User:Ditto51/Saga of Thomas Cane

Strike the Heart
Strike the Heart explains the sudden and violent outburst of conflict between Tom and Geoff in the year 2980 and depicts the events that form the basis of the Protectors that retreated back to 3000.

A Past to Remember
A Past to Remember depicts the gradual regrouping of the Protectors as the aliens that they have been tasked to destroy begin arriving upon Earth in 2010 while also dealing with various threats from their own time period, 3000.

Family Reunion
Family Reunion depicts the elimination of the final threats to the Protectors in Universe 08, including the events that sent the Tom of Universe 08 into a phase of developing extremely dangerous weapons. The first chapter, Manipulation, was released on August 7, 2015 with the remaining nine chapters planned for release during 2015.

Camp Terror
Camp Terror depicts the struggle of the Protectors of Universe 15 as they are forced to combat scenarios that they were not trained for while NCIS work on the outer regions of a river that has had its entire length taken control of by a group of terrorists and have connections that reach far back into their past. Claire and Gemma meanwhile struggle to maintain a cover story after being dragged back into Tom's team.

Numbers Series
The Numbers Series is a series of sub-series that started with "Three Years Too Early..." on October 31, 2014, which was followed up by "Four and Counting on July 4, 2015. Two sequel series have been announced, "Five Deaths to Trigger" and "Six Alien Ships", which are planned to be released on October 31, 2015 and in December 2015 respectively.

Three Years Too Early...
Three Years Too Early... is the first series in the "Numbers Series", which consists of seven chapters. All Seven chapters were uploaded on October 31, 2014.

Four and Counting
Four and Counting is the second series in the "Numbers Series", which consists of seven chapters and is debuted in its entirety on July 4, 2015.

Five Deaths to Trigger
Five Deaths to Trigger is the third series in the "Numbers Series" which consists of six chapters and is set to be published fully on October 31, 2015.

NCIS
The first chapter of "'NCIS"' that was uploaded to Tom's blog was "Blackout in 18" on September 16, 2013, while the final chapter, "Showdown in Science" was uploaded on February 12, 2015. On June 12, 2015, Tom took to Twitter to announce that he would be rewriting the series, by rearranging and renaming chapters as needed. He also noted that he had removed four chapters from the initial run bringing the total down from 31 to 27. The first chapter of the rewrite, "Canteen Catastrophe", was uploaded on June 23, 2015.

An Abyss to Hell
On March 6, 2015, it was announced that a sequel series to "NCIS" would be written and published to the blog during 2016.

Hunted
Hunted was announced on November 15, 2015 and was followed shortly by the release of the first chapter, entitled "Firestarter". While inititally absent from the annoncement, Tom later tweeted to clarify that the series takes place in Universe 27.

Order of the Books
The series starts with "Strike the Heart" before progressing onto "Ashes". The next book chronologically after the Protectors travel to the past is "Three Years Too Early..." and its sequels in Universe 16, followed by "A Past to Remember" and "The Future's Past", with "Covenant Invasion of Earth" picking up towards the end of "A Past to Remember" with the crossover even occurring between the first book and its sequel, "Past from the Future". "Power Core", "Time Trap" and "Fast Track" are set two years after this, with "Camp Terror" and "NCIS" two years after that. "An Abyss to Hell", the sequel to NCIS, is set immediately after "NCIS". In August 2015, "Family Reunion" was released which acted as a small prequel to "A Past to Remember", being set in Universe 08 which is briefly featured alongside its characters in "A Past to Remember". How much time has passed following the end of the series and when the characters appear in "A Past to Remember" has not been shown.

To explain the ability for the characters of various universes being able to cross over and communicate without travelling through time in either universe, Tom explained: "All of the books that are displaced are able to interact with one another as the Portal has some of the properties of the Time Machine. This means that it can't travel through time within its own time, however, it can connect to any time period in any other Universe."

Universes
There are a total of 40 Universes within the fictional Multiverse that has been established in the Saga of Thomas Cane. The first of these Universes is refered to is Universe 01 and is featured heavily within "A Past to Remember" and is the main setting in "The Future's Past" and "Strike the Heart". Universes 03, 04 and 20 also appear in "A Past to Remember", although in a much smaller capacity. Universe 08 is the setting of a small portion of "A Part to Remember" and serves as a meeting point between characters from Universe 01 and Universe 18; Universe 08 is later featured in its own series, "Family Reunion", which takes place prior to it burning in "A Past to Remember". Universes 11, 12 and 13 was planned to be featured in the cancelled series "Alliance" where they would be at war with one another.

Universes 15 and 18 feature different variations of the same premise that revolves around NCIS and are featured in "Camp Terror" and "NCIS" respectively. Universe 16 is home to the "Three Years Too Early..." specials while Universe 17 is depicted in the "Covenant Invasion of Earth" series. Universe 19 is featured in a Death Note Parody that has yet to be released. Universes 29 and 31 are portrayed in "Fast Track" and "Time Trap" respectively while Universes 37 and 38 are planned to be part of a joined story that will parody "X-Men: Days of Future Past". Universe 40 is home to the "Power Core" series.

Universe 23 is set to appear in "A Past to Remember" as well as a spin-off, focusing on Naomi's time there, called "Earth 23".

Development
Regarding the blog series and how some of the plots are adapted into the main series of books, Tom explained via Twitter that he's "started twisting the plots I've used for the blog series, then adding more complex versions to the main saga." While explaining the timeline between "Covenant Invasion of Earth" and "A Past to Remember", he explained the timeline of the main series of books had changed, causing "Covenant Invasion" to occur concurrently with the last sections of "A Past to Remember" rather than during the third book, "A Past that Kills". On June 12, 2015, Tom announced that he would be rewriting his "NCIS" series.