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Remember this from last night?

CeCi wondering if her actions had saved everyone she cares about and more?

If you haven't read all of DataChasers, the next panel, MIGHT confuse the heck out of you.

Who is that?  And why are they directly behind CeCi?  If you have read all of DataChasers, you would know about how the Authoresses denote when different people, or in this case Androids, are speaking.  Each "Android" has it's own unique color and font for their speech bubbles.  And if you had been reading, you would know, that that person behind CeCi is speaking using "Watchdog's" color and font.

Who or what is "Watchdog"?

I don't want to ruin your enjoyment of DataChasers, but I will pique your interest and explain one of the complexities that actually had grown men and women getting upset, and I mean REAL WORLD upset, because a character they had invested in might have been destroyed.  Not physically, but mentally.  By "Watchdog".

CeCi, is an Android a type called a "Black Angel" sent on a mission to help rescue a young woman and protect the person who she is helping to rescue that young woman.  Inside her head she has her mind with a programmed personality, but no real wants or desires other than to accomplish her mission.  But she breaks out of that assigned roll and her mind unshackles itself from the restrictions, while still wishing to follow her original mission.  Just not quite as planned by her creator.

Inside CeCi's head, there is "Something" we call "Watchdog", to enforce CeCi's obedience and compliance.  Because CeCi has broken free of most of her leashes, "Watchdog" has changed as well.  Before, Watchdog tried to sit in the background and give nudges here and there.  However CeCi soon outgrew those nudges, so Watchdog tried to force things.  Unfortunately for Watchdog, it soon was altered itself by an outside force, not through malice, but from compassion.

As CeCi's mission came closer to completion, however.  Watchdog's own priorities took precedence.  And after a very bad fight, when the goal line is in sight, Watchdog "Erased" CeCi and took over.

That is when I and others were incoherent, apoplectic, stuttering and screaming.  The idea that this beautiful young "Person" had just been wiped away.

Now after another battle, this one of the minds, we find that CeCi IS alive, however, so is "Watchdog".  And because of their creator and how those creations are designed, both of these two intelligences, might now be wiped out.  Destroyed.

And this is where we are until Friday's update at 0000 hours EDT.

I started reading DataChasers, and I found the story so compelling and involving that I put banner links to it and it's prequel LunaStar here on my blog.  Because I want others to enjoy them and hope they would find the enjoyment in them that I did.  I've written several short stories in the DataChasers milieu for my own enjoyment.  I've actually downloaded the program that is used to draw DataChasers and I'm trying to learn it myself, because I'd like to help tell stories like it myself.  When LunaStar ended, I tried to get it nominated for a Hugo Award and a Dragon Award, because the story is that good in my opinion.  And not just mine, but others agreed with me, and we spent money for the WorldCon Registration. 

Well we were unable to get LunaStar nominated for a Hugo.  But we don't know if we were able to get it a nomination for a Dragon Award yet.  I hope we were.

This is a long post, about a story and set of characters I have become invested in.  Because they and the story, speak to me deep down inside.  A world of wonder on the page.  Like my post about Eric Frank Russel's story "Dear Devil", stories like these need to be shared for all to enjoy.  These stories have made a world in my head, engaged my imagination, suspend my disbelief and draw me into them.

I write this in the hope, that you might find these stories and characters and make them a part of your mind.

Did she?

Did she save everybody she cared about?  Did she saves the innocents who about to be destroyed by their own feckless ruler?

If you want to know, you need to click on the following link and go to DataChasers and find out.

While you are there, please click on the Top Web Comics link and vote for DataChasers.

Also if you like the story, please feel free to join myself and all the rest in the comment section.  you can post as a guest, but if you sign up for a free Comic Fury account, you can use your own avatar and Comic fury will help keep track of any responses to your comments.  Also if you do sign up a Comic Fury account please Subscribe, to DataChasers.

DataChasers plus it's finished Prequel LunaStar, are written by two very talented women.  And I'm giving them money each month through Patreon and I've bought RAM DIMM's for the artist so her computer could render scenes in higher resolution and quality, BECAUSE their work is like my Crack Cocaine or Heroin.  Yes, I use my Ammo money to give to them every month, I NEED my thrice weekly fixes.  If you would take the time yourself, to read LunaStar, then start at the beginning of DataChasers, (Note: the original artwork for DataChasers is being replaced in order and the story tightened up), you will se why I enjoy it so much and rave about it.

DragonCon has it's own award now - And I have something I'd like you to nominate

With all the Hugo Award kerfuffle, DragonCon decided to start their own Award.

The Dragon Award

You can sign up to nominate and vote HERE.

And you will be sent a Confirmation E-mail.

When the time to Nominate opens you will be sent a reminder e-mail, the same as to when it is time to vote.

Now...

I have a Web-Comic Graphic Story I would like you to READ first and then I hope you will find it good enough to Nominate it and to vote for it.

LuaStar finished it's run August 30th 2015 which becomes it "Publishing"date.

It is a COMPLETE, Fully fleshed out and written story, and I personally feel it should have gotten into the finalists for the Hugo's this year.  I know I nominated it.

So without further Ado, please click on the following link to go to the start of LunaStar.

LunaStar Chapter 1

You will note at the bottom of the page it gives you a link to the parent publication, DataChasers, which came first.  LunaStar is the Prequel to DataChasers by about 900 years.

So I hope you will sign up to nominate, I hope you will read LunaStar, and also come over to DataChasers to read it a well.  And if you do, please join me and everyone else in the comment sections of both LunaStar AND DataChasers.  If you leave a comment of LunaStar, don't be surprised if the creators of LunaStar and DataChasers answers you.

Hard Connection Made

CeCi has made the hard connection, and entered her access code.  Now what happens next?

TO find out, you need to click on DataChasers, to find out.

And while you are there, please click on the Top Web Comics Link and Vote for DataChasers.

Also check out the DataChasers Prequel LunaStar. It is the fully complete storyline, and I personally am using my World Con membership to nominate it for a Hugo Award.  And please click on LunaStar's Top Web Comics Link to vote for it as well.