Hello, all! Just a quick update for anyone who isn't already aware: my new work, Chosen Chaos, is up on Royal Road -- 27 chapters currently, and ongoing! This new story takes place 20 years after the end of Rise; I've added the description below.

If you liked Rise, I'd recommend checking out Chosen Chaos! ( https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26542/chosen-chaos )

30 years have passed since first contact. Earth has now been accepted into the galactic community, is expanding its territory to other planets, and has begun to adopt the myriad advanced technologies found throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. But as the least advanced race in the galaxy, the Earthians are struggling to carve a niche for themselves, made all the more difficult by the fact that they are the only race in the entire galaxy incapable of developing supernatural powers.

Until recently.

Few know how or why, but small groups of Earthians have begun to display superhuman abilities — and the militaries of the galaxy have begun to display interest in them. Combined with the rise of an evil thought to have been vanquished two decades ago, these superpowered Earthians are forced to choose between the value of their own lives… and the value of the entire galaxy.