Could the upcoming comics be AI?

A Eulogy to Dozerfleet Main

As the until-recent Dozerfleet Main was reaching its end-of-life as a tower, a difficult decision was reached: it was to retire the old dinosaur of a unit. The current Dozerfleet Portable, a Dell Latitude 5490 purchased off of Amazon, is also operating as Dozerfleet Main at the moment. The tower that was until recently Dozerfleet Main was a modified Dell Inspiron 3650 from 2017, with the main hard drive changed over to a 1TB solid state drive, and the original hard drive turned into a backup data drive known as "Ivan's Vault."

The external backup hard drive formerly known as "Dozimax" has inherited the title of "Ivan's Vault." Its sister, "Dozerfleet Backup," has now been re-christened as "Ivan's Vault 2."

The former Dozerfleet Main tower had been modified further since its original purchase, to contain an extra 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, thus putting it at 16 GB total. This made it an absolute powerhouse of a machine. However, it was still unable to run a lot of higher-end software, due to its graphics card limitations. Its elaborate Dell design made it nearly impossible to update the graphics for this device, dooming its future of ever being the advanced gaming machine desired.

Enter Bezzyca

The former Dozerfleet Main has since been given a new life as Bezzyca, a children's art and office learning station running on Kubuntu.

It now has all the basics for three children it's being donated to in order to learn their way around open source software, Linux, Gimp, Krita, and LibreOffice. To learn the ins and outs of the software world in a somewhat-safe environment with minimal parental control oversight, but also allowing them to brainstorm ideas any time of the year - away from the prying eyes of school admins, who might otherwise want to scrutinize their every move.

It also encourages them to get their own USB drives and learn their way around private ownership - something difficult to instill as a value in children when they are dependent on clouds and ChromeBooks.

Adapting to software obsolescence

However, the next stage forward in Dozerfleet progress has come at other costs besides simply donating old hardware. In the time it has taken to come this far, key bits of software that Dozerfleet once relied on have now started to become obsolete. Most notably: Microsoft Access and Microsoft Publisher.

Old Microsoft Access content will be the tricky part, as all that table data must now be converted to LibreOffice Calc. This will require a joint effort between Dozerfleet Portable and Dozerfleet Mega Portable (the Surface Go 2 Tablet). The Microsoft account associated with both doesn't recall Office 2019 being installed on Mega Portable. Therefore, there's no option to go back and reinstall Office 2019 for Portable. Likewise, there's no recollection in the online account of the purchase of Office 2016, which was what was running on Old Main.

Worse, Office 2021 was renamed to Offline Microsoft 365 2021, to create even more confusion for those who just want to run a forever license. Turns out, Microsoft wants 2021 to be the last of these offline-runable office apps. Beyond that, they offer only their online subscription model - a perfect reason to want to switch to LibreOffice for most tasks!

But here's the real kicker: Microsoft 365 2021 does not include Access or Publisher!!!

These relics being gone mean that only Office 2019, running on Mega Portable, can still open these files. And that means that several Dozerfleet works now need to be reformatted.

As mentioned above, a slow-moving conversion can happen to transform the Access documents for use in LibreOffice Calc. However, Publisher documents will need to be re-assessed for long-term retention. Those not deemed worth it, will be discarded. Then, there are those which do have long-term retention value. Alas, they now have to be converted.

From Microsoft to Affinity

The following key documents will need reformatting to Affinity Publisher:

Public

• Every Ape and His Brother lyrics
• The Horrorday Gang: What's Your Straggele Codename?
• Volkonir 2008
• The Official Handbook to The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapid Living Stuff
• The Official Handbook to The Sims 4: Into the Future Conversions Stuff
• Ciem: Inferno: The Inmates of Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility
• Ciem: Inferno: The Staff of Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility
• Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry

Private

• A Very Anarteq Tour of the Soo Itinerary
• Arionna Davis' Ciem Info Packet Series (when she initially showed interest in 2019 in portraying Candi Flippo on the wiki, though that arrangement never materialized.)
• Blood Over Water Relational Chart
• Blood Over Water Charts
• Business Card
• Folder Tabs
• C.O.W.
• Old credits for Ciem 2 (2009)
• Old Stationery Voyagers data
• Resume files

Out of that list, the Ciem: Inferno tie-in books won't change much. Meagan Amez's timeline will be re-examined per her expanded role. Otherwise, those books should be the same. Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil will likely also be re-formatted using Affinity Publisher. It was originally made in Microsoft Word 2016, using a mix of text captions and screenshots edited from a playthrough of GTA V on the PS4.

More changes to Blood Over Water lore

The biggest changes will be to Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry and Volkonir 2008. With the photos provided, it's plausible that Volkonir 2008 could now be mostly made as an AI-enhanced photocomic. Only the bare minimum content from The Sims 4, such as the Golden Lion Knight armor, Selshon, and the Gwirdons would necessarily have to be machinomic-generated. Everything else could either come from photos or from Krea AI.

In spite of all the readiness for Blood Over Water to be done up in The Sims 4, it could become an AI comic instead of a Sims machinomic. The need to completely re-make Dirty Laundry from the ground up justifies this change, as all the Sims photos can now be swapped out with AI to better match its mock-tabloid format. New photos from the 2024 Sorbet / Blood Over Water / Volkonir Big Rapids Farewell Tour also allow for coverage of regions that were impossible to cover when the first edition of Dirty Laundry was released.

AI: The Future of Dozerfleet Comics?

If Dirty Laundry is re-released as AI, and Blood Over Water's remake is also made AI, then Sorbet will likewise take a hybrid Sims / AI approach. Sims only for elements and scenes that can't be made with AI, and the use of AI and photos for everything else.

