0. Part XIII - The Prologue (Doomsday Comet and the Twelve Moons of Beledde IV)

This is the zeroeth story in a series about Doomsday Comet and his journey across the moons of a distant planet called Beledde IV. This story contains: Gargoyles, an enormous pile of luggage, an ominous saxophone, some sarcasm, and several monks.

Doomsday Comet and the Rogue Asteroids were a galaxy-wide phenomenon, their single, eponymous album topping charts in every system. There's nobody who hasn't heard of Doomsday Comet, and there's nobody who doesn't love his music – except for Doomsday Comet himself.
The eccentric musical genius who led the band now wants nothing to do with his fame. When he speaks of his fellow band-mates, he mutters darkly, cites infamous deeds, then quickly changes the subject. Whatever the circumstances surrounding the album's production were, he doesn't care to be reminded of them - which is hard when those hits find air-time wherever music is being broadcast, those melodies stick in the heads of every sentient being to have heard them.

These stories follow the misadventures of Doomsday and his companion, a monk from a space station monastery, as they journey between the moons of a backwater gas giant called Beledde IV. Doomsday only wants to find some peace and quiet and to enjoy himself as a tourist, but between his persistent fame, his penchant for getting himself into trouble, and the distant presence of a strange and ominous saxophonist who has been shadowing him for unknown reasons, his experiences on the moons rarely go so smoothly.
But that's okay, he's a brilliant musician: He knows how to improvise.

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"Doomsday Comet and the Twelve Moons of Beledde IV - Part XIII: The Prologue" is licensed by Dylan Craine under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.