New projects in, some old ideas discontinued

While the technical founding of Dozerfleet as an operation is October 10th of 1994, the name of "Dozerfleet" for the brand was decided in late April and early May of 2006. Meaning that the current banner the brand operates under is about to turn 20 years old, even if Dozerfleet itself turns 38 in October after the time of writing of this post.

As such, it's become time for re-evaluation of the project pipeline, especially with new stories to tell, and old stories that didn't work out not likely to gain traction. With new tools available, and old tools becoming obsolte to the workflow.

New entries in the works

Along Trolled a Spider

Much of the Dozerfleet formula of today revolves around social and institutional commentary. "Clearing a path" often involves exposing that which is in the way of said path. So the fleet of bulldozers in Ivan's world don't just stand for resistance to those who were destroying Veskinsaya's values. It also refers to plowing down and exposing systemic hypocrisy, and the core problems with human nature. As such, many newer Dozerfleet works are often very satirical in nature.

Set in the Dromedeverse, Along Trolled a Spider is a comedy variation on that theme. It involves a lab experiment, a super-intelligent-yet-restless spider, and corruption at multiple levels of individual, the soul, institutions, and society as a whole. How one spider goes to war with mankind's foolishness, because the awareness of it prevents him from finding peace in his own web. Meme warfare and petty sabotage become Andy's primary tools of the trade, as he sabotages, humiliates, and lampoons every level of civilization that he feels deserves it. And most never even know it's just one tiny spider setting the narrative straight.

This story was inspired by a dream of a talking spider with a Cockeny accent, protecting a young woman from some man that would have harmed her if he caught her crossing a bridge.

Ciem: Carnelian Eve

Set in the Cataclysmic Gerosha universe (Earth-G7.0). Some time after the events in Ciem: Caldera, Tanya Woven is moved to Seattle. Microplast attacks the city, followed by the Kerpher Gang - and a gentrification racket. The most vulnerable in Seattle are threatened. To Tanya, that's unacceptable. However, while she initially tries to handle problems in a way that won't risk the law growing too curious about her, she soon has to escalate her resistance when the Padua Network is crippled - minimizing her support. Seeing just how corrupt the city is forces her to get clever. Not all of Candi's methods of fighting corruption and crime will work this time. Tanya must figure out for herself what being Ciem means in this new environment - and the clock is ticking.

With her father dead, and her mother nervous about the family being recriminalized - especially if they move back to Indiana - Tanya is under a lot of pressure to make her new life work. This tale occurs a year before Cerato arrives, Seattle is nuked, and Tanya is forced to relocate to San Antonio - where she semi-retires from being Ciem, and focuses on raising a family instead during the Sodality timeline. In that latter timeline, she becomes the de-facto babysitter for other Sodality members' children.

Oz: Reckoning

A retelling of a darker, more convoluted version of The Wizard of Oz, borrowing aesthetics from Far Cry 5. The Wizard messed up, when he meant well. Something in Oz broke, threatening all existence there. Elphaba's bitterness drove her to try to fix it, but the scars of her mystical encounter backfire transformed her into the Witch that became feared by many. Glinda also tried, but remained faithful to the Wizard. This led to a bitter falling out between the two. Elphaba's sister also tried to intervene, only to get corrupted even worse. Glinda's powers were damaged, and a key part of her needed to stabilize her - and the spell that could save Oz - went missing. The destabilized Glinda threatened to become a bomb.

To prevent the destruction of Oz, the Witch of the East sacrificed herself to scatter Glinda into multiple fragmented shards, that only a future explorer could one day hope to put back together. Both Glinda and the Witch of the East were gone. But that only slowed the apocalypse coming down. To buy Oz more time, Elphaba began forming a cult that would drain souls over time in self-sacrifice rituals. Her cult to delay the inevitable until a better solution could be found gained traction. Oz broke out in civil war. Most of the Wizard's power was broken. A humbled man, he led a resistance, as the Witch had become excessively violent when trying to proseletyze Oz to her cause.

Meanwhile, Dorothy's family faced risk from multiple institutions in Kansas. The school board was ready to expel Dorothy and declare her a delinquent after she exposed a few too many false narratives in school. Land grabbers came after her family's farm, weaponizing eminent domain to trample all property rights.

Dorothy wasn't expecting rescue. Just a chance to fend for her rights. Especially when the land grabbers threatened to jail her "just to keep her quiet." She was surprised to learn that sometimes, the system jails the victim and protects the criminal. It was backwards! But she knew who was really behind it. Alas, she knew she couldn't say it out loud at school, for fear of what would be done to her familyif she were branded a "racist" for stating the obvious. Typical Marxist tactics, but she knew she'd get in trouble for pointing out the history of Trotsky and dictionary manipulation as well.

The tornado happens. But she doesn't wake up to an Oz of whimsy. She wakes up to a mountainous terrain. An Oz that's...very dangerous. Weird creatures mixing magical weapons with mundane ones. Civil war. Escalation at the drop of a hat. The Tin Man is now a blacksmith. The Scarecrow is just a man who makes straw bales. The Lion...now just a weak man with a lion's mane coat. And a witch who's a cult leader, whose neither entirely right or wrong.

"Out here, you either bow to her, or you burn..."

And returning home is no picnic either. Dorothy knows that if she returns too late, especially post-tornado, she may not have a family to return home to! And if she finds out the land-grabbers stole her home while she was gone? She fears they'll brand her a fugitive somehow, make something up. Anything to keep her from interefering with their ambitions! And her family? Won't be compensated for even one square inch or cent of what is stolen!

Even if she wanted to stay in Oz, she might not be able to. She must now save a dangerous world that will thank her but can't keep her; only to return to a world that no longer wants her.

Wonderland: Amulet Fury

Happening in the same universe as Oz: Reckoning, this tokusatsu romp sees the Queen attempting to conquer both worlds. She tries to frame Alice for arson, and Alice's boyfriend Steve for aiding and abetting. The March Hare and Cheshire Cat, along with some rediscovered powered amulets, enable the teens to escape wrongful incarceration. But to save their hometown, they must first save Wonderland. To do that, they need the amulets' powers, so they can rescue the Mad Hatter, and free his lobster kaiju "Thermidora." When Steve gets captured by the Queen as well, Alice must use her wits and fists to overcome Wonderland's puzzle obstacles and create Team Amulet Fury. Yet, she's aware there will be no clean wins. She will have to return to Earth to explain everything - and she knows the cost will be heavy. But even if she must briefly lose her own freedom, she's determined to stabilize her world - and create a Wonderland where Steve (and the locals) will no longer have to worry about the tyrannical Queen of Hearts.

The (New) Mutt Mackley Show

Plans are underway to add Officer Hornet (no longer played by a Buzz-Off action figure) plus Detective Hooper to the cast on Sora. Also, plans are to eventually have this Sora-based series be featured in syndication on YouTube.

The original Mutt Mackley show lacked a clear direction, and fazzled out quickly. It got a few spin-off projects, such as the photocomic Gored By Them Things (a Beanie Babies Lord of the Rings parody) and the jazzy crime noir films Kings in the Corner and 3-13, the latter of which got a mock-PSA spin-off of its own with Penguin on Drugs.

This new one, however, has a fairly consistent theme: Mackley is down on his luck, and yet is tasked with a weekly pension if he'll help supervise Gambino Penguin - an ex-con trying to learn how to live a productive life without always resorting to petty crime. In this buddy comedy, both of them keep trying to find gainful employment somewhere. However, their universe has a cruel sense of humor, and their efforts to find work are often sabotaged in increasingly bizarre ways - or by their own personality quirks. (Examples: Mackley tries to co-host a gameshow, only to discover the main host has a strange appetite for stunts that put contestants' lives in danger. When one contestant takes the dare and it ends badly, Mackley immediately finds himself back on the unemployment line. Another time, he's late for the interview, because of a train wreck.)

Taterbug: Charity Under Fire

This spinoff to Ciem: Inferno documents the rise and fall of Meagan Amez, the original "Taterbug" in Earth-G7 lore, from the moment she first gained a love for making prosthetics as a child prodigy all the way up to when she met Candi Flippo inside of Madison Juvenile in 2015. It shows that even in a world where Candi is bio-engineeered to have the powers of a centipede, not all heroes wear orange combat suits with night vision masks. Some of them raid dumpsters to rescue circuits, scrap, and PVC that was about to go to waste - to give meaning back to the lives of veterans betrayed by their own country and abandoned. From inventor to rebel to hero to political martyr, Meagan becomes the first of the Madison Girls in Candi's world outside of Candi herself to earn her own separate origin story.