This will produce the following results:

Comics by pending format
Title	Visual style	Media format
Anarteq: Top of the World	Cartoon	AI comic
Anarteq: Top of the World Story Pack	Cartoon + Game	Abridged AI comic + Sims 3 mods + Sims 4 mods + InZoi recipes + a House Flipper 2 tour
Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry, 2nd Edition	Live Action	AI mock tabloid
Blood Over Water	Cartoon	AI machinomic (with Sims and photograph references)
Sorbet	Cartoon	AI machinomic (with Sims and photograph references)
Volkonir 2008	Live Action	AI machinomic (with Sims and photograph references)
Corando's "Don't Lose Hope"	Machinomic	Sims 4 machinomic
Path of the Ming-Cho	Cartoon	AI comic
Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana	Cartoon	AI comic
Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance	Cartoon	AI comic
Nemara: Ward of the Upper Peninsula	Cartoon	AI comic

Handbooks to finish

Work on these comics will resume after the handbooks are finished for Anarteq: Top of the World Story Pack. As well as for the following packs at Dozerfleet Labs still awaiting handbooks:

DzMD Handbooks to be Made
Title	Game	Inception Year
A Tour of The Gerosha Chronicles	House Flipper 2	2025
The Blood Over Water Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Ciem: Inferno Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Ciem: Ash Cloud Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Ciem: Caldera Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Anarteq: Envoy to Lough Melvin Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Corando Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Extirpon Trilogy Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Navyrope Duology Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Horrorday Gang Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Path of the Ming-Cho Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Phaemer Village Peacekeepers Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Pilltar Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Sodality Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Swappernetters Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Gray Champion: Modern Legends Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Horrorday Gang Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
The Volkonir Character Recipe Book	InZoi	2024
Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Anarteq: Envoy to Lough Melvin Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Ciem: Inferno Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Ciem: Ash Cloud Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Ciem: Caldera Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
Swappernetters: Frontliner Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020
Swappernetters: Chrome Kite Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020
Swappernetters: Supporting Cast Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020
Swappernetters: Screwworms and Other Villains Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020
Sodality: Instigation Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020
Sodality: Adaptation and Determination Story Pack	The Sims 4	2024
The Horrorday Gang Story Pack	The Sims 4	2020

Completion of these handbooks, and of the comics aforementioned, will beget work opening up for the for-profit novels across the Megaverse.

Percolation Encyclopedia's uncertain future

Another work, this one with an uncertain future, is Percolation: The Complete Encyclopedia of Crossover Gerosha and Dozerfleet Crossovers. It was drafted at a time when Miraheze underwent a change of leadership, and was in danger of being shut down. That threat has passed. The artwork contained inside the encyclopedia has since become obsolete. To make matters worse, the work itself was all made in Microsoft Publisher, and then never finished. So it would need a massive overhaul to be added to Affinity Publisher, and be scaled down of unnecessary features.

Progress has started coming. But alas, some things needed to be sacrificed in the process.

New Ciem: Inferno tie-in books available for download

Click on the above images to visit the download page for each book.

The compendia for Ciem: Inferno tie-in books about the inmates and staff of the Madison Juvenile Center in 2015 in Earth-G7 have now been remade. These guide books aid in understanding more about Candi's world to those who didn't ever live in Indiana in that time period. Many aesthetics and even some characters are loosely inspired by the Netflix series Girls Incarcerated.

While originally made with The Sims 4, these guide books have been completely remade in 2023, using Wonder AI by Codeway Dijital.

How much property damage is inflicted in Ciem: Inferno?

After the YouTube channel Spider-Arab released a video trying to estimate the property damage costs in Insomniac's new Spider-Man 2 game, a thought came to mind: what would be the cost of damages in Ciem: Inferno alone, if the same logic were applied?

Looking through it all, Boonville and Evansville in Ciem: Inferno would suffer over $3,000,000,000 in damages. However, most of that would be just the dirty bomb launched by the Screwworms in the opening. And it was an attack on Emeraldon's childhood home, so Ciem wasn't really involved.

If we ignore the dirty bomb, then about $33M - $36M or so in damages occur. Which is surprisingly small, for a superhero story setting.

• The Screwworms inflict an estimated $50,000 in damages to the Old National Events Plaza. Possibly more. Conservative estimate, $50,000.
• Candi's first battle with Lava Tigre destroys a phone pole or two, and does some other minor damage to the street corner. Estimated about $30,000 in damages.
• The battle of the Chuckles gas station probably does, possibly, about $40,000 in damages, mostly to the van.
• Lava Tigre and the Pyro Panthers blowing up the Boonville Fire Department easily does at least $12M in damages.
• The police station being targeted next? Easily another $7M.
• The Pyro Panthers destroy several homes, so let's say $10M in damages.
• Drop-In's attack on the police convoy results in three police cars getting destroyed, for easily $210,000 down the tubes. Assuming Candi's handcuffs were about $30 in value, her breaking them adds an insignificant amount to the total number of damages.
• Drop-In's jetpack would cost an unknown amount to make. But assuming the worst, Candi damaging it results in another $2M in damages.
• The Hebbleskin Gang compromising City Lake Park No. 1 is probably no more than $2M in damages, tops, when you factor in the costs of removing the radioactive material that they were housing in the one building to create the energy dome force field.
• Drop-In later causes a total of probably $200,000 in damages to the Madison Juvenile Center during his battle with Ciem and Flintirah.
• The construction site was probably up to $30,000 in development, so that getting compromised during Lava Tigre's battle with Ciem and the Purge-Flare would have been at least that much.
• Ciem destroys Frank Morvel's van to save the girls he captured. That's another $40,000, give or take.

The police attack on the Purge-Flare's van wasn't counted. Nor was Miriam teaming up with Chris to steal materials to fix Chris' van and Purge-Flare equipment. Candi wasn't involved in any of that. That's maybe another $3M in damages, at worst.

Still, about $33M - $36 million of property damage are estimated to occur in the story.

With the dirty bomb, Ciem and her enemies add up to being just a tad more expensive than Spider-Man. But if one ignores the dirty bomb, especially since Candi wasn't involved and it was more an Emeraldon problem, then Ciem proves to be worth probably no more than $40M in damages inflicted, worst case scenario. This makes her quite a bit less crazy than the $2B price tag on Spider-Man; but still a nightmare for city developers. To her credit, because the dirty bomb was an attack on Emeraldon; he'd probably face more heat than she would.

Sad news for Ciem: Inferno: The Grand Tour

One would think that history would be kind to The Gerosha Chronicles. In some ways, yes. In other ways, not so much. But while the alternate history world had to struggle with the tie-in tour A Very Anarteq Tour of the Soo coping with the fact that AirBnB wasn't in possession of 1011 Wellington St. in real life in 2015, requiring a retcon to make it so, and further had to deal with the fact that the HD Sports Grill in 2015 had since become a Montana's, these were minor setbacks to one being able to live inside the world of Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo.

Yet, the timelines for Ciem: Inferno and Sodality: Instigation were done both an ironic service and disservice in September of 2022. So, what happened?

According to this article from The Warrick County Standard, the Posey's Market so critical to Earth-G7 Ciem mythos got shut down, just two years after its ceasing normal store operations in the Earth-G7 timeline. Only, it wasn't repurposing as a gateway to Imaki's catacombs to hide the Exodus Agenda from Halal Affadidah's patrols that led to the shutdown.

Instead, Posey's fell prey to something else: poor management. More specifically, health code violations up the gazoo.

Pummeled by the economic brutality of the Scamdemic, and draconian lockdowns that failed to protect anyone from disease, the business had to start cutting corners just to stay in business. The building was old and decrepit. Its infrastructure, in bad shape. And that was on top of other acts of mismanagement leading to lots and lots and lots of spoiled food!

It wasn't just spoiled meat that was an issue, however. All that rotten vegetation that went unadressed had led to a fly population growing out of control. Customers could look forward to being assaulted by horseflies while trying to by canned garbanzo beans. Store shelves in an "out of order" freezer unit tried frantically to get shipping companies to accept recalled products that they failed to pick up from recalls from 20 years prior! The logs were never honored by the companies back in 2002, and were ignored all through 2012. But after 2020, records about it all...went missing.

With credits to be earned from overdue returns, Posey's didn't want to eat the cost to simply have that way-expired product go in the dumpster. Speaking of which, no one was maintaining the dumpsters to deal with the maggot problem. Probaby because the insane city hall had made most practical "cowboy" methods of dealing with the problem illegal, resulting in having to wait for services that the Scamdemic destroyed in order to (never actually) deal with the problem that Posey's was no longer able to deal with itself!

Rather than come to the store's rescue, when it was begging for help, that's not the Indiana way. Instead, the store got kicked while it was down. The health department's sign notices didn't even bother to give anyone an explanation as to why the store had been suddenly closed down. The only thing anyone knew, was that what used to be a mainstay of shopping local in the area, and supporting local store owners, had fallen prey to government red tape. Only an article published later by the local paper finally explained what the rationale behind this closing was.

Who could benefit from letting a store like that die? For one, Big Box. Wal-Mart, which has had its share of issues with meat, and the War on Flies, is big and powerful enough to survive getting slapped with occasional fines by the health department. And was all too eager to eat up the business that Posey's lost. Little guys, like Posey's? Defenseless! And given how tied their hands had been for years, it seemed the problems with that aging store were only destined to get worse. The inevitable finally happened: the store became unsafe to do business in.

What does this mean for Dozerfleet fans? It means, barring a massive internal overhaul and new management, Posey's will likely never again be open to the public. At least, not under that identity. So if you are fans of Ciem: Inferno, and you would love to revisit the locations mentioned in Ciem: Inferno: The Grand Tour as part of your Boonville-visiting experience, just take note that shopping at the grocery store whose parking lot was the setting for Candi Flippo's arrest in Ciem: Inferno is no longer an option.

This is unfortunate, as the cashiers were very friendly. Alas, you can't stay in business in an old building when Big Box wants you gone - especially if you can't control your inventory, and the flies take notice!

Ciem: Inferno highlights why Black Panther 2 doesn't work

As usual, the NPCs are out in force to defend the latest Marvel movie, ready to burn any "witch" that dares point out any flaws in the film. Because woke narcissists cannot accept that they are terrible writers.

YellowFlash2, on YouTube, recently posted a video about how one YouTuber and TikTok vlogger, a black woman no less, found the treatment of men in particular in Wakanda Forever to be a bit...off.

For having the gall to suggest that the film had any flaws whatsover, Courtney Michelle went from celebrated "strong, independent wahmen" to a witch that needed to be burned, in a matter of mere minutes!

The Chinese Communist Party, which has a vested interest in using woke idiocy to spread degeneracy to all corners of America, and not allow anyone to be redeemed from its stranglehold, saw to it that she was banned from the publisher immediately, citing "hate" speech! (Translation from Bolshevik BS to normal English: speech the party hates.)

YellowFlash and Courtney Michelle weren't the only ones to note that things with Wakanda Forever were not adding up. The Critical Drinker gave his two cents on what didn't quite work with the film here:

When the Mouse sees profit margins dry up; it doesn't care that some of it may have had to do with misaimed marketing or Tide zombie fans telling white viewers that they "weren't welcome" to watch the movie! Oh no, they insist that "the Patriarchy" (one of their favorite non-descript boogeymen) is to blame!

And failing that, they then say that the opinions of white critics - solely because of the color of their skin - "doesn't matter"! How utterly racist! But then, even that isn't good enough!

A BLACK woman comes out and states that parts of the film make no sense - and they trip over each other in an effort to silence her, so that no one may hear what she has to say! Because the only message you're allowed to hear, is how black women love the movie, because...reasons. Literally any dissent is squashed like a cockroach, immediately and with extreme prejudice, by these narcissistic totalitarians!

But the woke assclowns aren't done assclowning. On Facebook, they are now trying to run the script that you either like a movie (that you may not have even been made welcome to watch!) because you are dictated to that you must, solely because it has Marvel's logo on it, or else your only possible reason to not like it is because you're "part of the patriarchy!"

NPCs are blind to their own cringe!

Ciem v. the Tide Pod eaters

So, in response to one Mr. Champagne on Facebook, insisting that the "only reason" for anyone at Dozerfleet to not like Wakanda Forever is because it lacks a white male protagonist, it's only fair to remind him that Ciem: Inferno is in development here!

Note: The AI made her neck a bit longer than it should be here, but minor detail.

The picture here is of Candi Flippo.

Her father (Stan) was white. Her mother (Shalia) was Indo-Persian black.

They both died when she was 7. She was raised by an adoptive white older sister with various health complications, who also has extreme genophobia. Her father was experimented on by aliens, resulting in her developing powers themed after a centipede.

When not raised by her older sister, she finds herself in joint custody with her godfather, a chubby, reclusive inventor from Japan.

Her older half-brother, Darius Philippine, is half-alien. He's also in charge of a government bureau given oversight over lab-created mutations like herself (SCALLOP). He's a bit of a jerk, one that wants to turn her into basically a Black Widow-type assassin. However, her godfather wants her to be essentially more like Spider-Girl.

She has two triplet sisters whose centipede abilities never manifested. One (Miriam) became a hacker, and the other (Marina) became a rock star.

Candi makes it her goal to honor her parents' legacy, by protecting it from the creations of a space alien mafia (the Hebbleskins) that is obsessed with taking over / destroying Gerosha (Boonville), Indiana.

She's far from being the pompous, arrogant, know-it-all Mary Sue that Riri and Shuri are in Wakanda Forever. In fact, if anything, she could use a little more self-esteem!

She has a white boyfriend (Danny Loffin), who is one of her only sources of solace in a world gone mad.

