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I eliminated the crazy preacher from the Galaxinet article and replaced him with a more rational history that happens to include the British Royal Family as the beginning of New Bethlehem's Monarchy, which still gives me King David as Joseph's ancient ancestor. In the revised version, the planet is founded by conservative Christians primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom.

I forgot about the vaccine, but the population crash from 10B to 2B humans included the assumption that older non-vaccinated adults had more non-vaccinated kids. Had a whole spreadsheet for the calculations.

Stuart wins. I like the royal lineage.

I looked up aristocratic names from England. Slim pickings. The best was Berkshire. Less snooty than Northumberland. I'm still leaning toward Stuart because it was a royal line.

Possible last names:
Connor - a nod to Angel's son (a seriously disturbed teen) in the TV series
Welsh - seems aristocratic
Hunter - suggests strength, which fits the admiral
Northumberland - probably too snooty
Stuart - a dead royal line, but still aristocratic

Preferences?

Naming question. Joseph, like Queen Elizabeth, is descended from King David. His father's mother is named Admiral Windsor and she is not royalty. The royal line runs through Joseph's mother, the Regent. Since there are few royal families left these days, I was considering making him descended from Queen Elizabeth. That suggests his mother's name should be Windsor, rather than his father's name, assuming one keeps the name of the royal line for 2000 years (unlikely, but what the hell). Technically, it's Elizabeth Windsor-Mountbatten, but it used to be Windsor. I'm leaning toward renaming the admiral to at least avoid any confusion.

Thoughts?

My latest chapter, Shadow of the Antichrist, is up.  This is an all-new chapter. Joseph confides in Elder Amos (almost) everything that's been going on. I've extended Joseph's concern about unleashing a holy war to actually becoming the Antichrist. This is a slower chapter than I usually do, but I felt it was a necessary step for a devout Christian in these circumstances to seek help from his pastor. I kept it mercifully short by my standard. Let me know if you think it should be expanded further.

Quick, go read!

Thanks
Dirk

Question: can one notice one surroundings while lost in thought? I've got Joseph lost in thought, but am describing his surroundings...

It's not an area I want to explore right now. My purpose in choosing a Christian denomination for Joseph is primarily one of how to unfold the scene where he confides in Elder Amos everything that's going on inside him. Protestant is the most practical, otherwise I have to get into the Pope/Vatican, which would be a distraction for this book. I can explore the different faith groups if I write a sequel to this book.

I'm all caught up on Dictates of Faith. Waiting for more. Bzzt!

Also, I finally settled on Warheads Et Cetera, Inc., as the replacement for Acme. Plus a whole bunch of changes from your review, Amy.

Also started reading the Pendragon books by Rebecca Vaughn.

I'm now trying to figure out if Joseph is Catholic or Protestant. He's going to talk with Elder Amos about everything going on in his head, and I'm trying to decide if it should be a confession. If he's Catholic, then where is the Pope in my universe? Still on Imperial Earth? I'll probably make him Protestant to avoid the issue, which means I need to rename the maid droid, Rosary. Minor stuff.

Bill, it happened to me quite a while ago. I think Sol had to eventually fix it for me.

War & Stuff Corp.?

It's intended as a background character that shows up in news reports, blamed for murder and mayhem, but is not seen until the second-to-last chapter. Mostly there for fun, to keep the reader guessing what it'll do next.