While Amirah "Flintirah" Rose could possibly also qualify for the treatment, showing how the Marlquaan storm - and her mother's poor choices - trapped her in a life she never asked for, and how the fallout of her attempts to survive it led to the system villifying her when she never wanted to be the villain; Meagan's story serves as a stronger real-world commentary on veterans who were promised big, then denied due to technicalities, corruption, cowardice, and shifts in system ideology that didn't care about the debts it owed.

Through MusicHero, an early template now exists for "Ballad of Taterbug," a song about Meagan's legend. Plans are for the summer of 2026 to edit this into an AMV, just as AnnikaBa's covers of "What Does Abound" and "Die Klage des Luftmaedchens" from Anarteq: Top of the World are edited together around that same time slate.

Projects being phased out / discontinued / canceled

Ciem (2007)

Due to low demand, and the need to move Gerosha mythos forward, all iterations of Gerosha continuity pre-dating the Earth-G7 timeline, with the exception of Earth-G4 as its demise related to Plum x Lemon, are no longer being pursued for development or discussion outside of the wiki. This coincides with a greater push to upgrade graphics to not rely on obsolete tools. This version of Ciem, and its canceled sequels, are part of a version of Gerosha continuity (G5) that predominantly existed inside The Sims 2. The greater project has long since graduated from the Sims community, having gained only marginal support there in the first place.

Making of the Mackleyverse: What Almost Was

This was going to be a book celebrating the preliminaries for the old Mackley continuity. With a reboot underway, and the old works that survived already available for view, the book's initial purpose has already been fulfilled in other ways.

Camelorum Adventures: The Early Artwork

The initial purpose behind this project was going to be to make sure that the Sims 4 concept art for Camelorum from before modern AI tools existed didn't go to waste. However, that purpose was instead fulfilled in part by the official handbook to The Sims 4: Magic of Movies and Memes Stuff.

The Gerosha Chronicles: Art of the Early Earths

This was going to be a book dedicated to all the prior Gerosha continuity that led to Ciem (2007), and to its canceled sequels, as well as the Earth-G6 timeline. However, lack of profit potential due to EA's EULA, plus lack of public demand for outdated continuity in Sims games, led to this book project being abandoned. The wiki contains all necessary information about these stepping stones, even with some of the artwork missing. DeviantArt also holds some of the old timeline content.

Camp Jellybean

Based on a childhood nightmare from 1996, this story went through several revisions over the years. Its world of surreal experiments, unexplained abductions, and a doctor‑sergeant figure who seemed to ruin lives without motive gave it a certain shock‑value appeal—especially for middle‑school readers looking for something strange and edgy. However, the humor and horror often landed in an awkward middle ground: too graphic for younger audiences, yet too juvenile to resonate with older ones. Beyond that initial jolt, the material never developed the thematic depth or narrative direction needed to justify continued work on it.

While it remains an interesting artifact from an earlier creative era, a full revisiting no longer aligns with the current Dozerfleet vision, which prioritizes stronger character arcs, clearer commentary, and more purposeful worldbuilding.

90 Has No Secant

This project began as an atmospheric suspense‑mystery built on early‑2000s J‑horror sensibilities, blending Louisiana hurricane settings with supernatural distortions, family‑curse motifs, and the eerie emotional tone of works like The Ring and Picnic at Hanging Rock. While it produced some memorable imagery, it was constructed from a collage of influences — ClipArt‑style visuals, Grand Isle references, airport scenes, geomagnetic storms, and scattered literary Easter eggs — that reflected an experimental phase rather than a cohesive direction.

The story also relied on continuity elements that no longer exist. Characters such as Meshaluta and the Rintels have been removed from the canon, Sam Wrikon’s origins have been retconned, and the Marlquaan’s physics have been rewritten multiple times since Earth‑G1. As a result, the project is fundamentally incompatible with the unified Earth‑G7 mythos.

Although 90 Has No Secant was once seen as a gem of early storytelling, its tone, structure, and continuity roots diverge sharply from the modern Gerosha vision. It remains an interesting artifact of an earlier creative era, but it will not be revisited.

Stationery Voyagers

The Stationery beings themselves, ironically, proved to be the least interesting and most-legally-problematic (due to their designs) part of their own saga. The more interesting angel characters were later rewritten, and became part of the cast of Cherinob. The saga also struggled to define a specific tone, straying from pop music culture commentary to children's video fantasy to dark drama a-la Heroes-style intrigue and moral ambiguity.

A few projects related to it did survive: "Scalding Inquiries," "The Wages of Cheating Death," and "Ties That Confide." However, there is little reason to revisit those arcs anymore.

New tools

Sweet Home 3D

A focused effort is now underway to learn and integrate this application as part of the transition away from The Sims as an architectural staging tool. As the Sims franchise is gradually phased out of future Dozerfleet production pipelines, Sweet Home 3D offers a practical way to continue developing floor plans, room layouts, and spatial logic without relying on proprietary game assets.

The tool’s strength lies in its ability to map out interior spaces with precision, giving the Gerosha mythos a platform‑agnostic method for documenting homes, facilities, and other key locations. This supports the broader goal of building environments that can be recreated in any future engine — AI‑assisted, custom‑rendered, or otherwise — while maintaining full creative ownership over the underlying designs.

House Flipper 2

House Flipper 2 has been selectively adopted for adapting certain Gerosha properties, chosen based on how well their layouts and architectural logic translate into the game’s building system. Its toolset offers a practical middle ground: more flexible than The Sims for exporting reference material, yet far less demanding than full 3D modeling suites.

The platform’s EULA is also significantly more permissive than Electronic Arts’, allowing limited tracing and AI‑training workflows that would be legally risky under EA’s terms. While HF2 cannot capture every nuance of Gerosha architecture, it excels at providing calm, distraction‑free walkthroughs that help refine spatial logic without the overhead of maintaining virtual households or navigating life‑simulation mechanics.

Used alongside tools like Sweet Home 3D, it supports the broader transition toward platform‑agnostic, fully owned architectural IP—giving each location in the mythos a clearer, more reproducible blueprint for future engines and render pipelines.

Sora

Sora has become the primary tool for scene marketing, previs, and prototyping how sequences might function in a cinematic environment. Its strengths lie in emotional staging, atmospheric lighting, and the ability to quickly test how a moment feels on screen. The engine can struggle with interpreting certain prompts accurately, and its inconsistent safety heuristics make sensitive topics difficult to navigate. Even with those limitations, it represents a major leap forward for visualizing tone, pacing, and cinematic rhythm during early development.

Grok Imagine

Grok Imagine fills the gaps left by Sora, especially when lore accuracy or risk‑free short clips are needed. Its output is more literal and geometry‑driven, making it useful for quick, watermark‑free inserts in situations where Sora’s safety filters might misinterpret the material. For projects like the "Ballad of Taterbug" music video — where consistency, clarity, and rapid iteration matter—Grok Imagine provides a reliable way to generate focused, structurally clean footage that supports the broader narrative without fighting the tool.

Nano Banana (Krea)

Krea has been part of the Dozerfleet toolkit since late 2023, but the introduction of the Nano Banana engine has transformed its role. Nano Banana excels at rapid, high‑precision scene edits—especially in situations where complex visual corrections are needed quickly and cannot be drawn or composited efficiently through other software. Its ability to repair continuity, refine character details, and stabilize multi‑element compositions makes it indispensable for modern production needs.

The shift is also driven by practical constraints. Adobe’s subscription model has made full‑scale Photoshop increasingly difficult to justify, and Affinity — while powerful — has limitations when handling intricate, multi‑layered edits at speed. Nano Banana, combined with Krea’s Realtime Edit feature, fills that gap by enabling clean, high‑quality adjustments without the overhead of traditional raster workflows. Compared to the older Flux engine, Nano Banana produces sharper, more structurally consistent visuals, even if Flux still holds an edge in emotional warmth and painterly stylization. Together, they form a complementary pair: Flux for mood and atmosphere, Nano Banana for precision and production‑grade clarity.

Obsolete tools

The Sims 2

One of the earliest tools used in Dozerfleet production, The Sims 2 served as a foundational staging ground for characters, early lore experiments, and prototype environments. Its age, technical limitations, and restrictive EULA now make it incompatible with modern workflows. Most projects that depended heavily on it are being overhauled to remove Sims‑based assets entirely, and those that cannot be salvaged are being formally retired.

Spore

Spore was once considered a potential creature‑design engine, especially for visualizing angelic “true forms” and other non‑human entities. However, its stylized biology system, rigid animation constraints, and aging engine ultimately prevented it from producing the fidelity or consistency needed for modern Gerosha canon. As newer tools emerged, Spore became obsolete for creature visualization.