Alas, when she gets put in an impossible legal situation, she sacrifices her freedom to protect her godfather from malicious prosecution, brought on by some insane, unconstitutional new (f)law dubbed the "Kirby Act," which was Tom Kirby's anti-centaur bill, hijacked and on steroids.

Female importance ≠ blank check for arrogance

While she feels Darius having her railroaded into Madison Juvenile (the story is set in 2015, before Indiana sent the girls to LaPorte) is overkill, she uses the time in prison to look for opportunities to self-improve. So she can be a better Ciem. She makes the most of a crap situation.

She knows when and where she screwed up, and is willing to make amends for her individual share of what went wrong. Candi doesn't believe in "too big to fail, too big to jail." And she certainly knows better than to assume herself to be in that category!

Feminine and beautiful ≠ lacking flaws

She also learns to be a little less prejudiced. When she first met Amirah, she assumed only the worst. Later, she learns that Amirah had been traumatized regularly through her life, through repeated betrayal at the hands of authority figures.

Discovering one of the guards is the supervillain Drop-In, and also one of Amirah's tormentors, Candi admits she'd misjudged Amirah. She goes to Amirah to help her, and to convince her that they need to work together to expose Drop-in. After all: Amirah's antics had discredited her to the warden. But Candi was respected. If they worked together, they could expose the bad guy!

In-turn, Candi's example convinces Amirah to treat others better, and to not be a bully, to not continue the cycle of cruelty that turned her into the monster that got her sent to Madison.

Notice what's missing?

• No nonsense "down with the patriarchy" hysteria.
• No hating on "whitey" baloney! Everyone is equally capable of being good or bad.
• None of this "all men are bad" malarkey!
• And no Mary Sues either!

Skin ≠ morality

Sure, there are white villains. But their being white is irrelevant. There are also space alien villains. Black villains. Hispanic villains. And it isn't their skin color making them bad. That would have been Marxist stupid talk. It's their rebellion against God that makes them evil.

Having a vagina ≠ automatic supremacy

Candi is unusually strong, but she's not strong enough to routinely take on powerhouse monster baddies like Lava Tigre without assistance. Instead of the universe bending over backwards for the sake of girl power, she plans in advance to get the help she knows she'll need, so she can tag team when needed.

She fights smarter, because she knows the universe WON'T bend over backwards for the sake of a girl power moment!

That the magic flower that gave T'Challa the panther powers is somehow able to make Shuri into an even better Black Panther, just 'cause wahmen, causes the entire MCU take to feel insincere, and unearned.

Female empowerment ≠ obligatory emasculation

"Don't need no man" is self-beclowning. Granted, Miriam is less desperate than Candi to have a boyfriend to feel loved, but even Miriam knows when the enemy has her hopelessly outclassed. She isn't too proud to admit it either!

Sure, Chris Kennal finds the damaging by authorities of his van and his Purge-Flare equipment somewhat humiliating. But it was other men that did this to him, because they mistook him for Extirpon. Which was partially Chris' own fault, but still.

If he didn't need Miriam to fix his equipment and van, and find new supplies, Chris would likely have shot Miriam dead for knowing who he was. Miriam apporaches him humbly to ask for his help, in spite her online arrogance. She knows that Gerosha is screwed if she doesn't convince the Purge-Flare to help her!

Even when Miriam gets Candi back, Miriam knows it would be asinine to cut Chris out of the plan ex-post facto! Candi and Miriam get their glory moments when dealing with saving the town, sure. But at no point do they dare entertain the notion of doing so at Chris' expense. At no point do they have to steal thunder away from the Purge-Flare, just so Ciem and Sniperbadger can shine. At no point, does Chris have to be humiliated, just so Candi and Miriam can revel in extra glory.

Meanwhile, Wokevel feels obligated to show a world where M'Baku is treated as wrong and dumb, and all other men besides Namor as weak and dumb, just to prop up the women of Wakanda. Because we can't have women that are strong and smart, unless we reduce all the men to ineffectual drooling eunuchs!

The problem stems from the Bolshevik worldview that Disney has embraced. Literally everything becomes a game of zero-sum economics. They don't know how to have strong women, unless they have weak men. And it's an all-or-nothing zero sum game with them! They don't know how to have any good black characters, unless all white characters are bad!

While Candi and Miriam do have their own serious character flaws, especially their compulsive fornicating with their boyfriends, they both somewhat remember that true strength of character ultimately lies in God, and in agreement with his precepts. They both remember that without that, physical strength can be undermined. They also know that adherence to certain higher order moral principle is what makes someone good or bad, NOT skin color, heritage, economic status, or any other shallow thing that collectivists and materialists value.

In conclusion

Ciem: Inferno shows how diversity can be done right! Meanwhile, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, was all about the Woke Message, and was all about pushing Marxist zero-sum economics in regards to race and gender, logic be damned!

This is both the very reason that Courtney Michelle has every reason to criticize Walt DiSatan and Wokevel over pushing illogical zero-sum fallacies, and needless emasculation of men; as well as the very reason why China was so intent on going after her: because Evil Pooh desperately needs to keep America stuck on Bolshevik stupid, so that it will be too weak to resist future colonization!

Babylon wasn't conquered in its prime. It was conquered after sufficient demoralization. Rome wasn't defeated in a day. It eroded from within, due to adoption of proto-Marxist fallacies (and out-of-control immigration due to corruption.)

These are lessons modern America desperately needs to learn; though China is hellbent and hellbound on keeping that lesson from being learned!

Titles pushed to next year

In case of the worst

Long-term contigency plannning at Dozerfleet has led to a decision that once the machinomics are complete, it may be a good idea to start utilizing Linux Mint more, and relying less on variations of Windows.

Dozerfleet was founded in Michigan; but has since relocated to Florida. However, Florida is logistically vulnerable. In the event of a doomsday scenario, the state could become uninhabitable, such as if a nuclear attack hit the state.

In case of the worst, North Carolina seems like the most feasible place to escape to.

• It has land high enough from sea level to provide everything necessary for someone seeking shelter from rogue governments and Chinese nukes hitting from the Caribbean.
• The climate is reasonable.
• Off-the-grid living is not beyond the realm of possibility.

