Budokkit Squadron

I have so many things I want to write about my Blades!   Vazdimet explores a lot of ideas about death and resurrection. AI here means Afterlife Intelligences, for example, where the souls of the dead are bound in computer systems and things to help run them. (Willingly! Those who attempted unwilling subjects learned reasons that was a bad idea, since they gain full autonomy over the thing they're bound in).   The Blades are a step beyond that, where their own genetics are merged with plants from the Mordena's homeworld and grown into the fighter, so they're not AI, it's a genuine resurrection into a new form - which is tricky and expensive to do, particularly the first time.   There's a whole profession built around growing living spacecraft using these techniques, the Vemajorrael, which I touch on briefly at the bottom of this article, but it's the most I've gotten around to writing about them since my current book series is still in the time period before they discovered the technology to do it: