Expounded Universe

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/expounded-universe-104-dont-be-sad-jo.mp3 Holy cow the villains!  We have villains!  They’re improbably stereotypical (gross monsters called the Draa’kon that kill each other for failure?  Come the fuck on), but we sure did finally get to see them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/expounded-universe-103-shadowcatastrophe.mp3 Mysterious aliens arrive and start messing with our transformed friends on Xhaldia!  Meanwhile Shadowcat is apparently just wandering through the walls of the Enterprise because X-Men, like wizards, have no sense of right and wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/expounded-universe-102-just-call-me-archangel-of-the-morning-baby.mp3 The pride and craftsmanship our author takes in the simple act of a “Wolverine drinks some prune juice” gag is more obvious and satisfactory than any sense of accomplishment either of us has ever felt.  And we also wrote a book!  Full of gags!  Anyway, this time a whole lot of no...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/expounded-universe-101-its-geordi-the-forge.mp3 The X-Trek revolution commences!  Erid and his erstwhile mutant family take to the hills and then take over a slum, while … well Dr. Crusher is taking cursory looks at whatever’s up with Archangel.  Also Worf and Wolverine fight Turricans and Axelays in the holodeck (just kidding, those are video game...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/expounded-universe-100-bonestorm.mp3 Well last week Picard met the X-Men while Erid met his collection of weird new mutant Xhaldian friends.  This week Picard meets Storm specifically while Erid meets the more revolution-inclined among the Xhaldians.  Also Geordi and Nightcrawler, just pallin’ around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/expounded-universe-99-a-thorough-accounting-of-powers.mp3 Picard meets the X-Men who are all acting like they just got their powers today, while Erid is shipped to a private facility and starts assembling the Planet X-Men. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/expounded-universe-98-very-tidy-seconds.mp3 Oh goddammit who let Jon pick the book?  It was me?  Shoot, complaint withdrawn.  YES!  It’s time to see what the X-Men and the TNG crew (and Worf if he’s into it) can do together!  This is going to be ridiculous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/expounded-universe-97-moonstruck.mp3 The somewhat less thrilling epilogue.  Once we’re all done digging our way through Vector Prime, it’s time to answer a surprisingly large amount of listener questions! And we do exactly that.  Then, just when you think it can’t get more exciting, it does, as we announce the next book!  What will it be?  Well, yo...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/expounded-universe-96-the-shield-ships-of-fart-planet-b.mp3 The thrilling conclusion!  Oh… hold on actually there’s apparently two chapters left?  With eight pages in them total?  What’s happening back here?  Anyway the war rages on til some dramatic stuff definitely happens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/expounded-universe-95-daddy-warshacks.mp3 Jef is stuck in last week, but the show goes on!  The post battle conversations are equal parts thrilling and samey, and someone forgot to watch the twins, so off they go again! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/expounded-universe-94-space-invaders-and-asteroids.mp3 Today it’s the Solo family(and Kyp) facing off against the might of the big bad Vong, as Prefect Da’Gara brings his fight directly to the doorstep of Lando’s Folly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/expounded-universe-93-thats-amore.mp3 Oh boy, Luke’s into it now.  Ready for another chapter of him taking all day to do something he couldn’t possibly do forever?  It’s here!  All that and the long-earned rest of a legend on today’s episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/expounded-universe-92-big-bad-beetle-borgs.mp3 As they inevitably must do, the good guys and bad guys finally begin to converge.  Yomin straps on all his gooptech while Han encounters some surprisingly political albinos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/expounded-universe-91-the-dozen-and-2-avengers-endgame.mp3 A chapter focusing on Kyp Durron being a pompous douchebag lost in his own little world?  This book just keeps giving us gifts.  Also Dani remains a badass and Han sputters and blutters or whatever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/expounded-universe-90-what-if-episode-5-again.mp3 It’s sort of nice to have the main characters compressed into a single narr… hey wait a minute this the same as last time!  Indeed, the Yuuzhan Vong continue to rampage around murdering everyone while the Skywalker gang doodles around at a theme park ride.  Will this book ever get back on track? Lea...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/expounded-universe-89-vacation-all-i-ever-wanted.mp3 It’s sort of nice to have all the boring main characters condensed into a single wish fulfillment narrative while the Vong go about the wet gooey business of murdering scientists, so at least this is a satisfying couple of chapters!  Also we find out what kind of couch there was in the TIE Advanc...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/expounded-universe-88-party-on-garth.mp3 Uhhh, I guess the Vong continue to get real?  Even though our main character gang has changed planets, it still feels like they’re in prep mode instead of getting on with it, but at least we get to learn about even more of Yomin Carr’s gross menagerie of single-purpose pain tools. Learn more about your ad ch...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/expounded-universe-87-hyperdriving-miss-daisy.mp3 The Vong plot gets real as their first ships enter the regular type galaxy and go all octopus ham on an ice planet.  Meanwhile Anakin and Jacen have some serious discussions while Chewie gets pretty slapstick with a senator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/expounded-universe-86-bolhpur-deez-nuts.mp3 Luke and Jacen march headlong into a council meeting and you know what that means… it’s time to learn a bunch of new Star Wars names!  Yay, our favorite pastime!  Meanwhile, Nom Anor is a hilarious dick, Leia gets grumpy, and we find out what Lando’s latest weird job is.  That dude always has a weird job....

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/expounded-universe-85-its-nom-anor.mp3 The time of the New Jedi Order is upon us as the Yuuzhan Vong set their wheels in motion!  We finally meet Legends regular Mara Jade, plus newcomers like Wurth Skidder and Yomin Carr!  It’s the dawn of a new horrible age! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/expounded-universe-84-planet-of-twilight-new-dawn.mp3 It’s the customary wrap up ep, yep!  We talk the arching themes of the book, answer your questions, and finally, as always, announce the NEXT BOOK!  Fire up your Amazon if you’re planning to read along! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/expounded-universe-83-tsiling-dzym-softly.mp3 The curtain drops. What has changed?  What threats face us at the end of all chapters?  What hath Hambly wrought?  Does this book have the most hilariously unearned coincidence at the end of it at all time?  (yes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/expounded-universe-82-daala-daala-bills.mp3 A mysterious new player enters the book in the 11th hour!  I don’t want to spoil it for you so I’ll just do that in the episode title.  Also Luke and Leia… finally meet?  This can’t be right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/expounded-universe-81-sweet-dreams-are-made-of-dzym.mp3 Luke and Leia both have dreams in this episode.  If you were curious about what kind of book we’re reading, it’s the kind where both main characters have dreams during the same chapter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/expounded-universe-80-callista-explains-it-all.mp3 These books have a tendency to flip into gear after spending some time on wheel spinny world building, but this one is definitely taking a little longer to turn over.  Sure, Luke and Leia have basically switched places now, and Threepio and Artoo are just jumping from one spaceship to the next, but...