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Good Days and Bad Days (novel)

***Good Days and Bad Days*** is the third *10,000 Dawns* novel, released as the opening story of the book *Poor Man's Iliad*. It was written by James Wylder, with an illustration by Raen Ngu.

The novel details Zhang Han and Cornelia Cathage's journey's through the Rim Gang War, and it's conclusion with the liberation of the moon Titania from the slaving empire The Vigilance.
Centro Systems

art by Raen Ngu from a design by Jo Smiley

**Centro Systems** is a mega-corporation that controls the commercial and political spheres on all planets in its jurisdiction. Its main business is governing all the planets it owns, as well as dominating the market on those planets. Its main headquarters is located in the city of Tokyo on Earth, and Earth is the center of its empire, but its influence also extends to the planets of Venus and Mars as well as some border moons in the Outer Rim. Centro stays in power by maintaining a monopoly on all the markets, keeping people dependent on it for resources and employment. It also employs the Centro Military to defend its interests abroad.

### Foundation and early history

Centro Systems was founded by Shiori Nakatomi in the year 2187. At its beginning, it was a telecommunications company located in Tokyo, but under Nakatomi's leadership, it expanded its reach and began selling to all of Asia. It then expanded to Europe and Australia, and soon had a monopoly on global communications for the entire planet of Earth. Nakatomi also expanded Centro's interests beyond telecom and began opening grocery stores, commercial centers, and factories all over the planet. She used different names for each of these subsidiary companies, and kept Centro's connection to them private at first, but their success only served to build Centro's power and feed Centro's profits.

With her power consolidated, Nakatomi was not satisfied with owning the planet Earth, and she began sponsoring projects on Mars. Mars had been inhabited by settlers from Earth for a few decades by this time, and Centro provided these settlers with all the resources they needed to build their domed settlements into mega-cities that would rival Earth's. Of course the caveat was that Centro Systems would own the government of these mega-cities, and would dominate the economy on Mars as well as Earth.

Shiori Nakatomi eventually publicly stepped down from Centro leadership, citing a desire to remove herself from the public sphere and go into retirement. She left the company in the control of a Board of Directors, which continued her vision to consolidate power across the galaxy.
Spiral

Spiral is the home of Dawn, where the group lives, plans, and plays. A flat plane of reality created by Kinan Jans, it has rolling fields of green grass, clouds made of water that residents can swim in, and dinosaurs that roam it's fields.

Spiral also contains portals for easy transit to the Bifrost Path, and can produce crystal dust for inter-universal travel just like Factories of Crystal.
World Revolutionary Council

The Word Revolutionary Council (abbreviated as the WRC) was the governing body of Earth in Songbird's Dawn following the successful revolution of the planet from Centro Systems led by Alice "Songbird" MacLeod, with assistance from Dawn.The government was led by Pauline Lamarque.

The WRC held considerable military power, and won battles in places such as Mexico City, New York, and London. WRC troops wore grey Tarkanovsky Jackets with WRC armbands over the sleeve.

The WRC held a trial for Graelyn Scythes, due to the crimes of Graelyn Scythes (Songbird's Dawn).
Dawn 5

**Dawn 5** is the designation of one of the 10,000 Dawns.

## Notable features

In Dawn 5, Graelyn Scythes is a good person of minor importance to world events, in contrast to her Prime self, an utterly wicked individual. The Manuel Salazar of Dawn 5, unlike his honorable counterpart in Dawn 6, was for his part a dangerous maniac who built Ahnerable Station, and cyborgs like Archimedes Von Ahnerabe in hope of world domination.

## Behind the scenes

First appearing in *10,000 Dawns*, Dawn 5 is understandably one of the most important settings of the *10,000 Dawns* series, being the original homeworld of two of the main characters (Graelyn and Arch). Notably, in early reference material, it was referred to as Dawn 2.
Alice "Nightingale" MacLeod

**Alice "Nightingale" MacLeod** is a resident of the Prime Universe in London on Earth. She is the daughter of Donovan MacLeod, a former Centro soldier, and Lucia MacLeod, an anti-Centro activist. At an early age, Alice adopted the anti-Centro ideology of her parents and became a part of the Working Class Heroes who fought to remove the Centro Systems rule of Earth. Her friends on Earth included Jack O'Connor, who allegedly helped her in many anti-corporate schemes, but she is now exiled from all Centro territories.

Alice was a part of the crew of the Beard of Zeus, and helped fight the incursion of the Great Assimilation into the Prime Universe. One of her friends on the ship was Index Snowcutter Jhe Aladdin, who she saved from a rampaging beast on a mission once.

### Relationships

Alice's sexual orientation is Aromantic Asexual. She has no romantic relationships with anyone, but she does have many close friendships. Jack O'Connor and Jhe Aladdin are two of her closest friends.
Alton Dragonet

Alton Dragonet lived on Earth around the year 2190, where he worked at Talinata Softworks under Heirum J. Whitehead during the founding of Centro Systems. Dragonet led the development of the WeN-D AI software, and was responsible for most of it's notable features. Interested more in his work than politics, he began working for Centro upon the violent dissolution of Talinata by the Centro military.
Voltron

**Voltron** spaceships crashed down from the heavens during the Tourist's destruction of Redacted Pinorva's reality, part of the 10,000 Drafts.