The Sims 3

While more flexible than its predecessor, The Sims 3 is increasingly impractical due to its 32‑bit architecture, heavy resource demands, and instability on modern hardware. Much of the concept art generated with it is now being phased out or reinterpreted through newer tools with higher fidelity and full IP ownership. Apart from the Anarteq: Top of the World Story Pack—which remains as a historical artifact—Sims 3‑based content is approaching full retirement.

The Sims 4

The Sims 4 is proving to be the most difficult legacy tool to retire, largely because of how deeply it shaped the visual language of the Gerosha mythos during its middle era. It remains the last major holdout of the Sims‑based workflow, but its role is now sharply limited. Once the remaining story packs are completed, production with this engine is planned to wind down, marking the formal end of the Sims era in Dozerfleet’s pipeline.

Several factors are driving this transition:

• Continuity independence — modern canons now rely on platform‑agnostic visuals, not game‑engine‑specific renders.
• Creative ownership — Krea, Sora, Grok Imagine, and other tools allow full control over character design, lighting, and staging without EULA constraints.
• Pipeline consistency — comics and visual projects that were once slated for Sims 4 rendering have been fully relocated to Krea‑based graphics, ensuring a unified aesthetic going forward.
• Technical limitations — even with mods and expansions, the Sims 4 engine cannot match the fidelity, emotional nuance, or flexibility of modern AI‑assisted tools.

The Sims 4 now functions primarily as a historical artifact and a temporary staging tool for the final story packs. Once those are complete, its retirement will close the chapter on a long, formative era of Dozerfleet production.

Wonder

Wonder is now effectively deprecated within the Dozerfleet pipeline. As Krea’s evolution—especially the Nano Banana engine and Realtime Edit—has dramatically increased both capability and efficiency, Wonder’s role has diminished to the point of being difficult to justify. Its shift in business model further reduced its practicality, and the performance tax it places on the aging Dozerfleet Mobile phone has made continued use increasingly burdensome.

In practice, Wonder no longer offers advantages that outweigh its costs. With Krea now handling rapid edits, continuity fixes, and high‑fidelity adjustments far more reliably, Wonder has transitioned from a once‑useful auxiliary tool to an outdated remnant of an earlier workflow.

Comics affected

Blood Over Water

This project was originally planned as one of the final Sims‑rendered comics, but with the story packs nearing completion, it is now slated for a Krea‑based release instead. Its priority has been lowered, as it cannot be monetized, but it remains on the long‑term roadmap as a visual adaptation.

Volkonir 2008

A full overhaul may allow this project to qualify for a for‑profit release, but doing so requires abandoning the original Sims 4 format entirely. Its future depends on how well the narrative can be restructured and re‑rendered using modern tools.

Sorbet

The project’s future format is currently undecided. With the retirement of Sims‑based production, its next incarnation—comic, animation, or hybrid—remains under evaluation.

Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana

Envisioned back in 2019 as a Sims comic, it was decided a few years ago it would be a Krea-made comic instead.

Path of the Ming-Cho

This story may be absorbed into Sodality: Determination as one or two episodes, making its status as a standalone project uncertain. All Sims‑based production for it has been canceled.

Nemara: Ward of the Upper Peninsula

This will become one of the first comics slated for release to have never had a Sims production arc.

Corando's "Don't Lose Hope"

This will be the final time that a Sims-made comic gets release in that format.

Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil

If demand exists, this could get a Krea remake. For now, is stands out as a historical curiosity, being the only Grand Theft Auto machinomic in The Gerosha Chronicles.

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.

Uncovering Lost Wiki Treasures Pt 14 - Candi's evolution across Gerosha timelines

Before the video above was made, and encapsulated most of the points of note regarding the evolution of Candi as Ciem, there was a wiki article that detailed much of it. With Divergency accounting and disambiguation pages becoming the new normal for Dozerfleet characters with multiple variants, much of this old article can now be converted to a blog post.

The article was primarily written before November of 2012, so the variants are focused on Earth-G6 and earlier primarily. However, the above video chronicles G7, G7.2.0, and G7.2.1 variants of Candi, as well as the 12131-F version.

Gerosha Prime (2005)

Genetics and appearance

This was the first attempt ever at the character, being a quick-fix way of trying to put good use to the multiple children that Sims 2 base game Stan and Shalia had in 2005. The other purpose behind Candi's inception was to show how a superhero Sims comic could work, to illustrate a point to users of Mod the Sims Social that not every story had to revolve around teen pregnancy drama exclusively.

Due to the way game genetics work, Candi looked very much white like Stan and bore none of Shalia's skintone attributes. She was also blue-eyed like Stan, since Sim genetics randomly decide which trait is dominant. Had the Dozerfleet founder known how to use SimPE back then, Candi's genetic issues would've been resolved much sooner.

In this timeline, the adult version of Erin was murdered offscreen, and never once depicted. After the opening chapter, no word was ever spoken of concerning her death ever again; only it is to suffice that she gives Candi reason to move away and marry. One other major theme that would continue after this was that Candi had an affinity for dyeing her hair red, though her natural color is black.

Family

In 2005, Denny marries Candi due to her having led to his conversion, as his family is still atheist. We know almost nothing else about Denny; and Donte does not surface in Candi's life until much later on. "L1 the Llama" was originally Jeraime in a high school llama mascot suit, as that was easily pulled from the game's Sports career path. His catchphrase of "DIIIIEEEEE!!!!" was in here, but was downplayed considerably. Jeraime's catchphrase didn't reach exaggerated levels until a reboot attempt in 2006.

In Earth-G3.1, Denny is killed by Capp Aard rather than Jeraime, after being brainwashed into "Dr. Leone" and assigned to make monsters. Candi's pregnancy is less of a big deal in this version; but she does lose Angie shortly after Angie's birth. Jeraime is blinded in this version, and Milp was introduced. This version also established that Candi would have Dana in the future, and that Arfaas wants Candi's head as a trophy.

Donte's half-brother Khumar is introduced in this version as Khumar Emeraldo, recycling the old masculine form name that was going to be assigned to Esmeralda in Stationery Voyagers before that character was made feminine. Likewise, Donte wasn't known as Emeraldon in this version. He was known as "Captain Emerald." Lindsay was still Khumar's wife, but she was at one point attached to an AI backvisor and put in a Janette the Bunny suit to become S2 the Bunny. Dolly was forced into being S1 the Bunny. All such "Bunny Units" were using the game's Social Bunny NPC outfits.

With exception of Miriam and sometimes Marina, it was implied that Candi did not have a healthy relationship with most of her family. Reily ignored her, Erin was a surrogate mother to her when she didn't stay with the McAuleys, Jason and Tanya ignored here, Mike and Jeff outright held her in contempt, and Vince had vanished to some place that nobody knew. (In actuality, he was somehow exported as a Townie and the game all but forgot about him afterward.)

Power losses and nature of enemies

Arfaas' sister Harga attempted to reform and become a human woman named Hannah. By Classic Gerosha, Harga became an impenitent Hebbleskin Gang member. By Comprehensive Gerosha, she was written out entirely.

Candi's power losses in the original cut of Ciem 2 were brought on by feelings of guilt that by developing an interest in Donte, she was somehow cheating on Denny and that Denny was still alive somewhere and somehow. In the 2009 version, being pregnant with Frank became the basis for her developing a vulnerability to a strain of influenza that interfered with her powers. Later iterations of Centhuen Prototype physiology mythos remove most of these plot devices, instead merely stating that pregnancy hormones interfere with focus, making Candi less effective at using her powers while pregnant. Therefore, Candi has to also avoid most pill forms of birth control.

By extension, Earth-G7's retcon regarding why Candi getting pregnant interferes with her being effective at being Ciem also applies to Michelle and Dana's hesitation with the thought of ever wanting to get pregnant.

By contrast, Zize Choi simply grows to believe that she may have been sterilized by the Chinese government without her foreknowledge or consent, explaining why she has a difficult time conceiving a child. Since Zize got her powers via Phex-1 injection, rather than being a proper Phexo Centhuen Prototype, and she never developed proper centilegs, Zize isn't considered a proper Chilopod Crusader. Likewise, she doesn't ever gain Zeran tech to aid with clothing quantum storage nor with teleportation.

Rather, Zize's primary means of combat is still to utilize weapons and military drop tactics on par with her training as an MSS agent. Her rapid healing, high jumping, and other enhanced senses and skill potential make her slightly more than "peak human," but her overall methodology is still standard. As such, the effects of pregnancy hormones on her powers are much less substantial at influencing her performance in the field. Although, if Zize ever did get pregnant, she'd try to avoid conflict for the child's sake. She has no guarantee that her infant child would be able to endure abuse to the extent that she can.

