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Seraphic Chronicles – Rahsaan Django: The Son Who Chose His Own Orbit Rahsaan Django grows up in a household defined by strength. The half-human grandson of Lord Korath, the powerful Great Lord of the House of Isem, his father, Raphan, is disciplined, exacting, and unwavering. His mother, Shiola, is just as formidable—intelligent, compassionate, and politically astute. There is no weakness in the Django home. No softness without purpose. From the outside, Rahsaan appears to be the model son: Star Command Academy cadet, sharp, capable, following a path that reflects both ambition and legacy. But what looks like inheritance is, in truth, distance.

Seraphic Chronicles – Rahsaan Django: The Son Who Chose His Own Orbit

Rahsaan Django grows up in a household defined by strength. The half-human grandson of Lord Korath, the powerful Great Lord of the House of Isem, his father, Raphan, is disciplined, exacting, and unwavering. His mother, Shiola,…

15.02.2026 11:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – The Django Family: Secrets, Rebellion, and Love on the Edge In the sprawling, politically charged world of the Seraphic Chronicles, few families are as complicated—or as combustible—as the Djangos. From the rigid, overbearing father to the impulsive, love-struck children, their internal dynamics are a masterclass in tension, secrecy, and emotional stakes. At first glance, Raphan Django is the picture of discipline. Star Command Security Consultant at the Alliance embassy on D’Ulib, father, and husband. But beneath the surface lies a man living multiple lives. He is secretly a NightShade agent, a black ops operative working in the shadows to protect the Alliance.

Seraphic Chronicles – The Django Family: Secrets, Rebellion, and Love on the Edge

In the sprawling, politically charged world of the Seraphic Chronicles, few families are as complicated—or as combustible—as the Djangos. From the rigid, overbearing father to the impulsive, love-struck children,…

14.02.2026 12:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

shiola and Raphan have been married over 20 years. she still doesn't know he's a spy.

#character #tvshow #scifi #spaceopera #writing

14.02.2026 11:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lushara is half Oferan, half human, eternally struggling to define her identity.

#scifi #spaceopera #writing #spacefantasy #character

13.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – The Blue Dread of the Bregenna Expanse There are crime lords, there are warlords, and then there is Sayana Dru'Ilik'Cho — the woman Old Spacers whisper about before they check their airlocks twice. In the barely mapped spaceways of the Bregenna Expanse she is known as “the Blue Dread.” On Isma II she earned a bloodier title: “Butcher of Isma II.” And if you ask her, she would tell you those names are merely stepping stones. Sayana is Cameron Syndicate royalty, daughter of a drug baron who carved his empire out of addiction and fear. She inherited wealth, infrastructure, and a surname that opens doors in criminal courts across half the quadrant.

Seraphic Chronicles – The Blue Dread of the Bregenna Expanse

There are crime lords, there are warlords, and then there is Sayana Dru'Ilik'Cho — the woman Old Spacers whisper about before they check their airlocks twice. In the barely mapped spaceways of the Bregenna Expanse she is known as “the…

13.02.2026 10:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

shiola, daughter of korath, wife of Raphan, mother of two children, is born noble, into the ruling dynasty of the Great House of Isem. she has no idea her husband is a spy.

#writing #spaceopera #scifi #tvshow #character

12.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – Lady Shiola Django: The Quiet Power of the Great House of Isem Lady Shiola Django, Daughter of Korath of the Great House of Isem, stands as one of the most compelling figures in the Seraphic Chronicles—not because she commands fleets or wields weapons, but because she embodies something rarer: enduring, principled strength in the face of cultural and personal upheaval. Born into the apex of Oferan nobility, Shiola was raised in a world defined by power, wealth, and rigid expectation. As the daughter of a Great Lord, her path appeared predetermined. A strategic marriage to another noble house would have reinforced alliances and preserved tradition.