According to the Tourist, the reason Redacted's reality had remained unfinished was that its creator had gotten bored and preferred to write ”space adventures about the Roc's Feather and its crew's battles against the Voltron”. This revelation had outraged Uncle, who claimed that they were nothing compared to the Aubrite he had faced himself, calling the Voltrons “B-movie villains at best”. (PROSE: *Breaking the Narrative*)
The Firmament

The **First and Final Firmament** are the rulers and keepers of the 10,000 Dawns, playing a role equivalent to the Superiors of the Totality. (PROSE: *Rachel Survived*, *White Canvas*). The Firmament could live forever by transferring their soul and consciousness into new bodies upon death with the use of Resurrection Tanks. While most of these tanks were housed on the Firmament homeworld, certain renegades had their own tanks in order to stay independent from their homeworld, such as the Knights of Sky (PROSE: *Bad Friends, Better Weaponry*).

Firmament frequently travel in a ship called a Factory of Crystal, or Foce for short. These moon-sized ships can shrink down to minuscule size, and travel through space, time, and alternate realities.

The Firmament became interested in the universe of the Great Houses because of the Book of Books and sent the Arbiter of Eternity and the Arbiter of Knives to obtain it. (PROSE: *Rachel Survived*)

The Firmament were turned to fiction by Auteur and later saved from it by Graelyn Scythes. Representatives of the Firmament attended the Christmas Needle Agreement and argued with ambassadors of the Bookkeepers. (PROSE: *White Canvas*).

## Notable Firmaments

* Lady Aesculapius
* Dyson-A
Tarkanovsky Jackets

Tarkanovsky Jackets are a grey jacket originally worn by Grigori Tarkanovsky and his supporters on Earth. Since then, the jackets have become a symbol of revolutionary spirit, and are worn by members of multiple independence movements, political activism groups, and edgy teenagers.

Protesters on Mars wore Tarkanovsky Jackets when Zhang Han took Cornelia Carthage through the streets Erkh Chooloo.

Members of the World Revolutionary Council military such as Alice "Songbird" MacLeod wore Tarkanovsky Jackets.
Aesculapius' Factory of Crystal

Aesculapius' Factory of Crystal was a notable ship from the Firmament's Factories of Crystal, owned by the eponymous Firmament. The ship has carried many of her friends on adventures with her, including: Graelyn Scythes, Archimedes Von Ahnerabe, Jason Jackson, and Blanche Combine.

Aesc's Foce notably has a Sanctum containing many important objects to Aesc, including the Quantum Whisk.
Alice "Songbird" MacLeod

Alice "Songbird" MacLeod was the incarnation of Alice "Nightingale" MacLeod born on Songbird's Dawn. She was a member of the World Revolutionary Council, and fought alongside her friends Jack O'Connor, Shona Daniels, Ren Yi, Trevon Lafayette, and Chantelle Thomas to defeat Centro Systems. MacLeod led the WRC forces to victory in many battles, including in London, Mexico City, and New York. The WRC did not know that she had received help from Dawn agent Johnathan Vice in securing these victories. MacLeod executed her Dawn's Board of Directors, including Graelyn Scythes (Songbird's Dawn). She usually wore a Tarkanovsky Jacket.

MacLeod captured Graelyn Scythes and Archimedes VonAhnerabe, not understanding their role as alternate universe travelers. After Scythes escaped from a WRC prison with Centro Director Manuel Salazar, MacLeod went on a mission to assassinate Salazar in his home city of Nojpeten. Landing from an airdrop onto the Great Pyramid of Nojpeten in a suit of power armor with Archimedes, the pair fought Sarah "Chrometeeth" MacLachlan, before she was stopped from assassinating Salazar by accidental gunshots by Scythes. Bleeding out on the Great Pyramid, Scythes then convinced Salazar to save her.

MacLeod went on to advocate for both Salazar and Scythes to be freed by the WRC, and even found an old Judicator robot so Scythes would receive a fair trial.

After Scythes and VonAhnerabe left her Dawn, MacLeod suffered from PTSD from her experiences. Jim and Annie, two WRC scientists, developed a new set of power armor for her called the Songbird Armor that allowed her to fly. Taking that armor into battle before she was ready, MacLeod realized that her PTSD was going to be a part of her, and she needed to accept it to recover.
Ana Rodriguez

Ana Rodriguez was a scavenger on the Magellan and Aya Rodriguez's younger twin sister. She was the more nervous and timid of the pair, and Aya often felt she had to protect her. Ana died after a structurally weak section of the Magellan's floor gave out and sent her plunging several stories into the ship.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Nixon

Merry Christmas, Mr. Nixon is a story from A 10,000 Dawns Christmas involving Lady Aesculapius helping Blanche Combine to redeem herself by taking her to apologize to Richard Nixon for attempting to murder him.

The attempt goes badly, and Nixon refuses Blanche's apology. This upsets Blanche, and Aesc responds by giving Nixon coal, and making out with Blanche, under the mistletoe, in front of Nixon (with her consent) to make Nixon uncomfortable.
Redacted Pinorva

**“Redacted” Pinorva** was the designated hero of an unfinished universe, who was fated to enact a complex time-loop gambit, taking on the name **“Uncle”** to become his own mentor.