Miriam Flippo, Marina Baret, and Tanya Woven are also interesting case studies on this subject. Miriam and Marina are considered honorary Chilopod Crusaders, since the sequence is inside them to become like Candi. However, they haven't successfully activated it. Without its activation, they have no clear way to ever manifest their centilegs nor control them. They lack the means to be truly superhuman. As a consequence, becoming pregnant wouldn't interfere with their talents any more than it would most ordinary women.

Tanya in Earth-G7, however, isn't a true Chilopod Crusader at all. Propped up with Padua Network tech and Imaki Izuki tech, she's an elaborate imposter of a Chilopod Crusader. However, she knows that if her tech fails, and she's pregnant, failure to escape from enemies in the event of her tech's destruction means being responsible for two lives being placed in danger. This becomes her impetus to retire from being the Ciem of Seattle. Even before Tanya was expecting Yong's child, she had her doubts about continuing as Ciem. Not having Candi's powers, in her mind, made the job suicide.

Despair Gerosha (2006)

This was a primitive attempt to take seriously the continuity started in 2005 via reboot. Awkward though this failed universe was, it established several firsts that have carried on as canon ever since.

Erin's death and Candi's enemies

One of these established facts is that Erin Flippo was murdered by Gunner and Skellig Soorfelt. Her killers were never made explicit until 2006. Despair Gerosha is also the last time that Ciem's archnemesis early-on was named "L1 the Llama." Musaran in Classic Gerosha was a '''BrassTex Mecha''' suit from Mod the Sims repainted to look shrew-like. L1 in this version was a repainted Storm Trooper and a repainted llama mascot helmet. This was still an improvement over the 2005 version, where L1 used the Sims' in-game llama mascot unchanged as his suit.

This was also the first version where Candi saves Denny from a Meethlite's assassination attempt late at night. Candi's attempt to save Denny also leads to the Meethlite's death. However, Classic Gerosha states that Gunner makes the attempt right outside Candi's house. Comprehensive Gerosha has it happen outside the home Candi is renting from Heather, and has Gunner fall on his own knife after a quick and vicious battle with Candi. Classic Gerosha's explosion death for Gunner is also covered in this version.

Relationship with Denny

Another change to occur in this version is that Denny was attending church with Candi well before they got married, and that this version shows them getting married because of their common enemies. That trend carried over into G5 and G6. In 2005, Denny marries Candi due to her having led to his conversion, as his family is still atheist.

Major differences between the first battle for Denny's life in Despair Gerosha and Classic Gerosha are location. Despair Gerosha had the affair happen in a city park. Unlike later Geroshas, where Candi and Denny decide to get married later the same week or following week, the two of them decide to consummate their relationship immediately in this version. They get engaged, but don't marry until after Candi learns she is pregnant.

Other major changes include the fact that Despair Gerosha is the first time that Donte was in Candi's life before Denny. Donte and Denny both meet Candi in this version around the same time. It is discovering herself pregnant that convinces Candi to choose Denny; but Donte remains a best friend. Denny's tragic and sudden death becomes the grand opportunity for Donte to win Candi's heart for good. However, he does get captured; leading to Candi having to rescue him.

Earth-G7 and beyond replaces Denny Levens with Danny Loffin, who in spite having some outdoors and survivalist training, is otherwise just some very friendly teenage boy that Candi falls for when he's proven to have a better heart than most of her other male peers at school. Also unlike Denny, Candi and Danny never actually succeed at getting married, before Danny falls prey to the Hebbleskins' schemes. Candi and Danny conceive a child together; but that ends in a miscarriage.

Earth-G7 and beyond also make the change that Ciem and Emeraldon don't actually meet until some time after Candi loses both Danny Loffin and Tyrone Menster as fiances, with the latter dead due to Halal Affadidah's goons. In fact, Ciem: Ash Cloud goes to some Sleepless in Seattle lengths to keep Candi and Donte from meeting, even though the logic of their circumstances makes it seem highly likely that they'd meet.

Candi's biology

In 2005, Candi had visible pores where her centilegs were hiding inside her. Denny has to strap her up to a device to allow her to hide the openings. This never becomes an issue in later versions. However, 2006 Candi also had half the centilegs at half the length of her 2005 counterpart. In Prime, Candi had 64 centilegs around 16 feet in length total each. These were reduced to only 32 centilegs at 8 feet in length each. By 2007, she'd have only 16 and they'd be about 5 feet in length each. Finally, the 2010 version has only 10; and they are only called "legs" by a technicality of term. In truth, their small size and length of only a few inches makes them more adequately described as stingers.

The year 2006 was also the beginning of efforts to make Candi more biologically realistic in terms of appearance. Her eyes were still gray/blue instead of the brown they'd become in 2010, but her skin was getting darker. Sims 2 depictions are limited, since only four default skintones are possible.

Other relationships

Donte's last name in Gerosha Prime was initially stated as Williams, before being changed suggestively to McArthur. That was fixed in G4, with his name having always been McArthur. The change also reflects that McArthur is the name he was assigned by the game when he was auto-generated for the first time by the Tombstone of Life and Death. Donte is a police chief for the last time in G4. Afterward, it was ruled that he was highly unlikely to have obtained that role. Donte also hides his alter-ego from Candi for the last time in this version. He is revealed to her almost immediately from then on.

Milp is an interesting case in this version. Unlike every other version, where she is at least briefly mentioned before her appearance in part 3, Milp is never once mentioned in G4. However, this version does make it explicit that Jeraime, not Simon, was Denny's murderer.

Candi in G3.1 is first arrested when she is mistaken for a streetwalking prostitute. She is never sent to jail for any reason in G4, though later Geroshas have fun with the idea. Candi's first arrest in G5 is for being Denny's widow, and for hacking a library computer to acquire information about Arfaas' raid and Donte's location. This essentially makes her a freedom fighter captured by Afaas' growing police state; one that has somehow still not figured out that she is either Ciem and / or a Flippo. In G6, she is arrested by a lady officer who mistakes her for Miriam. Due to Candi's ability to heal quickly from injuries, she is unable to pin the officer for brutality. Candi is later detained for about a week, as she is in shock after her battle against Don the Psycho, and the police aren't sure what to do about her mental state.

Candi goes into a coma after giving birth to Angie for the first time in G4. Her G3.1 self remained consciousness all throughout the ordeal. Imaki dies of a heart attack in Candi's presence in G3.1, as well as in G5. Although G3.1 and G6 attempt to make Imaki relevant to Candi's life somehow, G4 had Imaki leave behind little more than a video for Candi to watch. As Candi recovered in the hospital in G5, Imaki died in front of her.

Classic Gerosha (2007)

Along the way to developing the distilled and promising Comprehensive Gerosha (G6) continuity, the Classic Gerosha (G5) of Ciem webcomics proved to be an important precursor step.

This version of Candi's life initiated many firsts in the character's mythology. Even more so, her enemies were revolutionized. S1 and S2 the Bunnies were now only alluded to, with no intention of them ever being shown. One universe generation later, and they never existed at all. L1 the Llama was renamed "Musaran," shorthand for "shrew" in Spanish (''musaraña''.) According to Wikipedia, shrews eat certain types of centipedes. This made pitting Candi against a shrew-themed villain only natural. This version of Musaran was not as crude as the failed L1 suits of before, but was still not as well-thought-out as the Comprehensive Musaran promised to be.

The 2007 webcomic was also the last reference ever made to Arfaas' sister Harga Hebbleskin, who more or less doesn't exist in later adaptations. Gunner's brother, Skellig, was consistently identified as Skellig in this version. However, the surname of Soorfelt didn't get made explicit until 2010. This was the first time that Denny's would-be assassin was identified explicitly as Gunner.

Nolle Barret first made an appearance in this version, leading the charge to destroy Candi's reputation at church. Aiding Nolle is Pete the Shouter.

Another major difference that pops up in G5 that is not found in any other version is the existence of Kelsea Linney. This enemy of Denny's was based on a real-life hairstylist who worked at a salon in Big Rapids. However, the G6 universe sought to be profitable, leading to Kelsea becoming a G5 exclusive.

Donte's job as a police chief in G3.1 and G4 was no longer true as of G5. However, exactly how he afforded his house and what he did with his time outside heroics was never explained. G6 sought to cover those grounds in more detail. His capture happening early in the story is established in this continuity, and is explored in more detail in G6. Unlike in earlier versions, Donte established who he was to Candi early on here. Since he was now Emeraldon and not Captain Emerald, Khumar and Lindsay were renamed from the Emeraldos to the Hamiltons. This last name is a recycling of Anyce Hamilton from Replox: Abstract Foundations.

