called Spectrum for a tiny bit. It was an Anti-Conversion Bureau type story that I had gotten into and read for awhile. It was a damn fine story, loved the characters, the story. I loved how it was a struggle against such a powerful enemy. I was immediately hooked, and I was eventually brought on as a Pre-Reader for it before editing a tiny bit later on.

But... with certain events happening, I'm probably not going to be working on it anymore. The Spectrum crew have all but split up, some arguments led to Spectrum pretty much being killed and me without a good story to continue being a part of.

Red, Vox, TheIdiot, and the others, I honestly enjoyed working alongside them on this story. They were nice, a pretty cool crowd to hang with.

Hell, they helped edit my first ATCB story, I'm pretty sure some of my readers remember it.
TCB: Fear The Unknown, my first story that I do believe was actually gonna be canon to Spectrum near the end, with the MC getting a shot at Celestia.

But... well... Spectrum, probably not gonna be working on it anymore and that saddens me. The group fought, and I didn't even know until I saw some journals.

And to toss in my own two cents. I had gotten into this story for the above... humanity's struggle against the damned Empire, everything about Spectrum appealed to me, I fell in love with it and wanted to be a part of it. And by fuck I was able to be a part of it. I was so enthralled when I got to pre-read chapters and eventually edit, I was happy with being able to help these epic people with this awesome story of survival against such impossible odds.

Now though... it devolved into stuff I didn't exactly care for. I mean, I stuck around because I felt like I owed them my help after all they had done for me with my ATCB One Shot. The story just went places that didn't really... excite me as much as the other stuff going on. It got a bit confusing with all this other stuff going on, dream magic, backstabbing characters and some other junk. It didn't feel like the Spectrum I had joined up with a couple of years ago.

While I am sad about this... I'll always cherish those good memories I had made working alongside such cool people. I don't hate any of them, and there's a fair chance I'll get some hate thrown my way or some other bullshit for sticking with Red through all this crap. The reasoning behind that is because I joined up because of what Spectrum stood for to me... which was, again, for the 9000th time, humanity's struggle against impossible odds.

Not all this political backstabbing, time traveling, deep dream adventure mess that it turned into in later chapters.

If the rest of the crew manage to somehow get Spectrum going again... well... good for them, I wish them well and I hope they do well. Maybe I'll even come back to read how they did... maybe not, depends on how things in the future go.

Sad thing is, my other two ATCB fics are probably dead forever, Ghosts and Ride or Die will probably never see the light of day.

Sorry for the long rant, I bottled up my feelings on the matter but I needed to speak up about how I felt about this shit...

*sigh*

Anyway... I hope you guys are prepared for Saturday! New chapter's ready to post and I'm excited