This series and setting is a vast space opera covering humans first steps to the stars, to find that not everyone out there was friendly. Other species also made this discovery. The old Irish adage is ‘Good fences make for good neighbors’ the corollary would be ‘no fences make for unwelcome neighbors’, and there are no fences between the stars.

• Combat Paradigms of the Noetic Wars.
  This is the rough draft of a world building essay that is part of an appendix for a military science fiction novel set in the UnWelcome Neighbors Universe, that I just finished. The Combat Paradigm of the Noetic Wars The interstellar wars fought by humans of the third Cosm of the Unwelcome Neighbors setting were … Continue reading →
• World building notes for UwN, Cosm 3
  I’ve been trying to condense all my world building notes for UnWelcome Neighbors. I had suspended writing the novels in the setting as I tried to catch up on other writing and life obligations. The below is an essay for human development in the third Cosm. UwN is built around the idea of three alternative … Continue reading →
• Introduction to UwN : Tranc Wars
  Tranc Wars Introduction   The Tranc Wars began in areas of the Milky Way far away from the Solar System. Such wars would rage for thousands of solar years before starfaring humanity would be aware of these wars. The causes of the wars rest with a species known as the Tranc, who plotted to dominate … Continue reading →
• The Periphery War
  In setting description: The Periphery War was Humanity’s first interstellar war. It started because of a political movement on Earth and then spread out to many other star systems. The idea was a desire for a greater political and economic unity between all the human settlements and nations among the stars. This was not acceptable … Continue reading →
• What is UnWelcome Neighbors
  by Erl Tyriss What is Unwelcome Neighbors? It is several things. It is a setting for various fictional creations, but also encompassing a thematic series of creative works. UwN (UnWelcome Neighbors) is in setting terms three a parallel universes of Earths and Milky Way galaxies. Each has been touched by similar events in ancient civilizations. … Continue reading →
• UnWelcome Neighbors is a literary experiment
  Unwelcome Neighbors is a space opera setting. That is the first thing that can be said about it. But it goes just a little further than that in its themes and subgenre parts. The attempt in creating the setting and the stories set within it, were to experiment with a wide range of science fiction … Continue reading →
• The Periphery War
  The Periphery War was Humanity’s first interstellar war. It started because of a political movement on Earth and then spread out to many other star system. The idea was a desire for a greater political and economic unity between all the human settlements and nations among the stars. This was not acceptable to five frontier … Continue reading →
• UnWelcome Neighbors: the Baiselu
  The Baiselu are old friends with the Aracana from their earliest starship days. The Baiselu ships are large clusters of spheres approximately 1 kilometer in diameter. The settlement pattern of the Baiselu has cast them all across the galaxy. They are colonist who seek out oceanic worlds. Since such worlds are scattered among the stars, … Continue reading →
• History of the Aracana, part 1
  In the Dissolution Wars universe for Unwelcome Neighbors, the primitive Aracana were heavily influenced by seeing a major battle between a Homeworld Malanthekar stellar fortress and an Imperial Malanthekar battleship in the skies above the Aracana’s home world. The event was so large that all of the Aracana across the planet witnessed the most deadly … Continue reading →
• Origins of the Sskaria War of Truth.
  The Sskaria Fleet doctrine is based upon the use of powerful capital ships accompanied by robotic warships and fighters. All such capital ships tend to use numerous drone munitions. Such weapons can be fired as massive shoals, rapid fire, and barrage rates. The fighter cover is often remote controlled and FTL capable. Much of the … Continue reading →