However, that will come with the need for some changes when it comes to equipment employed:

• Back-up power items would be a must.
  • Casual access to AC wall electricity would be a luxury, not something to take for granted.
• The TV set currently employed as "DozerfleetTV" would double as a PC monitor.
  • The current main PC monitor would be either sold or abandoned in the event of an on-foot migration. There'd be no practical way to carry it.
  • Failing the ability to safely procure storage for the TV, a smaller screen unit would have to be acquired.
  • This much smaller screen would be the new monitor.
• Once phased out as a necessity, the current Dell Inspiron 3650 operating as Dozerfleet Main would be sold / recycled / abandoned.
• A laptop to be the new Dozerfleet Portable, preferably a gamer-grade unit Mac that can dual-boot with Linux Mint, would be preferred.
  • The Macbook would be EMP-shielded, if possible.
  • MacOS would only be used to run Origin and Origin games, or to run Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, or any other software that cannot be replaced with FOSS.
  • Mint and FOSS would be used to handle every single other scenario.
• At some point, the Surface Go 2 operating as Dozerfleet Mega Portable would be phased out.
• The Kindle operating as Dozerfleet Ultra Portable will remain until it physically dies. It is unknown if a replacement Kindle will be available when that day comes. The whole designation may end up being retired.
• The Dozerfleet Database remaining open will be the top online priority of Dozerfleet operations; updating the blogs will be secondary.
  • Otherwise, online activity would be minimal, outside of use of Google Maps.
  • Dozerfleet Mobile, currently operating from a Google Pixel 4A 5G, would continue until that unit goes defunct. If not immediately replaceable, Motorola walkie-talkies would be a prime means of communication with the few connections that would remain.
  • Facebook, Instagram, and DeviantArt may see weeks or even months go by without updates.

Where this has led for 2022

Many projects that were initially pursued highly ambitiously in 2022 found themselves later pushed back, due to scheduling conflicts with prepping. The need to explore possibilities and contingencies, and gather the necessary gear to be able to stage a migration in the future if it becomes necessary, has led to experimentation with and learning of new systems. Learning the basics of modern macOS setups, as well as learning Linux Mint basics, has also meant learning how to use Virtual Box, and the limitations of a virtual machine environment.

This has also led to Dozerfleet Mega Portable abandoning Windows 11 in favor of Mint. The Dozerfleet founder's mother even got on the bandwagon. Her old laptop, having only 4GB of RAM installed, was too old to run Windows 10 efficiently. It found new life with a new battery, plus an installation of Mint.

All of this, combined with hernia surgery in April, caused major setbacks to Dozerfleet projects. Some will still get made in 2022. Others have been rescheduled for 2023 projected release dates.

Projects still slated for a 2022 release date

• Blood Over Water Redux
• Corando's Don't Lose Hope Redux
• Sorbet
• Whatever Happened to Gerosha Prime?
• Whatever Happened to Despair Gerosha?
• Whatever Happened to Classic Gerosha?
• Whatever Happened to Comprehensive Gerosha?

Projects moved to 2023

• Volkonir 2008
• Re-release of 90 Has No Secant
• Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana
• Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance
• Path of the Ming-Cho
• Ciem: Inferno
• Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo
• Re-release of Ciem (2007)
• Centipede and Fire Saga Story Pack for Sims 4
• Sodality: Adaptation Story Pack for Sims 4
• Feud of Three Worlds Story Pack for Sims 4
• Experiments and Offspring Story Pack for Sims 4
• The Battle for Gerosha Story Pack for Sims 4
• The Gray Champion: Modern Legends Story Pack for Sims 4
• The Cherinob Saga Story Pack
• Tales of Extirpon Story Pack for Sims 4
• Mukade: Reinvention Story Pack for Sims 4
• Sodality: Determination Story Pack for Sims 4
• Sodality: Augmentation Story Pack for Sims 4
• Sodality: Vindication Story Pack for Sims 4
• Volkonir Story Pack for Sims 4
• Camelorum Adventures Story Pack for Sims 4

Slated for 2024

• Ciem: Ash Cloud
• Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary
• The Horrorday Gang
• Phaemer Village Peacekeepers
• The Tale of Plum Bixie

Slated for 2025

• Ciem: Caldera
• Anarteq: Envoy to Lough Melvin
• Sodality: Instigation
• Volkonir: Season 1

Slated for 2026

• Volkonir: Season 2
• Little Shanghai Hornet
• They Call Him...Black Rat
• Mukade: Reinvention

Slated for 2027

• Volkonir: Rise of Semaphry
• Camelorum Adventures: Season 1
• Cherinob
• The Tragedy of Lord Zeras

Slated for 2028

• Volkonir and the Knights of Cortascius
• Camelorum Adventures: Season 2
• Cherinob 2
• Feud of Three Worlds

Slated for 2029

• Cherinob 3
• Of Angels and Icicles
• Lohtz
• Sodality: Instigation
• Swappernetters: Season 1
• Camelorum Adventures: Season 3 / Percolation Warriors

Slated for 2030

• Experiments and Offspring
• Sodality: Adaptation
• Swappernetters: Season 2
• The Bison
• Grillitan Diner

Slated for 2031

• The Battle for Gerosha
• Of Emeralds and Sapphires
• Sodality: Determination
• The Bison Reborn
• The Trapzezoid Kids

Slated for 2032

• The Gray Champion: Freedom's Apparition
• Extirpon
• Sodality: Augmentation
• The Bison Dilemma
• The Slushy Show

Slated for 2033

• The Bison Aquafied: Rise of the Eel Thing
• The Gray Champion: Chillingworth's Revenge
• Extirpon 2
• Pilltar
• Navyrope

Slated for 2034

• The Gray Champion: Shaken Dust
• Extirpon 3
• Pilltar 2
• Navyrope 2
• Sodality: Battle for Metheel Revisit
• Centipede + 49 Revisit
• Sodality: Vindication

Slated for 2035

• Pilltar 3
• Ciem Tomorrow
• Camp Jellybean

Canceled / abandoned projects

The following projects have been completely abandoned:

• Pekins
• Sodality of Gerosha Founding Elites Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Sodality of Gerosha Support Staff Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Sodality of Gerosha Legends Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Sodality of Florence Character Pack for The Sims 3
• The Hebbleskin Gang Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Agents of SCALLOP Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Task Force Black Rat for The Sims 3
• The Last Legs Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Phaletori Character Pack for The Sims 3
• The Horrorday Gang Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Anarteq Character Pack for The Sims 3
• Society of the Icy Finger Character Pack for The Sims 3

No Way Home is out, and implications for Ciem: Inferno

So, why not Miles?

The word is out: Spider-Man: No Way Home is a runaway hit with fans at theaters! But there are cracks in the armor. Could this be an opportunity for Ciem: Inferno in the future, or not?