## Biography

His original first name, according to Shona Daniels, was redacted from reality due to “his first name being used by another intellectual property”. Both of his incarnations were themselves destroyed, the narrative having been disrupted before the time at which Uncle would have revealed his true nature to the young Redacted, by the Tourist and the Forgotten Heroines during their rampage throughout the multiverse, (PROSE: *Breaking the Narrative*) though the damage thereof was eventually corrected by the Firmament. (PROSE: *Remembrance of the Judicator*)
Temporal lock

**Temporal locks** were safeguards which prevented time-travellers from revisiting and altering an established event. The View routinely imposed temporal locks on its own social occasions to safeguard its narrative integrity, but would sometime wait awhile before laying them down, to allow “late early entries” to events whose first iteration had been underwhelming. (PROSE: *The Leader of the Band*)

## Behind the scenes

* The similarly-named, likely-synonymous term of time lock is frequently used in *Doctor Who* media, which describe events in the universe dubbed the Totality in *10,000 Dawns* sources.
A Different Kind of Battlefield (short story)

"A Different Kind of Battlefield" is a short story by Jo Smiley that was originally published in "Tales from the 10,000 Dawns." This story was the debut of characters such as Donovan MacLeod, Lucia MacLeod, Nathan Solano, Pauline Lamarque, and Maura Flanagan. It also features Cornelia Carthage and a young Alice MacLeod.

### Plot summary

After ordering her battleship, the *Byzantium,* to fire on Centro vessels, Commander Cornelia Carthage is on trial for treason. When she calls the former members of her crew to let them know what's going on, several of them insist on traveling to Washington DC to stand with her. This erupts into a standoff between Donovan MacLeod and several high-ranking members of Centro's government, including a Director. The results of this battle cause Donovan to completely lose his faith in the corporate government, angrily resign his post, and storm out swearing that he'll find justice somewhere.

This story provides the setup for a series yet to come about Donovan, Alice, and the fight to take on Centro and change the world.
Centro Military

The Centro Military is the most powerful armed force in the Prime Universe, a branch of Centro Systems, and the only remaining vestige of Earth's pre-corporate governments. Soldiers in it are given Tech-Pads.

**History**

Shiori Nakatomi, upon founding Centro Systems, thought to disband Earth's militaries and start fresh in order to make sure she had full control over them, but when Grigori Tarkanovsky started the Tarkanovsky Revolution, Shiori was forced to cut a deal with the world's military leaders.

Commanders from the world's most powerful militaries banded together to conduct the negotiations, and then formed the Military Council which has overseen the military ever since. The new Centro Military defeated the Revolution's Earth Liberation Army, who had previously been winning overwhelming victories, with quick crushing defeats. The military secured the capture of Tarkanovsky, and executed him, ending the revolt.

This victory secured the military's place in Centro Systems, and put Shiori outside of the complete reformation of the world's power structure she'd imagined.

**The Present**

The Centro Military is divided up into three main branches:

The Centro Space Navy

The Centro Army

The Centro Homeguard

The Army and the Space Navy ironically both have a space navy, though the Space Navy's navy is much larger. The Army however mainly has fighter pilots, carriers, and troop transports, while the Navy has more battlecruisers, dreadnoughts, and and other direct space combat units, keeping a smaller more elite set of ground forces called the Centro Marines. The Army has more a much larger set of ground forces.

The Centro Homeguard are units that do not leave the place they are located, and can comprise a land army, a navy, and an airforce. Earth's is simply referred to as "The Homeguard" while other places use that places name in front, I,E, "The Venusian Homeguard."

The Cento Space Navy's success in taking over the moon of Titania from the Vigilance using only Cornelia Carthage's Centro Marines has become an embarrassment or a grudge, depending on who you ask. This has left the Army zealous for a new chance to prove themselves.

Shiori Nakatomi, until her retirement, expressed regret that the Army and the Navy were "wastefully" two separate groups that performed the same functions.

**Attire**

The Centro Military has many uniforms, but they are most known for their long "Centro blue" dress coats that have become the symbol of the organization.

Many Army units and commanders wear green coats in defiance of their Navy peers.
Elder

## Elders

The Tourist, a runaway Elder.

The **Elders** were an ancient and powerful humanoid species in one of the 10,000 Drafts. They were equivalent to the Gods or the Infinite of other Drafts, to the role played by the Firmament in the finished 10,000 Dawns, and to that played by the Time Lords in the Totality.

## History

The Elders originally ruled their universe from the sidelines, but were all dreadfully bored of their own power. At least one of their number, the Tourist, decided to leave to adventure throughout her universe, visiting “dangerous places” for the thrill of it. Eventually, the Tourist realised she existed in an unfinished world created by a superior power, which led her to break out of it and into the 10,000 Dawns aboard the Black Pyramid, her ship. (PROSE: *The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns Big Takeover!*)

During one of their adventures as a duo, the Tourist and Ashlyn Oswin were driven to destroy the Elders for the sake of the rest of reality. However, Ashlyn seemed to believe they could easily come back, much as the Superiors had returned to the Totality. (PROSE: *Go On, Toddle Along*)

## Behind the scenes

The Elders were indeed an earlier form of the concept which became the Firmament, developed by James Wylder in the early days of the *10,000 Dawns* project.
Tim Sutton

Tim Sutton is a writer, actor, and musician. Most known for his work writing and acting in the webseries Marble Hornets, he branched out into other writing work such as for the video game "Slender: The Arrival".

Tim has contributed two works to the 10,000 Dawns:

* The Rat King
* The Deadly Holiday of Doom (Cowritten with a team of other writers)
Solari pilgrimage vessel

After the Tourist brought down an apocalypse onto Redacted Pinorva's unfinished reality, a **Solari pilgrimage vessel** was observed to collided with an Artari sunskipper whose destroyd warpdrive consequently sent a devastating blast of Iglix radiation into the stratosphere. (PROSE: *Breaking the Narrative*)
Simon Bucher-Jones

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**Simon Bucher-Jones** was a prose writer.

#### *Faction Paradox*

* *The Book of the War* (with many other authors, though it is known he contributed the most words besides the editor, Lawrence Miles)
* *The Brakespeare Voyage* (with Jonathan Dennis)

### Short stories

#### Short Trips

* *War Crimes* (in *Short Trips*)
* *The Thousand Years of Christmas* (in *Short Trips: The History of Christmas*)

#### Big Finish Bernice Summerfield

* *The Painting on the Stair* (in *Collected Works*)

#### *Iris Wildthyme*

* *Riviera Shakedown* (in *Iris: Abroad*)
* *Her and Allan* (in *Wildthyme in Purple*)
* *Iris: Chess-Mistress of Mars* (in *Iris Wildthyme of Mars)*

#### *Faction Paradox*

* *After the Velvet Eon* (in *Burning with Optimism's Flames*)
* *Subjective Interlock* (in *The Book of the Enemy*)
* *The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A* (in *The Book of the Enemy*)
* *The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale* (in *The Book of the Enemy*)
* *A Choice of Houses* (in *The Book of the Enemy*)
* *The Enemy - The Hole in Everything* (in *The Book of the Enemy*)
* *No Enemy But Despair* (in *The Book of the Enemy*)

### Non-fiction

#### *The Black Archive*

* *Image of the Fendahl*
* *The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit*

## External links

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* Outpost Gallifrey - Interview: **Kelly Hale** And **Simon Bucher-Jones** (archived)

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How to Survive the Winter

***How to Survive the Winter*** was a free anthology published on Arcbeatle Press' website. It was released on December 15th and was marketed as a holiday special.

It would later appear in an edited form alongside *Monsters Among Us* in the anthology *Making Spirits Bright: Halloween and Winter Tales from the 10,000 Dawns*.
Working Class Heroes

The **Working Class Heroes** are an anti-Centro activist group based in London, on Earth. The group was founded in 2472. It was born out of the anti-war movement, with most of its founding members being people who opposed Centro Systems' role in the Martian Revolution. The group's main goal is to oppose Centro's autocratic corporate rule and build a more democratic system of government for the planet Earth.

The seven founding members of the Working Class Heroes are Donovan MacLeod, Nathan Solano, Lucia Odegaard, Maura Flanagan, Johanna Engel, Pauline Lamarque, and Ian MacLeod.
Death and Doubling Cubes (novel)

***Death and Doubling Cubes*** is the second 10,000 Dawns novel. Written by James Wylder, and illustrated by Rachel Johnson, the novel was originally a fanfiction for Decipher's WARS before being reworked into a *10,000 Dawns* novel.

Despite being the second novel released, this book represents the furthest point in the Prime Universe timeline so far released. It details a conflict between Memnor, head of the Great Assimilation's Intelligence Division, and a group including Jhe Aladdin, Aegenor Valor, Anya Hypercube, and Backgammon Jenny, who Memnor seeks the memories of.

As a back up feature, the book contains two short stories set after the events of the novel, both by James Wylder; *The Mothers Day Machine* and *The Excess Son*
Book of Books

The Book of Books was an artifact from the Totality sought by Dawn, the Strid, The Great Assimilation, The Firmament, and several groups in the Totality. It contained an infinite number of unique books, and thus could entertain an immortal forever.

Rachel Edwards prevented the book from being auctioned off, and it remains in the Totality.
Earth Liberation Army

The Earth Liberation Army, or ELA, was a force on Earth commanded by Grigori Tarkanovsky that fought in the Tarkanovsky Revolution. The army was known for their grey Tarkanovsky Jackets.

Initially crushing the Centro Systems forces, the ELA was defeat by the founding of the Centro Military whose training and experience far outweighed their own. Upon their defeat, and the execution of Tarkanovsky, the army was effectively disbanded.
The Cosmology of Sherlock Holmes

The Cosmology of Sherlock Holmes is a free ebook only short story collection in the 10,000 Dawns Series, though a print version is planned for a later date. The book chronicles the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson as they deal with incursions from other realities. It was released as Arcbeatle Press' April Fools gag for 2023.

It was edited and illustrated by James Wylder.

All stories are credited to John H. Watson, but an appendix offers the real writers of the tales. Two stories are not listed in the table of contents: the fictional Foreword, and the fake "preview" short story (as Arcbeatle Press books tend to have) which is an entirely original story instead of being a preview.
The Firmament (short story)

The Firmament is a short story by James Wylder in Poor Man's Iliad about the early life of Lady Aesculapius on the Firmament Homeworld. The main events of the story are the earliest in-universe chronological appearance of Lady Aesculapius, showing her "birth", though not the first story released with her.

The story is also the earliest in-universe appearance of Professor Meistras, and his first appearance in print.
Dyson-A

## Lady Aesculapius

**Dyson-A**, or **Lady Aesculapius** was an older version of Lady Aesculapius that came into contact with her alleged past self during an incident on the Dyson Sphere.

