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Hi! Welcome to Space Highways, if it's your first time here, read the first chapter: A01 ~ The Rebirth of the Phoenix. If you like it, please consider to become a Patron
Space Highways is a serialized Sci-Fi story following Kira Matsumoto, an Awakened, through the vast universe at the helm of his space-truck Falcon.
 The Space Highways series contains light descriptive nudity and strong language not suited for children nor for those uncomfortable with such content.
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Here is the credits and acknowledgments list including collaborators, friends, acquaintances, “semi-acquaintances”, hardware, and software which helped in creating this project:
(Note: Links preceded with  are affiliate links, if you buy something through those links, I will get a small percentage of the purchase.)

Mechanics Species Creator World Creators

 

Texts

Content checkerFutendoji
Spanish proofreaderJavi
English proofreadersAl
  

Sketches and drawings of characters

KiraJavi
Aia–
  

Sketches and illustrations

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Inspirations, advice, and suggestions

First beta readersFutendoji
Second beta readersJavi
  
Beginning of the seriesFirst episode of Matt Groening’s series Futurama
Inspiration for the space-trucksEpisode Heavy Metal Queen of Shinichirō Watanabe’s series Cowboy Bebop
Technologyfrom a myriad of science books and documentaries…
Books

Too many to list them all, but some:

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  • Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
  • I, Robot and Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  • The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
  • Contact by Carl Sagan
  • …

(these are only the main books of inspiration by the listed authors, I have read many more of them.)

Logos and illustrations

Logo SpaceHighway/SpaceHighwaysSiggy Simon Jr. / Martin S. Siegrist
Logo SHSiggy Simon Jr. / Martin S. Siegrist
Banners and general graphicsSiggy Simon Jr. / Martin S. Siegrist
Images used for The Awakened imageryNASA images (Uncopyrighted images only)
 ESA (CC BY 4.0 images only)
 Neither the NASA nor the ESA is endorsing nor contributing with SpaceHighway nor its author.
All space images are their property and only used under the permissive license.
Images used for the site and further arcsBought and licensed material by/to Siggy Simon Jr. / Martin S. Siegrist.

Applications

Word processorScrivener 2 for macOS
 old: LibreOffice
Note-takingEvernote
On-the-road word processorScrivener for iOS
HTML editorCoda 2
On-the-road HTML editorCoda
PDF LayoutNisus Writer Pro
Conversion to PDFNisus Writer Pro native PDF export.
 old: native export function of LibreOffice + metadata script.
Image processingAffinity Photo (Bitmap), Affinity Designer (Vector)
 OLD: GiMP, and stone-old Photoshop & Illustrator.
ePUB conversionBuilt-in in Scrivener
 OLD: Writer2ePub (LibreOffice plugin)
ePUB layout editorSigil
ePUB to Kindle mobi conversionKindle Previewer 3
ePUB testing on a computeriBooks Mac, Kindle for Mac, Sigil
ePUB testing on tablet and smartphoneiBooks, Kindle for iOS
First automated grammar checkGrammarly
  

Other Apps

Music playersSpotify, iTunes, TuneInRadio
UtilitiesDuet Display
  

Hardware

Edit computersiMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019)
 MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013)
 MacMini (mid 2010)
On the roadiPad
 iPhone Xs
  

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OfflineTimeMachine
Cloud-basedDropBox
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SpaceHighway web coreWordPress.org
Base themeHueman
Child themeSpaceHighways v3 by Siggy Simon Jr.
Pluginstoo many… >_> As well as free ones as hand-made.
Web hostingDreamHost
CDNCloudflare
  
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Content warning

The Space Highways series contains and discusses the following topics:

  • Xenophobia and racism.
  • LGBTQ+ issues.
  • Male chauvinism and toxic masculinity.
  • Gender issues and Egalitarianism.
  • Partnerships and polygamy.
  • Interspecies relationships.
  • Matriarchy and Patriarchy.

The series also contains the following mature content:

  • Light nudity.
  • Light violence.
  • Strong language and Profanities.
  • Tobacco and drug use.

Extended editions also contain the following mature content:

  • Explicit sexual scenes.

New  September 15, 2020

Chapter

B10 ~ The Compatibility Test

Free. Revision 2


Updated  November 15, 2020

Chapter

B11 ~ The Compatibility Results

Free. Revision 2

The Space Highways Arcs

    • The Awakened (27)
    • The Queen and the King of the Space-Highways (12)

News from the Author

Where am I? Why I was MIA for a long period

May 15, 2022 10:52

Dear friends, patrons, and readers,

I’m sorry for having gone MIA for such a long period. I’m ashamed for not keeping all of you but just my patrons informed. Today, I rectify this.

TL;DR: Work, studies, and volcanoes.

Read more →

Status April 2020

April 12, 2020 12:10

Due to the mentioned circumstances in this post, I’ll be pushing back chapter B06 ~ Venus Beach until I have really finished it. Meanwhile, I’ll publish revisions, as suggested by my patrons.

Read more →

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Gaia News Feed

The Phoenix barely survived Crushmont!
Breaking News
via GNN
May 12, 3025

The Queen and the Phoenix spotted in the Lost Millennium. 
Gossip
via Daily World
April 21, 3025

SpeedKitty and the Phoenix spotted on a date!
Gossip
via Trucker Star
April 20, 3025
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Latest Chapter Status

B11 ~ The Compatibility Results

Status: Out for Everyone!

Completed: 100%

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B12 ~ (TBA)

Status: Revisions

Edition: 100%

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Revision: 90%
90% Complete
Completed: 58%
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Behind the scenes

Kira’s Mini-Bio (part 2 of 3)

A unique look into Kira's background for patrons.Find more about Kira's teenage years and his rise to become the Phoenix in this extra. Read more →

Kira’s Mini-Bio (part 1 of 3)

A unique look into Kira's background for patrons.Find more about Kira's parents, his great parents, and his early years in this extra. Read more →

The Random Encyclopedia

Brown

Brown

A recurring character of the SpaceHighway series. He is one of the law enforcement agents on the Alpha-XT station. Former member of the elite Cyborg Task Force. Read more →

Species: Gaian-Human

Gaian-Human

Alien speciesClass: mammalOrigin: Sol systemHome planet: Gaia, also known as "Earth".Native languages: Modern English, Modern Chinese, Modern Spanish, Modern German and Modern Japanese. Read more →

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The Space Highways series, its content and web pages were made and designed on the planet Gaia (Earth) at ±8,6 kpc/lgc (kiloparsec from the local galaxy center),
Gaia-Sol system, Orion-Cygnus arm, Gould Belt, Milky Way Galaxy, Virgo Supercluster at the Pisces-Cetos complex.

 

No Gaian-Human being nor any other representative of any known species in the universe, nor its subspecies, had been hurt or damaged during the creation and realization of this creative work.


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