Just like in Despair Gerosha, Classic Imaki does very little for Candi onscreen. This is also the last time that Imaki is pure Japanese, as his backstory grows more developed after this continuity. Much like Gerosha Prime, however, Classic Imaki dies of a heart attack in front of Candi. This becomes established as true for all later versions.

Comprehensive Gerosha (2010)

Exploring other image formats

This version made significant changes to Candi, but most notably, it changed the size of her centilegs and the strength of her venom. Unique to this version is that a Sims 3 version existed at The Dozerfleet Forum, and was available via DzMD. More work was done with this version to find a template for what she would look like if played by someone real. In addition, this was the first version of Candi to be depicted in 2D using UGO's HeroMachine software.

Also of note, is that she is only portrayed by a Sim in this version for storyboarding, wiki portrayal, lot layout reference, and marketing of her for download. The book cover featured an as-of-yet-to-be-decided version of Candi in a format ''not'' drawn by a game engine. This marked the first time that Candi was primarily marketed outside of game downloads using anything other than Sims software.

Geography more realistic

This was also the first version where Evansville was explicitly called by its real-life name, rather than being dubbed "Dirbine." This change made at least the city where Ciem patroled into a real geographic location, cementing the mythos. Viron kept its name, but was based on Perry Township in Vanderburgh County. This was a departure from traditional Virons, which were entirely fictional towns.

Musaran

Musaran retains his name in this, but a lot of other things changed involving Candi's enemies. She no longer had to worry about Kelsea Linney, Bumphrob, or other villains of that sort. She did, however, have new enemies to replace some of them. Gunner fell on his own knife in this version of his epic showdown with Candi. In past versions, the Meethlite which Candi fights blows himself up. Musaran's slaughter of Viron University students is depicted a little differently here than in the 2007 comic, but that tradition carried over in general.

Allies

G6 also saw a return of Imaki to being more actively involved in Candi's life and in the decisions she made. He dies of a heart attack in her presence, same as in most earlier versions. However, he offers her more actual practical contributions that are more than just referred to. His presence was barely there in 2007's story.

G6 was the first to show much concern for Candi's in-laws: the Levenses. Eric and Patti were only alluded to before, as was Jessie. In G6, they almost got to be shown reacting to Candi and Denny's decision to elope.

In G7, the Levens family is replaced with the Loffins. While they find Candi and Danny's relationship cute, they are surprisingly apathetic about protecting and preserving that union. Roger at one point even gets Danny drunk at a party, then sends Jissika Sundue after him, to get him to forsake Candi, after essentially tricking an also-drunk Jissika into date-raping Danny. However, when the two of them awake and discuss what happened, the ruse is discovered. Neither Danny nor Jissika are amused by Roger getting them drunk and then tricking them into sleeping together, and they part ways after reprimanding Roger. Danny remains loyal to Candi from then on until his dying day.

Lesser enemies

Nolle Barret returned in G6, but her role was toned down significantly. A right-hand man of the church's district president turned out to be manipulating Nolle the whole time. Nobody was ever referred to by name as defaming Candi before G5. In the G6 timeline however, Luke Zahrn is identified as being behind Nolle. Luke is a pudgy, liberal-minded Arfaas sympathizer. He was a replacement for Pete the Shouter, whom Candi handled very differently in the G5 timeline. All of these lesser foes were written out entirely for G7.

In almost every other respect, Earth-G7 pushes Candi in directions that prior variants never explored - especially with regards to her tenuous relationship with the feds, and propensity toward being a political prisoner.

Uncovering Lost Wiki Treasures Pt. 11 - The Evolution of John Domeck

Somewhat unnecessary now, the following is an old list of versions of the John Domeck Gray Champion's various incarnations throughout the history of the Gerosha Multiverse, detailing how the character evolved as a concept over time, departing from who he was in Earth-G0.

Earth-G1

Unlike in Earth-G0, Earth-G1 John was made still-living, and bonded with the Marlquaan, instead of a spirit trapped in it. This came as the result of a need to:

1. Make the character more vulnerable and
2. Make the Marlquaan's nature more universal and applicable to other characters.

A lot of this change was necessitated by a decision to merge John's story into the greater budding Gerosha mythos, where it needed to share space with the Meshalutian Trilogy and and eventually with Ciem mythos. However, he would remain largely under-developed at the time, due to greater emphasis in the fall of 2002 on 90 Has No Secant, which was in-turn inspired by The Ring.

The decision to replace Verdabbin with Eqquibus came after the Dozerfleet founder watched 2002's Spider-Man in theaters. Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin became the inspiration for a newer, more fleshed-out and more personable villain. From there, pictures of horses and one of an incubus that featured on Google Images inspired the idea of a man who was merged with a horse and an incubus.

Earth-G2

John was to be a canon figure, along with other cast members of his continuity family, in Earth-G2. However, very little was changed apart from what were already included in Earth-G1's changes. Emphasis was placed in this version on the Rintels and the Flippos.

Earth-G3

Test Gerosha, had it taken off, would have eventually tried to merge the Gray Champion's continuity together with that of Stan and Shalia Flippo. Instead, all it accomplished was to define Marissa Hood better - as well as much-reduce the size of Shalia's original family. Her brothers were erased from the timeline this time, making Shalia an only child.

Earth-G3.1

Immediately following Test Gerosha, Gerosha "Prime" (first proper Gerosha universe) became the first-ever attempt at telling The Battle for Gerosha. This cemented both the continuity family's title and the Flippo family's central importance to greater mythos. However, emphasis on defining Ciem through an early Candi Levens meant that pursuit of a reconciliation of Gray Champion and Ciem continuity was delayed. Further delay came in the form of side projects in disconnected universes, such as When Bikes Argue.

However, Ciem's story being spread out over three webcomics provided some fixed timeline for Gray to connect with.

Earth-G4

One more time, Gray Champion continuity development was sidelined, this time to build a better Ciem continuity. This first attempt was doomed, partially by software and hardware issues. However, the problems with 2006's Ciem webcomic led to better things a year later. It was first in 2006, however, that sketches were attempted of Eqquibus, officially having him replace Verdabbin as Gray's initial adversary in Freedom's Apparition.

Earth-G5

In Classic Gerosha, there was an attempt to make the Gerosha universe even more inclusive, which resulted in Volkonir and Grillitan Diner Easter eggs in Ciem. There were even plans, ultimately rejected, to fuse the Bison and his mythology into Classic Gerosha. Instead, all that was done about that was a movie poster Easter egg near Miriam's bed featuring the Bison.

Since then, the events surrounding Volkonir and the Bison were moved into a universe of their own. The Grillitan Diner was moved to being canon to the same universe as The Trapezoid Kids and Camelorum Adventures.

John's battle with Eqquibus was moved in setting from Grand Rapids to Boston, but few other changes were made to his role.

Ciem was released to Mod the Sims, with chapters being published from 2008-2009. There were plans to immediately follow it up with Ciem 2, but this was canceled due to health and college activity reasons.

Blood Over Water was made instead, which would become a starting point for a complete revamp of continuity. Life in the dorms at Ferris inspired the Dozerfleet founder further to consider making Sorbet a story. The inability to get by on mere free webcomics alone came to the desire to pursue more commercial and profitable novels, which would require much more planning before being written. This would give way to the entire Classic Gerosha timeline being abandoned in favor of Comprehensive Gerosha.

Earth-G6

In Comprehensive Gerosha, John's mythology would be refined further. "Heeshwa Pwong" became Hea Pang, and her unnamed mother was named Dae Pang. Eqquibus would become slightly more clever, and use cheap lines less often. Gray's first superhero tale was going to simply be called Gray Champion, after the Hawthorne story. However, it soon became obvious that a more distinct title was needed.

That added distinction came on September 28th of 2011, when the Dozerfleet founder watched a YouTube video featuring footage from the trailer for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. It suddenly became obvious that a subtitle on that order was needed. Since the novel adaptation of Ciem became Ciem: Vigilante Centipede, Gray's first story in Dozerfleet was renamed The Gray Champion: Freedom's Apparition.

More work was done to expand his family background too, including to Orenda "Kicked Deer" Domeck being his wife, and Marge "Mapacha" Domeck-Ramirez being his daughter. Plans existed back in Earth-G1 for Mapacha, but were never pursued until G6.

Earth-G7

Comprehensive Gerosha plans for the Gray Champion trilogy were only slightly revised for Cataclysmic Gerosha. Gray's role in Abolition was rewritten slightly to make it conform to the season 4 plot for Sodality.

In late 2015, real-life news events inspired Shaken Dust. The desire to make John Domeck have his own Gerosha-continuity-building trilogy also arrived as a result of reimagining the character some more. Comments on DeviantArt that he was basically "Puritan Thor" have led to a desire to pursue playing up the similarities.