## Biography

### Early Life

Allegedly a future version of Lady Aesc, Dyson-A would theoretically have gone through many of the same experiences as her well-known counterpart. She would've travelled through the Dawns and may have had a companion of her own, although this was never confirmed.

At some point in the future, Dyson-A would be involved in a civil war and would be severely wounded. This would drastically change her personality, causing her to become more selfish and less willing to help anyone. She also rejected Graelyn Scythes, noting that if Graelyn found out she would be taken down.

### Dyson Sphere

At one point she came into contact with the Dyson Sphere, although whether or not this was before or after the war is unknown. Regardless, she was able to establish a level of control over the Sphere, and would work with Dyson to establish herself in the Sphere.

During this, Dyson-A would devise a plan to rejuvenate herself by trapping people from the Dawns and draining their lifeforce. To do this, she began to kidnap people from across multiple dimensions that were seen as stories to the Dawns, most of them from outside the Dawns itself. However, she did end up taking Agatha Hawkings, Robert Brick, and Sasha Billie who were from the Dawns during this period.

### Encounter with her younger self

While attempting to capture what she described as, "a giant space squid", Dyson-A accidentally captured her younger self and Jason Jackson while they were traveling. Knowing that this would disrupt her plans, she began to chase her younger self while leaving Dyson to deal with Jason. Finding her in a desert room, she was shot by Robert, wounding her and allowing the four to escape.

Finally cornering the four and an escaped Jason, Dyson-A would declare her plan to the group, stating that it didn't matter since they were going to be sent home anyway. However, the people that she'd entrapped were freed and rebelled against her, tearing her apart as Lady Aesc deactivated the sphere and sent everyone home.

### Death

After the fall of the Sphere, she would be reduced to a dying husk. She would try and convince her younger self in a last ditch attempt, but Aesc saw through the ploy and rejected her. Aesc would then dub her Dyson-A, and would leave her to die. (PROSE: *A Possible Prelude to an Ending*).
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Factory of Crystal

Factories of Crystal (called "Foces" for short) are the primary form of transport for the Firmament, and are given to members of the Firmament upon graduation from school. Foces are moon-sized vessels of blue-white crystal with a glowing light in their center, and a control tower on their surface. While the control tower is where the operations of the ship are centered, it is still the size of a large moon with all of the surface area that entails. Foces can have huge structures on their surfaces, and hold large numbers of beings. Crystal Titans perform much of the upkeep on the ships.

Every Foce is controlled by a Pilot, a mortal being (usually human) pulled out of time before their death, and plugged into the Foce's systems to run it as a living navigation system.

Factories of Crystal gain their name from their ability to produce the crystal dust that facilitates most inter-universal travel.

The Great Assimilation briefly controlled the Firmament's Factories of Crystal before Dawn agent Graelyn Scythes rewrote reality so they never had the chance to.

One alternate Graelyn Scythes was one of, if not the only, non-firmament to have a Factory of Crystal after that incident.

Lady Aesculapius is one of the most notable travelers in her own Factory of Crystal.
Dawn (organisation)

art by Annie Zhu

Dawn is an interdimensional paramilitary group founded by Kinan Jans. Operating out of a pocket dimension known as Spiral, the group tries to change history in order to meet Kinan's objectives, and try to save as many people as possible who live in the 10,000 Dawns.

Dawn has many notable agents, including Graelyn Scythes and Archimedes Von Ahnerabe.

Dawn is divided up into three divisions that are overseen by Kinan Jans:

**The Artemis Corps**
This group is the military might of Dawn. When a mission requires violence, this is who you go to. This is the group that goes out and fights directly on different worlds, or organizes other direct action. It is run by Backgammon Jenny.

**The Apollo Corps**
This is the group that seeks to disrupt worlds through subtler means. The Apollo Corps is more about causing changes through creating situations that Dawn can play to its advantage than engaging in conflict. It is run by The Silent.

Graelyn and Archimedes are members of the Apollo Corp,

**The Hermes Corps**
This group acquires (and often steals) technology and equipment from different universe for use by Dawn. They also do their own R&D, as well as doing interuniversal archaeology and cataloging. The Hermes Corp keeps a large workshop, museum, and library on Spiral for their use and pleasure. It is run by Lametrius.
Painted warrior

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The **painted warriors**, (PROSE: *Cobweb and Ivory*) or **men of stone**, (PROSE: *Christmas on a Rational Planet*, *Cobweb and Ivory*) were a race of living painted statues created alongside humanity by the Original Mammoths of the pre-universe. They worshipped Cernunnos, the Enemy. (PROSE: *Cobweb and Ivory*)

As the Carnival Queen showed to Chris Cwej in a vision of the pre-universe, the men of stone were originally the caretakers of enchanted gardens in the Mammoths' city. They were made incompatible with reality following the Time Lords' anchoring of the thread, (PROSE: *Christmas on a Rational Planet*) but some survived in an alter-time remnant of the Mammoth city. In their new state, the warriors were only able to move when not being observed. (PROSE: *Cobweb and Ivory*) The Time Lords had myths of a similar race of living statues known as Weeping Angels, (COMIC: *Gaze of the Medusa*) who they thought evolved at the Dawn of Time. (AUDIO: *The Side of the Angels*)

Avus encountered some of the painted warriors when he journeyed into their alter-time realm. (PROSE: *Cobweb and Ivory*)
Donovan MacLeod

**Donovan MacLeod** lives in the Prime Universe, in London. He was born in 2452 and raised in a lower-income suburb, and at the age of 18 he entered the Centro Military to try to make a name for himself. He was sent to Mars to defend Centro's interests there during the Martian Revolution, and during that time, became disillusioned with the idea of corporate control. When he returned home, he joined together with a group of his friends to create the Working Class Heroes.

