Status Report! – Updated October 12, 2026
To see Legacies that have already been sponsored and the upcoming technology tree, see the New Starships Challenge page.
Word Count Progress For Book One:
9500 / 24000 words
Autoscribe – Talitha Casey
Series Level Legacy
Available to Sponsor
You can contribute $200.00 or more to sponsor the Autoscribe, an advanced futuristic device rescued from the Havershire Library by the Silver Eagles. It is hidden in the Sunshiny Day Adventure Park bookstore, and it is both an independent mechanism and an amplification core for Talitha Casey’s Advanced Energy Reflection Core. This device will appear throughout the New Starships Challenge series. Your sponsor credit will appear in all editions of each book where your legacy appears.
Sponsor Talitha Casey’s Autoscribe – Pay What You Want – Not a Subscription
AERC Activation – Ranko Whelan
Series Level Legacy
Available to Sponsor
You can contribute $100.00 or more to sponsor Ranko Whelan’s AERC Activation! Ranko Whelan is a principal character in Of Golden Wings and Silver Eagles. Her AERC is the first Core Device that has defensive capabilities. It is hidden somewhere in Sunshiny Day Adventure Park. This device will appear throughout the New Starships Challenge series. Your sponsor credit will appear in all editions of each book where your legacy appears.
Sponsor Ranko Whelan’s AERC – Pay What You Want – Not a Subscription
Pango’s Juice Bar
Episode Level Legacy
Available to Sponsor
You can contribute $50.00 or more to sponsor Pango’s Juice Bar, which will be a location and setting inside Sunshiny Day Adventure Park where significant story events will take place in the first book. The juice bar is not far away from the Silver Eagles ComSat Station. This device will appear in the first book. Your sponsor credit will appear in all editions of the book where your legacy appears.
Sponsor Pango’s Juice Bar – Pay What You Want – Not a Subscription
Photonic Energy Pack Legacy
These legacies accumulate
The more energy the characters have the more they can do!
You can contribute $5.00 or more to sponsor the photonic energy stockpile available to our heroes. The more energy sponsors we have, the more energy the characters will get and the more they can do. Resource legacies can be consumed, but they can also be sponsored more than once. Your credit will appear in all editions of the book where your legacy appears.
Sponsor a Photonic Energy Pack – Pay What You Want – Not a Subscription
Silver Eagles Auxiliary Comsat – Sector Two Sublevel One
Waypoint Log Marker Legacy
This is the Silver Eagles Auxiliary Comsat Station under the Grand Mariner Restaurant. Waypoint Log Markers are just like energy resources, meaning they can be sponsored more than once. Your credit will appear in all editions of the book where your Waypoint Legacy appears.
Sponsor a Waypoint Log Marker – Pay What You Want – Not a Subscription
Introducing An All-New Action Faction Event!
Of Golden Wings and Silver Eagles is the first story in the New Starships Challenge series. It brings together all kinds of unique characters from across my fiction catalog to join in a science fiction adventure that is equal parts mystery, exploration and teamwork!
The New Starships Challenge is also the latest and most exciting Action Faction project combining the innovative sponsorships of The Infamous 24 with the imaginative world of the Silver Eagles and their fellow spacefaring explorers!
In traditional crowdfunding, I put up a campaign page, readers contribute, I deliver the book as the reward. The Action Faction model is different.
In this campaign, instead of contributing to the book, you get to sponsor interesting things in the story directly. When you do, you get a “legacy” and a callsign as your nickname. We connect your callsign to your legacy as credits in all editions of the book you sponsor. You could sponsor a spaceship, an interesting character, a location where something vital takes place, or even a device the characters need to complete their mission.
It’s crowdfunding, but your contributions affect the story while it is being written.
Why Do You Need Crowdfunding?
I’m publishing most of these stories for free as audiobook chapters and Action Faction posts while I’m writing them. Your contributions make it possible for me to devote more time to writing new chapters and publishing them faster. The more sponsors we have, and the more books we sell as a result, the more new stories you get.
At full speed I can write more than 5000 words a day, and I often do. That’s more than three hours of new audiobook or videobook content a week, if I can devote sufficient time to writing each day.
The Silver Eagles are Back
I’ve brought together characters from all of my story universes to join forces in surprising and unexpected ways! Their mission: Defeat the runaway menace of the Disjunction Interference Wave. There will be new technologies, new creatures, strange and inexplicable alien planets to explore and all the action you’ve come to expect!
These stories are primarily Exploration and Discovery Science Fiction.
The Silver Eagles are getting a big expansion. The Starships Universe characters will make frequent appearances, and the LadyStar Expedition and the Ironjammers will join in as well. There’s going to be some competition among these teams and others to see who can get the job done best, and all the characters will work together to make sure every mission is accomplished!
Action Faction
You Lead the Quest is just like the Action Faction, meaning readers can not only financially contribute for new chapters. But in the new model readers can also sponsor objects, settings, vessels, landmarks, resources and log markers. Each sponsorship creates a “legacy” that is credited directly in the story. For example, if I’m writing a space battle between an Alliance cruiser and a Sarn destroyer. A sponsor might contribute to add an escort ship to the Alliance side. That escort ship becomes a legacy and appears in the story so it is reader-visible. It is also significant, meaning it affects the narrative. That escort ship is also credited to the sponsor in each edition of the book.
Callsigns
Every sponsor gets a callsign. Your callsign will be assigned to your Bitbook account, and all your legacies will be credited with it in each edition of any book where your legacy appears.
All Sponsors Get the Book Free
If you are credited with a legacy in a book, you receive that book free.
All Book Purchases Include a Sponsorship
If you purchase any individual title from Getabook.today, you get a free resource sponsorship. If you purchase any collection, you receive a free episode-level sponsorship.
Everything Counts
We’ve already placed over 100 books in schools for this academic year. Every time we hit another $50 milestone from sponsorships, the Action Faction or Getabook.today sales, we place another book in a school.
