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I've had quite a few discarded ideas over the years, including a novel about a group of Voltron like mechas who fight it out against an equally mechanized enemy. It...eh, didn't make it past the initial rough draft. I've had a few others like that which didn't make it past the initial draft. Oddly though, I've had others that were tossed out that inadvertently spawned their own spinoffs. Case in point, my Earthfleet Saga was an indirect derivative of my Stardancer trilogy about a ship with temporal and dimensional jump capabilities. The trilogy died, but the primary starship in it, the Stardancer, ended up being the seed that spawned the idea of the Sergenious which is what ultimately spawned the Earthfleet Saga. I liked the Stardancer so much I didn't want to let it die. In a small way it didn't. Oddly enough, I'm trying to figure out a way to bring back the ship, maybe as a cameo in another series. The only thing I don't like, which is what lead to the trilogy being killed, is that the ship is "too" powerful, which in turn breaks the rule of balance, and ultimately renders the object, and the story, unusable.
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