As a founding member, Donovan took a leadership role and became the public spokesman for the Working Class Heroes. He advocated nonviolence and organized several protests against Centro on Earth. Under his leadership, the Working Class Heroes gained tens of thousands of members and its influence expanded beyond just the city of London.

### Relationships and Family

Donovan is bisexual and polyamorous. During the war, he developed a relationship with Nathan Solano. After returning home, he also began dating Lucia Odegaard. He eventually married Lucy and they had a daughter, Alice MacLeod.
Tales of Treason

Tales of Treason was the first digital only 10,000 Dawns collection, and featured six stories by James Wylder which would all be reprinted in later collections. According to the author, the reason for the ebook's release was to protect the copyright on several 10,000 Dawns characters due to a different project, crowdsourcing the title, which was invited by fellow 10,000 Dawns writer Elizabeth Tock.

"The Rally" and "A Darker Patmos" were written for this collection, with the other stories coming from other projects.

All stories by James Wylder, with art by Rachel Johnson.

Stories:

High Times at the Black Hole Bar and Grill

The Rally

A Darker Patmos

The Apocalypse at the End of the Inkwell

Never Go On Walks

A Magic Trick
The Infinite

**The Infinite** were equivalents of the Firmament in some of the 10,000 Drafts. They were locked in conflict with the Numbered (PROSE: *The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns Big Takeover!*) following the creation of 10,000 universes with the Creation Machine. Pathway was an agent of the Infinite. (PROSE: *Prototype*)

## Behind the scenes

* According to the original series bible for *The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns*, Miranda was originally conceived of as herself an agent of the Infinite against the Numbered, like Pathway. The version of her who actually debuted in *The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns Big Takeover!*, however, is stated to have opposed the Gods in her world, with the Gods being described as her dimension's counterpart to the Infinite and the Firmament.
Graelyn Scythes (Dawn 5)

Dawn 5's **Graelyn Scythes** became an agent of Dawn and good friends with Archimedes Von Ahnerabe. She owns a cat named Mister Sprinkles and used to travel with Lady Aesculapius alongside “Arch”. Graelyn's main difference with her Prime Universe counterpart is that she is in fact a good person.

## Biography

Scythes grew up in an abusive household in the late 25th century Moscow of her universe. She cherished a cat named Mr. Sprinkles (PROSE: *10,000 Dawns*) and loved the book *Head of State*. (*Rachel Survived*) After leaving Moscow, Graelyn lived in Project Atlantis for a time. After meeting Archimedes Von Ahnerabe and beginning to work for Dawn, she and Archimedes once went on a mission to a moon chasing something and Archimedes was taken, leading Graelyn to rescue him from the past by infiltrating a World War II special operations mission. (PROSE: *10,000 Dawns*)

Graelyn and Arch also travelled with Lady Aesculapius for a time. (PROSE: *Never Go On Walks*)

When the factions of the 10,000 Dawns began fighting over the Book of Books, Graelyn and Archimedes befriended Rachel Edwards and prevented the Book from being taken by anyone. (PROSE: *Rachel Survived*)

Graelyn later became a central figure in the masterplan of Auteur, being deaged into a baby and raised anew by the Twelfth Auteur until she realised the truth, rebelled, and managed to undo the damage Auteur had done to the 10,000 Dawns. (PROSE: *White Canvas*)

## Behind the scenes

Graelyn is a major recurring character in *10,000 Dawns*, having been the protagonist of *10,000 Dawns*. Like Aesc and Arch, she first appeared in the short story *Never Go On Walks* printed as an extra feature in *An Eloquence of Time and Space*.
Crystal dust

Crystal Dust is a sand-like substance made from a blue/white crystal. It is most commonly produced by the Firmament's Factories of Crystal, but there are other ways of making it. Crystal Dust allows travel between places in the 10,000 Dawns easily by cutting open portals into the Bifrost Path, or more dangerously straight through the void between Dawns. Crystal Dust can be used to travel outside of the 10,000 Dawns (having been used in places such as the Totality), but it is more difficult to use outside of it's home multiverse.

Dawn uses Crystal Dust as their primary mode of transit, doing a small ritual where it is thrown in the air in a circular motion to create a portal.

Crystal Dust is one of the most valued resources unique to the 10,000 Dawns, as the ease of inter-universal travel it allows is uncommon in most realities.
The Totality

The Totality is the universe ruled by The Superiors. It is the location where the TV show *Doctor Who* and it's spin offs take place in.

Rachel Survived, The Gendar Conspiracy, and White Canvas all take place at least partially in the Totality.

Littlejohn, Rachel Edwards, Galaxy Violet, Auteur, and Chris Cwej are from the Totality.
The Rise of an Empire (Short Story)

"The Rise of an Empire" is a short story by Jo Smiley that was originally published in "Poor Man's Iliad." This story was the debut of the character Shiori Nakatomi and details her rise to power and her importance to the setting of 10,000 Dawns.

