Accusations of Mary Sue fly faster, even if things would make perfect sense if you were writing a standard story. Readers don't get to see all the butterflies that got the story to where it starts and they are often less sympathetic to the protagonist. Starting an SI fic In Medias Res is easy, continuing it is hard. Just.be conservative with them.Īs for any other issues? Well, you have only one chapter so far, so not really, but I will give you a warning of something I've learned from hard experience.

It's an easy out instead of figuring out a proper way to get this across to readers in-story. Second, they force a reader to remember where on the page they previously were.įootnotes aren't ideal for authors because they serve as a writing crutch.

First, they interrupt the flow of a story. I'd say generally do your best to avoid them, and using footnotes should be reserved as a hail-mary of 'there's no way to explain this in story in a way that doesn't feel totally out of place.'įootnotes are bad for readers for two main reasons. Taking an aside to read a wiki page from another franchise a reader may not care about will kill enjoyment very quickly. Same for something that was directly inspired by another franchise. For anything you've come up with yourself/homebrew'd, it should probably be explained in-story. (7) The 500+ TIE Phantoms carried by Shadow Fury provided a perfect compliment to my punch-grip combo of an Executor class SSD and an Interdictor class Star Destroyer invisible sentinels that acted as the shield to our sword and grapple hook.Ĭlick to shrink.Since it's fanfiction, there are a lot of elements you can just assume that a casual reader would know about the Star Wars universe and how it works. Like the gravity wells, the cloaking generators also proved to be a massive drain on the Shadow Fury's reactors, which meant they had to be deactivated to provide my flagship's weapons systems and shield generators with enough power. Therefore, it presented a more vulnerable target just like it's smaller predecessor, the Immobilizer 418 cruiser. It's about time we let the insurgents get a taste of despair.' An Interdictor class Star Destroyer's gravity wells were a massive drain on its reactors, requiring major power diversion from other systems such as the shield generators. Salvar out.' I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding. The 3rd and 8th Stealth Wings are being diverted. Click to shrink.'Reinforcements are on the way, Colonel.

Fury class imperial interceptor