The Ark

Hello! My name is -REDACTED- and I am now a Private Second Class in the

United States Army. I intend to become a crewman aboard the M-1 Abrams main battle tank.

After completing two years of school at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, I decided that

joining the Army and rolling around in a tank would be more rewarding and certainly more

fun than agonizing over Newtonian physics and a stagnant academic major for another

few years.

This is The Ark, the "story" in which I will publish everything I have ever written,

starting in roughly June 2004 to about an hour ago (10:00 PM Central Time, July 23, 2006).

Once I get through basic and advanced training, I will likely have access to a computer and

hopefully, I'll get enough privacy to write in my free time, but I won't have the computer I'm

typing on right now, the text saved on its hard drive, specifically. Thus, I will leave everything

here so that I can pull it up and get back to work on it at almost any time, almost anywhere in

the world. Smart, huh?

I have amassed 766 kilobytes of text on my hard drive, and by my calculations, this is

between 350 and 420 pages of fanfic drabbling. Most of it comes from Reroute to

Remain, an InuYasha/Dragonball Z crossover that I am writing, named after an In Flames

song for abstract lyrical relevance. Battlefield 1542, a WIP that I posted here last

year, is the prototype for this story.

As per AFF rules, I have composed a disclaimer for this "story":

Reroute to Remain is named after the 2002 album and album title track Reroute

to Remain by Swedish death metal band In Flames. Reroute to Remain (the story)

is divided up into five parts, and all five parts are named after songs, albums, or entire bands;

"Prologue: Out of the Silent Planet" is named after the ninth track on British heavy metal

band Iron Maiden's 2000 album Brave New World, "Act One: Operation Gamma Ray" is

named after the German power metal band Gamma Ray, "Act Two: Seasons in the Abyss" is

named after U.S. thrash metal band Slayer's 1990 album Seasons in the Abyss, "Act

Three: Somewhere in Time" (tentative title) is named after Iron Maiden's 1986 album

Somewhere in Time, and "Epilogue: Deliverance" is named after Swedish death metal

band Opeth's 2002 album Deliverance. Dragonball Z and all characters and elements

contained therein belong to Akira Toriyama. InuYasha and all characters and elements

contained therein belong to Rumiko Takahashi. The original art for the character Sammael

belongs to artist Gerald Brom, but the implementation of him I choose to use belongs to

game developer People Can Fly. All song lyrics quoted within the story Reroute to

Remain will be credited accurately and honestly to their author(s). I have not generated,

do not generate, and will not generate any illegal profit, financial or otherwise, from the story

Reroute to Remain or any of the accompanying writing archived with it.