I like this one. It’s bit heavy on the technical and the sci-fi, but it all swirls around the point, the low odds of success and a sense of foreboding if the mission isn’t successful.

Quite the epic you have here, including some multiple branches. I don’t have a chance of catching up or even following along, but I salute your impressively massive scope and scale here.

I agree that it’s turned out to be a lot larger in scope than I had intended – but there’s hope!

The Messenger series (this one) is intended as a standalone, although its culmination leads into the Airships series.

Airships is also a standalone, a “main” series if you will. It precedes the On Patrol series, although not in any meaningful way yet.