Tobey has pretty much made it clear that he is in it for the paycheck, not much else. Andrew Garfield wouldn't mind a gay Spider-Man. And then there's Tom: who has been white-guilted by woketards and the pressure they've placed on him. Tom wants to step aside at some point soon, and have a new actor step into the role of being Miles Morales. Already, there are some issues with that:

1. Miles was a toddler in Homecoming. It would take another four or five years, even if he weren't affected by the Blip, to fit the role. This gives Sony three years to find an actor that would be age-appropriate.
2. The animated Into the Spiderverse series is still gaining steam, with Across the Spiderverse having been announced. Appeasing Tom and Zendaya's woke requests too soon would undermine that series' brand if Miles in live action competes with animated Miles too soon.
3. Miles would need to tackle a large number of issues left unresolved with Peter, and with the MCU in general, in order to truly shine. Villains that Peter has yet to face, such as Kraven the Hunter, would have to become Miles-oriented villains, just to give Miles more to do than deal with Prowler again.
4. Since there's already been a Tinkerer in the MCU, as a henchman to Vulture, rehashing the Earth-1048 storyline for Phin from Insomniac's game about Miles would be harder to justify.

Miles vs. Candi

But then there's another issue: what if Sony signed a Dozerfleet contract? Here's the pros and cons of making the Centipede and Fire saga versus going the "safe" route with Miles:

Candi Flippo	Miles Morales
Relative unknown means fewer audience preconceived notions.	Popular with subset of fans means lots of preconceived notions.
Relative unknown means no safe bet on audience growth.	Popular with subset of fans means safe bet on audience presence, if not growth.
Powers derived from a centipede plus Zeran tech. Has more in common in Nightcrawler than a spider hero. Could lead to audiences not being as impressed.	Can do most things Peter can do, plus plenty of things Peter can't. Audience wants him to succeed already.
Southern Indiana setting and mythology separate from Marvel means attracting audiences often ignored by Marvel.	Is as Big Apple-centric as most of Marvel. The Midwest feels insignificant. Again.
Comes with Anarteq attached, which could prove more popular than Ciem over time. (Unless he's unfairly compared to Aquaman into oblivion.)	Comes with Venom attached.
Has to come in striking strong right out the gate, while reminding audiences of uncomfortable moral realities that never expire, in spite the audience being desperate to fancy that the message is "outdated" somehow. Has only books and some Sims mods to fall back on.	Can fall back on the animated movies if need be.
Is a non-white heroine for a non-woke reason: original artist wanted to try something different when creating her parents. And she's a logical consequence of combining their DNA. Her being partially black is treated as an insignificant detail.	Is a non-white Spider-Man for a woke reason: Brian Michael Bendis wanted to virtue signal by creating a token non-white Spider-Man. Character's entire existence in the beginning was for tokenism.
Can be used to address issues such as police abuse (and federal official abuse) from a greater angle of exposing the root problems of human sin and of the consequences of humanist worldviews in a broader sense, especially via Darius Philippine's faith-heel turn.	Would be expected to view all those issues through a woke lens of "racism" being to blame for everything. Wouldn't be allowed to explore other angles.
Can address everything from issues with modern sex ed and its widespread social consequences, to problems with the justice system in general, to the general root problems of negligence, selfishness, and oversight in the human heart. Can also comment on the widespread problem of human trafficking in the American Midwest.	Would be too distracted swinging webs and fighting those defined as "villains" by SJWs. Wouldn't dare touch some of the subjects that Candi takes on.
Strong supporting cast.	Strong supporting cast, though not as strong as Peter's.
Would require some Percolation Wave plot coupons to shoehorn into the Into the Spiderverse animated series, and would have a hard time proving herself to the Spiders, given she's a centipede. About the only time she's useful, is against Morlun.	His animated counterpart is already established, and very popular.
Only borrows a handful of style cues for artwork and costume design from Peter Parker. Has otherwise always been a very different sort of character. Like a Sam Fisher Batwoman in an orange military combat suit with golden centipede emblems stitched on.	Has often struggled to come out from under Peter's shadow. Into the Spiderverse was the first time Miles got to effectively do this.

A better alternative

While a Sony film about Candi cannot be completely ruled out yet, it will be a while before this happens. And giving Tom that Miles live action film he wants right away doesn't seem like a good investment for Sony either. In 3-10 years? Definitely. Right away? No.

So what to do if Sony can't get Tom back for another Spider-Man movie for a while, especially given that most of the MCU (spoiler alert) now has forgotten that his Peter Parker ever existed?

If Sony wants its Sony Universe of Marvel Characters franchise to grow, there's a logical Elseworld to explore in the mean time. And this one has already demonstrated that it can function without Ciem, without Peter Parker as Spider-Man, and without excessive Woketardism. It would lack the Christian implications of Ciem, but it would be consistent with the rest of Sony Marvel, and would be a hard one to turn down. And...it could get started right away!

Of course, this would be Spider-Gwen. The Earth-65 Gwen Stacy has some bugs (no pun intended) to work out. However, the material and setup is already there. If the more kid-friendly version of her from Into the Spiderverse is any indication, Gwen is ripe for a live action adaptation. Maybe a different actress than Emma Stone would be needed to pull it off; but there's no shortage of Spider-Gwen cosplayers in the world!

The setup is there. It's all a matter of Sony following through. This isn't to say Sony should abandon live action Miles. Far from it! It'd be far too much of a missed opportunity. But...it's not finished yet. Let that one cook a few more years, and then go for it! The point is, the future of Spider-Man movies shouldn't be half-baked. They require thought and attention to detail that even most other Marvel heroes don't bother with - not even Ant-Man! So if a new Spider hero is to replace Peter Parker, let Sony take the time to do it right! Modern Marvel issues are littered with examples of replacement heroes that are either half-baked or just plain bad, from Kamala Kahn to Riri Williams to the crazy girl willing to murder a random cashier over a choking turtle!

Whatever Sony decides, let's hope they choose to give their selection time to grow. Don't rush anything through! Hard work matters! There's a reason that the first Captain America is still a treasured film, and audiences wanted to pretend The Eternals never happened! Sony needs to pay attention to Disney Marvel; to learn from its mistakes.

And if relations with Disney get too sour? Ciem is still around. And she comes with an entire universe of interesting attached characters for Sony to tap into as well - without the Disney baggage!

Meet the Blacklight Streakmates

This short-lived gang has its own backstory in the Centipede and Fire Saga, and is being documented in Plottr right now.