Shaken Dust was to be the final part of John's adventures in modern Boston, in much the way that Thor: Ragnarok was to be the final movie in the MCU's Thor saga (that is, until Love and Thunder was greenlit.)

From there, John would go on to play a role in Augmentation, Vindication, Battle for Metheel, and even have some significance to Centipede + 49. After meeting Roy Bernald, he quickly concluded that the latter would one day be a worthy replacement for himself. He would continue to play roles in the background during Swappernetters, though Tabitha Pang would take center stage by that time as the new main character.

The Society of the Icy Finger became much more significant this time around, quickly gaining power after Eqquibus' stunts to rise up as a formidable global threat on par with and even exceeding that of the Hebbleskin Gang. Their brief alliance meant that John would have to cross paths with characters from Ciem mythos even before the two factions were joined in the Sodality of Gerosha years later.

Events in Chillingworth's Revenge would inspire the Hebbleskins and Icy Finger to recruit Drop-In and Eric Korsicht as liaison mercenaries, as well as competing with the Kerpher Gang's leader Victor Nanale by taking on Clyde Spendelworth of Gleeful-N'-Young, at one point the regional manager of Sleet Mountain Lower Northern. However, that also meant that the Purge-Flare would leap from the pages of Blood Over Water and join in with the not-yet-officially-formed proto-Sodality to take on these common threats, inspired in costume by Extirpon.

More so, Eqquibus' experiment that brought John into the year 2012 is also credited with creating Extirpon, Slip-Sadie, Cocklebur, Extirwraith, Nematode, Spoliat, and more. Events in Ciem: Inferno would therefore inspire events in Shaken Dust to happen, which would in turn inspire events in Ciem: Ash Cloud and Ciem: Caldera. And those events would in turn lead to a young Tabitha's hero-worship of Ciem.

Not only did the Ciem and Gray Champion myth arcs get to finally connect, they actually indirectly affected each other's immediate successive progressions.

Earth-G7.2

In Sodality: Battle for Metheel, John Domeck returns. He, Hea Pang, Tabitha Pang, and a few others are captured by King Morzhuk's invading forces on Earth. However, the ship transporting him is intercepted by Phaelite warriors.

John is rescued amidst the ordeal, but is stranded on Phaeleel. He and his friends defend a scientist named Desulon, while Hea travels back in time to destroy the Grand Ultimate's Ruby with the help of Kicked Deer and Hester Prynne. John gets to battle a new villain named Bosom-Serpent, named after a different short story by Hawthorne. He later joins Extirpon and other Sodalists on Metheel to bring about the overthrow of Morzhuk and establishment of restored freedom to Metheel.

The only major difference between this version and his Cataclysmic Gerosha counterpart in the same exact story, is the exact choices of actions taken during the fight to bring about the outcome. What specifically he does would depend on the player's decisions, as opposed to their minutiae being author-dictated. More or less, however, G7.2.0 continuity attempts to adhere as strictly as possible to G7.0 continuity.

Earth-G7.2.1

Percolation

Percolation marks the first explicit appearance of the John Domeck version of the Gray Champion in a form of media not canon to any prior Gerosha continuity.

This fanfic for Marvel: Avengers Alliance explains how it would be possible for Extirpon to be temporarily exported to that game's version of the Marvel universe, where he'd partially lose his powers and be forced to become a SHIELD agent operating under the moniker of "Agent Opendi."

Jubilee and the Danny Ketch version of Ghost Rider find themselves switching universes with Extirpon and Anarteq temporarily. SHIELD and SCALLOP would eventually find a way to establish contact with each other, and negotiate how to get Extirpon and Anarteq home.

However, the two displaced Marvel heroes initially arrive in Boston. They are attacked by Janet Phillips, the Icy Finger, the Crooked Rainbow, and Boston police. Hea Pang and the Gray Champion intervene to save them. Hea contacts Darius, and has the displaced heroes sent to SCALLOP headquarters until something can be done about their predicament. From there, she and Gray further monitor activity related to their new friends, as SCALLOP agents request them to. This story takes place a short time after the events in Extirpon and Freedom's Apparition, happening roughly in early 2013 right as Hea first discovers she is pregnant with Tabitha. This was also, according to some players, the moment when Avengers Alliance reached its peak of popularity on Facebook. However, Percolation as a story wasn't a significant deal in Dozerfleet continuity until late 2013, when the founder of Dozerfleet started playing Avengers Alliance and needed to name his in-game agent.

John's clone in the MAA fanfic universe was elaborately described and laid out in the hopes that Marvel would take interest and want to integrate him as an actual character for Avengers Alliance on Facebook, along with many other heroes. However, the Dozerfleet-to-Marvel project was abandoned in 2016 when it was announced that Playdom was going to take Avengers Alliance offline. In addition to John, Candi got an entry. Several members of the Camelry were also given entries, including Lemon Witch and Maddening Rod. There were even plans to include the Knights of Cortascius and the 20s Altered Judo Iguanas.

Percolation: Legends

This story documents how John and others became cloned into being long-term parts of Earth-12131-F. It was essentially a tie-in for ''Avengers Alliance Tactics''. However, its further pursuit was dropped when that game and the original Avengers Alliance were taken down by Playdom. The short-lived mobile app of Avengers Alliance 2 also failed to justify a return of the Gray Champion to pursuit within Marvel.

Camelorum Adventures

John is recruited to the Percolation Warriors by a joint effort with Lex Philippine, Fred Hanom, and Stan Woudean to save the entire multiverse from the Triumvirate. He finds himself initially working with Emeraldon, Pablo, Anna, Ion Boy, Lightning Hobo, the Judo Iguanas, most of the Knights of Cortascius, and Extirpon to deal with certain pocket dimensions that are endangered by Triumvirate activity. Also joining him are Roy, Tobias, and Sarah. Hea and Tabitha are sent to the other unit: Team "F-Pod." They work with Ciem, Sniperbadger, Maddening Rod, Semaphore, Lemon Witch, and Kayla Tarington to resolve the other issues.

Defining the "Web of Destiny"

The "Web of Destiny," or "Web of Fate" is a metaphysical concept of great importance to characters in the Dozerfleet Megaverse. It is said to be the field at which the Volition Dilemma Paradox (the necessity of temporal allowance of freedom to choose or reject God, in a state of flux,) and Vocational Destiny (your specific intended purpose for existing since before you were born) are reconciled.

The Volition Dilemma Paradox is central to the concept of free will, defining what it is, what it isn't, what it's limits are, and why it must be in the first place. Jewish texts expand on it into the concept of "Tzimtzum," the "contraction of God," to allow for others to have their own agenda. Yet, there is still Volition Dilemma, which relates to the Hebrew concept of "Yiuudh" (יִעוּד).

As such, "fate" is merely the causal relation of differing wills intersecting. To suggest to someone that something is "fate," therefore, is to assert that there is another will working against their own that will always be stronger. There will still be a collision point, but the point of negotiation will result in that stronger will clearly being the overwhelmingly primary beneficiary of the outcome. From there, the proclamation is prone to trial, to determine how much truth there is to its assertion. To be valid for debate, likewise, the assertion must be falsifiable, so that its validation has actual merit.

The general premise of how it works is this:

1. God has sovereign will. (The Rod of Destiny, ultimate Path of History.)
2. Volition Dilemma requires lesser beings to have free will, to love and accept or hate and reject, for a time.
3. Lesser beings asserting this will interact with one another, whether consciously or unconsciously, altering the subdetails of fate around the Rod, yet unable to change the Rod's ultimate destiny for human history.
4. "Fate" is what happens when wills intersect. Higher fates are defined by superior wills vs. inferior ones.
5. The intricate interaction of wills intersecting forms a web-like structure of connected intersections.

Hence, fate is a web of free wills, all either attempting to complement one another, or cancel each other out. Yet, Higher History cannot be ruined or destroyed. Only little details of destiny can be changed. The Rod determines the extent to which any of these small changes matter.

The geometry of this relation is often likened to a series of roads that intersect, and to showing cars that crash at intersections versus cars that avoid collision - and the myriad ways they manage to avoid collision. The greater framework of this simulation can thus be compared in structure to a web, hence "Web" of Destiny. This isn't the only causal theory on this concept to exist. Boethius made a similar postulation once, with his "Wheel of Fortune" concept.

