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The First Volume is published
The first galactic journey begins now!
Book 1 of a 4-part series is now available on Amazon as an EBook.
Join Captain Brendan and his delightfully oddball crew as they embark on a thrilling space adventure.
After more than a year of dedicated work, Books 2, 3, and 4 will follow soon – completing the first story arc by the end of September.
Three more books, telling a brand-new, self-contained adventure, are already on the launchpad.
Now boarding – the universe won’t wait!
O. E. Wendt, on behalf of Captain B. Brendan
Who is Captain Brendan?
Captain B. Brendan
A good question—and not an easy one to answer.
First and foremost, he is the protagonist, the hero — or perhaps the anti-hero — of Galactic Journeys. He often wonders himself what role he truly plays and why he keeps getting dragged into the entanglements of intersystem power games. Around him revolve the many adventures that take place hundreds of years in the future, in a galactic environment that, for now, we can scarcely begin to imagine.
But what kind of person is Captain Brendan?
This unassuming man with the curious double name Brendan Brendan, whose parents simply gave him their family name as a first name. Little is known about them so far. And yet, one’s origins always shape a person’s character — whether that person is aware of it or not.
Brendan was born in the year 4708 TTC on a ferry en route from Mars to Bahurai. His parents didn’t live much longer after arriving on the planet, and Brendan was placed in an orphanage.
At the age of fifteen, he left Bahurai and began training with the Pegat — part of the Neutral Authority, which operated across planetary systems. Even back then, being a Pegat shaped Brendan’s identity — perhaps because he had never truly known a home or a place to belong.
Many Pegarts biographies sound remarkably similar, and it is no surprise that the Neutral Authority specifically recruited candidates with unconventional or rough life stories to fill their military officer ranks.
However, Brendan’s rebellious and fiercely independent nature soon led him to leave the Pegats Corps once he reached adulthood. It took him a while to understand that being Pegat doesn’t necessarily mean belonging to the military. Pegats act in all corners of the Orion Spiral Arm, follow widely differing goals, and come from every imaginable planet within the known spheres.
Brendan lost his official Pegat status when he left the Corps and withdrew to Little Silence, where he led a rather dissolute lifestyle. He sank into popularity among the female night society of Consumpia and drifted aimlessly through the years.
His life only picked up momentum again when he met an elderly, wealthy lady who saw potential in him and took him under her wing — Chrysanthemia of Highlime. Upon her death, Brendan inherited her fortune and, at her express wish, finally purchased his own starship to find his way back into Pegat life.
Pegats always seek their own kind. The main reason lies in a fact that unsettles many ordinary people: Pegats — Permanent Galactic Travellers — repeatedly enter hibernation for decades or even centuries to travel to extremely distant star systems.
Jump Gates were unknown for the first 2,600 years of the TTC era, during which humanity slowly ventured beyond its home system. Back then, Pegats were the only ones to undertake the long journeys to establish physical contact and trade between the scattered settlements.
They remain an indispensable link to this day—yet they are also met with suspicion and often kept at a distance. Pegats appear and vanish again—for entire generations. Lasting relationships are almost impossible.
And so, for more than 1,300 years TTC, Brendan has been living the life of a Pegat: rootless and without attachments.
The only constants to emerge since his first missions as an independent intersystem pilot and cargo transporter are his intelligent ship Chrysanthemia, named after his benefactor; his fatherly, scruffy friend and companion Einstein; his android housekeeper Felicitas; and the second android Klick-Klick, whose know-it-all nature can be utterly exhausting.
Physically, Brendan is in his mid-thirties. He is an excellent pilot, a skilled marksman (although he despises firing at living beings), and undoubtedly a ladies’ man. Deep down, he longs for continuity — but finding that among Pegats is notoriously difficult.
So he fights his way through the spiral arm with his highly advanced ship, working as a freelance captain who offers himself, his crew, and his ship for hire — ideally, for a handsome fee.
I believe this short description sums him up, though his seemingly trivial personality hides much more than the shallow surface suggests.
Getting to know Brendan takes patience — and a keen eye.
Perhaps Brendan himself wonders most often who he truly is.
Galactic greetings to you!
O. E. Wendt
Introduction of a new universe
Chrysanthemia
Glad, you're here!
I would like to introduce myself in more detail here, but now devote considerably more attention to my space opera.
I am a little nervous, because I have been preparing my exciting adventures for you English-speaking reader for months. Having worked for an international airline for over 25 years and still at it, I travel so often to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, South Africa and many other English-speaking countries, I am quite familiar with your language. And to be honest, I have drawn a great deal of my inspiration from these very countries. So I owe you something.
And so here I am. I am working with full energy (almost at warp speed) on the first two parts of Galactic Journeys and am confident that I will be able to publish the first part this summer. The second part should follow one to two weeks later, and then the other volumes will quickly follow.
Maybe it will take me a little longer to offer an English version of my webpage step by step. But a good part of it is already done and I am always open to suggestions and ideas for improvement. To be honest, however, I am much better at storytelling and the administrative part of my writing life is a tiresome necessity. I'm sure many readers are familiar with such problems.
I can't wait to get started with Captain Brendan and his galactic adventures. I think I write my Space Opera stories in a very classic way, with a lot of enthusiasm. Classic in this context does not mean boring. On the contrary. However, I do not follow a strategy on my Galactic Journeys that turns thinking completely upside down or goes so deeply into the metaphysical that it approaches deep philosophical ideas. Although I really like philosophy and depth of soul. I live out that part of myself in my Standalone novels. But the Galactic Journeys remain light and fluffy, exciting and just as many people want a space adventurer to be. At least that's what I've often heard.
Sometimes it feels as if I myself were lying in a Cryo-tank, only to awaken after centuries in a bizarre and completely alien solar system, where strange creatures await me and extreme challenges.
It's great fun to travel far from Earth to escape everyday problems for at least a few hours. So I invite you to go on a journey with Captain Brendan and to stumble into situations from which he often believes he cannot escape. But somehow he probably always does.
You can expect many worlds populated by humans in a very distant future. Be sure, there are aliens as well! Although they are usually not the ones to be mistrusted. But who knows? The unexpected and the twists of fate often steer stories in unusual directions. All too often, Captain Brendan can't keep up and finds himself in situations through no fault of his own that he would have much preferred to avoid.
The plan is now as follows:
In July/August 2025, I would like to present you the first volume of Galactic Journeys. Six more volumes will follow, and my other books are also waiting to be translated into English.
I am also considering translating my Standalone novels, this time in the genre of Hard Sci-Fi.
I hope to be able to travel in time to get everything done quickly. As a self-publisher and completely independent author, I would actually like to have eight arms and the aforementioned warp drive to do justice to my esteemed readers – to you!
I hope you enjoy meeting Captain Brendan, his quirky household bot Felicitas, the very headstrong Amavirid Green and a rather affected android called Click-Click. Not to mention his spaceship Chrys with her centuries-old intellect.
Warmly.
O. E. Wendt