Members included:

Asha Antust	Diamond Ozin	Ebony Katoolidge

These bad girls mostly tried to support their families and each other, via mostly acts of petty theft and fencing. They were involved in narcotics trafficking as well. However, things did get out of hand in their dangerous neighborhoods from time to time. They assisted various male members of the Blacklight Streakmates, many of whom died when the male juvenile centers were attacked by Korsicht's forces.

There may have been more, but these three found themselves at Madison Juvenile, back when it was still operation, inside the Earth-G7 timeline. The only one that ever gave Candi or any of the staff at Madison any trouble, was Ebony, who suffered from Oppositional-Defiant Disorder.

Yet, the one who was there the second-longest was Asha, due to her arson charge and lack of ability to find sponsors. What led up to the fire was complicated; but blaming Asha was seen as the easy road to quick cash for the local DA. Asha's list of charges for more minor crimes was large enough, that she had a difficult time defending herself from arson. Asha was also the first to be sent to Madison, arriving in November of 2013 - almost a whole two years before Candi Flippo arrived!

While none could pin any murder charges on Ebony, she was convicted for desecration of a corpse. She was transported to Madison a whole month after Asha. Ayrshire native Ebony's stubbornness and defiance got her stay at Madison extended over and over again, until she became one of the ill-fated to die at the hands of the Screwworms invading Madison Juvenile during the Battle for Madison. She survived several Anitos, only to fall at the hands of Korsicht himself.

Asha, from Nyesville, was finally able to get her mess sorted and get released in February of 2016 - right around the time Candi miscarried her daughter Angie. This was also a month before the events in Kahoopiliana.

Diamond, from Winslow, was the least violent, and most resourceful. She managed to avoid drawing negative attention to herself until her greed caught up with her in October of 2015 - where she found her missing gang sisters. She was convicted of jewelry theft and fencing, after getting sloppy in covering her tracks.

She was tempted after what happened with Amirah to join the Last Legs that Candi formed. But in the end, she remained loyal to the Blacklight Streakmates - even if she found Ebony's attitude off-putting. Diamond was en route for release, but ran out of time. The Anitos sealed her fate. She died protecting Ida Gahtit from the Anito Squad.

Purge-Flare now available for the Philippines

Puge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil is now available in Bisaloglish, a hybrid language of English, Cebuano, and Tagalog, aimed at Cagayan de Oro residents.

Translations for this short story are also being pursued in Portuguese, Korean, and Russian. Blood Over Water, once finished, will likely also get a Spanish translation. Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Bisaloglish, Portuguese, Polish, etc. are not likely translations for that webcomic. Volkonir 2008 may get a Japanese translation, but there will likely not be any translations made for Volkonir Journals: Attempt #43. 3-13 has been delayed for release until some time in 2021. Future re-releases for Gored By Them Things and other related works are being debated.

Once prepared, Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana may receive a Spanish translation. However, no other translations will be made in-house. Ciem: Inferno and Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo won't be translated in-house either. But depending on publisher deals, other publishers may be interested in pursuing translation work on their own ends.

The Purge-Flare's projected viable reader markets by country

Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil has only so many markets worldwide that it can hit. If it takes off, and demand can be generated for Blood Over Water and Ciem: Inferno this way, then it improves the odds of success for Ciem: Inferno to get a professional publisher release once written and ready.

If Ciem: Inferno enjoys massive domestic success, and there is international demand, then the publisher would most likely be willing to pay for international translations.

However, this is the current projection of markets worth targeting, versus ignoring.

Markets already covered by Purge-Flare native English or by already-existing foreign translations

• USA
• China
• Myanmar (the Chinese portion)
• Spain
• Malawi (the English portion of it)
• Mexico
• Japan
• India (English-speaking portions)
• Poland
• Gambia (the English-speaking portions)
• Most nations of South America (sans Brazil)
• Mann
• Barbados
• Ireland
• Marshall Islands
• New Zealand
• UK
• Jamaica (somewhat, though native dialects not considered)
• Israel (English-speaking portions)
• Australia
• Bermuda
• Nauru
• Virgin Islands
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines
• Dominica
• Palau
• Anguilla
• Guam
• Grenada
• Guyana
• Canada
• Philippines (Cagayan de Oro, primarily)
• Portugal
• Brazil
• France
• Ivory Coast
• Quebec
• DR Congo
• Madagascar
• Niger
• Burkina Faso
• Mali
• Senegal
• Chad
• Belgium (French)
• Haiti
• Switzerland
• Seychelles
• any other French-speaking African country

Essentially, any nation that has a large portion of its population that already speak or know how to read English. Or any region where a translation already exists for that region's native language.

Markets for readership being pursued

• South Korea
• Russia

Markets that may be viable in the future

• Germany (although most Germans know English)
• France

Markets not deemed viable, or else no interest in making a translation for

• Greece (the portions that only speak Greek)
• Iran
• Iraq
• Saudi Arabia
• Morocco
• Any nation that speaks Swahili (including Uganda. Dat is not de wae!)
• Any nation speaking Swazi
• India (Hindi-speaking portions)
• Israel (the minority that speak only Hebrew)
• Bangladesh
• Turkey
• Rwanda

Bear in mind, this does not mean that someone from these lands is not allowed to enjoy it in their native language. It only means that Dozerfleet Labs won't take the painful effort to perform the translation directly and personally. However, anyone scholarly enough from these lands who desires an unofficial translation of Purge-Flare, is free to make one, and pass it on to their friends.

Translations for Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil

More transitions are happening, and Dozerfleet's main office may be moving soon. There were efforts in 2019 to relocate; but these fell through.

The chaotic election cycle of 2020, and worse Michigan politics, have made business in Michigan dangerous - and the cultural climate very unstable!

Moving to another state seems to be the only way around this. In the mean time, Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil may only get one more translation this year: to Japanese. It has already been successfully translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Polish. After the Japanese version is finished, Dozerfleet Main may be going offline for some time. Dozerfleet Portable will be in operation if this happens.

There are three other languages being considered for translating the story into: Korean, Russian, and Cebuano. Any other language translations will need to be by request.

While Dozerfleet Main is down, future machinomics will also be shelved. Blood Over Water, for example, won't be able to go into production until some office location issues are resolved. Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance and Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana will similarly need to wait. Ciem: Inferno can technically be written from the laptop; but will be a much slower process.

Dozerfleet is not going away. But it may be found in another state soon. Stay tuned.

What if Danny hadn't dumped Candi after her conviction?

Canon

Canonically, at the end of Ciem: Inferno, under pressure, Richard and Megan convince Danny that the best thing for him to do would be to break up with Candi. Candi is terrified to let anyone know that she's pregnant - including Danny! She admits it at one point to Imaki; but that leaves Imaki as the only party outside of Madison that knows the truth.