### Plot summary

In the middle of the 22nd century, the human race is working on expanding to Mars, and Shiori Nakatomi is working on uniting the Earth behind one leader. This starts with an inciting incident in which she overhears a violent argument between her father, Daisuke Nakatomi, and some of his corporate rivals. She decides in that moment that she wants to create a world where corporate leaders are free to do what they please, without having to worry about competition or conflict. This leads her to create Centro Systems and become its head, setting the Earth on a path to total corporate domination.

By the end of the story, Nakatomi has effectively eliminated her competition and has started a plan to expand Centro's influence to Mars, setting the stage for the corporate age of space exploration and events such as the Martian Revolution that take place later on in the timeline of the 10,000 Dawns.
Never Go On Walks (short story)

"Never Go On Walks" is the first 10,000 Dawns story. Written by James Wylder, it was first printed in An Eloquence of Time and Space. The story features the debuts of Graelyn Scythes, Archimedes VonAhnerabe, Lady Aesculapius, Johnathan Vice, Miranda Vice, Ares, Manuel Salazar, Ariadne Moore, and The Firmament. It was later reprinted in Poor Man's Iliad and Tales of Treason.

Olivia Hinkel provided an illustration for the story.
Innocence Shattered (short story)

"Traitors, Pirates, and Thieves: Part 1: Innocence Shattered" is a short story by Jo Smiley which was published in "Poor Man's Iliad." It features the character Jade Darkshadow, and details her transition from a small child on the Outer Rim to a member of one of the largest and most influential Rimward gangs in the 10,000 Dawns.

### Plot summary

When this story starts, Jade is an eight-year-old child on the Rimward moon of Mimas, which orbits Saturn. She and her brother Ivan live in an abusive household, and one day, they decide to run away and start a gang of street kids. They call it Gang Darkshadow, and they are relatively successful, since they don't have very much competition on the small border moon. After a few years of this, Jade decides to take the gang to Titan, the big leagues.

On Titan, they encounter another gang, the Cast Iron Jabberwocks, who claim that Gang Darkshadow has trampled on their turf. A fight ensues, and Ivan is killed. His death causes Jade to launch a decade-long quest for revenge. In anger and grief she disbands Gang Darkshadow and sets out on her own to find a gang powerful enough to give her the tools she will need to take down her brother's killer.

The story ends with Jade finding a way into the Index, a large Rimward gang. She still has not found her revenge yet, but she is maturing into a cunning and manipulative woman with a strong lust for power. Her story will continue in "Traitors, Pirates, and Thieves: Part 2."
Nathan P. Butler

Nathan P. Butler is the author of the WARS Novellas Healers and Hunters and On Red Soil with Grail Quest Books, both featuring Rogan Hallard.

Nathan has published A Saga On Home Video, a guide to Star Wars films on home media, and his first novel Greater Good and Echoes with Arcbeatle Press (Greater Good was published in an earlier edition by Grail Quest Books).

Nathan has also written for the Star Wars Tales comic series for Dark Horse Comics, and for the sci-fi anthology 10,000 Dawns: Poor Man's Iliad with Arcbeatle Press.

You can find him at http://nathanpbutler.com.
An Eloquence of Time and Space

***An Eloquence of Time and Space*** is an unofficial *Doctor Who* poetry book by James Wylder, illustrated by Olivia Hinkel. It features the first *10,000 Dawns* story, *Never Go On Walks*, which introduced Graelyn Scythes, Archimedes Von Ahnerabe, and Lady Aesculapius.

This would begin *10,000 Dawns'*  collaboration with the Whoniverse, which would crossover in spin-offs such as *Faction Paradox* and *Cwej: The Series*
Littlejohn

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Sergeant-Instructor **Littlejohn** (PROSE: *Subjective Interlock*, *White Canvas*) was a member of the Great Houses during the War in Heaven who gave briefings to newly-loomed soldiers. (PROSE: *The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale*)

He once met Graelyn Scythes, Archimedes Von Ahnerabe, and Lady Aesculapius on Gendar. (PROSE: *White Canvas*)
Charles Grayson

Charles Grayson was a Centro Rear Admiral, then Admiral, who fought in both the Rim Wars and the Martian Revolution for the Centro Military. Grayson was a cautious and by-the-book commander who was notable both for his extreme competency and lack of creativity. Grayson gained the rank of Admiral after the death of Admiral Sandra Ng over Titan. He was in consideration to lead the assault on Tarkanograd that kickstarted the Siege of Tarkanograd, and the Martian Revolution, but lost the bid to Admiral Cornelia Carthage.
Ian MacLeod

**Ian MacLeod** is the brother of Donovan MacLeod. He is a resident of the Prime Universe, and lives in London on Earth. He is a few years older than his brother Donovan, and therefore escaped Centro Systems' most vigorous attempts to recruit soldiers for the War for Mars. The war was starting up just as Donovan was graduating from high school, but since Ian was already in college at that time, he was not recruited. He entered law school instead.

When his brother returned home from the war, Ian focused on trying to help Donovan readjust to civilian life. He suggested that Donovan should form a PTSD support group with his veteran friends. Donovan did start a support group, but he also started an activist group, the Working Class Heroes, which he coerced Ian into joining. Ian was reluctant at first, but joined when Donovan promised him they were not doing anything illegal.

