Back in 2007 when I was in high school, I was a part of a role-playing group using the game Star Wars: Jedi Knight Jedi Academy. A lot of this writing I have since repurposed to construct my own universe. Since then, I have grown it beyond what it originally was. The only remaining aspects were my original character names. The other characters who I interacted with in this RP have been changed.

  First and foremost, this piece of fiction (if you could call it that), I have drawn inspiration from a plethora of other work and have tried to make it my own. While it might seem generic, and half baked (and I know it is in places), for me this is purely for fun. Coming up with silly little ideas of this fictional universe in my head and throwing that stream of consciousness onto the page and make it look vaguely coherent.

  Some of my inspirations have come from:

  

• Heroes
• Star Wars
• Star Trek
• Lord of the Rings
• Doctor Who
• Marvel and DC Comics and their respective Cinematic Universes
• Mass Effect
• Assassin's Creed
• Destiny
• The Witcher
• Halo
• The Division

There are probably other such similarities to other people's work that I am unaware of. I write this because there was never any intent to take someone else's work and reconstitute as my own. It's more like I've seen something in those mediums and thought I like that; how can I incorporate that into what I am writing and thinking about.

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  Sovereign's Universe is something I come back to every now and then to add stuff to. It has no real direction or path. For me I think I like most of all is building the worlds and the lore that goes with the Universe rather than try and tell the narratives. Thats not to say there aren't narrative elements. I have written bits and pieces here and there. I like to try and do complex interconnected narratives that weave in and out from each other. Of course, trying to get that onto the page from my head is something else entirely.

  Which brings me to my next point, ever since the introduction of generate AI, I can describe what I am thinking and get assistance with my vision by bouncing some ideas to it and seeing what I can do with it. While I do try and maintain the majority of this is my own work, some of it has been thrown into Copilot to see where things lead and what might inspire me or help me flesh out some things. Generative AI has allowed me to describe certain scenes, settings, characters etc that I have in my mind and do my best to describe and have it created an image so I can visualise it as a concept. I say this because I will use some of these images here and there to illustrate my visualisation of how I am seeing these things in my head.

  As I've said before this is just a bit of fun for me and something I've been wanting to share for a while despite how stupid it might be. Who knows, I may get better as things go along.