League of Red Stars

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### **Rating**

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, some frightening images, thematic elements, disturbing behavior, suggestive content, and language.

### **Universe**

Mutantry-2001
Mutantry-1960

### **Followed by**

*Sebiscuits: Renascence*

***League of Red Stars*** is a sci-fi Western fiction novel based on the antiheroic team of the same name. Scheduled to be written by D. Isaac Thomas, it is the forty-fifth installment of the D.I.T. Literary Universe, and the ninth installment of Part Five: The Death of Shadows. The novel was released on June 12, 2023. It features Torin X as main protagonist and Dan Temuera as deuteragonist and Mark as tritagonist and Xydarone IV as posthumous overarching protagonist, and Vertigo as main antagonist and the Magistrate as overarching antagonist and Avara, Crucerus, Impero, Darx O'Zar, and Melinoe Gregorio as major characters.

## Plot

Several decades ago, Zira Miranda Grover, known to all as the Magistrate, established the International Alliance organization, subtly influencing more and more governments throughout the Eight Worlds. In 2026, she clashes with several members of the Armies of Organa near the ancient Temple of the Relinquished, where her greatest mercenary, Xydarone IV, is destroyed, and the Magistrate mysteriously disappears. Torin X is posthumously chosen by Xydarone as her successor, and she comes into conflict with Vertigo, one of the most powerful crime lords of all time. In a secret passageway, Dan Temuera learns about the Magistrate's past by consulting a document of her typing about her own past, while Torin X is simultaneously restoring her forgotten memories through Project DARBY, witnessing several members of the Warrior Guild visiting the Royal Palace of the Magistrate and fighting her Nortorans, herself included, after an ex-Red Star is sent to a prison camp.

Subsequently, the mercenaries reconvene; Torin X's group agrees that facing Vertigo means certain death, but that they cannot let him cause an Incursion and destroy the universe. The League of Red Stars prevent the destruction and subdue Vertigo, with Mark sparing him so he can be incarcerated. With Vertigo defeated, Memphis is now in Torin X's hands, which she accepts, assuring the others that they can stop crime from both sides now. Torin X takes a seat as the new crime boss. In a Postscript scene, a disguised Torin X infiltrates Tennessee State Museum and comes upon a memorial for "Armageddon".

## Development

The book was first slated for release on February 3, 2022, at which D. Isaac Thomas described the storyline as dark and unforgiving, similar to Korean noir films. He also confirmed Xydarone IV and Melinoe Gregorio would both appear in the novel in an undisclosed capacity. On September 8, Thomas confirmed the novel will be rated PG-13 "for action violence and brief sensuality".

## Rating

*League of Red Stars* is rated PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned), being rated as such for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, some frightening images, thematic elements, disturbing behavior, suggestive content, and language. The first two make sense as Melinoe Gregorio and Mark are both almost always barechested, the Magistrate acts and dresses suggestively, Hayley is similarly sexualized, and there is a fair deal of intense action with sudden moments of violence; savage beatings and shootings with admittedly minimal blood described. The language is strong, albeit infrequent.

## Appearances

### Locations

* Russia (mentioned)
* United States of America
	+ Idaho
		- Idaho reeducation camp
		- Royal Palace of the Magistrate
		- Temple of the Relinquished
	+ Tennessee
		- Memphis
		- Nashville
			* Tennessee State Museum

### Events

* Battle at the Temple of the Relinquished (flashbacks)
* Battle at the Incursion Point
* Battle of Quackville (mentioned)

### Organizations

* Boston Celtics (mentioned)
* Fire Department
* Girl-Team (mentioned)
* International Alliance
* League of Red Stars
* Metro Police Department
* Pratt Crime Family
* S.M.S.B. (mentioned)
* Uber
* Vanderbilt Commodores
* Warrior Guild

### Creatures

* Dogs
* Crocodiles (mentioned)

### New characters

* Crucerus
* Dan Temuera
* Impero
* Jacob Tholme (mentioned previously)
* Mark
* Melvin Betanco
* Several unidentified members of the Warrior Guild

### Mentioned

* Annabeth Black
* Battle of Quackville
* Boston Celtics
* Crocodiles
* Girl-Team
* Russia
* S.M.S.B.
* Summer Petersen
* Uber
* Vanderbilt Commodores
* Prince Zaron

## Music

 Young, Wild, & Free | Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa | * End credits.

## References

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