Okay, so I know that writing fiction ought to be a piece of cake, right? Especially science fiction or fantasy. It's made up after all. There certainly is a degree of easiness, but it's also hard. Yes, we're making stuff up for a fantastic universe that most likely will radically differ from the here and now. For me there is always an element of research and creating stuff, sometimes making me feel as if I'm some sort of architect or grand designer.
Case in point being my current story, Iron Falls: The Enemy Within. Even now, as the story nears completion I'm still creating and researching best possible examples that I could use for the global policing agency that Gene Bukowski finds himself on "detached duty" near the story's end and then throughout Iron Falls: Enemy Mine and in the third and final installment (thinking of calling that one Iron Falls: In My Honor). Designing a futuristic version of an existing entity is pretty easy, just alter things here and there and tada! But the global policing agency, which I'm calling the United Nations Marshals Service, is completely made up. The question here however is, how does it look like and what are its points of origins? That, my friends, is a very good question.
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