Appalled that he would be so quick to throw in the towel, simply because her conviction - and his family moving westward - made life difficult; Candi concedes to the breakup - tearfully. The couple part ways, and don't see each other again for several years. She vows that if she can't win him back, then she'll make certain that the next guy she gives herself to is fully committed to her - no matter what insane persecution Darius Philippine throws at her next!

Danny seemed like the dream to her. But when the going got tough; he ran away. She knew she couldn't afford to make that mistake again!

The stress of being a fall girl, a juvenile inmate, an orphan, a single mother, and an exposed superhero whose sins were catching up to her proved to be too much; and Candi found herself going into labor in late January of 2016 - only a month into serving her sentence!

Grateful for all she'd done to save Madison Juvenile from Drop-In (and tame Flintirah,) Superintendent Bruce Almin offered to pay for Candi's trip to the hospital. She was determined to save her child's life. However, doctors were only able to do so much, and no more.

Angie Flippo was not given more than a few hours to live. Candi made sure to have her child baptized in that time; then spent several tender moments with the daughter she was doomed to lose. It took until early March for Candi to recover from the crushing depression that ensued - made worse by Darius instigating TPR proceedings against Erin and Imaki, in breach of his deal with Candi!

Madison was cutting back, and that meant inadequate personal support to address Candi's specific problems. The class she most needed, Healthy Relationships; was denied to her - partially on account of outside pressure from Darius.

When some of Candi's unresolved issues years later would come back to bite her, and Donte would be similarly emotionally and morally compromised by the stressful circumstances they were in; it became dangerously easy for Candi to slip back into her old behavior patterns.

There could have been another way

But what if Danny weren't a coward? What if he'd sworn to Candi that he would do anything to get back to her after she got out of prison; even if he lived in another state by then?

For starters, the odds would have been significantly higher that Angie would have arrived on a more reasonable timetable and due date, and not been super-premature.

Darius would have written Candi off as useless, and not prolonged her suffering beyond the initial 7 months of incarceration she'd agreed to. Candi would have been unable to participate in the events in Ash Cloud, as Angie would have been born in late April. Candi would have been released in June, on her original schedule. The Loffin family would come and vouch for her, as they'd also be the ones receiving custody of Angie. Imaki would coordinate matters this way.

In Candi's 5-year future, things would have turned out worse for her - and the remnants of America in general - had this happened. Canonically, in December of 2019, when she and Dolly arrive at the Texas border, Candi has a renewed supply of Remotach. She and Dolly find themselves dependent on it to survive, after they are captured and drugged at the border.

Not aware of Remotach, Arfaas' men waste no time taking a weakened Candi and Dolly, and fulfilling Arfaas' demands for the girls.

Due to Candi's Remotach, quick thinking, and the Navyropes' intervention, the girls are able to reattach their heads in time, and survive the encounter. The Navyropes take them to a secret underground bunker, doubling as a hospital. The girls are fully recovered from all but their psychological trauma - a week later. After all: they were inches from death!

Imaki even had Candi and Danny do practice runs with a fake ax and block, to get Candi used to the idea that her enemies were serious about their obsession to fulfill Arfaas' demands: that all of Shalia's daughters' heads be made into his trophies!

But with no Candi to confront Korsicht at Madison in June of 2016? None of the others would have survived. Nancy would never have come up with the Carbonica. Quoll and Duzerit would have succeeded at the full VEI-8 eruption of Yellowstone plan! The Hebbleskins would have eventually found all of Shalia's daughters, and decapitated them. None would have Remotach, and Candi would have been utterly defeated.

Is all hope lost?

At first, this may seem so. Dolly would have died at the South Bend Death Camp. There would be no Ciem to confront Musaran. Donte would have died, and a lot sooner. No Exodus Agenda would arrive in Texas at all; and Jackrabbit's team in Houston would have had a much harder time making the Sodality of Gerosha a reality.

However, the Loffins would have fled to California sooner. Danny would have had Candi in his life; and would have married her as soon as he lawfully could.

Right up until the moment of her capture and execution; Candi would have been happier. She would've had the boy she wanted: her high school sweetheart. She'd miss Miriam and Imaki, and even miss Marina and Erin too. She wouldn't miss much else.

While Candi herself would have been doomed to die; the case for Angie would have been another story. Angie would have escaped, along with the rest of the Loffins. She'd develop the same abilities as what her mother had; and would grow up to one day avenge her mother and destroy the Hebbleskins.

It's debatable if the Swappernetters and Plum Bixie would be around to assist her in this. If the Icy Finger stuck it to the Loffins as revenge against the Angie Loffin version of Ciem; then Angie would have needed to go underground within Arkonia - as a Swappernetter Student.

Angie's Centhuen Prototype abilities would come in handy; allowing her to become a Frontliner a year ahead of her peers. She may have even been able to join Tabitha Pang's team; given that she would only be about 2-1/2 years younger than Tabby. This would be strange for Tabitha; as she'd now be the mentor to the daughter of her own childhood idol!

In conclusion

While Angie's premature birth and death, and Danny's abandoning Candi may seem cruel; it was a strange sort of blessing in disguise. Having the Remotach refill allowed Candi to later survive two beheadings from her enemies! Battling Korsicht saved dozens of lives. Yellowstone didn't go full VEI-8. The world didn't end - just yet. The Sodality of Gerosha became legendary heroes.

Sure, relentless politics would see to it that Candi's Madison affair wouldn't be the only time she would spend her life as a political prisoner. With the totality of her life under parole / probation and incarceration time total tallied up, she winds up spending nearly 13 years' worth of her life either behind bars, or under house arrest, or else monitored in some way!

Yet, Candi's patience and longsuffering are not in vain. She and Donte are able to build the McArthur Estate that would never have been possible under Danny Loffin. They are able to have three children of their own: Frank, John, and Dana. The Ciem of Tomorrow, which the Phaletori remnants and Icy Finger revivalists fear most in Indiana, is not some mere offspring of Candi's that has the same abilities and suit tech.

Instead, it's a much-updated futuristic Ciem, with all of Candi's powers PLUS all of Emeraldon's! Dana may not have been as special a birth to Candi as Angie was; but the long haul makes Candi grateful that God put Dana in her life long-term instead of Angie.

There's sometimes no telling what sort of divine blessing and providence one can hope to expect; even coming from the most seemingly senseless of one's current pains and struggles.