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In another lifetime, August was a punk kid running a writing-themed e-zine in 2002 and participating in online survivor writing contests; these days, she’s a punk pseudo-adult with an office job and a studio of her own.

Meet Pitney Scolan. Pit, for short. He’s a decorated general and a venerated leader of the sprawling human race. He’s protected his species' colonies from vicious native animal populations and hostile alien life. He’s fiercely introverted, and he’s really looking forward to retiring on his personal planet in the very near future.

Except…now he has to be a dog.

A daugment, to be specific: a cybernetically enhanced canine, previously the doting pet of Pit’s biggest rival, General Tristan. It’s the only way to escape certain assassination.

So Pit grudgingly allies himself with a pair of well-meaning scoundrels and sets sail for seedier space in hopes of escaping Tristan’s clutches. What he finds instead is a galactic conspiracy to force him to make friends.

Daugment

When Canum was first discovered, just a few years before the war began in earnest, it was significant because of its unexhausted fruit-bearing forests. The planet slogan was literally, "Go Tinanas for Canum." Someone back on Old Earth had taken one look at the tiny plantain-like harvest that was Canum's claim to fame and pronounced them tiny bananas. The name had mutated and then stuck: tinanas, squishy little sugar bombs, were instantly popular the galaxy over.


Canum is mostly covered in lush, green, unending farmland and the acres upon acres of tinana tree jungles. The tinanas fluff their narrow, flat leaves to provide cover for an endless display of wildlife; some were planted by time and weather, some cultivated by humans. All bear heavy loads of the galaxy's most popular fruit.


~ "Our Worlds: A Human Child's Illustrated Guide to the Galaxy," published in 2561


Chapter 39