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Episode 18: Edge

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Hundeerde Space:
Sector 1-Quadrant Delta-4 (S1-QD4)

Greenwatch Squadron streaked across the quadrant in pursuit of their quarry. Another Marauder probe had again entered Hundeerde Space. The probe was fast and agile, clearly equipped with the ability to anticipate, react, and avoid its pursuers. Of all the recorded probe encounters so far, they did not appear to have any ability to fire back or make any other offensive manoeuvres.

Even so—

It was proving decidedly difficult to catch.

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Episode 17: Consequence

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HSS Chasetail: Day One, 07:01 Ablution Block — Male

Grounded from flying for one week.

Assigned a cleaning list of all the shared male ablution blocks — shipwide.

10 blocks in total.

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Episode 16: You Carry a Name

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Hundeerde: Part 3 — Greenwatch
Proving Ground

HSS Chasetail: High Hundeerde Orbit

Lieutenant Lewis Vale (“Echo”), at just 17, would ordinarily have been too young to have joined the Hundeerde Space Defence and Communications Network; however, he was bright and intelligent. Bright enough to have passed all of the entry requirements by the time he was 15. The one and only requirement that he had not been able to meet was his age, normally set at 18. This had been taken care of by the one and only Hunde who could override the entry rule.

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Hundeerde — A Graphic Novel

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Hundeerde: Part 1 —
The Arctic Incident

At a remote Arctic drilling station, a team of scientists and engineers make a discovery deep in the permafrost. What comes up with the drill should have stayed frozen.

Lead scientist James Jarvis sees the pattern first. A closed system. An infection with no source. He gets close to the truth, very close. One glove, one tear.

Not close enough.

The Arctic Incident is the story of a chain of lives, choices, and sacrifices that would echo across the stars for a generation.

Episode 1: Well Preserved
Episode 2: Ancient Biomass
Episode 3: The Storm
Episode 4: Pressure Cooker
Episode 5: Scoop and Run
Episode 6: Nominal
Episode 7: Joining the Dots

Hundeerde: Part 2 —
The Great Collapse

Three years after the virus, the world that remains is not the world that was.

Red is seventeen, streetwise, and harder than he has any right to be. He leads a clan of twelve kids through the ruins of what was once London; scavenging, hiding, surviving. The basement is home. The bucket is everyone’s problem. The Marauders are never far away.

The Great Collapse is the story of one night that changes everything. A flight through the dark. Nine stations walked in the underground. A boy who looked back at the wrong moment, and a choice made in a split second that only one person saw.

What happens when the person keeping everyone alive decides to run the other way?

Episode 8: The Great Collapse
Episode 9: Fleeing by Night
Episode 10: The Station
Episode 11: Walking Underground
Episode 12: Barking Green
Episode 13: The Fox and Hounds
Episode 14: Dog and Bone
Episode 15: Extraction

Hundeerde: Part 3 — Greenwatch, Proving Ground

Seven years after the night that changed everything, three young men serve aboard the HSS Chasetail, one of three capital cruisers patrolling the skies above Hundeerde.

They now have call-signs and ranks. A life built from nothing on a planet with rings.

But something is out there. Probes. Non-organic. Smart and getting closer.

Lieutenant Sebastian Jarvis flies. Lieutenant Raven Cole watches. Lieutenant Lewis Vale, the youngest officer in Greenwatch history, notices things that don’t add up. And when Lewis notices something, it’s usually already too late to ignore it.

Greenwatch: Proving Ground is the story of what the boys from Earth became and the first sign of what’s coming next.

Episode 16: You Carry a Name
Episode 17: Consequence
Episode 18: Edge
Episode 19: Taco Tuesday
Episode 20: Coulda, Shoulda,Woulda
Episode 21: Squish
Episode 22: Split
Episode 23: Debrief
Episode 24: Intelligence
Episode 25: Hold

Hundeerde: Part 4 — Greenwatch, Becoming

When twelve boys from a London basement walked down a shuttle ramp onto an alien planet they looked up at a sky with rings.

