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>my main goal in this is to have Sergei descend into the depths of ptsd and depression, then to find joy in the simple family/village life of his home. Then, I will have the local warlord's goons destroy most of what he loves and threaten the rest. Obsessed with revenge and fear, he manages to get ahold of his old BT and lay waste to his enemies in that single machine
>do you think this sort of story would fit into this universe tone-wise?
lol
this is the essential plot of several of the novels really
>It is considerably darker than the free audiobooks
I think some of those must be the YA ones
no don't worry about that, BT has seen every single -ocide known to mankind

>such as? i've heard bad things about the Word of Blake
WOB was twenty years ago, and in fact that was peak BT, when we still had a shot at being a household name
we have jumped so many sharks since that the WOB are now looked back with the fondest remembrances
most of the fanbase would give an arm and a leg to go back to the WOB days

last I heard, after decades of Dune-esque interstellar warfare, the current storyline is that somebody has finally conquered the entire universe and forced the descendants of previous factions to fight in gladiator-style arenas
which is like... imagine the next Star Wars movie jumps forward 100 years into the future, General Grievous has somehow returned and conquered the galaxy, and the Skywalker and Palpatine grandchildren fight each other in arenas. my brain just totally checked out

>the higher quality books are surprisingly hard to find
the classic novels are all downloadable. links in the /btg/ sticky