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Thanks, Janet. I lowercased perimeter because there is one per palace on Earth, so there is more than just one. Based on a bit of research, emblem is lowercase even though Coat of Arms is capitalized (at least in Britain). As a result, I went with imperial palace (lowercase) for consistency, but will name the palace as you suggest.

As for imperial family, I went lowercase. Otherwise I would end up with caps on Imperial Family but lowercase on imperator, which is wrong. I don't want to capitalize imperator since that causes a cascade of other inconsistencies. It looks weird to me to put royal family and imperial family lowercase (ditto for imperator), but I'm sure I'll get used to it. If not, I'll be back. :-)

Thanks for your help.

If it helps, here's mine: Not even the End of Act 1 of v3 of Book 1 of 5.

Donkey droppings!

USA! USA! USA!

Opinions, please (as if I could stop you).

You may recall that in the chapter entitled the Shadow of Death, the royal palace is attacked and the royal family is taken hostage. There is s scene where the ringleader, Cain, orders his son to kill Joseph, but he refuses to do it. Cain then pulls the trigger himself, but nothing happens. He grabs his son's gun and tries to fire. Again nothing. The queen (a regent in v3) reveals the big secret that the intruders' guns were automatically disabled when they entered the palace. She then reveals the only working weapon, a basic blaster, as opposed to the intruders' assault rifles. Cain charges her, Joseph jumps in, gets beat up, the queen eventually fires at Cain, saving the day.

I took a lot of heat from several people because she waited until Joseph had been "shot at" twice before revealing why the weapons failed. My rationale was that, even though she had the only working weapon, the royal family was outnumbered (4 to 3) and the intruders all wore body armor. There's no way she could have taken them all down with a blaster before they charged, which could have easily given them control of the blaster. She was stalling, waiting for reinforcements.

I've reworked the scene somewhat, but it's still largely as described above, perhaps with better explanations of her motives and a more powerful hidden weapon (a rifle).

Given the above rationale, is the delay in firing reasonable? Basically, the queen waits until there is no other choice.

Thoughts?

I prefer Sage. Be sure to capitalize it. I am not a herb.

Thanks, Ann. Your examples are great. I'll play with it some more to see how best to apply them.

Charles, I think you're referring to deep POV. I looked at writing the story that way, but wasn't comfortable with it. I found it too limiting, perhaps because I'm not familiar with it.

Gay machos.

And ... it's going down to the -40°s with wind chill tonight. That's over 70°F below the freezing point of water. Worse, I have to go out in this Scheisse tomorrow.

I like your idea, Amy. There may be enough different kinds of attacks for a Galactipedia article. And it gives me another opportunity for nonsense.

That's the Acme-branded toilet paper. It analyzes a sample of stool and transmits the results to your wisething. Yes, I'm kidding.

And shouldn't you be editing? Bzzt!

I'm endlessly tweaking my first two chapters because the third chapter is turning into a bear and I'm too lazy to tackle it.

One noteworthy change: I'm switching emperor and empress back to imperator and imperatrix. Screw the wordiness. I prefer the historical accuracy. Apollo goes back to being heres imperiales.

I'm also considering changing Imperial to imperial to match common usage (Wikipedia and Star Wars, as well as several history books I'm using). I originally chose caps because Imperium/Imperial is a lot like Canada/Canadian. That creates problems in sentences like this: the imperator let rip with an Imperial fart. See the problem? imperator is not important enough to capitalize, yet Imperial fart is.