This is the story of what happened in between.

Greenwatch: Becoming follows Seb, Lewis, and Raven through seven years of growing up at Headwall Station, a working farm in the Greyfall Valley. There are chickens to feed, eggs to collect, cows to milk, and an old brass telescope in the attic that belongs to someone who isn’t there.

There is also grief. It doesn’t announce itself. It just shows up, in hands that can’t stay still, drawings in a notebook. In a stone necklace worn around a neck that conveys both memory and hope found.

Hundeerde is not Earth. But it turns out that hope doesn’t need to be from the same place as the people who need it.

The prequel to Greenwatch: Proving Ground.

Episode 26: New Sky
Episode 27: Headwall
Episode 28: Telescope
Episode 29: Orion
Episode 30: Stones
Episode 31: Growl
Episode 32: Red Stone
Episode 33: Uncle Marvin
Episode 34: Veldmeer High School
Episode 35: Pocket Rocket
Episode 36: Snow Day
Episode 37: Planting
Episode 38: Eleven Minutes

New episodes of Part Four: Becoming, are coming soon!

Hundeerde: Greenwatch is a graphic novel published in chapters, accompanied by illustrations. For spoken dialogue, it uses an avatar, the character’s name: dialogue, format. Parts One, Two, and Three are complete. Part Four is ongoing.

AI-Assisted Content — The author has used Claude (Anthropic) for editing and proofreading his original story. The story reflects the author’s voice, creativity, and structure; however, there may be minor incidental phrases generated by AI. Character avatar images and story illustrations are generated by ChatGPT.

© 2012 – 2026 Craig Stanley Nelson
All written and graphic content copyright, Craig Stanley Nelson
Published on Royal Road by Ddraig Goch

Episode 15: Extraction

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The Fox & Hounds: Barking Green

It was still dark when Grandma Bella roused the boys for an early breakfast. It was the best one yet, a full cooked breakfast: bacon, eggs, hash browns, sausage, beans, mushrooms, and tomato. There was also a huge stack of toast, just in case anyone was still a bit hungry.

Grandpa Jake had just come into the dining room and was having an urgent, hushed conversation with Grandma Bella.

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Episode 14: Dog and Bone

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After lunch, all of the boys started yawning, and once one started, they all started non-stop. Even though it was still early afternoon, Grandma Bella dispatched all the boys upstairs for a nap.

Again, they could hardly believe their luck. Beds, real beds with sheets and pillows, and one bed for each of them!

To Grandma Bella’s amusement, the pups who would normally object strenuously to taking an afternoon nap all insisted that they wanted to take a nap too. Hamish snuggled in with Seb, Fergus with Charlie, and Angus with Raven. Lewis, of course, had Dogger. Soon all the boys and Hunde puppies were fast asleep, the boys feeling completely safe for the first time in a very, very long time.

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Episode 11: Walking Underground

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Two at a time, the clan swelled to almost their full size at the end of the station platform next to the underground tunnel portal.

Raven: Just Seb and Red to come now, guys. Those with torches, make sure you conserve the batteries, we’re gonna need them.

Samson: I’ve got a spare one if that helps.

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Episode 10: The Station

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Red looked around at the group of faces, the same faces that had trusted him to keep them all safe for so long. The crushing weight of responsibility sat heavily on his heart.

Now was not the time to dwell on feelings.

Rather, it was time to engage the head and the street smarts that had served him well over the last few years.

As he looked, each face told a different story, yet each carried the same fear, concern, and determination etched behind the grimy smears, along with one or two tears.

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Episode 9: Fleeing by Night

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As soon as they returned to the basement, Red wasted no time.

Red: Everyone, listen up.

The Marauders are getting too damn close. It’s only a matter of time before they find us, and we can’t take that risk.

The basement is no longer safe, we need to move, and we need to move tonight. Pack what you need, whatever food we have left, a bottle of water, and be ready to move as soon as we can. Help each other.

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