The Waking Nightmares

Welcome back to The Dream Nebula. A place with no stars… no sun… no moon… no Earth. Only the shattered wreckage of the solar system floating in an endless technicolor sky.

After convalescing for a month, Winston and Billy Joe are eager to begin their new job protecting Baron Quentin Junker in his quest to find the lost true history of Earth. They didn’t expect to be thrown into the middle of an ecological catastrophe.

An unknown enemy has unleashed an alien attack upon the moon Puala’Lolo, intent on transforming everything into a new biosphere devoid of all carbon-based life.

Now Winston must lead a confederacy of the Baron’s guardsmen and treacherous skypirates to stop the monsters before they annihilate his new home. Will he come to terms with the discovery that his worst nightmare has come true: someone has tampered with his mind…

…Is it still paranoia if someone is out to get you?

What is "The Dream Nebula"

Long ago, after the 21st century, Earth was conquered by an evil power: Xiao the Eternal.

The entire solar system was subsumed into his realm, the Dream Nebula. Every living being was meticulously captured and cataloged by his invasion and placed into suspended animation.

When humanity was released again as Xiao’s subjects, reality as they knew it was gone. There were no stars, no inky black vacuum of space. Even the sun was missing. Only the shredded wreckage of planets, moons and asteroids, floating in endless technicolor clouds and perpetual winds, remained.

Time marched on for the subjects of the empire. They painfully rebuilt their cultures like bonsai in Xiao’s hands. They shared their vassal nations with mechoids, sentient mechanical beings, new species of uplifted anthromorphs and living AIs called dataoids.

In time, most of humanity obsessed over their lost history. Desires and hearts turned toward rebellion, the overthrow of the Emperor, and freedom. A struggle that goes beneath the notice of most humanity, save for the unfortunate few caught in its crossfire and those who strive to taste true freedom, whatever the cost.