At Donovan's suggestion, Ian became the legal counsel for the group, and he focused on making sure they didn't cross any "too dangerous lines." Under his guidance, the group stayed peaceful, and all of its founders stayed out of jail. He also advised them through several of their first major victories as a group.
Earth

**Earth** is the third planet from the sun in the Sol System. It is unique among the Sol System planets in that it is the only one which can support human life without the aid of terraforming technology. As such, Earth has supported various life forms for several millennia.

Earth has always had a thing for conquering, and when it entered the space age, this greed for new territory only increased. In the 22nd century, Earth was subtly taken over by a new mega-corporation, Centro Systems, which expanded its empire to the moon, Venus, Mars, and several asteroids and moons in the Outer Rim. Under the Centro banner, Earth quickly colonized these territories and fought a series of wars (see: the Rim Wars, the Martian Revolution) to keep its new colonies under control.

Earth is home to several figures of importance, including Graelyn Scythes and Alice MacLeod.
Lady Aesculapius - list of appearances

This is a **list of appearances of the character of Lady Aesculapius,** ordered by medium and by series. Note that a less orderly, automatically-generated index of stories featuring Aesc can also be found at **Category:Lady Aesculapius stories**.

## Short stories

### *Lady Aesculapius*

#### Series 1

* *From Dusk Till Dog*
* *Jason and the Astronauts*
* *Mortal Gods*
* *Self Refraction*
* *The Deadly Holiday of Doom*
* *Life After Death*
* *Sixty-Thousand Bedtime Stories*
* *Registered Clawmarks*
* *Another Chosen One*
* *We Were Summoned*
* *We Believe What's On TV*
* *The Keepers of Time*
* *The Great Cosmic Bake-Off*
* *The Utopia Dimension​​​​​*
* *Catching Frostbite*
Andrew Hickey

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**Andrew Hickey** has written for Obverse Books' *Faction Paradox*, *City of the Saved*, and *Black Archive* series.

## Bibliography

### Short stories

#### *The City of the Saved*

* *The Adventure of the Piltdown Prelate* (in *Tales of the Great Detectives*)

#### *Faction Paradox*

* *The Book of the Enemy* (in the anthology of the same name)

## External links

* Official website and blog

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Doctor Who (Go On, Toddle Along)

***Doctor Who*** was a television show.

Ashlyn Oswin noted that her adventures and the Tourist's seemed to eerily echo events the show, specifically the characters of the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald. The Tourist dodged the question, which also brought Lady Aesculapius to mind for her. (PROSE: *Go On, Toddle Along*)
Plume Coteries

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The **Plume Coteries**, also known as the **Bookkeepers**, were a faction of posthuman librarians. (PROSE: *A Farewell to R.M.S.*)

## History

The Plume Coteries were originally a miniscule posthuman peoples who were known to travel on the backs of majestic birds. (PROSE: *A Farewell to R.M.S.*)

The Coteries colonised the Revelatory Majesty Sphere in the Amazolian system. (PROSE: *A Farewell to Arms*) The Coteries donated RMS to Roger's family as part of a peace treaty after accidentally desolating the Rogers' homeworld. (PROSE: *A Farewell to Arms*, *A Farewell to R.M.S.*)

After discovering the Library, they became predominately known as the "Bookkeepers", but were still interchangeably called "Plume Coteries". (PROSE: *A Farewell to Arms*, et al.) Most Bookkeepers became closer in size to classical humans. (PROSE: *A Farewell to R.M.S.*) Some of the Bookkeepers' smaller members acted as dignitaries to the outside universe, using specially-sized diplomatic craft to travel through space. (PROSE: *A Farewell to Arms*)

When the Great Houses tried to buy RMS from Roger, the Bookkeepers stepped in to help negotiations, postponing the deal for many years due to their lack of field agents. In the interim, they used their books to learn much about the agreements the Houses were making with other powers in preparation for the War in Heaven. When the time came, the Bookkeepers traded RMS in return for the Houses' secrets of time scooping. (PROSE: *A Farewell to R.M.S.*)

Sometime after this, dignitaries of the Coteries from the "distant reaches of dead space" came to Terra Primagenia to attend the unveiling of Cernunnos. (PROSE: *Cobweb and Ivory*)
Lady Aesculapius Series 1

***Lady Aesculapius* Series 1**, released in 2019, it was defined as a “serial short-fiction project” that mimicked the release schedule and format of a weekly TV series. It was the first batch of a spin-off series based on *10,000 Dawns*, focusing on the character of Lady Aesculapius, who in Series 1 travelled with her friend Jason Jackson. The series was edited and supervised by Michael Robertson and James Wylder. The Series art is by Anne-Laure Tudori.

Audio versions of the stories were also released by the Southgate Media Group.

## Publisher's summary

*Lady Aesculapius* Series 1 is a new scifi adventure in the 10,000 Dawns: a new short story serial!

Join the bohemian adventurer Lady Aesc as she travels through alternate realities with her friend Jason Jackson, encountering new foes, making new pals, kissing new aliens, and facing a threat like nothing she's ever encountered before…

## External links

* ***Lady Aesculapius* Series 1 on the official Arcbeatle Press Blog**
* ***Lady Aesculapius* Series 1 page on Tardis Wiki**