Examples

• In Cherinob, still-living humanity is still in the state of flux on will, yet a clear path of history demonstrates itself, regardless the choices that the majority of individuals make in how they conduct their everyday lives. Apthalans and Biroots, however, cannot have an agenda contrary to their alignment. Cherinob cannot act toward humans with anything malicious, unless ordained by God. Hence why she would rather throw herself into the sun than blow up Bucharest when supercharged. Kritchobol, likewise, can only pretend to be nice to further an evil agenda. He cannot lead anyone to God, unless peppered with mischaracterization of God somehow. He cannot tell any truth, unless he wishes to imply a greater lie through twisting of the truth. This is because both Cherinob and Kritchobol are mode-locked.
• Xylien Society in Stationery Voyagers had a flag which featured a depiction of the Web of Destiny.
• The Divergency creates divergent timelines to reconcile significant tampering with history by those who exploit the Percolation Wave with dubious intent. Doing so almost always has seriously adverse consequences for the tampering individual. This is similar to the Butterly Effect.
• The above is demonstrated in one fanfic, where Feathertop invades the world of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst to get Kruger to join the Triumvirate. As a token of goodwill, Feathertop kills Faith Connors. Then, Tabitha Pang reverts to an earlier point in time, and prevents Faith's assassination. As the Divergency seeks to reconcile this, it leads to the droid and camera setup responsible for killing Faith last time suddenly having an exact replica of itself, causing signal interference as central command tries to reconcile how two of the same robot now exist in its framework. This results in Kruger betraying Feathertop, stealing his powers, and killing him, thus becoming the new Feathertop, and going completely insane. The new Kruger-Feathertop hybrid then confronts the Twirlflame Trio, and calls Tabitha Pang out for the dangerous slippery slope of using time travel to perform resurrections. It is considered a great moral evil, even by the Icy Finger's low standards for morality. Tabitha is even accused of being worse than her mother Hea, whose greatest crime against space-time was using time travel to exploit Schrodinger's Cat to deprive King Morzhuk of increasing his power via the Grand Ultimates' Ruby.
• In Stationery Voyagers, the driver that hit Arnold Rubblindo made choices. Arnold himself made choices to go to town at that exact moment, and that lead to the Xyliens turning him into Pextel. However, God was also involved, ensuring that the influences affecting all the other parties would result in them making the choices they were going to make within the timeframe most needed for God to make Pextel happen when Pextel needed to happen.
• Even some episode titles in Stationery Voyagers reflect this. "What Must Happen" shows the necessity of Rhodney Antilles joining the Voyager program, even though he was intent on making a similar choice regardless. Meanwhile, "Choice After All" shows that Oceanoe chooses to reject the influence of the reverse-Eros gas that gives him an OCD episode under its toxicity, and he doesn't turn gay. Meanwhile, his abductors made a choice to kidnap him to spread their perversion, and are confronted violently for it, after trying to gaslight the public into believing they "had no choice."

Uncovering Lost Wiki Treasures Pt 3 - Candi vs Candi

In the late 2000s, there was some confusion by webcomic afficionados about the Candi Flippo-Levens featuring in Ciem. Namely, suspicion that she was somehow based on the titular Candi from Starline Hodge's work. However, in spite superficial similarities, the two Candis were not at all the same, nor inspired by one another. A whole wiki article was created specifically to outline this issue.

Creator comparisons and contrasts

• Both creators were born in Florida in 1983, and came up with their respective protagonists around 2004-2005. While neither inspired the other, the two did discover one another's work in 2007.
• However, one was born in Miami in January, while the other was born in Ft. Myers in March.
• Both have lived in Florida. However, Starline has been Floridian her entire life. The Dozerfleet founder also lived in Wisconsin for a few years, and in Michigan for about 30 years.
• Starline is right-handed, the other left-handed.
• While both Candis are college-age protagonists, Starline kept her work's scope to (mostly) probable situations, with a few exceptions involving squirrels. The scenarios in Ciem are more frequently fantastical than most of Starline's work would allow for, since that work was specifically intended to showcase that The Sims 2 could be used to make superhero productions with quasi-original characters, and do a modest job.

Levens vs. Jane

• Ciem opens with Candi Flippo at age 19, preparing to turn 20. Starline's Candi strip opened with an 18-year-old protagonist.
• Candi Flippo's two love interests were Denny Levens and Donte McArthur. Candi Jane's were Alex and Jon. But while Candi Flippo marries Denny, and later marries Donte after Denny is murdered by Musaran, Starline at the time stated she had no interest in Candi and Jon ever officially hooking up.
• Both Denny and Alex were brown-haired men who either had medical degrees or were in pursuit of one. Denny was also selfless, while Alex was selfish to extremes.
• Denny Levens also took seriously his "till death do you part" vow with Candi, and Musaran unfortunately made sure it played out that way. Alex never made his Candi any such promise, and then was quick to betray her.
• Candi Flippo grew to be between 5'5" and 5'7" in Classic Gerosha, while her Cataclysmic Gerosha version maxes out in height at 5'4". Starline's Candi is stated to be 5'6".
• Candi Flippo acquires a friend named Laurie Pegol, based on a real woman named Liz. The other Candi has a friend name Laura, at one point.
• Candi Flippo dyes her hair firetruck red, while the other Candi allegedly has "natural" pink hair.
• Candi Flippo battles pyromaniacs, including Don the Psycho. The other one was threatened with fire by a random psycho.
• When initially given a pregnancy scare, Candi Flippo quickly grows to want a child. Unfortunately, she miscarries. The other Candi is relieved to not be pregnant, due to having no interest in children. But while Candi Flippo-Levens half expected to get pregnant due to unprotected sex with her husband, the other Candi turned out to just be lactose-intolerant.
• The time periods were different. Classic Gerosha sets the events for Candi's life in 2019 in the opening, and then progresses to her life in 2025. The first season of Candi takes place in 2006, when Candi Flippo would've been about 7 years old! Candi Flippo being born in 1999, coincidentally, is one thing that didn't change when the Earth-G5 and Earth-G6 timelines gave way to the Earth-G7 timeline. Therefore, Candi is between 9 and 10 years of age during the events in Blood Over Water, even if the original miniseries doesn't feature her on screen in any form.
• Candi Flippo-Levens in Classic Gerosha is shown attending Viron University, which is supposed to be the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, though its geography and architecture are merged with Ferris State. Starline's Candi unabashedly attends the University of Florida.
• Candi Flippo inherits a lot of money from her parents, but tries to hide how rich she is. The other Candi is portrayed as perpetually broke.
• Candi Flippo-Levens needs money and a job only to pretend to be normal, and hide the fact that she's Ciem. The other Candi is portrayed as simply a jobless loser.
• Candi Flippo-Levens is portrayed as a non-denominational Christian with liturgical leanings, while Starline's character is described as non-practicing Jewish.
• Candi Levens has an entire gallery of rogues, plus a race of evil aliens that believe she's some prophecied destroyer that they must kill before she kills them. Starline's Candi...just has bad friends.
• The two Candis even differ in their attitudes on alcohol. The one at Dozerfleet averts bars and rarely enjoys alcohol. Ironically, beer is served at the bowling alley where she does find work. She also later becomes a server at an upscale bar temporarily, and avoids college dive bars. The Starline version has been drunk before, by admission.
• Erin Flippo ingrains her Candi with an overwhelming sense of responsibility in life, as Ciem and as Candi, and even suggests that having no powers and not being Ciem would make no difference. Candi agonizes over this. By contrast, the only responsibility that Starline's Candi took seriously in early issues was her class homework.
• Both experience the loss of a lover. In Dozerfleet, Candi's loss is due to a homicidal maniac in a shrew costume, with her home then being destroyed by a suicide bomber. Starline's Candi merely loses her man to ego conflicts and treacherous friends.
• Starline's Candi has a notorious sweet tooth. By contrast, Candi Flippo appears to be indifferent towards candy.
• Candi Flippo wants to go into forensic investigation and criminal profiling, while Starline's Candi is a digital artist - like Starline herself.
• Neither Candi is particularly good at other languages besides English, though Starline's Candi having no ability to speak Spanish at all leads to her being taunted over it. Candi Levens learns just enough Spanish to get Latin Town to cooperate with her.
• Starline's Candi has done many things; but never worn an orange centipede costume to battle an alien invasion, fight crime, nor stop monsters. She does have a flying pet ferret named Menjou. The nearest equivalent to that in Dozerfleet would be Ferreto, the Everywhere Ferret Cop of Ferretsville, in the Dromedeverse. Earth-G5 Candi and Dromedeverse Ferreto, suffice to say, have never met. Menjou and Ferreto would probably not get along.
• When it comes to men, Candi Levens looks for character attributes and beliefs compatible with her own. Starline's Candi seems to be more shallow, concerned with genital sizes. The Dozerfleet Candi wants a man who shares her life mission, and can help her maintain her masquerade. Starline's Candi is more prone to exploitation by men that just want her for the bedroom benefits.
• Both Candis have a tan, but that tan implies different things. Candi Flippo-Levens is Indo-Persian Mulatto in Earth-G5, and this description has carried over into latter incarnations. Starline's Candi, by contrast, is "Jewish-Dutch-Caribbean."
• Differing art styles also convey a difference in artist agenda. Earth-G5 Candi was initially created in The Sims 2. This was to showcase to the Sims community that Sims storytelling can tell more complex stories and mythologies, and shouldn't be used merely to make knockoffs of Teen Mom. The other Candi was hand-drawn, by an artist wishing to showcase how "American-Japanese fusion" can be a good art style.
• The two Candis have very different family dynamics too. Candi Levens has a large family with its own complex mythology. Starline's Candi rarely has anything to do with her parents whatsoever.
• Candi Flippo-Levens has higher sexual mores than Candi Jane. While the former does have a very voracious sexual appetite, she's willing to keep herself chaste until in an at least somewhat-monogamous relationship, if not outright married. She doesn't aspire to one night stands. Even with Donte, Candi waits until they're practically engaged before finally succumbing to temptation. With Denny, she was able to save herself for marriage. By contrast, Candi Jane borders on being a "femcel," frustrated that no one will have sex with her, and not particularly bothered by what relationship she has with said man before said encounter. While Earth-G7 Candi isn't quite as morally upright as Earth-G5 Candi, she retains her emphasis on serial monogamy; turning down offers from Warren Bozil and Jack Mercreek in spite having lust for them. She is adamant about keeping herself only to the man she's dating / married to at that moment, whether it be Danny Loffin, Tyrone Menster, or Donte McArthur. She entertains a crush on Paul Driveway, but it never leads to them doing anything inappropriate. Candi Jane...cannot be guaranteed to have such modesty.
• In Earth-G5, contraceptives actually interfere with Candi's centipede powers, as they use hormones to trick the body into thinking it's already pregnant. Later incarnations do away with pregnancy completely stealing powers away; but Candi Flippo generally doesn't believe in them, in any incarnation of the character. Candi Jane claims to have "always been safe," implying she uses them almost religiously.
• Candi was touched by Denny putting her before himself, but only bonded with him the way she did based on having been previously misled into believing that Donte was dead. The shock at learning he was live, stripped of his powers, given cancer, and being held prisoner by the enemy after they faked his death to fool the world, and being saved for some epic public execution reveal later, shakes Candi almost to her core. By contrast, Candi Jane's more shallow criteria for men ensures that even if Alex were an ax murderer, she would have fallen for him.