Seraphic Chronicles – Lady Shiola Django: The Quiet Power of the Great House of Isem

Lady Shiola Django, Daughter of Korath of the Great House of Isem, stands as one of the most compelling figures in the Seraphic Chronicles—not because she commands fleets or wields weapons, but because she…

12.02.2026 11:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Chu does anything required to keep his cover, including starting a homosexual relationship, but he is always playing a role. Nightshade agents will cross any line, but never lose sight of the mission. You (hopefully) think he's fallen into the role but Chu is amongst the most dangerous people we see

11.02.2026 13:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

most NightShade agents are undercover in distant and dangerous places, Chu is in a far more visible location. taking on a flamboyant persona he becomes Admiral Yu's attaché. standing behind him & feeding Raphan information from operation open water.
#character #tvshow #scifi #spaceopera #writing

11.02.2026 13:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – The Loudest Shadow in the Room If you were to ask anyone in Admiral Li Po Yu’s office about Woodrow Chu during Operation Open Water, they would roll their eyes first. “Oh, Chu?” they’d say. “Harmless. Dramatic. Exhausting.” He is always there. In every briefing. Every diplomatic reception. Every strategy session that matters. Hovering just over Yu’s shoulder with a PCS, a comment, a theatrical gasp. He dresses impeccably. He speaks too brightly. He laughs too loudly. He remembers everyone’s birthday and absolutely no one’s security clearance. He is the Admiral’s attaché. He is also NightShade’s most dangerous asset inside Star Command.

Seraphic Chronicles – The Loudest Shadow in the Room

If you were to ask anyone in Admiral Li Po Yu’s office about Woodrow Chu during Operation Open Water, they would roll their eyes first. “Oh, Chu?” they’d say. “Harmless. Dramatic. Exhausting.” He is always there. In every briefing. Every…

11.02.2026 13:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – President Montcalm Smallsmith: The Architect of Peace, and Its Greatest Risk President Montcalm Smallsmith is a career politician in the truest sense of the word. He did not stumble into power, nor was he shaped by it. He built his entire life toward the presidency long before he ever held the office. Even as a senator, Smallsmith understood something many soldiers and idealists never do: appearances matter as much as truth, and often more. He looks presidential because he always has. Bald-headed, warm-faced, measured in tone and gesture, he projects calm competence and approachability. He makes allies easily. People like him. They trust him.

Seraphic Chronicles – President Montcalm Smallsmith: The Architect of Peace, and Its Greatest Risk

President Montcalm Smallsmith is a career politician in the truest sense of the word. He did not stumble into power, nor was he shaped by it. He built his entire life toward the presidency long…

10.02.2026 14:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – Commodore Sukhmani Kaur: The Most Dangerous Kind of Opponent In The Seraphic Chronicles, Commodore Sukhmani Kaur is not a villain. She is something far more unsettling. Kaur is Ejjina Mexonber-Quad’s immediate superior officer during Operation Open Water, and from the moment they are forced into proximity, conflict is inevitable. But this is not a clash of egos, ideologies, or ambitions. It is a collision between two fundamentally incompatible ways of understanding command — and Kaur is absolutely convinced she is right. Like many officers assigned to Operation Open Water, Kaur is not here because she is admired or respected.

Seraphic Chronicles – Commodore Sukhmani Kaur: The Most Dangerous Kind of Opponent

In The Seraphic Chronicles, Commodore Sukhmani Kaur is not a villain. She is something far more unsettling. Kaur is Ejjina Mexonber-Quad’s immediate superior officer during Operation Open Water, and from the moment…

10.02.2026 11:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seraphic chronicles – What Is Operation Open Water? Operation Open Water is the beginning of The Seraphic Chronicles. It is President Montcalm Smallsmith’s magnum opus — a vision he has worked toward for years. Star Command and the Imperial Oferan Empire have cooperated before, but only in war: during the Gryar War, and later against the Ra’Shain Federation. Never in peace. Never in exploration. After years of negotiation, pressure, and compromise, Smallsmith finally secures the unthinkable: a joint exploration mission. A three-year expedition into the Bregenna Expanse, the last great wilderness of known space — a region wrapped in legend, riddled with criminal syndicates and pirates, and rumored to contain untapped resources, unknown civilizations and dangers best left undisturbed.

