{"id":16905,"date":"2026-01-16T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/?p=16905"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:00:32","slug":"project-saga-themes-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2026\/01\/16\/project-saga-themes-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Saga Themes: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Project Saga<\/strong> is a collection of fifteen books that cover human development from the Betelgeuse Supernova in the current day up through humanity\u2019s expansion into the Galactic community.  The \u2018project\u2019 in the title is the Great Terraforming Project that attempted to develop a number of habitable worlds in the Solar system, such as Mars, Luna, and potentially others such as moons of the outer planets and perhaps Venus as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a large canvas that this collection of books offered, I was able to examine a number of different themes.  While I recommend that the reader just dive in and read them all, this little preview of the themes is offered as both as a way to entice those sitting on the fence and as a study guide of sorts for those that will be caught up in the adventure tales and perhaps miss the overarching themes presented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, let\u2019s look at the structure of the collection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all begins with the stand-alone adventure novel Star Time<\/strong>, set in the current day, when Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion goes supernova and the Cerik, a predatory alien race attempts to take advantage of planets damaged by the radiation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Earth Branch<\/strong> is four books detailing humanity\u2019s recovery after the Star up through the project expansion until the Plague that derailed civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U\u2019tanse Branch<\/strong> takes place on Ko, the home planet of the Cerik, where captured human deal with being a slave race on a world where they can\u2019t even breathe the air easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lunar Alpine Trilogy<\/strong> take place on terraformed Luna, populated by refugees from the Plague, described in the Earth Branch. Living with sailing ships and covered wagons on a world imperfectly terraformed, the people struggle to regain literacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Children of Earth Trilogy<\/strong> brings humanity together as U\u2019tanse explorers rediscover the mythic lost home planet of humanity.\u00a0 Diverse humanity and humanity\u2019s place among the galactic civilizations are at stake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Project Saga is a collection of fifteen books that cover human development from the Betelgeuse Supernova in the current day up through humanity\u2019s expansion into the Galactic community.  The \u2018project\u2019 in the title is the Great Terraforming Project that attempted to develop a number of habitable worlds in the Solar system, such as Mars,… Continue reading Project Saga Themes: Introduction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,559],"tags":[26,12,24,8,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-4oF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16906,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions\/16906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}