Uncovering lost wiki treasures Pt 1 - Pencil Town

It's debatable if the Dozerfleet Databse can justify returning some of the content on Miraheze that it used to host on Fandom. However, some items deserve an honorable mention somewhere; and today's example here is just one of possibly more to come.

Before its cancellation, Stationery Voyagers was trying to be many things, and look for comparisons. A snooty professor in 2002 once claimed it wouldn't work, because no one would back a show where the main characters were living pens and pencils. That no TV show or movie could ever exist around such a premise.

However, that didn't stop other shows from existing around anthropomorphic inanimate objects. While Stationery Voyagers was a lot more like Heroes in space with gel pens and markers than it was like VeggieTales, it still begged comparison to one little short film that was produced around 2008, that made its way to the 2009 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.

A brainchild of the Walsh family, that film was dubbed Pencil Town.

Directed by Josh Walsh, this 14-minute short film was released by what at the time was known as Last Act Studios, not to be confused with the current Last Act Studio entity of today. While the fate of the Walsh family's Last Act Studios remains unknown, it was a thing in 2008 when their short was first released. Copies of Pencil Town may now be hard to come by. That being said, Josh himself appears to be faring quite well. He partnered in 2011 with the Erwin Brothers, and went on to produce works such as October Baby and Jesus Revolution.

It was produced by Josh's relatives Patrick and Cathy Walsh, with the most credited voice actor being Caleb Walsh. At the festival, the family claimed an estimated budget of $5,000 went into the short's prdocution. It was released direct-to-DVD in 2008, and became a semi-finalist feature at the 2009 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.

The plot was fairly simple and straightforward, and the animation style was very much like that of classic VeggieTales episodes of the late 1990s:

A town that is run and operated by various stationery beings and classroom objects finds itself at the mercy of a gang of chalk sticks. An overconfident pencil named Plus is the favorite officer of the Pencil Police Department, which seeks to put an end to the Chalky Chan Gang. Plus arrogantly sends himself alone into combat to confront the town's adversaries, and is quickly captured. His unassuming partner Minus must set things right before Plus meets his demise.

While it was clear that Stationery Voyagers was stylistically and genre-wise a very different animal from Pencil Town, there was some confusion of the two. On Monday, November 16th of 2009, around 7:25 PM EST, Roguewarrior1978 on the Dozerfleet Forum on Proboards asked if the two works were directly related or not. Of course, they weren't, and weren't even inspired by each other. However, Pencil Town was given mention on the wiki back then, as a proof of concept that the old professor at Lansing Community College was wrong.

Stationery Voyagers was intended to be a very melancholy serial drama riddled with real world social commentary, about space diplomats whose mission went horribly awry after they get hijacked by Earth politicians, and later have to deal with a satanic death cult whose members were humanoid bobcats, and who were gathering weaponry to destroy all of existence. This was after also trying to deal with the complexities of two other planets at war with each other, with the fate of their own in the balance, and the fate of Mantith (Earth) soon to be also in the balance. Where a band of devil-worshiping pirates had conquered one world, and another was an empire nearly at war with itself.

The mood, size, scope, and everything of Stationery Voyagers was leaps and bounds above and beyond anything Pencil Town was, or had ever set out to accomplish. After its cancellation, the creative energy that went into it began to be funneled instead into making The Gerosha Chronicles a worthy spiritual successor - with the angelogy of the fomer even being 90% directly imported into the latter!

Of note: the angels Levío and Cherinob were first introduced in Stationery Voyagers, before being imported into Gerosha canon. This went for the SV world interpretations of Michael, Gabriel, Maurice, Filforth, Cavalore, and Dolondri as well. Rickrod, sidekick to the Devil himself, was also originally given that name in SV canon. While Belay, Astrinah, Kritchobol, Riptchokal, and most of the other Biroots mentioned by name are Gerosha original names, the majority of prominent members of the Angelic Army were SV-envisioned first, with the notable exception of Soetera.

Stationery Voyagers also holds distinction for featuring mosquatlons as a creature in some of its season 3 subplots. This type of vampire is notable for being based more on mosquitoes than bats, even if the mosquatlons that featured in season 3 would have been brazen parodies / knockoffs of the vampires in the Underworld and Twilight films. (Though, Fredreick Powderkov was intended to be a parody of Napoleon Dynamite.)

In its heyday, the series even went so far as to predict 2020s woke insanity, nearly 20 years ahead of schedule! When the Voyagers arrive on Mantith with stories to tell, they are immediately surrounded by atheist activists, desperate to hear a narrative that will put an end to faith in God. Instead, the Voyagers speak of a creator, and of said creator assuming the form of a man named Minshus, who sacrificed himself for all the worlds. The atheists panic, and go ballistic.

But even when the Voyagers get a reprieve from most of the world after the Drismabons begin causing chaos across the six worlds, one particular group simply cannot stop obsessing over harassing them: the Crooked Rainbow. Woke activists obsessed with LGBTQPIZON politics, the Crooked Rainbow goes out of its way to find where the Voyagers were relocated to, and vandalizes their apartment just to send a message: "Promote our sexuality, or we will destroy you!" They even kidnap Oceanoe in "Choice After All," and poison him in an effort to turn him gay (it doesn't work.) Coincidentally, the most vandalized article on the wiki was the one about that very episode.

Pencil Town was nowhere near that level of ambitious. While complex moral debates, black vs. white vs. gray, etc. were moral themes in SV, Josh's film had a very basic pride-befor-a-fall narrative structure and moral framework.

The two works also took radically different approaches toward anthropomorphism. Pencil Town gave its characters large cartoon eyes, and arms. Stationery Voyagers developed an entire mythology around "phantomars," and periscope-like vision in the visor-caps characters wore, which essentially made them faceless, yet still able to bend their bodies to a limited degree, as well as tilt and lean at different camera angels to react to stimuli in the environment. Voice work would have further filled in the gaps, providing emotional conveyance by exploiting excitation transfer theory.

Neither Stationery Voyagers nor Pencil Town first pioneered stationery beings and the use of stationery anthropomorphism. The "Theater of Things" sketch on the Muppet Show episode "Sex and Violence" from March 19th of 1975 is arguably the world's first true example, pre-dating the earliest sketches for Stationery Voyagers by a full 25 years, and pre-dating Pencil Town by 33 years. Clearly, that old LCC professor was not a fan of Jim Henson.