Seraphic chronicles – What Is Operation Open Water?

Operation Open Water is the beginning of The Seraphic Chronicles. It is President Montcalm Smallsmith’s magnum opus — a vision he has worked toward for years. Star Command and the Imperial Oferan Empire have cooperated before, but only in war:…

09.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – The Quiet Leader Admiral Li Po Yu has always been spoken about in the past tense, even while still alive. For thirty years he has been one of the defining figures of Star Command: the hero of the Second Nyso Incident, an opponent of the strategies used in the Gryar War, an early and controversial supporter of the BuTani Overview when others lacked the courage to think beyond tradition. His decisions shaped fleets, doctrines, and careers. His name alone carried weight. And yet, until recently, he had never expected to become a symbol of something else entirely: survival.

Seraphic Chronicles – The Quiet Leader

Admiral Li Po Yu has always been spoken about in the past tense, even while still alive. For thirty years he has been one of the defining figures of Star Command: the hero of the Second Nyso Incident, an opponent of the strategies used in the Gryar War, an…

09.02.2026 10:27 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

the Seraphic is not a safe place for a third officer. Commander Mballa, Chief Volosovich and then Commander Li Juan all fail in the position through season one.

#character #tvshow #scifi #spaceopera #writing

08.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Duquam is a former Gryar general wanted for war crimes. he disappeared after the deaths of his family a decade ago. now he is out for revenge... which leads him to the Seraphic.

#writing #spaceopera #scifi #tvshow #character

07.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – What Happened Before The Show? The Podrink 452 Incident occurred during the ceremonial retirement of a former Admiral turned Senator. As part of his hero’s sendoff, his original Star Command ship was recommissioned to retrace his first posting, a patrol route along the Nostluhk Dominion border. The event drew VIPs from across the galaxy, including politicians, ambassadors, business leaders, celebrities, and senior officials, all gathered to honour his service and witness his final voyage into retirement. The Nostluhk Dominion has never recognised modern borders. Once rulers of much of the galaxy, including the Oferan homeworld of D’Ulib, they consider themselves superior to all other species and refuse diplomatic engagement with what they regard as inferior races.

Seraphic Chronicles – What Happened Before The Show?

The Podrink 452 Incident occurred during the ceremonial retirement of a former Admiral turned Senator. As part of his hero’s sendoff, his original Star Command ship was recommissioned to retrace his first posting, a patrol route along the…

06.02.2026 11:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The podrink 452 incident saw Ejjina gain infamy throughout the galaxy, save 350 lives, but lose a third of her crew, including her fiance. #scifi #spaceopera #writing

06.02.2026 10:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – Growing Up in the Gaps In season one, Dagmara Shevchenko and Sophina Ejogo come into each other’s lives simply because of timing. As the Seraphic launches, they are the only two teenagers aboard. Everyone else around them already has a defined role, a rank, or a responsibility. Dagmara and Sophina do not, and that shared position places them together. Sophina Ejogo was raised on a quiet colony and has lived a sheltered life. She is shy, bookish, and accustomed to routine. She is a lax Muslim, wearing her hijab and praying more out of habit than belief.

Seraphic Chronicles – Growing Up in the Gaps

In season one, Dagmara Shevchenko and Sophina Ejogo come into each other’s lives simply because of timing. As the Seraphic launches, they are the only two teenagers aboard. Everyone else around them already has a defined role, a rank, or a…

05.02.2026 12:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sophia and Dagmara are the only two teenage girls on board the Seraphic. they become close but fierce friends and when one gets in trouble, the other is the first in her corner.
#scifi #friendship #spaceopera #writer #tvshow #goth

05.02.2026 11:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – Jasmine Birith: The Icon Who Never Meant to Be One There is a particular kind of fame that announces itself loudly—engineered, marketed, rehearsed. And then there is the kind that simply happens, slowly at first and then all at once. Jasmine Birith belongs firmly to the second category. Long before her marriage to Kegeen Birith, Tezch of Baraben Prime, Jasmine was already being watched. Not because she sought attention, and certainly not because she cultivated it. She was a Star Command lieutenant, a working scientist, and someone who designed and made her own clothes because she enjoyed it and had the skill to do so.

Seraphic Chronicles – Jasmine Birith: The Icon Who Never Meant to Be One

There is a particular kind of fame that announces itself loudly—engineered, marketed, rehearsed. And then there is the kind that simply happens, slowly at first and then all at once. Jasmine Birith belongs firmly to the…

04.02.2026 11:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jasmine is seem in almost every episode of season 1, but is social media posts and news reports, can you spot her?
Famous for her fashion, which she designs and makes herself, but she is also a star command scientist and married into the Baraben Prime royals

#scifi #spaceopera #writing #tvshow

04.02.2026 11:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – NightShade: Necessary Crimes It is easy to misunderstand Nightshade as a single organisation with a single story. That would be a mistake. What we see here is only one Nightshade cell, one fragment of a far larger, darker machine operating beyond law, beyond oversight, and beyond acknowledgement. Nightshade is not a subplot that replaces the Seraphic narrative; it is a parallel war unfolding at the same time through several "nightshade episodes" in season one, largely unseen, occasionally intersecting, and ultimately inseparable from the fate of the galaxy the Seraphic believes it is protecting.

Seraphic Chronicles – NightShade: Necessary Crimes

It is easy to misunderstand Nightshade as a single organisation with a single story. That would be a mistake. What we see here is only one Nightshade cell, one fragment of a far larger, darker machine operating beyond law, beyond oversight, and…

03.02.2026 10:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nightshade agents from season 1, they get their own episodes as part of the duel narrative, darker, more morally grey and seeing a wider view of the galaxy.

#scifi #spaceopera #character #writing

03.02.2026 09:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seraphic Chronicles – Ghost Amongst the Stars Tonga Braakl is one of the Pyntaxian ambassadors in Operation Open Water as the first wave of reintegration into the wider galaxy after two hundred and fifty thousand years of deliberate self-isolation. For most of that time, the Pyntaxian's turned inward on their new home world, the gas giant Kibbuiz in the Wishing Point Nebula, abandoning physical existence and contact with other species as they evolved into non-corporeal, energy-based beings. This mission is not just an act of diplomacy in the traditional sense, but a cautious re-emergence. Tonga Braakl is there to observe, to learn, and to understand what the galaxy has become in their absence whilst participating in a cultural exchange and an search for the Pyntaxian;s long lost home world.

Seraphic Chronicles – Ghost Amongst the Stars

Tonga Braakl is one of the Pyntaxian ambassadors in Operation Open Water as the first wave of reintegration into the wider galaxy after two hundred and fifty thousand years of deliberate self-isolation. For most of that time, the Pyntaxian's turned…

02.02.2026 11:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tonga Braakl appears human, but when his emotions run high, you see the true Pyntaxian in his eyes.

#scifi #sciencefiction #writing #spaceopera #characterart

02.02.2026 09:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

01.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anthony Littlehammer and Juliet Pineche are NightShade agents working for Raphan. Their assignment is to manipulate the outcome of the Ra'Shain Federation civil war to the benefit of the Alliance. #scifi #spaceopera #characterart #writing

31.01.2026 13:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is Ejjina Mexonber-Quad a witch?

#scifi #spaceopera #writing #character

30.01.2026 21:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ok, asked to describe Seraphic Chronicles for the curious, uninitiated and those in general bewilderment...
Best I can use is two quotes from book reviews:
"Star Trek's evil twin!"
"Game of Thrones in space."

30.01.2026 18:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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